The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-10-20


negro to dine with him 1t the
White House. He has been asked
myriads Of times by newspaper
and orators If he would, and ne re
fuses TO say. He has spent his life
In = State, holding It's highest office
for seven years, in whicn ues roe=
and whites are by laws uf Demo.
cratic enactment, compelled to at
tend the same schools. Grover
Cleveland, Governor aud q Demo.
cratic Legislature either enacted Oh
refused TO repeal them. Cleveland
himself appointed & negro Recorder
Of Deeds in Washington City. where
live 100000 white people. lie sp-
pointed . negro minister to Bolivia,
3 country Of white people. The
Washington Post Of June l6, 1886,
which was the next day after his
wedding, contained the name OF
Fred Douglass Is one Of the wedding
guests. ID. Cody Herrick nomina.
ted last week by Democrats for Gov
srnor Of New York caused q negro
to be put on the u" nocratic ticket
for Recorder of Leeds of Albany
county, n. Y, and elected him
Booker Washington has been f.ted
and titled by Harvard College, and
dinsd in many fashionable homes
in the North and by Queen Victo-
In England. Since the hue and cry
about his ding with Roosevelt Hon.
X. L. Paine, Jr., who has been NOM
mated four times and run twice by
the Democrats for Governor of
Massachusetts has lately come out
and says he has dined with Booker
and makes the criticism of Roose-
veit for doing SO his reason for sup
porting Roosevelt. Carl Schurz, the
most notable man except Cleveland,
who is supporting Parker, wrote a
long article in McClure>s Magazine
for January, 1904, in which with
terrible sarcasm he ridiculed the
chambermaid who wouldn't make
up BOOker>s bed and belittled in
most extravagant terms the people
who censure Roosevelt for dining
with Booker. There are few ne
groes in the North comparatively,
though there are 100000 in New
York State, and nearly that many
in Philadelphia; but the Northern
people without regard to party see
no harm in the Presidents act.
Judge Parker shook hands with a
negro in public plsce on Sept. II,
1904, in the presence of q crowd, as
reported in Democratic paper.
There are than $500 negroes in the
service at the government in Wash
lngton City alone, there by appoint
nent under civil service laws that
Democrats and Judge Parker pro-
Tess to favor. Mckinley appointed
great many in the South. ROose-
7elt has appointed almost none. But
he aggressive spirit Of the South |
demanded that Roosevelt appoint |
lone, that he rufused to appoint me-
,rOes on account of their color.
Democrats denounce him in one
ase for, as they say, breaking the
constitution and In another case as
IL admit, for not breaking the con-l
He could not make
lstl notion on account of race or
Olor any more than judge could
q trying a case. Minnie Cox, a
egress. appointed by Mckinley
'as forced to resign under threat of
cath after she had served about
even years. Roosevelt refused to (
ppoint another and had the Office (
osed tor year. If you had sworn I
uphold and entore the laws OIL j
le United States could you have
one less? Crum was opposed solely '
ecause he was one-third negro; not ]
account Of unfitness. Could the
resident reject him on that ground {
1thout violating his oath? q
In the days Of Arthur, Harrison | q
I'd Mckinley no such fight would 4
'er have arisen. In 1877 nobody T
ould ever have supposed the 1904 G
ank in the Republican platform 8.
out reducing representation to be q
constitutional or improper. In IL
at year Senator John T. Morgan. IB
Alabama, in a public address. "
se Southern Historical Society c,
pers, volume page 25 and 26) e
9ntloned the "MateriaI addition al
the political power of the South
1sed by the Acknowledgement of the G
sro," and after discussing favorap- n,
their capacity for suffrage declar- M
Eat all events we cannot afford | Ii,
surrender the political power that m
pend ON their right of suffrage" an
Southern Democrat speaks Of the nc
.Ject now except with anothemos. III
Northern paper notices or denies on
utterly false statement that
,ro boy and white child were III
AIDED together at the late Chicago Co
vention, { say falsely because I Gil
there and know it did not Su
ur), but it has been published fo1
RAIDS of times in the-South. Nor AT
IN Democratic papers from 70,
ANS COmmOner to the New ICh
x World beg Southern papers to an,
talking negro or they will de- Jaa
Parker, while Southern papers Fa
Glenn and Company declare mol sou
e man will vote for Roosevelt: Iinp