The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-19

day. The committee concluded the
taxing or testimony and examination
OF witnesses early in the summer and
theh adjourned TO meet here this
month for the purpose Of formulating
the report that is 10 be submitted 10
the senate This report, which tho
committee is to consider next week
VIII sustain the President in dismiss
ing the negroes Of the 25th Infantry,
VINO were charged with completely in
the outrageous assa ult made on the
people of the Texas town
III VIII be remembered that negro
diVines politicians and agitators. espe-
clally those in the North became very
much excited as the result % the
Presidents order dismissing the negro
conclusive chain of evidence placed
quit for the atrociouS assault at their
hands When Mr.. Roosevelt attempted
10 justify his action he was more Bit
terly aSSalled than ever and the black
men from one end of the country 70
the other Joined in the chorus Of de-
nunc1atlon of the Executive. Negro
political and religious societies and or
derS in every Northern State passed
resolutions denunciatory of the Presi-
dent in the Brownsville matter and eX-
tolled Senator Foraker, Of Ohio, who
championed their cause on the floor
Of the Senate. Many endorsements Of
Foraker for the Presidency by colorel
leaders predicted that Roosevelt and
all Republicans who sided with him
IN TINS matter. would be knitted at the
polls for all time. About this time
the President decided to run Repre-
sentative Burton for Mayor of CleVe-
land for the purpose of giving strength
to the Taft machine in Ohio. The
negroes promised to slaughter the ad-
lnistration mayoralty candidate, and
this set the Wielder of the Big Stick
70 III ,J-,,
hit upon a plan of recourse. In
few days the appointment of one
Tyler, an Ohio negro, was announced
as Assistant Auditor of the Navy De
PAL tment The position is a response
bic one and the appointment gave
much offense to the white employees,
especially the ladies in the office. Then
the negro leaders began to swear that
they were loyal to the dismissed mem
bers Of their race and could not be
bought by any such sop as this. The
President, however, was not through
1t was not long before the appoint
ment of negro cha pIain in the army
with the rank of Major was an
nounced. But to make long story
short election day has come and gone.
and it is estimated that less than two
score negroes voted against the Re
publican nominee for Mayor in CleVe-
land This information comes from
Washington correspondents OF Cleve-
hot mayoralty campaign from the
very beginning. They say the negroes
soon forgot their threats and with
practical unanimity supported Burton
over Tom Johnson The fact is de-
monstrated that the present genera
ton of negroes is as much an asset CT
the Republican party as was the
former one.
But after all, what can be said of
a President of the United States who
resorts to ward politics to set the
votes of a few negroes. whom he fears
he has given offenSe, with a full con
sideratiOn of all the circumstances
No President of this great country was
ever guilty of a smaller act than was
Mr.. Roosevelt when he picked uD the
two Ohio negroes for political prefer
ment
In the Worlds Finest Depot Io-GaJ.
Passengers who reach the Nations
Capital from the South tomorrow VIII
pass through q tunnel of more than u
mile in length, which runs under the
Capitol grounds, and Will set foot in
the finest depot in the World. Tne
Pennsylvania station, historice because
it is the scere of the assassination Of
President Garfield by Guiteau, cased
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