President Roosevelt! Dr. Washington! And Negro Office Holders!
January 20, 1906
Summary
The Richmond Times Dispatch declares that President Roosevelt should not appoint “Negroes” to Federal office in southern states.
Transcription
President Roosevelt! Dr. Washington! And Negro Office Holders!
We were one of the opinion that our conclusions were right with reference to President Roosevelt’s plans in dealing with the office holders of the Southland. We are in a position to emphasize them now, if we are to regard as true the utterances of the Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch and the New York Herald. The latter journal is regarded as being the most reliable publication of its kind in the world. It is careful of its utterances and its correspondents are trained to speak “by the card.” The Times Dispatch in its issue of the 16th inst. Says:
We knew that President Roosevelt’s visit to the South would do him good. A visit to the South by a Northern man is a liberal education. It always opens the eyes of those who are not blinded by prejudice and sends them back with a clearer vision. The president has keen visions and acute hearing, and when he was down there he kept his both eyes and ears open well. As a result of his experiences we are now informed that he will make no more appointments of Negroes to Federal office in the Southern States. That every Negro office-holder in this section of the land it to be replaced by a white, man and that the only Negro Republicans who have a chance for appointment to office under that Roosevelt administration are those who live in the Northern States, where the Negro vote cuts a figure in the elections.
We were one of the opinion that our conclusions were right with reference to President Roosevelt’s plans in dealing with the office holders of the Southland. We are in a position to emphasize them now, if we are to regard as true the utterances of the Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch and the New York Herald. The latter journal is regarded as being the most reliable publication of its kind in the world. It is careful of its utterances and its correspondents are trained to speak “by the card.” The Times Dispatch in its issue of the 16th inst. Says:
We knew that President Roosevelt’s visit to the South would do him good. A visit to the South by a Northern man is a liberal education. It always opens the eyes of those who are not blinded by prejudice and sends them back with a clearer vision. The president has keen visions and acute hearing, and when he was down there he kept his both eyes and ears open well. As a result of his experiences we are now informed that he will make no more appointments of Negroes to Federal office in the Southern States. That every Negro office-holder in this section of the land it to be replaced by a white, man and that the only Negro Republicans who have a chance for appointment to office under that Roosevelt administration are those who live in the Northern States, where the Negro vote cuts a figure in the elections.
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“President Roosevelt! Dr. Washington! And Negro Office Holders!,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed October 9, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/140.