The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-29
BARNES GETS A PRIZE FOR EJECT.
ING MRS. MORRIS FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE.
SERVANT OF ROOSEVELT
His Appointment as Postmaster BY
President is Gratuitcus Insult
to American Woman
hood.

washington, ID. c., April 2S.--The
presidents recent nomination of Benja-
min s. Barnes fer the local postmaster.
ship here has been confirmed by the
senate committee by a party vote.
This event of small intrinsic import
ance. Is surrounded with circum.
stances that render II significant.
Barnes has bitherso been sort Of
domestic servant at the White House,
his duties being to guard the doors
and to carry messages from the presi
dent to the houses OF congress. This
person, however, came into promin-
ence some time ago by the fact that
he caused violent hands 10 be laid
upon lady calling at the executive
mansion. the property of the United
States, at present occupied by Mr.
Roosevelt, and put her out Of the build.
ing, tearing and indecently disarrang
ing her clothes In SO doing and In gen
eral treating her not otherwiro than
the proprietor Of Bowery dive would
treat a drunken street walker who
was creating a disturbance in his
place.
Was Within Her Rights.
The divekeeper would be within his
rights in so doing, the dive being his
property, and the woman professional.
ly disreputablc but the case OF Mrs.
Morris, 1t need hardly be said is II
another category. She had right TO
visit the executive mansion Of the
national government; and whether Or
not the temporary tenant OF that build
Ing might properly decline to see her,
1t is beyond question that he was no
justified in literally throwing her out
In the summer that was done.
Had Roosevelt dlFavowed Barnes,
and dsm ssed him from. his,service,
the public would have condsped the OF.
tense, and been content. Mfs,. Morris.
would probably have accepted @. afdf''
ogy and the matter would have been
forgotten.
But Reosevelts course was differ
ent. He first, In defiance of direct cvi
dence CT the fact OF the violence cffcr
ed TO Mrs Morris. accepted his ser
wants denial, obviously false, and re
tanned him in his position, and then
not satisfied with this implied de-
fiance Of public opinion and official
decency sought some way in which
he might distinguish Barnes by some
conspicuous and especial honor This
presently offered Itself in the shape Of
the postmastership at Washington, and
ne appo nted Barnes TO 1t.
ssvors Of the tioodIun.
Barnes was not a resident of WASH
ington, he was in no reGpect fitted by
nature CT training for such post:
there are thousands of citizens of
Washington far better fitted for 1t than
Barnes Is. There was, in short every
reason why Roosevelt. president of the
United States, should not have made
this appointment, and there was no
mentionable reason why he should
What. then. was the reason which he
cannot mention?
Il is found in the spirit of the arbi
trary ruler, who has made a mistake
aud knows II, and for that very cause
is determined TO stick To his purpose
and defy opposition. II is "A petty and
ccntempiiblc spirit characteristic. not
of the gentleman. but of the hoodlum.
But in view Of the official pos tion
which Roosevelt occupies IT is more
and worse than This.
Roosevelt was elected pre- ident by
the votes Of the American people: he
therefore must be regarded as repre-. |
sentlng them, and the best of them. |
And when he conducts himself Ike a /
hoodlum he gives the nation and for. I
eign nations TO understand that the
best type Of Americans deem IT proper
70 do as he did to Mrs. Morris.
insult 10 Manhood.
He throws an insult in The face of
every American who has prided him
elf on reFerent and decent treatment
4 womeD. lie insults every American
soman who has believed that she was
secure Of honorable treatment from
American men. 2,
But this Is rot all Roosevelt has
lfien and emphatically expressed bis /,
'elief in "a square deal" Yet by his ,
Ippo ntment Of a carpetbagger TO de- !
irable Office in Wa hingfon he has I
,rOken the principle Of home rule
which is honored everywhere in Amer
ca and he has done il in the one city a
n the Union which has no means OF 7
protecting itself against the outrage.
The people who I've 10 Washington c
ave no vOte-they cannot hit back r
Roosevelt dearly loves votes; he has Q
oae and has suffered the doing u {