The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-04-22
SOME MORE PROOF.
Watson Comes Again at Cleveland on
Social Equality Charge.
NEW YORK MIXED SCHOOL BILL

u
Was Signed by Grover Cleveland Not
withstanding His Denial OF
Doing SO. Other Charges
~ Are Proven Also.
Editor Augusta Chronicle: In my
article of last week, replying to the
emphatic denials of MIR. Cleveland,
/ the statement was made that would
investigate further, and come again.
The Investigations have been made,
/ and / am now ready with full proofs.
There were three charges made by
me, originally in the Atlanta Daily
News, to prove that Grover Cleveland
practiced social equality while presl-
dent.
THE NEGRO MINISTER.
First: BY the appointment of a
negro to represent this country as
minister to one OF the white republics
Of South America.
TO this no specific denial las been
made. g. II. j. Taylor was the negro
minister, and Bolivia was the South
American republic alluded to.
This act of itself proves what Cleve-
land then thought on the vJect Of
social equality, else he would never
have named negro for such posi-
tion.
THE MIXED SCHOOLS.
Second: l stated that he favored
mixed schools while Governor Of New
York.
This he denies. He says hat he
not only did not fa"or mixed schools,
it failed to pass.
BY telegraphing to New York,
have been able to verify tho published
state ments, made in 1892, upon WHICH
my charge was based. Although
remembered distinctly the copy of the
New York law which then went the
rounds of the Reform press, and al
though loyal friend at Dallas, Ca,
promptly mailed me Il copy OF the act
in questione, MIR. Cleveand's dcujal
was so explicit and positive that
waited patiently until L could make
the proof which would convince ai!
impartial men.
l now declare that the law in lues-
tion was passed May 9TH. 1884 and is
to-be found or! page 3O7, chapter 2iS,
Of the New York Laws, and thas
Grover Cleveland chicially approved
and signed that act.
UP To that time tho c0lored schools
Of the city of New York we're Scpa-
rated schools. BY the terms of the
act of 1854, these separate schools
were merged into ward schools, ''and
shall be open for the education OF pu-
pills for whom education is sought
without regard to race or color"
There are the words of the law
There is the date, the page, the chap
ter. have verified them, and any
ether citizen who seeks the truth can
do the same
Yet Mr.. Cleveland not only denied
signing SUCH an act, but declared he
opposed it, and it was defeated. Not
only that-he declared my statement
to be so utterly false that ! myself
had no reason to believe it, true.
Happy will 1t be for the fame OF
Grover Cleveland if the people who
have fcliowed this dispute will now
extend to him that charity of opinion
which ne haughtily denied TO me.
SOCIAL EQUALITY At WHITE HOUSE.
Third: Is it true that Mr. Cleyc.
land treated Fred Douglass on Il foot
ing of social equality at the White
House?
My statement was that the news
papers had made the charge and that
1t had not been denied at the time.
Furthermore, | offered in evidence
certain extracts from the book Of
Douglass himself, published nine
years ago, in which book Douglass
praised Cleveland to the skies for the
manly way in which this Democratic
president had deiied the malignant
prejudice Of the South upon the race
question.
l now offer what will be taken as
overwhelming proofs of the facts
which L asserted and Cleveland de
MED
Remember, he not only denied, but
he said that l could not have had any
reason to believe that the statements
were true when l made them.
COL. JAS. X. RANDALL AS 4 WITNESS.
During the period alluded to, the
most brilliants staff correspondent then
in Washington City was Col. James Il.
Randall, known throughout the land
as the author OF the iDspir q war
lyric, Maryland, My Maryland"
Gel. Randall was the private Sccrc-
tary OF Alexander II. Steph,ns, and
the paper Which he fepresel ted was
The Chronicle, Of Augusta, Ga, then
conducted by Hon Patrick Walsh.
Col. Randall had been a Dem lcrat an
his life; Mr.. Walsh was a Democrat
all his life; The Chronicle has been a
Democrat all it's life.
do not offer in evidence anything
that Col. Randall Says now. Nor do
offer anything The enron elr SAYS
now. What | offer is the record Of
Col Randall and The Chronicle, made
in 1886, when we were all good Dem
ocratS, and all staunch follower uf
Grover Cleveland. At that time we
all believed in him. and the !ticisms
leyelcd at linn were the criticisms Of
friends who were surprised and dis
pleased to find Il Democrrtic president
Going things Of that kind. lu his
letters to The Chronicle, Col. Randall
alludes TO the fact that Mr. Cleye.
land was retaining III orice Fred
Douglass the apostle of mlsccgcna-
tion,' and mentions that the office
was worth $1,000 pen year Gan.
J3, 1867