The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-27
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written. aaa thus comments on the situation:
 One unfavorabie aspect of the Twen- come to light. Although prepared in october the order for the discharge ot the colored soldiers was not pub ities that will arouse widespread re- law. Nicholas Longworth. for would not have been possible # the | colored voters In his district had been arrayed against him. So great was ran. in round hsares. f6.o6o behind cd by about .s.oov majofity. As there l trict. a defection of even 1.5O0 would have turned over his seat to the Dem- ocratic candidate. No one can doubt that If the Presidents decision in re- | gard to the Twenty-fifth Infantry had become known, there would have been a great change in the vote. Hence the .cision until election day. must be | written down as no mean political strategist, He. did not, foresee. how | ever, the damage his diplomacy would later or5 do the President.
 We do not know exactly who was responsible for holding, up the order until 1t would be too late for its en- foreement to have any bad effect on the Republicans at the election, but there seems no doubt that 1t was done for political effect. The charitable view to take of the affair is that the President withheld his decision 50 long in the hope of getting more in- formation. but his party friends do 1 not defend him on that ground. They claim that it was held up for political reasons and nothing ! else It is somewhat insignificant that the most severe criticisms of the Presidents action come from Re- publican organs which have been noted for upholding everything he does. The Kansas City Journal for example. says: s44
 The wholesale dismissal of these tbbe0ps tbe nnBs %s bscass few Of riot in which one life was lost. Now, there Is no proof except the assertion of secret agent, who, appears to of the members ot the companies knew anything about the tragedy or it's per petrators, But even if whole regi- the details of riot. 1t is all the more reason why q. secret agent should be able to find out the. general. stock of failed he. became exasperated and de- cided that the only way to preserve discipline" was to dismiss hundreds of diers grown gray in the service, whose lives have been spent in honorable dis charge of their duties. and who have pay. in their adVancing years must now go out into the world to begin all over again under the stigma of dis And what of theis crime? simply be- e: longing to a companyaar regiment that numhefs one or twUs erimina1s- whom the government -seeFet agents cannot locate
 Ip the meanwhile it is becoming more and more evident that the mat ter is far from being settled. Just what the President will do when he gets settled down in Washington after his outing would be hard to predict He may find causes or reasons toI change or modify his orders, or he may adhere to them only the more firmly because of the opposition he has aroused. Sometimes he is as bull headed as man can be. and then again he can change positions with light+
 
 ming facility that would make his for tune on the stage He may stick like porous plaster or he may wriggle out like an eel. It would not be safe to bet on what he will do.
 The intimation that this matter will probably be brought up for action in Congress when that body assemblies is not the least interesting feature of the case. Roosevelt has had some ex- perienoes not at all to his liking with a Congress that refused to be bossed by him, but it was nothing to what we mag eApectaf tAS lnempsF4 of his party go to work in earnest to reverse his action on this question. If Repub- 1ican Senators and Representatives, who are mostly Northern men, are as much dissatisfied over the dismissal of the negro troops ~as the party news papers are, they will make it very warm for him when they take the mat ter up, as intimated
 But there is one thing certain about this business, and that is the fact that the President has undeniably queered himself with the colored brethren all over the country. The solidarity of negroes on all matters affecting mem- bers of their race is too well known to need argument. Anything. that affects one of them affects-them all. and they all take it up. Specially is this true in the North, where the negroes have some social privileges and a great deal Of political power and influence. Their newspapers, their ministers and their various organizations have taken this matter up in earnest. They in- sist almost without exception, that the dismissal of the colored troops was due to the fact that they are negroes, and they resent it and are not at all complimentary in their ex- pressions. If the order had been is- sued and carried out two weeks be- fore the late election there would have been a noticeable difference in the re. suit What the effect may be on fu- ture elections depends very much on the course the President may adopt.
 
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