The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
FIRE UNDER HIM.
VIM. L. Vernon May Not Go to
Haiti. -
Opposition to Appointment of
Kansas Negro Develops.
net OF WEAK KIND.
Claimed Booker T. Washington
Is Behind 1t.
Place Pays Salary of Ten Thou
sand Dollars.

Washington, D. c., June THE
opponents of DR.. William T. Vernon
or Quindaro, Kan, former register OF
the treasury. are apparently doing all
IN their power to prevent his appoint
ment as United States envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
70 Haiti. The indications are that the
opposition has gained its point as an
nouncement was made today Of the APP
pointment of Vernon as supervisor OF
schools for the five civilized tribes.
The opposition to Vernon, it is al
legged, is headed by Booker T. Wash
tngton, and his following, who have In
the past shown considerable Jealousy
toward the Kansas man in the posi-
ton he has attained as an educator
of the colored race, and in his recog-
milton for appointment by President
Roosevelt as register of the treasury
which he held for several years up
until last February, when he resigned
and returned to Kansas.
Incidentally, it may be stated right
here that the colored race is divided
into two political factions, one head
ed by Booker T. Washington, and the
other by DIR. Vernon. Unfortunate
for the race, these two factions have
clashed more or less in all matters of
federal patronage. Because of one be-
ing equally as strong as the other the
question of a fair and impartial recog-
milton of both factions has been the
both Roosevelt's and Taft's admins
trations. However, it is evident that
President Taft has not permitted Mr..
Washington to be the dictatorial pow
err il naming colored men for office
assSdd Roosevelt While his advice is
= -ght, he is no stronger with the ad-
-ninistration than DR.. Vernon and
! other leading colored men of the
country, whose opinions and sugges-
lions have great weight with the pres
ident.
The New York Age, a newspaper in
which Booker T. Washington holds a
controlling interest, recently published
a dispatch purporting to have come
from Quindaro, in which the state
ment was made that should DR.. Yer
non be appointed minister to Haiti,
he would use his Influence to bring
that little republic under the protec-
torate of the United States, and that
in time Vernon would become its first
governor general.
simultaneously, the New York Age
upon the alleged Quindaro dispatch.
In part, it says:
1.-THE Age most strongly disagrees
with DIR. Vernon and his friends if the
idea of bringing the Haitian republic
under the protectorate of the United
States is urged.
THE United States believes in Halt
ian independence, President Taft is
anything but an annexationist, and
DIR. Vernon's friends commit an mex
cusable blunder and so does the elo-
quent ex-register of the treasury, If
he sides with them, by even sug-
costing the possibility of Haiti being
placed under the protectorate of the
United States"
The friends of DR.. Vernon in Wash
ington, who know his position on this
subject, declare that the statements
made in the alleged dispatch from
n.1Nr 49, al FoIe
were conjured up at this particular
time by his enemies to forestall, If