The Washington bee., 1907-03-02
OPEN LETTER

Theodore Roosevelt, President of
he United States.
-.-.-Have YOU a conscience? II so,
r,rsr be thoroughly convinced by
r. that your dismissal of the colored
.---n. without trial was fatal blunder'
NJ +qr are the man that you would
.... fine country believe that you are
.-- What your friends have painted you
r. Won would say to the American
people this: -,
$40 the American nation: l have
.-.-,,rred fatal blunder in ordering
g. dismissal Of companies A, B and c
~. .rr 18th infantry, U. S. Army, with
..- honor and l hereby restore them to
--..:-n of honor and trust.
Theodore Roosevelt"
Ir.. would be manly and relieve you
.-.r. frrther embarrassment 1t would
mt -.reve YOU, however, from the con-
4.mnation that you already received
and will remain with you until death
r-.r. mart" The evidence shows un-
-... i--ablv that the town was shot up
~. --a Texas Crackers" and those who
.-frr-ed YOU that these men committed
.r. osrnse are enemies of the republic.
-r~-r saw that the colored Americans
have Jared worse under your admins
r~g.f.r than they have under any ad-
r,irr--rarion since The foundation OF the
-,ra~rment. In every department, un-
der the present government, with but a
f.r executions, the colored Americans
are 5isrriminated against. Many OF
then, are lin Crowed" and you seem
p, encourage it. What do you expect
r, uafn? You cannot hope to get the
s,,ooort Of the Solid South and neither
will Won be able to keep the North unit
s5 if YOU continue in your mad career.
The colored American doesn't know
whether he is living under republic
mp monarchy. Certainly he knows
that his rights are not protected. lie
knows that his friends are convicted and
dismissed without trial Why don't you
admit that YOU are wrong? Now, why
didn't YOU name a COlored man Tor the
MORT Of Cleveland as you had threatened
10 do? You declared, or rather your
friends declared, that you would name
a coIored man for the place as an assur-
arr. of your fidelity and friendship for
the colored race, but the moment the
white people of Ohio threaten a revolt
you changed your mind.
Where is your conscience? What has
become of your pretended friendship
for the ColOred race?
Mr.. President. you have committed a
fatal error. There are ten millions OF
coLored people or more in this country
and but one office holder of color has
rndorsed YOU. At the time he declared
for YOU / knew he was after something.
viii he get it? I mean the negro at
toruey of Boston. Mass, Lewis, who
indorsed YOU a few weeks ago and came
TO the city last week to see you for an
assistant attorney generalship in the De-
partment of Justice.
Now. Mr.. President have you got any
respect for a man who indorses you Tor
am office? Of course you haven't. This
Negro came all the way from Boston,
Mass. for recognition because he was
the only official apologist to lndorse you
i'm your wrongs. Mr.. President, you
thought. at tn etime. that you had made
great shake. didn't you? You had no
idea that the American people would
resent this injustice to the colored sol
dIers did YOU? The colored Americans,
Dir. President, owe a debt of gratitude
to Senator Foraker. He is their choice
for President, win or lose. They will
support only the man named by him, II
he fails to get the nomination, then the
col0red Americans will look to him for
advice. l regret that the colored Amer
leans are so Disseminated against by
your administration. In the South your
E.a-N lLdS allllOSl ClllllllldLOh AA4N NSAcAN
republicans from politics. Your lily
white policy has almost destroyed the
Republican party. There will be less
eo-ored Republicans in the next con-
venu0n than we ever had before. l an
not actuated by malice and neither shall
Z wrongfully misrepresent you. The
rgpubGcan national committeeman OF the
District Of Columbia, DR.. Reyburn, has
failed to obtain from you any recogni-
uon He voted for you at the last con
ys1uon, and for what? l am not al
all disappointed. I knew that he would
set the marble heart. DR.. Reyburn
and 4Lr, Cook expected great thing:
IRON You, Mr.. President. They thought
they would be consulted about loca
appointments. They had vain presump
ton, didn't they7
THE EDITOR
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