Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-02-15
1lr Trotter continues:


"Tho Guardian. however. admits
Nr. Garrison is right about cOlorcd
men becoming suhscrviont when they
receive political jobs. but the case of
Che Boston colored man who helps
dcport poor Cinnamon illustrates it's
opposition Co Nr. Washington mas
much as hc directs such work for
President Roosevelt the colorod man
to whom Mr. Garrison $50 aptly refers
having somersaulted from the chief
and public critic of Mr.. Washington
to DIS ardent advocate in order to and
as necessary condition for getting
% federal appointment to keep which
he even endorsed in toto the Browns
Vile soldier discharge decree.
/ agree heartily With Mr. Garrison
whom ho says Booker Washington
haas The burden of a large school in
the south. chat hc seeks to draw sup
port from Southern whites with in-
hcrltcd urcJudiccs. that his school
is in the most inlammaDlc portion
of the south. where "a whisper may
produce am avalanche. ] cannot a.
gree ass colored man that these
considerations either Justify Mr.
Washington in speaking for Jim
Crow cars or revised constitutions
or in ridiculing his race. nor can
2 agree that &C. would be- sensible
for the colored people to- acquiesce
ln "a false prOpaganda chat the school
might become large. His very po-
sition makes him impossible as a
race cor political leader.
There would Doe little or no crit
icism OF Nr. Washington by colored
men to-day Or he confined himself
to mis- school work and kept out OF
politics. Since it could hardly be
claimed necessary TO the existence Of
mis- school. mis- dabbling i'm politics.
his acceptance of the role OF national
colored patronage distributor or boss
his frequent consultings with Presi-
dent Roosevelt on national politics.
which the public press has reported
time and again. take away any pos
sible argument based on his Southern
school ass against criticising him.
when "a cOlored man is so occu-
pied with politics that The Washing
ton papers have reported him as re-
commencing every colored Federal
appointee under President Roosevelt.
that Senator Foraker, asked about the
appointment OF a colored man in
Ohio TO make enemies for the cham
pion OF the Black Battalion and to
bride the colored vote, refers to him
as the Third Senator for Ohio,
when a Washington paper reports
that the President mas been firm on
the soldier discharge En- part because
this man had Informed him that his
races resentment was not deep or
general but largely confined TO a
few political leaders without any
following. when in a newspaper in
terview he has made political pre-
diction that William II. Taft will get
the nomination for President. then
can the position of his school in the
South be urged as immunity from
criticism for the position he takes
on public questions?
when such man has been ST
lent as TO the discharge in disgrace
and without trial of 167 cOlored sol
diers by President Roosevelt, sup
ported by War Secretary w. X. TAFT.
w'nen a Boston paper (Boston Her
add reported that Booker T Wash
ington has been engaged in heading
of a movement in the cOlored Ma
tional Baptist Conference in Wash
ington condemnatory of the Presi-
dent and Secretary Taft in cOnnec-
ton with the Brownsville matter,
when the Washington correspondent
Of a Chicago paper (Chicago Inter
ocean, on the 18th inst. said, Book
er Washington Is in position 10 name
the 2 ? delegates from Alabama to
the Republican National Convention.
he intends TO name them, and they
will all be for Taft is it not intel
ligible' that educated colored men
should criticise and assail him?
Now cannot this unpleasantness
between the white defenders OF Mr..
Booker Washington who are friendly
TO the colored people, and the col