The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-04-18
stan Correspondence.

Staff orrespondence. .,. I&S yG
Washington. D.. c., April 1o.-Thee
appointment of Ralph w Tyler, ON
Ohio, as Auditor Of the Treasury Tor asYE
the Navy Department, Ia the talk 0fs v
the hour. The selection Of Mr. Tyler 4
Tor an important federal position cre4
ates no particular surprise, for ever a
since his name has been so closely, Is
connected with the Collectofshtp at y
cincinnati, narrowly - missing that 4
stellar assignment, it has been 4 prs-[T
sumed that he would land something 4
rat before many days. III; Was felt i
that the President owed Ffi1 ast,Ina-} s.
thing equally as good" when political
exlgencies seemed to make It. inexpe-3 \
dtent to locate Mr.. Tyler. where he had
originally planned to have him. ThaSJ
surprise comes In the fact that no u
place could be found for "a firstcfassg
Negro In the liberal state OF Ohio. end !,
| In the further fact that-the President
has gives him berth, that eyary-%
body thought was entirely lost tor the 4
Negro people. The Office of Fourth :
Aud1tor"--as 1t used to be called d4-sr
was filled by the Hon. John r.. Lynch. /.
or Mississippi, during the the Harri,
son administration, and Mr.. Robert H. y
IL IL
tr1ct Of Columbia, was chief deputy: n
but white men have occupied IT, con- $i
tlnuously since that time, and 1t was
| considered so far out Of the reach of
a9colored aspirant that no man OF the n
| race has ever had the tenerity to ask Il
for 1t. The President was 30 datspY. 4&
| mined, however, to find a suitablet sIlt,ss Il
sition, for Mr. Tyler that he TnoVeds
Auditor Brown over to the
ment OF Justice to make rSOss2 X5feti
| him. Mr.. Tyler's history haa is,
vel well covered by: the pseaa
that no further men E ssa I
here along that lineS "a 81
i his nds VI sS I;
Journal SIM and pf6i EltIfl lss
vide aeQnaintAReB wiSsk SSsS s. SsA
make history for both fAo8s9 Asfi 6 lSrs u
ably fit him for the satisfactory dis 5
charge Of hts duties in the TraaauEy.
department, and his SELECTION nSaets
the approval Of the rank and Ale ofS
the colored people the coiihtry over. IS ,E5 q
The political phase Of the appoint.
ment Is attracting no small degrss III Z
attention, and a number OF inter fsat-
Ing questions are growing out ofS 81. u, s
What will be the effect OF Mr.. TylaTsa
selection upon the erstwhile troubled n
waters In Ohio? Whit offset the i
discomfort occasioned by the DISCHARGE
OF the soldiers for alleged partieiTa- q
! tion in the Brownsvtlle riot /? VIII
| break into the battle-line so cleverly
banked up by Senator Foraker? wilt 4
1t st1ffen up the spinal column of! the J
colored men disposed to support Sec.
retary Taft for President7 WIN II 81
dampen tho ardor Of the Forakeritsa, b
who think that following tho gAnass Il
10 to- l.
to official preferment7 In short, viii /
the appointment Of Mr.. TYlaE- revive 4
the old enthusiasm for Roosevelt, amt q
give renewed potency to ! those old
time shibboleths the r'sadafe dsal,
"the door Of hope" and the "all man 3
up, rather than some men down., Ins
rallying cries? 1t Ia too soon nowtto 4
attempt to answer questions SO Lead q
ing in character. The Negroes OF the 3
Buckeye State are independent "aa
hog on tce," 80 to speak, and the I
virus Of political autonomy instilled Z
by Peter H. Clark more than q quar-
ter OF a century ago, is still more or y
less in evidence, and likely to g1snts &
fest itself at the. moment least en- i
pected. 1t will take time to accurate, X
ly "size up" the situation, especially
in such political hot-beds as Cincins
natl, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and Z
Springfield, where the leaders HysE:
and have their being In any event, 4
Mr.. Tyler has his job, and is going on 4,
his way rejoicing. Hia advent In
Washington will add one more To- the Z
galaxy Of illustrlous "top-notcherB,, =; 2;
increasing the duo Of political heavy q
weights-Register Vernon and Re III
corder Dancy--to the trio. Mr.. Tyler
is not stranger In the nations capAS
ital. There Is no doubt that he viii Il
make good" -. a>3#tti6
Editor r. Thomas Fortune, OF the, y
New York Age is injecting some stgfn
ger" into the equation Of party bolt
tics these days. He is dlsgustad with !
the republican party, as at present. @{
constituted, and cannot stomach. the 3
democratic aggregation Of Negro. II
haters and law-breakers. A fortRighh 6
ago, fondling his '"snickerBneot with g
grace that would have done credit p
to Nikado's Lord High Exacutioner,,S}
Mr.. Fortune said; . t,s..~Ir .l .9sg.& q
at this stage Of the game, AfrGL q
Americans are of the flring,line. They
may not get into the lighting In dead y
earnest before the next national con-
yention, when the platform has been
adopted and the candidates aominak-
ed AS far as the Roosevelt adminfe.g
tration could accomplish It, the Afr0s X
American has been set aside entffelSs
as party factor. Such oFganizata1hs q
as he has had in the southern stAt8s4
has been taken away from him and Is
placed In the hands OF milk-and.waAsrs N
democrats and republican lily-wlsitea ~ ~
q combination OF political indea0Yflsfs