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oAFSIDENT OF -THE “SOUTHERN EDUCA
TIONAL BOARD" 15 SEVERELY SCOREL
1 DISGUSTING PWTION FOR NEGRO
Robert C. Ogden is president of
the ‘‘Southern Educational Board,”
composed of a number of yankees,
and for the last three or four years,
when spring time weather is most salu
prious, he has been making mission
ary pilgrimages to the south in the
\nterest of northern sympathy and aid
for education in ‘‘benighted’’ Dixie.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., has writ
ien a letter to the Columbia, S. C.,
qtate in response to an editorial
challenge by that paper to make good
certain statements made by him about
Ogden and his work in an article in
ihe Charleston News and Courier,
which will be read with interest by all
of the people of the south.
MR. DIXON'S LETTER.
| am sorry my letter to the News
and Courier was printed in the raw.
[t was very hurriedly written and very
clumsily expressed. The truth of my
statements, however, cannot be ques
li(mr"]‘.
The quotation in the State’s edito
pial from Mr. Ogdens private letter,
as follows, is very vague:
“The statements contained in the
article have no foundation in fact, in
seperal and in particular. -
] nave never uttered a word in the
introduction of Booker T. Washing
ton to a public meeting that you and
all my reasonable friends in the south
would not cordially approve. 1‘
‘e allegations concerning my re
lations with colored persons in my
place of business are too comtempti
ble for notice, and so absolutely ab
surd as to make a denial or explana
tion purely ridiculous.’’
These lines were evidently not writ
ten for publication, and I fear Mr.
Ogden will be far more cistressed over
their appearance than I am.
He simply declares that his ‘‘reason
able’”’ friends will cordially approve,
and that my allegations are ‘‘too con
temptible for notice.’”” I do not under
stand him to deny them. He will not
deny them over his signature, for Mr.
Ogden, apart from his erazy notions
about the negro, is a truthful and
lovable old gentleman, a very esti
mable citizen.
“A Disgusting Performance.”
I repeat my allegations with re
newed emphasis, and challenge Mr.
Ozden or any other man to deny them.
| know that his introduction of
Booker T. Washington to a Cooper
(nion audience was a loathsome and
disgusting performance, because I was
present and witnessed it. The lady
with whom I went was anything but an
enemy to the negro or to Mr. Ogden,
a woman of well poised mind and
sound common sense. When Mr. Og
den finished his remarkable speech of
ntroduction she turned to me with a
look of contempt and sald:
“Well, I have heard of such things
~but never in my life before did I see
i white man get down in the dirt and
ki‘“‘ a negro's feet! I've enough
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I said: ‘““No, it isn't the negro’s
fault. He can’t help it. He would
crawl under the table if he could, but
he can't escape. The negro is good;
let’s hear him.’” We stayed, and she
liked the negro mueh better.
~Among the things he said in that
‘mroduction I recall one sentence in
Substance: ‘‘Men tell me sometimes
thuU have made a success in life.
Ladies and gentlemen, I count all of
my achievements and all my honors
Ut small as compared to the
‘-'Mf“uu.\ privilege of standing here
onight and trushfully saying to
s’:“»’ that T am a personal friend
OF.the illustrious man whom I
h;“”‘ the honor of introducing to
you,’’
This is only a sample.
Uv‘d‘f;‘PEat the allegation that Mr.
stien walked through the Wana-
Maker store in New York with his arm
arc 'und this negro, because I saw him
?}?A;L ‘%{,o‘7 long he kept it there on
ha\-}.‘;ms{on 1 can:t say. .He may
k. « one it unconsciously—if so, all
‘© worse, as a revelation of his
¢ha, acter.
J ’~h‘ prolong the controversy at
;;F“‘ ‘ength and l.lave much fun with
erf;t“figrabl? president of the “South-;
R u&lpucanonal Boax:d, but I have
. u;‘tat present, bemg under con
- 10 furnish three articles to great
northern periodicals on this theme
and its allied ones in the near future.
[ allow myself a single statement,
however, ‘‘to make the tale simple and
unvarnished; straight to the point;
without tetters of passion or thunder
or inveective,”’ following the admoni
tion of the editor of the State. I think
it will be sufficient to convince the
editor and and all his southern
readers.
Ogden a “Negro Worshiper,”
I repeat with emphasis my assertion
‘‘Mr. Ogden is a negro worshiper
pure and simple,’’ because he teaches
a school six days in the week on
Broadway where negro equality is
taught in the most direct and powerful
manner possible by personal example.
Mr. Ogden is the head of the John
Wanamaker store in New York, and
he conducts there the only first-class
restaurant in the metropolis where a
big buck negro is allowed to enter and
seat himself at the same table with a
white man’s wife and daughter. So
far as I know this is the only restau
rant where such a disgusting spectacle
can be seen in New York, and, so far
as I know, Mr. Ogden is the originator
of the idea in this town. |
I am inclineéd to think that the peo
ple of the south were a little unfair to
President Roosevelt about his famous
lunch with Booker T. Washington. It
was purely an aceident of the presi
dent’s busy life. Booker happened to
be there at the lunch hour—the presi- I
dent wished to talk with him andl
accordingly lunch was sered in an in
formal manner. Mr. Roosevelt did
not mean to preac social equality with
negroes—he does not believe in it. In
the heat of politics we of the south
didn’t tote fair with our dashing
young president. )
Preaches and Practices Equality.
But in Mr. Ogden’s case we have
the real “thing; an honest, earnest,
well-meaning yankee fanatic who does
believe in it with all his soul. He not
only believes in it, he preaches it. He
not only preaches, he practices it. 1
HEADQUARTERS ON HIS FARM
Judge Dick Russell Makes a State
ment in Regard to His Can
didacy for Governor.
The state political situation has
been enlivened by a statement from
Judge Richard B. Russell of Winder,
who declares that he will be a can
didate for governor and will remain
in the race until the last vote is
counted. Judge Russell makes the
following statement: ‘I am in the
race for the democratic nomination
for governor and will be in it until the
last vote is counted. I am going to
resign my seat as judge of the West
ern cirguit of the superior court of
Georgia this fall and then will take up
my campaign in earnest. I shall can
vass the state, and what is more, I
shall challenge the other candidates
for this nomination to a joint debate.
I irclude them all in this statement,
and shall play no favorites.”’
Judge Russell declares his head
quarters will be on his farm, and from
there he will wage his fight.
FATAL STABBING IN LEE.
One Negro Cuts Another to Death on
the Stocks Place.
Abraham Ball was cut to death ear
ly Wednesday night on. the E. J.
Stocks place, in Lee county, by Bran
dy Fleming. Both the dead man and
his slayer are negroes.
The trouble began over some trivial
matter. A dispute arose, and finally
became so heated that the men began
fighting. For several minutes the only
weapons appealed to were the fists of
the combatants, but when Ball began
to get the best of the fistic argument
Fleming brought a large pocket knife
into play.
He used the weapon with frightful
effect. Ball was severely stabbed in
a number of places, and his throat
was cut from ear to ear. He died al
most instantly. ‘
The matter was reported to the Lee
county authorities, and Fleming was
arrested and placed in jail at Lees
burg.
DAWSON, GA.,, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905.
have nothing to say about what he
may chose to do at his own table in
his own home. But I have the right
as a citizen and a patron of his store
to object to his attempt to force my
family to eat at the same table with
negroes.
Negroes in His Restaurant.
If Mr. Ogden ran a restaurant for
negroes and whites apart from his
store it would be a matter of little im
portance. It would become a negro
joint in a few weeks. No first-class
restaurant in New York dares allow
negroes at its tables. But Mr. Ogden’s
dining room is not run to make
money. It is there for the accomoda
tion of his women shoppers that they
may not leave as long as their money
lasts. Hence the atrocity of his use
of it for the purpose of preaching
social equality.
If you ask me why I continue to
patronize his store I say to you frank
ly that lam a married man. I don’t
patronize his restaurant, nor do my
wife and daughter. I have begged and
pleaded with my wife in vain for
years, trying to rescue her from the
slavery of the ‘‘Wanamaker habit.”’
As well talk to an opium eater or an
old toper. She has sworn to me again
and again that she will reform, but
the minute she strikes New York
straight to Mr. Ogden’s store she
goes! 1 don’t object to her going on
his account—far from it. She is a
good Georgia girl, who graduated on
the race problem long ago. I confess
my reason is financial.
A Challenge to Ogden.
If the editor of the State wishes to
test the question of Mr. Ogden’s piti
ful negro obsession, let him challenge
the president of the ‘‘Southern’” Edu
cational conference to give up his
negro propaganda restaurant, or re
sign his presidency! I'll guarantee
that negroes will continue to eat with
white ladies in his store, and that the
conference will find a new presiding
officer! I may be mistaken: it is
barely possible that Mr. Ogden’s in
novation of the past few years in as
sociation with southern white people
may have broadened his mind—but I
will not believe it until I see it.
The State asks why I have delayed
my attack on the efforts of a group of
good-hearted, weak-minded yankee
philanthropists to pauperize the ed
ucational system of the south in the
interest of negro equality.
Again I will be frank.jThis ‘‘South
ern’’ educational society is composed
of many of my warm personal friends,
among them Mr. Page, my publisher.
They are in dead earnest and their
aim is high, and in the main good. I
have hoped that they might shake off
the influence of such men as Ogden
and the editors of the northern negro
organs like ‘‘The Outlook.’”” But it
seems a vZin hope. The truth is these
negro propagandists are the men who
secure the funds which make the
“‘Southern’’ Educational board a
power to be reckoned with.
As a southerner who loves the
south and the north, and who believes
that the south has performed a mighty
service for this republic in preserving
our racial integrity in spite of the
efforts of such men as Mr. Ogden to
corrupt it, I view with suspicion the
Greeks who bear gifts. And I venture
mildly to suggest that a ‘‘southern’,
educational board with its head
quarters in a negro equality restau
rant on Broadway, New York, is a
legitimate subject for discussion.
Educational Board Dangerous.
The state Bas been deceived, atleast
about Mr. Ogden, whose real inter
ests have always been with the negro
during his entire life. He is the pres
‘ident of the board of trustees of the
negro school at Hampton, and on the
board at Tuskeegee. If he were to de
ny over his signature his negro-loving
obsession it would raise a laugh
among his friends which could be
heard to Philadelphia. This soft spot
in his brain is so well known here
that it is a joke, and is excused by his
more robust associates as a mild form
of insanity.
It is a good time for the state to
gracefully withdraw as an Ogdenite
champion. You are not bound to
keep 1t up. - '
Many subtle forces are at work 1n
America to undermine the barriers
which separate our 9,000,000 Africans
from the white race. There is enpough
negro blood here, if allowed to mix
with ours, to drown the national char
acter at last in a welter of negroid
mongrelism. Neither toleration, edu
cation nor religion can make a ne
gro a white man nor justify the pollu
tion of our blood with his.
In my humble judgment the most
insidious, dangerous movement
against southern sentiment since whe
war is concealed behind the fair fronu
of the ‘‘Southern’’ Educational Board
with its millionaire backers, of which
Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of the Hamptonl
negro school, proprietor of the Broad
wav negro equality restaurant, is the
chairman. THOMAS DIXoON, JR. J
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Tomato Catsup. Worcester
Sauce.
Pepper Sauce.
Horse Radish.
Mustard Dressing.
Lea & Perrin’s Sauce.
Blue Label Catsup.
Pickles.
(HEINZ.)
Little Giant, plain and mixed.
Sweet Midget. Sour Midget.
Sweet Gherkins.
Sour Gherkins.
Sweet Mixed. Sour Mixed.
American Plain.
American Mixed. /
Olives.
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Selected Queen.
Selected Stuffed.
Vinegar.
White Wine. Pure Apple.
Vegetables in Cans.
Early June Peas.
Tomatoes. Corn.
Okra, Corn and Tomatoes.
Lye Hominy.
Pork and Beans.
Condensed Milk.
Eagle Brand. Dime Brand.
Fruit in Cans.
Peaches.
* Pineapples, grated.
Pineapples, sliced.
Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, Shorts, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls.
J. M. RAUCH, pawson, GA.
WILL NOT BEG FOR PEACE
Russia Is Willing to Bargain With
Japan for Cessation of War,
But That's All.
Advices from St. Petersburg say
that if Japan simply announces her
terms with the ultimatum that they
must either be accepted or rejected
the negotiations are sure to come to
an abrupt end.
Russia is prepared to bargain for
terms, and that’s all. If she sees that
a result of bargaining will be campar
atively advantageous Russia will ac
cept. If not, the war will go on.
Russia does not consider that she
has been beaten to her knees, She be
lieves the position of General Line
vitch’'s army entitles her to assume A
strong attitude in discussing the peace
; terms.
' The Publishers’ Press correspondent
)is informed that while the question of
indemnity will be one which will re
quire the most subtle handling on the
part of the peace commissioners there
is an equal chance of negotiations
over the future of Viadivostok.
i AN EXAMPLE OF LAWS DELAY.
For Five Years Noted Murderer Has
Escaped Hands of the Excutioner.
l The New York court of appeals has
refused a stay of execution in the case
of Albert T. Patric, the New York
lawyer convicted of the murder of
William Marsh Rice, an aged million
aire, for the purpose of securing pos
session of his estate. The Patrick
case affords a striking illustration of
the law's delays. The Rice tragedy
occurred more than five years ago,
'and Patrick was first convicted more
‘than four years ago and sentenced to
‘death. Since that time Patrick and
‘his counsel have crawled through
‘knotholes in the laws like rats, the
condemed man from time to time
barely escaping the hands of the ex
ecutioner. It would seem, however,
that they had at last exhausted the
technicalities, though this is not an
absolute certainty. Until Patrick is
actually placed in the chair there will
remain a possibility that some new
scheme in his behalf will be brought
forward to delay the execution of the
sentence of the court.
The Only Simon Pure One.
Hoke Smith is a native of North
Carclina and Clark Howell is a native
of South Carolina; Colonel Estell is a
native of South €arolina and Jim
Smith is from Tennessee. This leaves
Dick Russell thé only simon pure
Georgia cracker of the lot.—Savannah
Press. |
Cereals.
Quaker Oats. Cream of Wheat.
Meats in Cans.
Corned Beef. Sliced Beef.
Lunch Tongue. Potted Ham.
Veal Loaf. Vienna Sausage.
Hamburg Steak.
Potted Chicken.
Libby’'s Tripe.
Oysters.
Pearl and Alligator Brands.
Sardines.
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Gaston. Three Musketeers.
Poto Club.
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Le Fedore. Dirigo in Oil
Salmon.
COLUMBIA RIVER.
Coronet. Royal Chinook.
Alaska.
Coffee.
Carhart’s Star. Eye Opener.
B. D. and T. Luzianne.
Bulk Roasted. Bulk Green.
Carhart's Chilhowee.
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WHOLE.
Pepper. Spice. Ginger.
Cinnamon. Cloves. Mace.
Nutmeg. Mixed Spices.
GROUND.
Pepper. Cinnamon. Ginger.
Allspice. Mustard. Mace.
Extracts.
L.emon. Vanilla. Ass’d flavors
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Cures Bowel and Teething Troubles.
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Hardware, Furniture,
House Furnishings, Stone Crockery, Mattings,
Carpeting, Rugs, etc.
Melton Furniture & Hardware Co.
YOL. 23--NO. 39.
Teas.
Salada, Ceylon and India.
Oolong. Middleton’s Choice.
Standard. Hynoon.
Chocolates and Cocoas
Baker & Co's. Maillard’s.
Miscellaneous.
Gelatine. Seeded Raisins.
Jell-O. Shredded Cocoanut.
Cleaned Currants. .
Baking Powders.
Royal. Parrott and Monkey.
Horsford's. Good Luck.
Chewing Tobacco.
R. J. Reynolds’ 8 Ounce.
~ Foot Print. Sweepstakes.
Schnapp’s. Liberty Bell.
Brown’s Mule. Red J.
Penn’s No. L
Smoking Tobacco.
Big Pound. Duke’s Mixture.
Amber. Old North Carolina.
Cigars. ~
Bill Nye. Figaros. Lisco.
Gen. Steedman. Blue Stocking
Royal Bengal. Three 1 See.
Staple Groceries.
Capitola Flour. Alista Flour.
Stones Best Flour. Roller
King Flour. Well's Meal.
Dove Brand Hams. Dove
Lard Breakfast Bacon.
Snowdrift Lard. Cottolene.
Rice. Grits. Sugar.
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