The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-02-14
!. !. {. !. COLLECTOR . (. /:
Cf Revenue at To-
..- ledo, Ohio
! May Be a Negro, Thus Re-
bbuking Republican Voters
Who Lost Congressional
L. 81: District : ~.

washington, D.. c., Feb. 11.-T,here
VIII be nothing doing for several
weeks IN connection with the plan of
the President to appoint a Negro to
one or the important. Federal offices
In Ohio. The matter is in statu QUO.
or as some wag expressed it today, An
administrative cold storage, and will
remain in that condition until the
PRESIDENT can figure out Just how he
Is going to execute his program If
q, Negro is nominated for a Presiden-
t1al othce 1t will be either In Toledo
or Cleveland, with the chances in fa-
vor Of the city on the Maumee, Should
Ioled0 prove to be- the beneficiary OF
the Presidents favor It signifies that
q col0red, man will become collector OF
internal revenue to succeed George p.
Waldorf. If the appoihtment goes to
Cleyeland 1t means that one Will sue.
eeed~ Charles F. Leach as collector of
internal revenue. All this-is authori-
tatfve s.' = .,<.,t iI-''' '~7'Cc
AZ has already been announced, it
IS definitely settled that no Negro will
pc appointed to one Of the Presidential
OFFICES In Cincinnati. The President
came to this conclusion out of consid-
Grafton for his son-in-law, Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth, whose poiI-
'tical future might be peopardized
were he to follow his original plan to
appoint a Negro surveyor Of customs
to, succeed Amor Smith, Jr., former
mayor of, the city, or even as the sue
'ceessor OF George H. Kolker, the ap-
pratser of merchandise. - ,.h.@ ~
y ~, s1.r Friendly Advice. -.
Many OF the Presidents personal
friends, and likewise friends of Mr..
Bongworth, advised Mr. e.. Roosevelt
that 1t certainly would prove embar-'
RAISING to the First District Repres-
entatiVe to have such a thing happen
and this naturally led to his decision
to go elsewhere to find place for d
representative colored man., = .
Should "a Negro be named as eollec-
tor. Of internal revenue at Toledo it
VIII probably be regarded by some
people as just retribution fore the Rs-
PUB ltean party Of the Ninth Congress
sBfonaf IA e Ee4Io rat was ALEC
ted there last fAiI when 81 RepubfipKrf
should have been chosen, ;, and the de.
feat OF the Republican candidate was
due entirely to factional dissention in
that party. 1t was a bitter pill for
the Republican leaders to gee the
Ninth District fall into the Demo.
cratic column after it had gone Re-
publican in 1904 by nearly 10000
plurality and when the normal plur-
afity has been from 5000 to 5000.
When apprehension is expressed that
it would be harmful to the party to
appoint a Negro to the eollectorship,
1t Is not surprising that the, answer
Is that the party could be in no. worse
shape than it Is now or was last fall
when General Isaac Sherwood was
permitted to carry off the Congress.
ional plumb. .-. s.'., ,.
The situation in Cleveland does not
inspire so much contumely as does
that in Toledo because the Republi-
cans made fairly good showing there
last fall. That is the reason the like:
lihood is that if a Negro is appointed
to Presidential Office 1t will be In
Toledo rather than in Cleveland. An
other reason is that the revenue col
lectorship at Toledo is not remuner-
atiye as In the latter city, where tho
maximum salary Of $4,000 is paid.
Moreover, the Republicans Of Cleve-
land have been striving zealously for
a number Of years to overcome the
influence Of Mayor Tom l.. Johnson,
to whose personal efforts the Demo
cratic victories achieved there in re-
cent years are largely due.