The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19
Movement Begun to Rear
a Monument.
DIXIE NEGRO BARRED
Eastern and Western Negroes Handed
Federal Jobs Over His Head. George
White Reputed Leader in Cam
paign to Prevent Appoint
ments Drifting This Way.
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(SDocl1I To News ana ODSeENCI.J
i Washington, ID. c., Oct. 1.-THE
fact that in the circular plot of
ground set apart at the instance of
the late President Mckinley I'M Al
lington National Cemetery as a bury
/ ing ground for Confederate dead,
/ most of those now inferred being from
the State OF North Carolina renders
OF special interest to her people the
movement which has been inauguf-
, ated here by the United Sons of Con-
| federate Veterans for the erection of
| a handsome monument in that sec
| ton. AT its meeting last night this
organization named Percy S. I'D
munds, T. r. Raines and Wallace
Streeter a committee on ways ana
means to devise plans for raising
| funds.
The cooperation of ali Confeder-
ate organizations throughout the
South will be invited and it is hoped
to raise about $4,000, several con-
tributions of considerable sums hay
ing already been promised and it is
| SAID that a sculptor of National rep
utation has consented to draw up
designs for a monument gratuitously.
Dancey TO Be Put Out.
John c. Dancey, the former negrs
| politician of Edgecombe County, n.
c., is slated to lose his job as re-
corder of deeds for the District OF
Columbia, and it is said by friends of
j. M. : liner, a st. Louis negro who
has asked for mat office, that Thomas
S. Rollins Republican State Chairman
of North Carolina, will have nothing
whatever to do with President Roose-
velts failure to re-appoint Dancey,
but that Turner's application is mere
ly an incident in the campaign which
negroes of the East and West have
mapped out for eliminating the South
ern negro as a Federal otfice-holder.
fl,a ,ts1e of h iDo
established in North Carolina and tile
second district elected Hon. Claude
NJ. Kitchin to the seat for Congress.
which had been occupied by the me-
gro, George White, the latter be-
lieving North Carolina was not
healthy locality for his political am
billions, hied him to New Jersey and
it was said here today that he is enc
of the leaders i'm the new movement
to induce President Roosevelt not to
re-appoint any Southern negro now
holding office and not to consider the
applications of others who are now
candidates for Office from any South
ern State where, as is asserted, they
represent practically a DISTINGUISHED
element contributing in no way to
the success of the Republican party.
Milton Turner, Who wants John
Dancey's job, was formerly minister
to Liberia, and associated with him in
the campaign to prevent the throwing
away of Federal jobs on Southern ne
groeS are G. N. GriSham, principal of
the Kansas City, Mo-, high school;
President Vernon, of the Industrial
School, Quindaro, Kansas; and Harry
Cummings, eX-councilman of Baltt-
more. These men, it is said; assert
that Mr.. Roosevelt has expressed his
intention of doing something for the
Western negroes who worked for him
during his last campaign.
They claim that when Harry Fur
ness, an Indiana negro, was appointed
minister to Haiti, he was selected in
preference to a Southern negro, an
office holder under President McKin-
ley, and that Postmaster General Cor
telyou, as chairman of the National
Republican committee, then let it be
understood that Southern negroes
would not be given Federal offices
either in their own state or elsewhere.
Judson w. Lyons, a Georgia negro
who has held the office of register of
the treasury for the past nine years, is
also slated to give up his job for the
benefit of a Western negro.
Patents to Tar Heels.
The United States Patent Office has
this week issued patents to the follow
ing North Carolina inventors: Con-
way F. Gambler. Gambler for an i'm
proved cylinder head; Raleigh j.
Raleigh, for a ventilating
CRATE Ralph J. Parrish, Winston
Salem. for a grease catcher for moving
machines; Christian b. Stenersen, for
a folding tray.