THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 4, 1908, Roosevelt Writes Letter Explaining Reasons for Such Appointments. NO UNFIT MAN FOR OFFICE Race Or Color No Reason Why a Worthy Man Should Not Be Appoint. ed to Office Under the Federal Gov- ernment, Washington, Nov. 28.-—The presi dent has sent the following communi cation to a prominent citizen of Charleston, 8. C.: “White Washington, 1902: “My House, Nov, 26, in receipt of and of aate of Sir—I am your November 19 one from Mr, —— November 11, in reference to the ap- pointment of Dr of the port of letter you make charges against Dr. Crum, tending to show his unfitness in se ects for the office sought These charges Dear letter of under Crum as collector Charleston, In your certain specific veral res] are entitled to the tion them add, tion and, al followed dor that submit such an appointment as Crum to any office forces us test unanimously this to the white blood,’ and you understood me to say that | w never A Negro on such munity as yours. Mr objection of color first, saving he is a colored man, and ths ought from the view against you &£d4d force to bar him of these I ought to am concerned and pained ing them, and what my regards all any one could have gained that I had sald [I would not reputable and upright colored men to office, when objection was made to them solely on account of their color, I confess 1 am wholly unable to un- derstand. At the time of my visit to Charleston last spring | had made, and since that I have made a number of such appointments from several states in which there is a con- siderable colored For ex- ample, I made one such appointment in Mississippi and another in Alabama, 1 had at that time appointed two col- ored men as judicial magistrates In the Di mbia. | cently announced another such ap pointment for New Orleans, and have just made one from Pennsylvania. The great majority of my appointments in every have been of white men. North and South alike. it has been my sedulous endeavor to appoint only men of high character and good ca- pacity, whether white or black. But ft has been my consistent policy in every state where their numbers wan ranted it to recognize colored men of good repute and standing In making appointments. I am unable to see how I can legitimately be asked to make an exception for South Carolina. In South Carolina to the four most ime portant positions in the state I have appointed three men and continued in office a fourth, all of them white men ~three of them originally Gold Dem- ocrats—two of them, as | am inform- ed, the sons of Confederate soldiers. “I do not intend to appoint any unfit man to office. So far as | legitimately can, | shall always endeavor to pay regard to the wishes and feelings of the people of each locality, but | can- not consent to take the position that the door of hope-the door of oppor tunity is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my con- victions, be fundamentally wrong. If, as you hold, the great bulk of the col ored people are not yet fit in point of character and influence to hold such positions, it seems to me that it is worth while putting a premium upon the effort among them to achieve the character and standing which will fit then “The question raised by you and Mr, «www In the statement to which I refer is simply whether it Is to be declared that under no circumstances shall any man of color, no matter how upright and honest, no matter how good a citizen, no matter how fair in his dealings with all his fellows, be permitted to hold any office under our government. I certainly cannot as sume such aa attitude, and you must permit me to say that in my view ft is an attitude no man should assume, whether he looks at it from the stand. point of the true Interest of the white man of the South or of the colored man of the South, not to speak of any other section of the union. It seems to me that it is a good thing from every standpoint to let the colored man know that if he shows In marked degree the qualities of good citizen last statements clear such appointment i appoint time popuiation trict of Coln state ship—the qualities which in a white | man we feel are entitled to reward that he will not be cut off from all hope of similar reward. [I fool that I ought to let you know clearly my attitude on the far broader ques tion raised by you and Mr, "an attitude from which I have not varied during my term of office. Faith. fully yours, : “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” DE WET ON BOER WAR Pays Burghers' Treachery Saved Eng. land In South Africa, London, Dec, 1.—~"Had not so many of our burghers proved false to thelr colors, England, as the great Bismarck foretold, would bave found her grave in South Agrica.” That is the key- note of the Boer General Do Wet's book, entitled “Three Years’ War.” published by Archibald Constable & Co., In London, and dedicated by the Boer general “To my fellow subjects of the British empire.” It is perhaps the most remarkable book by the most remarkable leader that any recent war has produced. The concise, simply told tale of the extra ordinary campaign Is marked through- out with the stamp of truth. Regarding his own De Wet writes “It was far fight against the great English army than against treachery among our own peo- ple, and an iron will was required to fight against both. Once, If only our orders had been carried out a little more strictly and if most elementary rules of strategy had been observed in our efforts to break the British lines of communication, Lord Roberts and would have forces, easier to only the his thousands of in Pretoria here y would perished of skill of their saved ti ot frankly hou have well ha blockhead The so-called and the misuse the British is denounced by the general, who says: “That such direct and indirect murder should have been committed against defenseless women and children is a thing I should have war against women | { on the | men here in A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. | Wednesday, November 26, Brigadier General C, C, Hood been retired at his own request Recelvers were appointed yesterday for the dry goods firm of 8, Priess & Bon, of Baltimore. Liabilities. $100, 000, Captain A. P the first discovery of Nome, Alaska, died in yesterday Charles V. Herdliska, Callao, igned, being unwilling to expose his famfly to the climate in Peru A steam boller on the farm of G. D. | Coleman, near Lebanon, Pa, exploded yesterday, setting fire to a large barn, which was destroyed, Loss. $20.000, has Mordaunt, who made gold at | Francisco pay San United States | consul at Peru, has re Friday, November 28. The winter City leans yesterday meeting of the Crescent New Or Joeky Club opened at Archbishop Riordan, of San Fran- | cisco, arrived in New York last night | steamer Celtic . , - Frau Krupp has giver 0 LO es tablish a benefit fund work memory hus { ban troops | found themselves ghut up | staked my head could never have hap- | | pened in a war waged by the civilized English nation, and yet it happened.” LAKE STEAMER WRECKED on Rocks and Crew Missing. Marie, Mich., Dec. 2.—~In west gale on Lake Supe night Hebard wa Point oon dashed to Her crew, consisting of 12 men and a woman have not heard from, and it is feared all have perished The Aloha, one Sault Ste the terrible Sat rior the Charles irday steamer driven on the Mamainse and pleces by rocky shore at was seas cook schooner of the broke from in tow away in Lake Superior and heard from since of seven laboring heavily in the has not bean She sea and little hope is entertained for her The schooners Warming. ton and Francomb, the other vessels of the ran before the gale after breaking away from the steamer, and safety tow, finally succeeded in reaching an an- | chorage at Copper Mine Point. Last night the tugs General and Philadel phia were dispatched from this port to bring the two schooners here and to search for some trace of the Aloha Another Steamer Probably Lost. There is no longer hope for safety of the steamer Bannockburn and her crew of 20 men. The death knell to the hopes of the owners and the relatives of the crew was sounded yesterday when a dispatch was re ceived from the captain of the tug Boynton, stating that he had traversed the entire shore where the missing steamer was believed to have stranded. No trace of the boat was discovered. It now seem certain that the wreck: age found by the steamer Rockefeller in the middie of Lake Superior mark- ed the watery grave of the steamer and her crew, As the waters of Lake Superior reach their greatest depth the {| cian, Dy ppoint of the white flag by | wer | is The plant tilizer Cot were damaged extent of $I by Insurance The henors laws was oonf | Adolf Lorenz, the noted | Northwestery Vienna ¢ Univer | night at Chicas The Charles Hebard Dashed to Pieces | the | been | {| by American busin consorts which the Hebard had | the steamer | | consin Centry allway were carried a crew When last sighted she was | trough of the | Monday, Decembar 1, General Lew Wall usly fll | rd 4 ordavi Ind Lew IR ROT) his home in Craw! Italian government w estab. wireless telegraphy between Genoa and Buenos Ayres of France all to Pre Ambassador Cambon sented his letter of rod Roo An American C organized In | ent evelt yesterday i hamber of Commerce | will be Berlin, Germany, | residing | thers All telegraph f on the Wis | granted an ir munting to $5 monthly rease | Tuesday, December The post office at Tomab robbed of 81f at that point it is probable that none | of the bodies will ever be recovered HELD FOR CHILDREN'S DEATH John Williams and Wife Suspected of Giving Them Polson. Phimdelphia, Dec. Y.— After carrying on for a period of several weeks an investigation as to the cause of the death of Annie Williams, aged 9 years, and her 3. year-old sister Josephine, on October 21 and 22 respectively, the police authorities have proper to detain at the police station the parents of the dead children. The father, John W. Williams, was taken into custody late Saturday night, and the wife was removed to a police sta tion yesterday, along with her other three small ehildren. Annie and Jose phine dled of what the attending phy sician thinks was poisoning, and so notified the coroner. A chemical analysis, made by direction of the cor oner, tended to prove the doctor's theory, and the arrest of the parents followed. It is sald the dead children were in. sured, the elder one for $115, and the younger child for $30. Willams and his wife deny that they were the cause of the death of the twe children, Chaplain Milburn Resigns. Washington, Dec, 2.—<Rev, W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the senate, who Is now in California, has forwarded his resignation to President Pro Tem Frye. It was placed before the senate today. His successor will be elected by the senate, Mr. burs, In his letter to Senator Frye, says ill health compels him to retire { from the position, and he add: “It | Is with deep sorrow that I have come | to this decision, as it was my cher | ished wigh that, under the favor of the senate, | should conduct its religious services during the remainder of my | No. 2 yellow, | Brades | deemed It Mil | The thieves escaped The third the Nati nal Cound nen o New Hampshire's se tion for the revision stitution convened at Concord yester | day | Nelson and Frank Hamilton, aged | 12 and 10 years drowned at Millersburg, Mich day while skating According to the Yeport of the sec. retary of the treasury the public debt amounts to $958,007,281, a decrease of | $410,440 over September A charter was granted at Guthrie, 0. T., to Oklahoma capitalists to build a 1000 mile railroad from Enid, O. T., to Ban Diego, Cal. Capital, $30,000,000, pened In Baltimore today venth « NYP. of her state con respectively, were yester GENERAL MARKETS Philadelpia, Pa, Dec. 1 Flour | was steady. winter superfine, $2.60 | 2.80; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.10 | @3.26; city mills, extra, $2853. Rye | flour was quiet, at $3.20@3.25 per bbl, | Wheat was weak; No, 2 Pennsylvania, | red, new, T6@ 76% Corn was dull; | local, 66 Oats were | No. 2 white, clipped, 37c.; lower | 34@ 35 Hay was steady. No. | 1 timothy, $17.80@18 for large bales, | Beef was steady. beef hams $196 20. Pork was firm; family, $21@22. Live pouitry, 12%e¢. for hens, and §@%c. for | old roosters Dressed pouitry, 14 for | choice fowls, 10c. for old roosters. But. | ter was steady creamery, 3lc. per pound. Eggs were steady; New York and Pennsylvania, 20¢, per dozen. Po- tatoes were steady; cholce, 61g 6c. per bushel quiet Live Btock Markets, Liberty, Pa, Dec, | cholee, $6@6.10; prime, $5.60@5.75; mood, $5256.50 Hogs were higher; prime heavy, 36.6061 6.65; mediums, $6.85; heavy yorkers, $6 500 6.60; light yorkers, $6. 40@6.45; pies, $6.40@ 6.45. roughs, $6@6.25. Sheep were lower; best wethers, $3606 3.80; culls and common, $1.50G2; choles lambs, $5.10625.30; veal calves, $7@ 8.25. East Buffalo, N. Y,, Dec | attle were steady; prime steers, $6.256@ 6.50; butchers’ steers, $4.26@525; heifers, 3.500475; cows, $255@425; bulls 2754.25. Veals steady; tops, $8.25 8.76: common to good, $5.5008 Hogs active and 6@16¢ higher; heavy, $6 6.66; mixed, $6556@660;, yorkers, 8.500055; light yorkers and pigs, 8.5000 6.656. Sheep steady; prime mixed, 3.26613.35; culls to good, $1.70673.15, Amba 156@26¢c. higher; tops, $5260 5.35; culls to good, #4 ne 16; year- lings, $3.75€04; owen, $2.5004. East - Cattle were lower, Suits and Overcoats for Man, Boy or Child, Hats, Caps, Mufflers, Collars and Cuffs, Pulse Warmers, Ear Muffs, Sweaters, Way Mufflets, Gloves—Kid and Mocha Wool Gloves and Mittens, Ladies’ Golf Gloves, Ladies’ Hosiery, Ladies’ Gloves, Toboggans, Tams, Underwear, Night Robes, Pajamas, Suit Cases, Trunks, Valises, Shirts---white and fancy] Montgomery & Co., Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, Pa. mm THE DISTINCTIVENESS ACHIEVED In our business during past months and years, stands bold relief to the casual observer Our motto is “Nor How Crear, Bur How Goon.” Quality is the first consideration and the price is then adjusted as low as the high standard of excellence as to quality and workmanship will permit. Our entire stock of and Organs, and Musical Merchandise, for the month of De. cember, is more complete than before, and the qualities and low prices continue the same, which have characterized our business in the past. Before Making Your Purchases of Musieal Instruments call and Inspect our line Panos built oy the most skillful Plane makers on scientific principles and out of the finest material the markets afford, regardless of cost. We challenge comparison and invite the inspection and admiration of all intelligent piano peo ple, We carry a large collection of Music Cabinets, Mamie Rolls, Sheet Musi Guitars, Mandolins, Harmonicas, Violins, and supplies, at moderate prices. We cordially Invite you to call and inspeet our line >: IANOS M. C. GEPHART, 2 8. Allegheny St, BELLEFONTE. Represented by H. 6. KRAPE, COMMON REPORT: People who buy their Groceries at Sechler & Co’s., invariably say: “SECHLER'S Groceries are the best.” “You can always depend on SECHLER'S.” “What you get from SECHLER'S is pure.” “SECHLER'S prices are always right.” “In the end you save money by dealing at SECHLER'S.” Ask the intelligent, eareful, economical house wives of Bellefonte, and they all’prefer to peal AT SECHLER’S. Can a Sportsman have does not try to cure the best 1s with whicl ret his game ? Our Line of ‘Guns, Ammunition. Sporting Goods and Hardware We offer, at special prices, a line of Double and Single-barrel Shot Guns and Rifles, and Black and Smokeless Powder Shells for all guns. MCCALMONT & CO BELLEFONTE, PA. AAAI BUSY NOVEMBER DAYS. e peop'e WAL the week of Chr stmas bHe- fore they begin to buy or hink of Those people never '¢ the most ac able gifts. People are our drug store a most every day looking at gifts suitable for the holidays— they are looking and buy- ing. Come and get in mind abont what von want to give to each of the friends Five minutes looking is bet ter than a week of thinking. yr 3 No trouble to show goods at GREEN'S PHARMACY, Bush House Blk. Bellefonte, HET TH HTH. ——— MONEYTO LOAN In large and small quantities on approved security, Farms for sale, Real estate bought and sold W. 6. RUNKLE, Att'y, Crider Exchange. Bellefonte. BEEZER'S MEAT MARKET ALLEGHENY ST. RELLEFONTE, PA. buying their pres best or We keep none but the best quality of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, SLICED NAM All Kinds of Smoked Meat, Pork Sausage, ste IT you want & nice Juley Steak goto PHILIP BEEZER, JOHN J. BOWER. Attothep at-law Ofoe in Eagle block. Practices {a all the courts, Kuglish and German, WILLIAM J. SINGER, An atlaw, Ample Court building, room Ne. 21, oor, i — ORVIS, BOWER & ORVIS. A Jaw, «in Praner's bullding, Practioes in all the courts, German and English. WILLIAM 4, RUNKLE Atiithapa the rider's Kxohange. sh and German business attended 10. "Ri de i GARMAN HOUSE.....
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