The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1916-10-12
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN POR-
TRAYED
Pres. Wilson's Hypocrisy

By William K, Wilcox, Chairman
Republican National Committee.
1t required more than ordinary as
surance for the man who has done
more than any other President since
the civil war 10 fasten the shackies
of bondage on the American freed
man, to stand at the humble log cabin
at Hodgenville, KY, and pronounce a
eulogy upon the great emancipation
In the light Of President Wilson's
own contemplate treatment Of the
negro, his praise of Lincoln, the plain
man of the common people, the prod
uct of poverty and obscurity, was
false and shallow.
Bringing to Washington all the
prejudices Of his southern birth and
rearing surrounding himself with
men of the same inherited feelings,
Mr.. Wilson early gave to his admin
istration, so far as the colored man
was concerned, the stamp Of snobbery,
vindietiveness and ignorance, and
these traits have characterized it
from the time of the removal of j.
c. Napier as register of the treas
ury to the present day.
Negro May Not Work for
United States.
Not even the splendid patriotism
of the black heroes of the Tenth Cav
airy, who went to their death at Car
rial as the result of the President s
policy of timidity and laundering in
Mexico, suficed to move him from
his course of negotiating. The col
ored man, under Woodrow Wilson,
may die for his country, but he may
not serve in civilian life under the
sign of the Jim Crow"
Beginning with Napier three years
ago, President Wilson has persistent
ly pursued a policy of segregation
that has brought unmerited hardship
| and shame TO thousands of American
citizens. President Taft and Roose-
welt encouraged deserving and intel
ligent negroes by giving them posi-
tions in the federal service.
President Wilson quickly gave evi-
dence of one Of his most character
istic traits by Surrendering TO south
ern negro haters of the Vardaman
type. In a matter of plain justice
to his colored fellow citizens he was
too proud to fight"
Drive Freedmen From Service
He did recognize the justice of the
claim of the negroes to the treasury
position which a colored man had held
for more than twenty-five years, and
at first nominated an Oklahoma ne
gro; but he promptly withdrew it
when notice was served upon him by
the Democratic race fanatics in Con-
| gress that no negroes would be con-
| irmed
Even the post of minister to Hayti,
always filled by black man, went to
white man. If Mr.. Wilson preached
the new freedom" he practiced the
new bondage"
/ ,F
ington quickly became apparent and
a systematic policy of segregation in
| the executive departments was under
way. instigated first by Secretary
! McAdoo and Postmaster General
Burcson, who had many imitators.
by the summer Of 1913 the segrega-
tion of negro clerks in the Treasury
Department and the postotfce was an
accomplished fact
Il was Mr.. Wilson's theory that the
problem presented was human. not
political" The rapacity with which
| hungry Democratic Office seekers
scrambled for the $4,000 government
positions carrying salaries amounting
to more than 100000 per annum,
which. under Republican administra-
ton had been filled by self-respect-
ing and intelligent negroes, indicated
that he was right, but not in sense
rejecting credit on human nature.
The segregation begun by McAdoo
and Burleson under Wilson has
spread through the country 1t is
the fixed policy of the present admin
istration. The obnoxious theory of
Jim Crow" intolerance has fastened
like cancer in the political and so
cial fobric Of the nation.