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PRESIDENT’S ACT
CAUSES REVULSION
Southerners Condemn the
Negro- Dinner Episode.
CAUSTIC COMMENTS ARE MADE
Opinion Expressed that Roosevelt
Has Lost flany of His New
Supporters In the South.
A Washington special says: Fresl
I dent Roosevelt shocked severely his
I recently acquired southern friends
I and admirers by inviting Bo-oker T.
I Washington, the negro college presi
I dent, to dine at the white house.
I Washington went there without other
I guests. There is a feeling of indigna
I I tion among southern men generally,
I that the president should, in the face
of his friendliness toward the people
I I of the south, take this early opportun
ity to show such a marked courtesy
I and distinction to a negro.
There is but one similar instance
I I within the recollection of the oldest
I inhabitant of the Capital City when
persons of negro blood were dined at
I I the white house by the president.
That was during President Cleveland’s
I I administration, when Queen Liliuoka
lani visited this country to resist the
I I proposed annexation of the Hawaiian
islands. Then the royal party took din
[ I ner with the president.
Political and Social Equality.
I What effect the dining of Professor
I I Washington by President Roosevelt is
going to have upon his southern policy
I I remains to be seen. It is predicted
that it will drive from him some of his
I I new allies. A few days ago, when a
delegation of southern politicians call
I e d upon the president in connection
I I with a federal appointment, he took oc
casion to remark that the color of a
I man’s skin could not operate to his
[ I advantage oir disadvantage removal from in an office. ap
I pointment or a
| President Roosevelt apparently in
tends to apply the same rule at his din
I ner table and exercise his independ
I enee in the selection of his guests.
Southern men at the capital In com
I menting on the Washington incident
I declare that the president does not
I and cannot understand the bad effect
I his inviting the negro leader to din
I ner will have on the attitude of the ne-
1 groes in the south toward white men,
I their wives aud their families.
Former presidents refrained from
I I extending dinner invitations to such
noted negro leaders as Fred Douglass,
I I B. K. Bruce, R. B. Elliott, P. B. S.
Pinchback and Bishop Turner.
| I Southerners generally voice but one
sentiment when they declare that
I while they have the greatest loyalty ror
| I President Roosevelt, they cannot have
I the same respect for him that they en
tertained before the Booker Washing
I ton dinner incident.
Southern IVlen Disgusted.
I As one distinguished congressman
remarked:
“I have no hesitation in saying that
I I believe I voice the sentiment of ev
I ery intelligent southern-born white
I man and white woman when I say that
I they can never take President Roose
I velt or any other public man to their
I hearts who sits at the table and eats
I with a ‘nigger.’ I confess Booker
I Washington is a smart ‘nigger’ and
I way above the average, but at the
I same time he is a ‘nigger’ just the
I same, and we people of the south have
I been born and raised so that we can
I not accept the negro as our social
I equal and we cannot respect any man
I who does. If President Roosevelt ex
I Pects to build up a respectable white
I man’s party in the south,he can never
I succeed by inviting ‘niggers’ to the
I white house for dinner.”
Several other statesmen from the
I south were interviewed on the sub
I ieet, and, while objecting to being
I quoted, they expressed their surprise
I and indignation that such an incident
I should have occurred at this time,
I when the people of the south were
I looking to President Roosevelt to cur
I tail, rather than encourage, negro dom
I Nation in that section of the country.
While it is conceded by conserva
I iiye men from the south that Booker
I Washington’s indorsement of Judge
I Jones had considerable weight with
I the president, they nevertheless de
I 'dare that the appointment of all the
I I Joneses, Browns all tlie Smiths and all the
in the south to federal judge
I 'tips will not reconcile the white peo
I Pie of the south to the fact that the
I President of the United States ate at
I che same table wih a “nigger.”
Crew of Thirty Missing.
6 Josephine Ann, a three-masted
shin _ S vessel belonging to the port of
ecamp, in France, has been missing
Ior some time, it is presumed that the
1 essel and her numbering thirty
Persons, crew,
have perished.
VICTIM OF fOOTPADS.
Pl ant System Engineer Held Up, Mur
dered and Robbed.
Harry c. Wesson, an engineer on the
‘ ant system, was waylaid, murdered
n ' robbed at an early hour Thursday
orning in p a i a tka, Fla. He arrived
Hs train at 4:10 a. m. and started
;° tody w n the track to his home. His
was found at 5:30 o’clock with
a buffet through
Piously his head. He had
.drawn $150 salary.
ROCKHILL RETURNS.
Commissioner Talks Interestingly
Of Present Status of Affairs
In the Chinese Empire.
W. W. Rockhill, the commissioner
who represented tho United States in
the negotiations between the allies and
China, arrived at Victoria, B. C„ Wed
nesday by the steamship Empress o?
Japan on his way to Washington. He
had with him a copy of the protocol be
tween China and the pow r ers which
was recently signed by the representa
tives of the various nations interested.
He proceeded direct to Washington by
the Canadian railroad.
Affairs in China have resumed their
normal state, the commissioner said in
an interview. He did not anticipate
any further outbreak, but there was no
telling what would happen in China.
So-called insurrections in ivan Su and
Manchuria, he said, were simply local
uprisings which had been very much
exaggerated. Three hundred Chinese
troops entered Pekin on September 17
and the keys of the gates were handed
over with elaborate cermony. All for
eign troops were withdrawn with the
exception of the legation guards and
guards at the railway stations. The
commercial interests seem to be tak
ing charge of the country.
Before Mr. Rockhill left Pekin the
Chinese troops had commenced to po
lice the city. The people, he said, had
benefited by the occupation, they hav
ing been given work rebuilding the
legations and other work at wages
which they had never dreamed of.
Mr. Rockhill said he expected to
hear very shortly of the return of the
court to Pekin.
While missionaries were murdered
and tortured in other parts of China,
Roman Catholic missionaries had lived,
under the protection of the court at
Hsiang Fu. British officers and mis
sionaries had since visited the court
aud were very warmly received.
Mr. Rockhill says many people are
starving in the district in which
Hsiang Fu is situated, but the reports
of the famine in other parts of the em
pire sent out to the pfess have been
greatly exaggerated. The famine is
the result of the failure of crops.
Mr. Rockhill says that while Li
Hung Chang retains his mental vigor,
he is breaking down physically. He
has a splendid appetite, but suffers
much from indigestion and high' fe
vers.
Mr. Rockhill does not look for a
boom when conditions in China are
again settled, hut says the trade will
be enormous.
ROOSEVELT GRANTS PARDONS.
Negroes Convicted of Pension Frauds
Are Given Their Liberty.
President Roosevelt Wednesday
granted pardons in the following
cases:
Eliza Chapman, James Wainwright
and Andrew J. Winters, who were sen
tenced April 18, 1901, at Nashville,
Tenn., each to serve a year and ten
days in prison for a pension fraud, are
pardoned upon recommendation of the
district attorney who prosecuted them,
so that their sentences will expire on
November i of the present year. The
prisoners are all negroes, ignorant and
credulous, arid according to the testi
mony at the trail were imposed upon
by a man named Braden, who was the
chief beneficiary of the fraud. The
Chapman woman is nearly 90 years
old and Winters is 76.
Upon recommendation of the attor
ney general the president has pardon
ed John Harris, a Kentucky perjurer,
who served out a two years’ term in
the Indiana penitentiary in order that
his civil rights be restored to him.
Since Harris’ return from the peniten
tiary he has been sober, industrious
and honest
Many Millions Needed for Navy.
The estimates of the navy for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, were
made public at the navy department
Wednesday. The total amount is $98,
910,984 against $77,924,535 appropria
ted for the current year.
To Build Big Dynamite factory.
The Birmingham, Ala., Powder Com
pany has bought a tract of 300 acres
of land near East Birmingham and will
at once erect a dynamite factory.
CAROLINA GETS PAY.
Tarheels Are Reimbursed For Ex
penses In Mobilizing Troops.
The last payment of claims the state
of North Carolina had against the Uni
ted States, growing out of the mobiliza
tion of troops in the war with Spain,
was made Friday by the go-vernment.
The total of all claims filed was $31,-
231, but $826 was disallowed.
North Carolina Pensions.
The North Carolina state auditor
has ascertained that there are 8,627
state pensioners this year under the
new law. Among these 8,627 pension
ers $196,394 Is to be apportioned.
CASHIER “GONE YONDER.”
His Absence Causes Doors of a Quaker
Bank to Close.
Shortly before noon Friday the doors
of the National bank of Boyertown, lo
cated at Boyertown, Pa., were dosed.
A. notice posted on the bank’s door
stated that it was done because of the
disappearance of Cashier Milton A.
Morey, who has not been seen for a
' of the bank
week. The resources
amount to nearly $709,000.
FILIPINOS WORRY
OFFICIAL HEADS
Setbacks in Samar Island
Cause Great Concern.
FRESH PLOTS ARE UNEARTHED
Reverses Cause Evident Pleasure
To the Islanders—Vigorous
Campaign Inaugurated.
One of the questions that will re
quire the prompt and serious consid
eration of Secretary Root on his re
turn to Washington will be the mili
tary situation in the Philippines. The
recent serious outbreaks in the Is
land of Samar have disturbed the au
thorities considerably. It is realized
that they may prove a serious setback
to the plans of the administration for
the pacification of the Filipinos and
the extension of American sovereignty.
There is no longer any prospect of a
substantial reduction in the strength
of the Philippine army for some time
to come. In fact, the latest advices
from Chaffee contain arguments
against any reduction of the army at
this time except as required by the
expiration of enlistments. As pointed
out by General Corbin in his annual
report, the army will lose nearly 2,000
men a month on this account.
The war department officials are
now considering how to meet this
prospective deficiency without impair
ing the efficiency of the military estab
lishment in the Philippines General
Chaffee has said that he»will require
three extra transports to assist in
bringing home the short term men
within the next six or eight months.
The quartermaster’s department has
selected the transports Meade, Rose
crans and Egbert for this special ser
vice. The last two named will leave
Washington ports in a few weeks for
Manila. They will take out civilian
employees and supplies. The Meade
which is at San Francisco, is being
held in reserve for the purpose of tak
ing out troops to replace those to be
brought home.
Other vessels which will be utilized
in taking troops to the Philippines are
the Grant, at San Francisco, and the
Crook, at the New York station. Tho
former, which is expected to leave
about the middle of next month, will
carry out an entire regiment with its
equipment, and the Crook will take
the nucleus of another regiment about
the 1st of December. Although not
finally settled, it is probable that the
Twenty-eighth infantry, now In the
department of the Columbia, will be
ordered to the Philippines on the
Grant.
Plans For Slaughter Frustrated.
A Manila special under Sunday’s
date says: Owing to. the vigilance of
Lieutenant Thomas M. Banes, Jr., of
the Ninth United States infantry, an
other slaughter of American troops by
isurgents has been averted. Lieuten
ant Banes discovered a prisoner re-en
tering a cell at Carbiga, island cf Sa
mar, where several were confined,
through a hole that had been let In the
wall. An investigation showed a plan
to fill the jail with bolo men and to
call the guard, which would be neces
sary to get the door open, and then to
attack the garrison. It also developed
that the instigators were a priest and
the presidente, both of whom have
been arrested, together with several
other prominent persons.
Other attempts have been discover
ed, but fortunately frustrated at Pam
bujan and other points in Samar. Sev
eral persons have been arrested in
connection with these.
Reinforcements are being rushed to
Samar. Three hundred and thirty ma
rines have gone there on board the
United States cruiser New York, and
two battalions of the Twelfth infantry
will shart immediately for the same
destination.
United States officers from other
provinces that were supposed to be
pacified have recently arrived in Ma
niia, and they say that the news of
American disasters spreads like wild
fire among the natives, who scarcely
attempt to conceal their delight.
MUSEUM GETS MILLIONS.
Litigaliou Over Estate of Dead Loco
motive Builder Is Inded.
All litigation with regard to the will
of Jacob S. Rogers has been settled at
New York In commenting on this,
Robert W. De Forrest, counsel for the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, said:
“The effect of this settlement will be
to put the museum within a short time
in possession of Mr. Rogers’ residuary
estate, the value of which is unward of
$5,000,000. The amount paid in settle
ment was $250,000, about 5 per cent
on the amount involved and not much
more than a year's normal income on
this amount of property.”
HIGH TRESTLE COLLAPSED.
Central Freight Plunges Into Abyss
Killing Fireman and I njuring Olliers
A trestle on the Central railway near
Lees, Ala., gave way under the weight
of a double-header extra freight train
Saturday morning and both engines
and five cars plunged into the abyss,
A negro fireman was killed and four
white men injured, one of them per
haps fatally.
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