The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-26

washington, Nov. 25.--(SpectAl) )--- President and Mrs. Roosevelt are ex- pected to reach the White House Mon- day morning after an interesting so- 1ourn in Panama and the Island or Porto Rico. Ls
 Some people have an idea that the Chief Executive will find such a hor- nets nest when he gets back that he is just as likely as not to take the pack track on his positive order dismissing with 1ishonor a whole battalion or ne gro troops belonging to the 25th infan- try on account of the disturbances aI Brownsville, Tex.
 Others are quite positive that Colonel Roosevelt will do no such thing. Tney insist that the cable messages sent py him from Panama indicate that ne knew what he was doing, and that no amount of pressure will cause him to change his opinion. unless 1t can be shown that the facts laid before him by the Investigating officers were not we'll substantiated.
 One thing is certain, the Washington city negroes are dreadfully agttated. :. They get together in groups and dis cuss heatedly the summary dismissal or the negro soldiers. The more fntelli- gent ones who can read--and there are thousands of them here who have been S~NN%~ ~@~~ papers to gIean the latest news cori- corning the affair that has so greatly excited the race.
 Because several inhammatory meet ings have been held in the churches and halls, the average street 1aborer, the servant girls and even the negro school children. have about reached the conclusion that the great Roosevelt, whom they adored only few short weeks ago, Is not their friend.
 There is a brass band sort of negro here by the name of W. Calvin Chase. He is a coal black lawyer. and has considerable practice in the police courts in defending people of his race who are hauled up in droves before the judges. Chase also runs a weekly newspaper in the interest of the ne- groes, which he calls The Bee. Chase has accentuated the excitement of the negroes in the District of Columbia and the Maryland and Virginia counties lying next to Washington by claimln 10 have seen copies of receipts that the BulIocks accepted for the sale of mes groes in Georgia at the time the Presi- dents mother was married, and, as alleged by Chase, the darkies were sold for the express purpose of buying the krousseau and arranging for the we'd ding festivities.
 They believe this story ufmly, ana if this be so, they shake their heads more than ever and say that after all their former hero is no friend of the blacks, even if he did ask one of the prominent men of the race to dine at the White House.
 The more ignorant of the negroes here have equally as strong a prejudice against the memory of the immortal George Washington. On the. anniver- sary of the birth of the Father of His Country" there is generally a pa- rade here Thousands of the Washing ton city negroes refused to be seen ou the streets that day, much as they love to follow bands of music. Somebody started story that years ago General Washington's last words were, T an dying, but wish 1t understood neVeI want the 'niggers' set free This story has been told so often in this part oi the country that thousands of negroes believe 1t to be absolutely true.
 If President Roosevelt does not res seind the order of dismissal for the ne- gro soldiers, the chances are that thS blacks will circulate numerous stories to prejudice the race against him.
 It is understood that one of the first things the President will take up upon his return to the capital will be thli matter So far as can be ascertained army officers, as a rule, are standing by the Presidents order. They thinl