The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-01-31
SCORES SEGREGATION


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OSWALD corr;so,, v7;11o, 49,.
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writes q Strong Article for
IN no+o,a 8. I, J, & s,
.,H 49,, ~ ao, ASl1,..y y ooaroW Will
DE-, 49,. tue Delnocratic nominee Tor
haeanaa ueclarea tnat: should
Stataa .,.s. 1osiueht U Tue United
o" s.s0, ,, Ivy Ntne scoioreu people) may
~ 1s upon Me IOr aDsolute Ialr deal
a s anu LOT everything by which !
s.s1 1 assist !sts. ~ advancing the inter-
ests VI tneF race IN the United
otates. Inns utterance gave com
xiete satisfaction to those leaders of
Tue colored people and the friends OF
sne race VINO were urging them to
Dreak away from their thraldom to
tne tsepuDHcan party and to vote for
tne Governor OF New Jersey on the
siounu tnat the country would profit
.ost ny the election OF the Democrat
:. -. .icAet. seuaHned observers believe
t .lat llany more colored men voted
sle uemocratlc ticket IN 1912 than
ose1 pelote.
1t was with dismay, therefore, that
early in the Administration of Mr..
Wilson, whose Cabinet is equally
divided between Southerners and
Northerners, there became noticeable
IN certain quarters a distinct hostility
to the colored people. For a long
time no appointments Of Negroes
were made by the President. Then
ne nominated Adam e. Patterson of
Oklahoma for the position Of Regis
ter or the Treasury, a place long held
Dy co1ored men. Patterson's nominal
ZION was the signal for Outbursts from
the most violent negrophobes in the
senate; Senators like Hoke Smith of
georgia, Vardaman of Mississippi,
T1llman OF South Carolina, and others,
declaring that Patterson should not
be confirmed, or any other colored
man, for an Office which would put
MN over white women clerks. With
aDJect coWardlce Patterson rushed to
the White House and demanded that
MS name be Withdrawn. Unwilling
at thls tlme to meet the issue thus
raised, MT wilson consented to his
request, unlike Presidents Cleveland
anu hooseVelt, VINO, under similar Cir
cumstances, put the responsibility on
the senate Dy continuing to nominate
the coiored candidates for office and
by giving them recess appointments
When the Senate was not in session.
Instead, Mr.. Wilson appointed Cher
Okee indian as Register. y Il
When a group of citizens holds so
lew Federal offices as do the colored
people, each one takes on a signifi-
canoe lar beyond any question Of the
salary or powers that may be attach
ed to it. This is particularly true Of
the posts of Minister to Hayti and
San Domingo. Not one Of the stock
southern objections to Negro appoint
ments holds here; these ministers are
accredlted to colored people where
the bogie of social equality cannot be
raised. Under Mr.. Wilson both Of
these posts have gone, temporarily,
it is said, and doubtless for reasons
satisfactory to Mr.. Bryan, to white
men. The colored people at large ac-
cepted this as notice from the White
House that the remaining Offices here
tofore given to colored men were to
be taken from them. Alarming as this
was, on top Of it came the startling
news that for the first time in the
history OF the Federa! Government
isace preJuuice. was having full swing
~ soMe OF me departments at Wash
- .ol. W w nau not Deen dreamed
:. un0o1 ca1' Ny Ye7lanu, Inousn begun
~ one once uhder Mr: TART, was be-
ne aetenpteu unoef MI. Wllson-the
segreeatlon OF Negro clerks, both men
enu wonueu l., II appeared mat the Sec
~ ~. a.ee1son a. Tue mead OF an ex-
o,uois1ty ooioleu ulvislon upon the
pie e., use NE; McAooo,s own words
tna. :. wouiu give Tue negroes an
oppoltunl!y oI natlonal dimensions, to
plove lilel l. n .t TO run, unalded by
m mnl.es, a. !, ,lnportant bureau OF the
D.pa -. .e. 1ust WY tnls Denen-
oeu J. unueitaking was dropped as soon
az - appeareu tnat an inalan ana not
q co1oieu Man was 70 head the dlvl-
81 ston nas nUt appeared: II II had all
tne inerit CANNED Ior II, the colored
people snoula not nave Deen deprived
" .ne oppoltunlty OF collectlvely DEM
=. s tuelr Wortn' WHICH, IN the
n uuiv .Ns1! mas ions Deen known 10
a a. Iai Win the governments
opei a'ious.
Careful inquiry by representative
OF the National Association for the
advancement OF Colored People, and
Dy newspaper men OF the standing of
vas correspondents OF the
ne" YORK Evening Post and Boston
Aovertlser, mas developed the fact
tnat segregation OF colored employees
exlsts ana is increasing, especially in
the bureau OF Engraving and Print
Ing, in the Post Office Department, and