The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-14
ROBSON STANDS BY HIS
 DIFFERENCES AT ST. LOUIS
One of the Chief Topics of Political Discussion ahe State Cap a is the Disturbance in the NashaS 0floe Which Seems
 to Have Resulted in Decided Defeat for the Conerees
BY HERVEY W. LAIRD.

CT been made public but is re- garded as fact that Judge Jones notified the powers that be that trouble would follow good and strong if MT Col quit suffered His ultimatum is said to have been to the effect that he could not keep them from displaeing MT CoIquitt, nor put him back If they did but if they went so far as to throw him oul he would cut off republican deputies un- til he was reinstated There Is evidently some sort of truth in the reports for the pressure against Mr. Colquitt was with drawn and MT. Joseph o. Thompson, ref cree for the northern part of the state, says he was never after him at all, be- ing under the impression there was vacancy, and his endorsement was to fill that.
 Real Meat In cocoanut.
 An additional rumor along republican lines is that there Is fight 1 on inside tho real republican ranks looking to the elimination of Mar shal Bryan when his present term shall have expired. One hears that the recent furry looltink to removing depu- ties was not so much a desire to oust the men of minor office but to embarrass MT. Bryan to the point that he will make some mistake that will prove fatal to his chances for reappointment If MT. Roosevelt Is again successful. Mir Bryan ' has been out of the city for several days and has not been seen since the stir referred to came up. What the rad icals have against the Marshal 1t Is nov possible to find out That they have something many firmly believe A re- cent difficulty is reported that may em- phasze this very condition If 1t does | exist It will be necessary to appoint , a man to fill the place made vacant by MT. Trammell going to Dothan This po- sition in the Marshafs office Is one of confidential nature and 1t is said he will want man In whom he can freely talk;
 one of his own politics, 80 to speak. It Is understood that Judge Jones told MT. | Bryan that he fully agreed with this idea and wanted him to appoint just who ] he pleased to the vacancy. He, the judge
 would be satisfied with any man select
 ed provided, that such selection was not
 made as a result of the coercion of the
 republican referees. These, however, are
 taking hand. The latest move to em-
 barrass the Marshal thought to have been
 lnstigated by his enemies, who are sup
 posed to be the referees, is the attempt Of
 the negro, Murphy, from Eufaula, to se- cure the position left open by the change | of MT. Trammell. It Is thought that they want to get MT. Bryan to refuse the
 negro the place and then make a kick against him. the idea being that the ne- 1 gro Is endorsed by the referees. Murphy
 is thought to have gone to see Booker | Washington, as he left for Tuskegee shortly after seeing Montgomery offi- 1 cials
 Victory for Jones.
 1 The statement made Wednesday by 1 Referee Thompson to the Birmingham | papers that hereafter only republicans will be appointed to office with the pos sibe exception of the judiciary indicates ba yfota fnf Tt46e a1 servative element of the republican party
 over the radicals. It also evidences the fact that MT Thompson and his associate referees In Alabama have succeeded in | getting some sort of assurance from the
 president that he will not again deliver the precious pie of the faithful to dem ocrats as he did in the cases of federal Judge Jones and district attorney Thom- 1 as R. Roulhac.
 Thompson also makes 1t know that he and MT. Charles Scott of Montgomery, have been given over the patronage of | the state, he in the north and MT. Scott | In the south. They are supreme, with | the possible exception of the judiciary"
 and can tell the president what to do and what not to do, and he will do 1t or | leave it alone as the case may be, al- ways with the understanding, which MT. 1 Thompson sometimes forgets to mention, | that Booker Washington must approve. | There is no more firmly established con- diton in Alabama than that the we'll
 known negro principal of the Tuskegee school Is final arbitor on every appoint ment in the state of any importance. And the fact that Alabamans are com ing to believe this Is operating to tho hurt of Washington, whom all good cit- l izens honor and appreciate for the work he has done in the state.
 | Though a democrat Judge Jones has tried to keep the officers of his court free from partizanship. and he has allow ed republican and democrat to hold places so long as they continue to do their work | to the satisfaction of the court.
 Offices Belong to the People.
 One thing the Alabama referees seem to forget Is that nine-tenths of the peo- pie who are served by the officers of the Federal courts are white men and democrats. This fact might also be taken into account by the Montgomery postof- flee which has only about a half dozen white clerks and carriers altogether; 1t serves fully an eighty per cent white con sttuency with eighty per cent negro ser wants. Another thing that seems to have escaped those dispensers of federal pat ronage Is that the offices do not belong to them; but to the people. What Is this pass the state Is coming to when two men may say, with the approval of ne- gro, no matter how well liked that negro may be, who shall be appointed to office and who shall serve the great mass of Alabamas citizens in their offices. Es- pecially is this dangerous under present conditions, recent occurrences showing that the will of the people is not consid- ] cred at all in making appointments. | Some time ago Mr. Roosevelt acted inde- | pendently and named some good demo- | crats to office which gave the people | some assurance that every desire they | might have would not be trampled upon: since he has surrendered this, and Mir. Thompson asserts that he has, with the possible exception of the judiciary" there is renewed danger that the men who have the appointing power for 1t amounts to that, with the possible exception of the judiciary" will begin to do the Dothan-. nrammell act all over the slate