Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-11-25
Trotter's Conduct Accounted
For.

| Almost everything can 0e ex-
planned. The explanation of Trot-
ter's insolence to President Wilson
is painfully simple. He had been
coddled by the cndfah Democracy
of Massachusetts,.
While the recent campaign was
in progress w. NJ. Trotter, the ne
gro who offended the president and
who conducts weekly newspaper
in Boston, whose mission is to wipe
out the color line, addressed letters
in advance to the several candidates
for Office, in which he put to them
number Of questions. The letter
follows:
"Dear Sir:-At the 7th annual
meeting of the National Indepen-
dent Equal Rights League, held in
New York City September 7-9,
1914, in the address to the country,
this was said:
We advise colored voters to look
into the records of every Congress-
man up for reelection to make an
issue of the color segregation prac-
|ticed by certain cabinet officers Nend
encouched in bills already introduce
ed in Congress. Find out where
each candidate stands on these anti
Negro bills and the anti-lntermar-
riage bill and act accordingly.
In pursuance of this vote of the
League, the Massachusetts branch
hereby publicly asks you what your
attitude is and what it will be if
elected on the matters above re-
ferred to.
Please state
list. Will you, if elected, seek to
prevail upon the Secretary of the
Treasury and the P Postmaster-Gener-
al and the President to abolish such
segregation of colored government
employment as has been instituted
under them as to restroom, eating,
working and toilet facilities?
and. Will you use your influ-
ence, voice and vote against bills to
segregate colored clerks and to- es-
tablish Jim: Crow cars in the Dis
Itrict of Columbian isf.:.!l y
E s3rs }nses mr. iltis,s
fence, and voice and vote against
Ebills making it a crime for colored
and non-colored persons to marry
in the District Of Columbia?
"4th. Will you favor the enforce
melt of the 14th and 18th amend.
ments now notoliously nullifed in
certain states?
An early answer will be appre-
ciated.
Yours for equality of citizen
ship,
VIM. Monroe Trotter, Sec.
Every Democratic candidate quo
| ted, including Governor Walsh, re-
piled in the affirmative to all the
questions, and here is sample let
ter from the Honorable Francis j.
Horgan, Democratic candidate for
Congress from the Eleventh Mas
sachusetts district:
William Monroe Trotter, Esq.,,
Secretary Mass. Branch of the
National Independent Equal
Rights League.
Dear Mr.. Trotter-Your COM
munication addressed to me as can
didate for Congress in the Eleventh
| Massachusetts congressional dis
trict, has been duly received by
me.
II have noted carefully your
questions, and j beg leave to sub
nit the following replies:
IF elected, / will exert my influ-
ence and bend my best energies to
induce the Secretary of the Treas
ury, the Postmaster General and the
President to abolish aggregation OF
colored governmental employees in re-
lation TO rest room, eating, work
ing and toilet facilities.
''2nd. I will use my influence,
yaice and vote against the bills to
segregate colored clerks, and to re-
establish Jim-Crow cars in the
District of Columbia.
"ard. l will oppose most vigor-
ously bills making it criminal for
colored and non-colored to marry in
the District of Columbia or any
part of the county, so far as ma
tioual legislation may affect this
question.
''4th. I certainly will do every
thing in my power to assure the en-
forcement of the provisions of the
l4th and 18th articles of ameno.
| ,,oat which rnorootoa onuol r,r;v;