Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-27
CUNNINGHAM SAYS TEDDY IS MUCH

social justice argument, kind of
tabieauX effect, as it We're. This is nc
scheme 10 help Mr.. Metcalf sell these
donkeys-he doesn't have to sell don
keys Tor living-but these smart
little brutes could serve festive
forget" purpose.
There are so many things that
should he remembered in a campaign
year. Perhaps it is recalled that Mr..
Roosevelt tried TO hush up the disturb
ance following his dining with Booker
Washington in 1901 by proclaiming it
was a sort of incidental, accidental,
casual lunch. 1t happened to be
around dinner time, y'know, and,
well-a few dishes of cold things leit
over from breakfast, were tossed upon
the White House table in careless
fashion-perhaps the walters just
slid" the dishes onto the table non
chalantly. It was just a bite for two
very busy men, the president and the
negro educator, and nobody else was
there. That was the impression CON
Yeyed, seriously, now, by Mr.. Roose-
welt in a statement given the press at
the time
Cold lunch-dinner hour-busy men
hurried bite. That was it, as Mr.
Jingle, in Pickwick Papers, might
have expressed it for the Third Term
Candidate.
But the negro teacher doesn't seem
10 agree with that version. In his
Chapters from My Experience" pub
lished in the Worlds Work, February,
1911, Booker r. Washington shows it
was a formal affair, with members of
the White House family present, and
another guest beside himself. And
if the thought will be pardoned just
here, no doubt Booker T. was beside
himself with joy at the time.
During the fall of 1901, while l was
making a tour of Mississippi" says
Washington in his article mentioned,
president would like to have confer
ence with me, as soon as it was con-
venient, concerning some important
matters. Immediately after
finishing my work in Mississippi
went to Washington. l arrived there
in the afternoon and went to the
house of a friend, Mr.. Whitefield
Mckinley, with whom l was expected
to stop during my stay in Washington.
This trip to Washington brings me
to a matter which / have hitherto con-
stantly refused to discuss in print or
in public, though l have had a great
many requests to do so. At the time
did not care to add fuel to the contro-
versy which it aroused. and l speak of
it now only because it seems to NE
that an explanation will show the in
cident in IT'S TRUE LIGHT and in
IT'S PROPER PROPORTIONS.
when | reached Mr.. McKinley's
house l FOUND AN INVITATION
FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT,
AT THE WHITE HOUSE THAT
EVENING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK.
At the hour appointed l went to the
White House AND DINED WITH
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS
OF HIS FAMILY AND A GENTLE.
MAN FROM COLORADO. AFTER
dinner we talked at considerable
length CONCERNING PLANS ABOUT
THE SOUTH WHICH THE PRESI
DENT HAD IN MIND. / left the
White House almost Immediately and
took train the same night for New
York"
There is a certain theatre in Wash
ington where the thunder-and-lighten
| ing apparatus is operated nightly;
| where the black-mustached villain
drags the peroxide blond heroine
across the stage by her yellow locks
sometimes, and where such plays as
| Her First Misstep," mo Mother to
Guide Her." Sammy, the Boy Raj
fles," and others of the kind are pre-
scented. Some people who enjoy
Shakespeare, and who know and ap
preciate the best in the theatrical line
patronize this playhouse occasionally
because they can laugh for month
over the ridiculous performance seer
there.
! For the same reason that such plays
are enjoyed by such people. many pol
| iticians here found great entertain
ment in one statement of the Third
Term Candidate wherein he replied tt
the Penrose-Archbold charges. 1t was
this reference to George w. Perkins
| of the Harvester Trust, and chief as
sistant to Roosevelt in the Tennessee
Coal & Iron Company-Steel Trust
merger manipulation, and Others
behind the Third Termers present
present and past campaigns:
! ''We who fight for the cause of the
| people as whole, have only few
supporters among the very rich These
| few supporters are, from the nature
of the case, IDEALISTS, men of the
kind who, when THEIR INTERESTS
ARE ABUSED, give generously and
! without thought Of PERSONAL re
turn. Welcome their contribu
lions, when made in such a spirit;
am honored by their support, and
receive it as freely as it is given"