The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-04-04
SCORES SEGREd 81 I7ION
o"aiu aal1'son Willard Grandson Of William Lovd arrieo
res Strong Article for the North American

\ As'V4A AAA<b4 E4Icku
writes a Strong Article 70
On October Is, 1912, Woodrow Wi
son, then the Democratic nominee -
PRESIDENT, declared that. .Shon1d -
Stst e resident Of the Unite
e 9ea.es, tney 1.-THE colored people) ma
oun.. upon me- for absolute fair deaj
lug ana Tor everything by which
o ooulu assist IN advancing the inter
ess OF their race in the Unite,
s o.aees. Ihls utterance gave CON
ne Raete SATISFACTION to those leaders o
- tLo coloreo people and the friends q
sne race VINO We're urging them +,
Dreak away from their thraldom :,
tne republican party and to vote fo
ne governor of New Jersey on III,
srouno tnat the country would profi
most Dy the election of the Demncra :
lc ucket. Qualified observers believ.
tnat many more colored men vote,
the democratic ticket in 1912 tha,
ever before. A1 'nal
It was with dismay, therefore tha
early in the Administration o. No.
,; ..:S' whose Cabinet is equal,
e Ilv1aed between Southerners and
!Soltnerners, there became noticeable
- certain quarters distinct hostility
- ~ Tue colored people. For a Ions
te no appointments of Negroes
were made by the President. Their
" nom1natedAsAdam e. Patterson Of
VA1anoma forrthe position of Regis
Yer OF the Treasury, a place long held
ny colored men. Patterson,s nomina.
t1on was the signal for outbursts from
the most violent negrophobes in the
senate; Senators like Hoke Smith nj
Georgia, Vardaman of Mississinni
!1liman Of South Carolina, and others
!: oeclarlng that Patterson should NOT
Ne conhrmed, or any other colored
! nan, 10r an Office which would MT
nlm over white women clerks. with
ap]ect cowardice Patterson rushed tn
the White House and demanded that
MS name be withdrawn. Unwilling
at tnls tlme to meet the issue thus
ra1sed' Mr.. Wilson consented to his
request, unlike Presidents Cleveland
ana Roosevelt, who, under similar cir
cumstances, put the responsibility on
the Senate by continuing to nominate
the colored candidates for Office and
Wy elving them recess appointments
MueA tne senate was not in session
instead mr.. Wilson appointed Cher
okee indian as Register.
Wnen a group of citizens holds SO
Low feoeral offices as do the colored
people, each one takes on a ssipnifi-
canoe far beyond any question of the
salary or powers that may be attach.
ca TO 1t. This is particularly true If
the posts OF Minister to Hayti and
San Domingo. Not one of the stock
Southern objections to Negro appoint
ments holds here; these minister's are
accreolted to colored people where
the bogie of social equality cannot he
raised. Under Mr.. Wilson both Of
these posts have gone, temporarily
1t 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
to1ore given to colored men were to
W 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 Federal Government
race prejudice was having full swing |!
IN some OF the Departments at Wash
lngton. What had not been dreamed !
OF under Mr.. Cleveland, though begun i
IN one Office under Mr.. Taft, was be- i
ing attempted under Mr.. Wilson-the !
segregation of Negro clerks, both men !
and women. It appeared that the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury had planned
TO put Patterson at the head of an ex-
colored division upon the
plea-to use Mr.. McAdoo's own words
mat 1t would give the Negroes an |
opportunity of national dimensions. to
prove their fitness to run, unaided nv
whites, an important bureau of the
Just why this benef-
'ent Undertaking was dropped as soon
IS II appeared that an Indian and not
colored man was to head the djvi-
lion mas not appeared; if it had all
ne merit claimed for it, the colored
people should not have been deprived
T. the opportunity Of collectively dem I,
'nstrat1ng their worth, which, in the
nd1v1dual, has long been known to-
III 1am1l1ar with the Governments
'perations. !;
careful inquiry by representative /,
4 the National Association for the Il
Advancement of Colored People, and
y newspaper men of the standing of :,
washington correspondents of the
VeW YORK Evening Post and Boston S
1dvertlser, has developed the fact ,
nat segregation of colored employees
xlsts and is Increasing, especially in s,
ne bureau Of Engraving and Print [
ne, IN the Post Office Department, and {
4 the Office Of the Auditor for the {
'ost-OHce, which is a part of the
reasury Department, and that it has &
egun In the Washington city post {
NICE. AS yet, segregation has not (
cen introduced in the Treasury I
'u1ld1ng, where there are two hun !
red and seventy colored employees I
the corridors and Offices together I
18th white clerks. It is defended by
II. McAdoo as ian effort to remove
auses OF complaint and friction where }
'h1te women have been forced unnec- I
ssar1ly to sit at desks with colored !
len." But there is no statement that :
lere have been many such complaints q
that they were heard of under pre- a
lous Administrations. Nor is it ex- d
la1ned why colored clerks are taken i
Ut OF rooms In which their sole com t
an1ons are white men, or why, if d
lere should be segregation because h
the Women, the Government does y
ot segregate all its women clerks. Y
or does Mr.. McAdoo record the fact $
lat In many instances the white D
erka without racroo% - cox I,oro :