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The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06
National
Appointments
Official Patronage Under President Taft has Exceed both Guam
tity and Quality One thousand more Negroes have jobs
at Present Time than a the beginning
the Administration.

G. Dancy of North Carolina, as
Recorder of Deeds, Henry Lincoln
johnson was appoin ted to succeed
him at $4,000 per annum.
Emmett j. Scott of Alabama,
was appointed one of the three
commissioners of Liberia, to re-.
port4upon the internal conditions
and needs of that Negro Republic.
This position, though temporary,
was one of great honor, and re-
quiring very high order of in
telligence, tact and constructive
ability, and his selection evidenced
the Presidents ability of the race
to furnish equipped men for any
position,
Upon the resignation of Mr..
Lyons, as Minister to Liberia, DR..
w. d. Crumm, of South Carolina,
was appointed to the vacancy at
salary of $4,000 per annum.
Upon the resignation of Mr.. Ell
lis as Secretary of the Liberian
Legation, Richard 9. Bundy, of
Ohio, was appointed to succeed him
at $1,000 per annum.
At the direction of Mr.. Taft,
Captain W. Il. Anderson, of Ohio,
Chaplain of the 10th Cavalry, was
promoted to the rank of Major at
salary of So, 600 per annum.
Charles A. Cottrill, of Ohio, was
appointed Collector of Internal
Revenue for Hawaii at maximum
salary of $4,000 per annum
Whitefiild McKinlay of Wash
ington, d. c., was appointed Col
lector of Customs for the District
of Columbia, at maximum salary
of $4,000 per annum.
James M. Alexander of Cali
lOlHlot, upou cAcCuulN6 OIQeI WdS
appointed Deputy Collector at Los
Angeles, Cal, at $1,000 per annum.
This position is under the civil SER
vice and in making the executive
order, President Taft speci-
fically stated that one of the rea-
sons for making the appointment
on executive order was that the
colored people of California had
not adequate representation in the
Government service.
Ex-Governor E. S. Pinch back of
Louisiana, was appointed to po-
sition in the Internal Revenue SER
vice at New York at salary of
$40 per day, and later was covered
in on the order of the President,
under the civil service, making his
position permanent and not con-
tingent upon administration charg-
es.
w. T. Vernon, of Kansas, was
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06

New York City is soon to have a
colored regular probation officer in
the person of Miss Grace Campbell
who has been doing some effective
probation work for the National
League for the Protection of Col
ored Women. Several days ago
Miss Elizabeth Walton of the
League had a conference with
Judges Cain, Mulqueen, Rosalsky
and Swami on the probation ques-
ton and during their talk the
judges stated that Miss Campbell
had done such effective work they
thought it wise to appoint her as
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06


That the Taft administration has
been kindly disposed to give Ne
groes employment is shown by
statistics which furnish the pleas
ing information that in the classi-
fed service there are one thousand
more colored men in the employ of
the Federal Government than at
the beginning of Mr.. Taft's term
as President These figures sup
port the contention of the admin
istration of its friendly attitude
toward the Negro with reference
to jobs.
Much has been said as to the
record of President Taft in the
matter of appointing colored men
to office and the retention of col
ored men in office. In the absence
of any carefully made record CIV
ing this information, your cores
pondent has made investigations
and has found that as to represen-
tation, in the way of official pat
ronage, now enjoyed under Presi-
dent Taft, the race has more both
as to quantity and quality than un-
der previous Presidents.
Here are some of President
Taft's appointments which won
him favor with the Negro voters
throughout the country:
S. Laing Williams, of Illinois,
who held the position of Special
Assistant District Attorney, in
charge of naturalization at Chica-
go, by the refusal of Congress to
appropriate for such position, was
at President Taft's request, ap-
pointed Assistant United States
District Attorney at $1,000 per an
mum. But for the Presidents ac.
tions in his case Mr.. Williams
would have been dropped from the
Government service.
William I'll. Lewis, of Massachu-
setts, held "a like position at Bos-
ton at a salary of $2,500. The
failure of Congress to appropriate
for naturalization attorneys, abol-
ished his position, but, as in the
case of Mr.. Williams, the Presi-
dent caused him to be appointed
Assistant District Attorney at Bos-
ton, at the same salary formerly
received, S2,500. Later, as is well
known, the President appointed
Mr.. Lewis Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral, at salary of $4,000 per an
mum, the highest place in the De-
partment. of Justice to which a
member of our race has yet at
tanned.
Upon the resignation of John
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06
NEGPO SCHOOL BURNED.

Kansas City, Mo-. April A.
Ward hall, the largest dormitory
of Western university, an INDUS
trial school for Negroes, at Quin.
daro, Kansas, seven miles north
west of here, was destroyed by fire
tonight with loss of $4,000. All
the students escaped from the
building safely.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06

at the Presidents di-
rection, Supervisor of Indian and
Negro Schools of Oklahoma.
w. D. Johnson,of Kentucky, was
to a position in the De-
partment of Agriculture at the di-
rection of the President.
Mrs. Booze was appointed Post
mistress at Mound Bayou, Miss, at
81, 800 per annum.
The positions to which Messrs.
Lewis Cottrill, McKinlay, Alexan-
der, Pinch back, Vernon and John
son were appointed, are positions
rot before filled by men of our
race, they constituting new places
opened to the race by President
Taft.
Not only has President Taft
death generously with us, during
the short three years he has been
in office, in the matter of new ap-
pointments, but in the matter of
retaining in--thee service efficient
colored officials he found in Office
when he became President, the
following list of colored officials re-
tanned by him attests to his fixed
discrimination to deal justly with
the race in the matter of represen-
tation.
r. H. Terrell of Washington, D.
c., was retained as judge of the
Municipal Court at $2,500 per an
nun. James A Cobb of Wash
ingtou, d. @, was retained as spec
ial District Attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Ralph w. Taylor of Ohio, was
retained as Auditor for the Navy
Department at $4,000 per annum;
Charles w. Anderson of New York
was retained as Internal Revenue
Collector at New york at 81, 800
per annum; Cyrus Field Adams of
Illinois, was retained as Assistant
Register of the Treasury at $500
per annum; Nathan Alexander of
Alabama, as Register of the Land
Office at Montgomery, Ala, at
81, 800 per annum; Gen. Robert
Smalls of South Carolina, as Col
lector of Customs at Beaufort, N.
G., at 81, 200 per annum; Joseph E.
Lee of Florida, as Collector of In
ternal Revenue at Jacksonville,
Fla, at $4, 800; DR.. Henry Furniss
Of Indiana, as Minister to Haiti at
$4,000 per annum.
The eight colored men in the
Consular Service, filling positions
in foreign countries, were also re-
tanned by the President. The sal
aries of the above enumerated po-
sitions, held by colored men under
the Taft administration, total $780,
900 per annum.
In the matter of evincing deep
interest in the progress of the
of the race, and contribut-
ing to that progress by encourag-
ing words, attention is called to
the fact that in the three years Mr..
Taft has been President, he has
delivered no less than dozen
public addresses urging in str ing
est language, the most varied, and
best educational opportunities of
the race shall be equal to those en-
joyed by the white people.-Age.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06

st. Louis, Mo, March 26.-A
big protest has been raised by the
colored citizens and the newspap-
ers of this city against the new rul-
ing recently made relative to the
selection of apprentice teachers
Who finish the normal coarse at
Sumner High School. The latest
system provides that the graduates
of the normal course be selected
for apprentice work in accordance
with their scholarship record and
only in such numbers as needed.
Should this system become opera
tive it would mean that the hopes
of many parents, who have sacri-
feed for many years would not be
realized. In the past normal
graduate was called out to teach
according to her rating, but she
was sure of eventually teaching.
If the new ruling is put in force
only a certain number making the
highest percentage will be permit
ted to teach. Principal Frank L.
Williams of Sumner High School
has oeen informed of the unpopu-
larity of the ruling and has been
requested to have the old order of
things prevail.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06
Near End of His Patience.

Reggy Deswelle Ito his tailor)-
Weally, I think l have been very pa
tient with you. l promised again and
again to pay you. but If you keep on
bothering me I simply won't promise
any more.-Fliegende Blatter.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06

Ft. Smith, Ark, April In
vestigation of a lynching in which
it is said the wrong Negro was
hanged, resulted today in the city
council removing Chief of Police
Barry, Night Captain Smart, eight
patrolman, abolishing the detective
bureau and dismissing ihe chief
detective. Witnesses at the hear
ing said the police did not try to
protect the Negro. County au-
thorities say they have evidence
that the Negro lynched was not
armed when Deputy Constable
Andrew Carr was shot. Soon af-
ter Carr was shot the suspected
Negro was lynched. Carr died to-
day.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Seattle, Wash, March 23.-J.
Edward Hawkins, a Negro attor-
ney reputed to the wealthiest man
of his race in the Pacific North
west, died last night, aged As
years. He was successively jockey
barber, miner and lawyer, and in
his professional work had many
white clients. He was the head
of the grand lodge of Negro Ma
sons of Washington.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06

regular probation officer. Miss
Walton, on behalf of the league,
recommended for the appointment
which will probably be made when
the present court has meeting of
the judges.-New York Age.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Well of Mystery. And when the Lid
of that Wen comes off Chaos comes
out like an endless snake, and the
endless snake twists around man and
his two sons and crushed them in the
strong clammE folds of Terror and
Doubt. The Lid. of that Well of Mys-
terry and Death, is faith IN God, and
the Lid has been chopped up and
burned to ashes and Winter has come
or Earth-the Ice Age-listen and you
viii hear the terrible cry of the wolves
running over the snow:
'Methought heard a voice cry, Sleep
no more
Macbeth does murder sleep-the inno-
cent sleep.
Sleep that knits up the raveld sleave
of care,
The death of each days life, sore
labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nautre's
second course,
Chief nourisher of life's feast
What do you mean2''
"Still it cried, Sleep no more! to all
the house:
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11
THURSDAY. JANUARY II. 1912.
An Alabama Example
OF the Fee system.

The Journal has repeatedly said that
the fee system is wrong. In making
an effort to abolish the system in this
state it has used figures of cases Of
vagrancy and train-riding in this
county simply because they were avail
able and not with any intention to
prove that Escambia conditions are
any worse than those in other sec
tions. However. we do say that the
vagrancy law Is a good one when the
people entrusted with the power OF
enforcing the laws have any sense at
all.
The Journal is fighting the fee sys-
terl-not for Escambia countygbut for
the whole state-and win continue to
DO SO until enough good people join
with us in making the fight to have
Il abolished entirely.
Birmin- lam people are disgusted
with the fee system as win be seen by
the following from the Birtningham
News:
A concrete example or the Workings
Of the fee system IS given by Mr..
John McCartin, known practically to
every person In Birmingham. Mr.. Nc
Cartfn relates that two deputy
sheriffs were on their way to Boyles
in search Of a murderer. Passing
Vanderbilt their attuned ears caught
the sound of rolling bones.
The officers of the law investigated.
They found a dozen negroes engaged
sn shooting dice. The deputies round
ed them up and brought them back
so town. What became of the mur-
derer is not related.
There's your fee system" Mr.. Nc
Cartin remarks succfnctly II IL
And it is a very good illustration Of
the practical workings OF the fee sys-
tenn Twelve crapshooters in the hand
are worth considerably more than !
lone murderer in the bush
If it were not abused the fee system
might not be so bad, but since it Is
abused wherever # is in vogue the
cnly sure remedy is to abolish 1t alto
gether. There can be found men who
will perform the peoples work for a
reasonable salary.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11
LEAP YEAR.
BY Percy Shaw.

Now let us settle back and wait
"a leap year is before us),
And though we yearn to meet our fate
Let patience settle DER US.
Let us not forward be nor bold
But learn to pout and tremble,
To drop our glance. our hands to fold,
To trifle and dissemble.
And when she whispers May call ~
Just stammer that you'd rather
Consult that sweetest man of all.
Your dear devoted father.
Oh, how your heart will beat with pride
AS in the parlor sitting
You hear her gentle step outside
Along youth pathway fitting.
And when she shakes your hand, how'
You
Will wonder what she's brought yoa
A box of sweets. novel new,
Or roses that have caught you.
How sweet twill be to sit and see
Her womanly endeavor,
To show her perfect liberty
In efforts to be clever.
Till when she cries in accents sweet
BE mine." all caution spurning;
How you viii scorn ali base deceit
To ask. What are you earning"
ssWill you support me just like pa,
With not ban on smoking,
Give me valet and a car,
And never be provoking
And If she says she will, WHY you
Can view her ring demurely.
And tell her it would never do
To marry prematurely
But when you're sure her incomes s
sound,
And her investments splendid,
You're very ready to be bound
And known as her intended.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

whose heart leaps at sound Of the
breakers and thrills at sight of a sail
is building his own ship.
The youth who sits speIlbound by
the words of the orator and makes the
solitude eloquent with his own decla-
nations is erecting his own rostrum
or pulpit
The child Napoleon playing cease
lessly with his wooden soldiers was
making new map of a continent.
Opportunity? It was cultivated with
in himself. It was bound to come out.
Wishes are wings.
Upon them we mount to what
heights we will.
But the wish must be genuine, soul
deep.
The artist cannot, by mere wishing,
have the colors arrange themselves
upon his canvas. The wish must be
viri1e enough to give source to cease
less effort and consummate skill.
For the thought or wish that does
not frame itself into the concrete form
of determined and continued effort is
but whim
We become what we wish to become.
and we do what we wish to do. not
through wishes that are fleeting
fancies. but earnest. constant yearn-
ings of the soul.
The scientific theory regarding the
evolution of the eagle is richly sug-
gestive. The dream of flight was there
before the wings. Through ages Of
ceaseless longing, slow but sure de-
velopment and adaptation went on until
at last the eagle on mighty pinions
scared aloft toward the sun.
There is no obstacle. no limitation
that mind cannot overcome.
Soul VIII find its own, asssurely and
as irresistibly as the homing dove finds
its cote, the bee the clover. and the
seed shoot the light it seeks.
He who can control his thoughts can
control his destiny
And his destiny will be as grand as
his soul-deep thoughts.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11
Man Is the
Master Weaver.

Mans life unfolds, like the rose, from
within.
For mind is source of all.
No moro pregnant words occur in
holy writ than these: "As a man
thinketh in his heart. so is he"
AS the seed is. SO is the flower; as
the spring is, so is the stream; as the
tree is. so is the fruit; and as the
state Of a mans mind is. so is his life.
Man is the master weaver of des-
tiny.
Mind envircns the man with cond.-
tions Of his own making.
Out of the mind comes every word.
action and achievement that make up
ones character and life.
The main difference between million
aire and pauper is that one thinks in
millions and the other in pennies. The
difference between poet and plowman
hes in hesinner mind.
Every man is where he is and what
he is by reason of the mere thoughts
out of which he has made himself and
his conditions.
There Is no deviation from the divine
law that thought is the mother of all
circumstances.
The workings from cause to effect
are so absolute and immutable in the
secret realm Of the soul as in the outer
world Of visible things.
The lightest word. the faintest smile,
the slightest impulsive action were
first definitely framed in the mind.
The most intricate mechanism ex-
listed first as a mere thought.
The grSndest cathedral. the creates:
work Of man. was constructed out of a
thought. Thought was the builder. not
the machine-lil1e workmen. Though,
is thtt substance. not the dead stones,
Joy and sorrow. hope and despair
courage and fear. love and hate. en-
Hghtenment and ignorance this
warp-and-woof of life-are nowhere
but in the mind.
The boy vino longs for the sea and
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

There is more Catarrh In this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together. and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurabie. For a
great many years doctors pronounced il a
local disease and prescribed local rene
dies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced It incur
able. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F. J.
Cheney e Co. Toledo. Ohio. is the only
taken internally in doses from 10 drops
TO teaspoonfuL Il acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system
They offer one hundred dollars for each
case It falls to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

1t is perfectly proper for a woman
to have in her custody the funds of an
entire county. Most wives have the
money of the husband and 1t might as
well be extended beyond the house,
hold. However. papers containing adj
vertisements with dry goods bargains
had better not enter Palm Beach
county.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Had an idea the first of the week
that the DR.. Sun causing the rebellion
in China was the one which has done
duty in Florida for so long. but he
came back yesterday and shone all
day, so we ask his pardon for mis-.
Judging him.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11
REMOVAL NOTICE.

The insurance Office of the
undersigned has been moved
from % East Government
street to rooms 3OO-3O2 Am
erican National Bank build
ing.
clan WALKER ANDERSON
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

J. Pierpont Morgan seems deter
mined to have all of the really beauti-
full pictures in the world. He has al
ready asked for one of Pensacola's $
brown eyed beauties.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Larnbright will get into the pes
simist class if he does not be careful.
He says the near" side of the street
is usually the far side from where you
are. In Pensacola the cars still step
on the far side, however.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

General Grant said that the, Demo
cratic party could be depended upon
to do some damn fool thing at the
proper time TO elect a Republican
president. Bearing this in mind The
Journal urges people to let Harmon
continue as governor of Chic.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

The coloners repeated declarations
that he is not a candidate for the
presidency is only adding to his already
undisputed title of champion of ali
liars
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Northern visitors in Pensacola last
year who have not come to sunny Pen
sacola this year send a marked copy
of a paper to The Journal telling about
the temperature being below zero.
They ought to have known better in
the beginning-Florida weather is
always the kind that pleases.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Dobson and Henderson WIN carry to
completion the work so ably begun by
Hyer and Waterman.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Champ Clark says damn. complains
a st. Louis paper, just like the speak
ership could reform in one season.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

The only Kentucky feud which is in
existence now is the banqueters' at
tempt to exterminate the mint julep.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

There are lots OF voters in the state
who must vote against their friends
when one of the four popular candi-
dates for governor can only be elected.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

AS far as we are concerned the fed :
eral treasury can pay dollar a day
pension to those who have swatted the
fly faithfully for one summer.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

President Taft has issued an order
that Christian Scientists may practice
in the canal zone. However. he does
not extend the territory to the White
House.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Miss Rogers-How did yoa imagine
anything so beautiful as the angel in
your picture? Artist-Got an engaged
man to describe his sweetheart to me.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

The only difference between a beggar
and the one who expects a tip is the
latter virtually holds you up-a high
way robber, to be accurate.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

ground. but the people ought to put his
nose to the grindstone.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Since Richeson wants a light sen
tence the Jacksonville Metropolis
thinks that an electrical one would do
the work properly
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Predict anything you care to about
the Chinese trouble and no one can
successfully argue against your con-
tentions.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Why not cheaper the telephone ser
vice? queries the Ocala Banner. It
isn't the service we want cheapene6,
but the price Of the service
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

When man knows he's ignorant he
invariably tries to look wise.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Most modern of modern ideas for a
periodical is Cartoons" the first mum
Der of which has just appeared on the
Journals desk. It is a selection of the
keenest cartoons on current events and
the cleverest caricatures from late ls-
sues of American and foreign dailies
and weeklies. Public demand for the
expression of opinion through witty or
incisive cartoons is evidenced by the
extraordinary increase of space which
is being given the clever artists by
daily papers. yet the greater part Of
the wit is lost to most men owing to
the limited field each publication
reaches. Cartoons" is to appear on
the fifth of each. month, 81 pages of
drawings, and cover in color, and Is
published by H. H. Windsor, Chicago.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Potato crop in the United States is
eighty million bushels short-and Flor
ida could have supplied the demand.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Albert Williamson now says he Is
running for congressman at large.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Some people conscientiously believe
that Pensacola owes debt Of graft
tude to the L. & n.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

The Lid of religion is off The well OF
mystery and death and a pail which
cannot be broken through stretches to
the horizon. Man faces the horror of
the Shade and tastes despair Out OF
the bottomless black well in each
mans back yard, like rings from a
smokers lips, whirls of horror rise un-
settling his brain. Macbeth has mur-
dered sleep.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Recent deaths in Berlin We're sup
posed to have been caused from germs
from spoiled herring. so the doctors
said. 1t was found out later that wood
alcohol was the cause and the laugh
was on the doctors. says the Savannah
Morning News. Don't know anything
about the wood alcohol nor the doctors,
but spoiled herring isn't a joke by any
means-and we speak from experience.
The Pensacola journal., 1912-01-11

Cotton shipments are breaking rec
ords even for Pensacola.