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GIVES fflS PBOOFS. Son. T. E. Watson Makes Reply to Hon. Grover Cleveland. 3?AKES OUT A VERY CLEAR CASE. Bars He Made His Charges on Statements Made in a Book Written by Fred Douglass Nine Years Ago. Representative Bartlett, of Georgia, lias received the following letter from Grover Cleveland, blistering Thomas E. Watson for his charges concerning Cleveland's attitude on the negro ques tion: Princeton, March 4,1904. To Hon. Chas. L. Bartlett, Washing ; ton, D. C. My Dear Mr. Bartlett?I have re ceived a number of inquiries similar to yours touching my invitation of Fred Douglas to.a wedding reception ? and signing, while governor of New . York, of a bill providing for mixed schools. I do not suppose that Mr. Thomas E. Watson believed, or had any reason to believe, either of the ' allegations when he made them. At any rate, they are both utterly and absolutely false. I cannot afford to devote a great deal of time to deny ing such foolish tales. I shall, there fore, attempt to coffer every phase of the subject now for all. It so hap pens that I have never in my official positions, either when sleeping or waking, alive or dead, on my head or on my heels, dined, lunched or supped or invited to a wedding reception any colored man, woman or child. If, however, I had desired to do any of these things, neither the fear of Mr. Watson or any one else would have prevented me. When I was governor of New York a movement was made in the legislature to abolish seperate colored schools in New York city. I opposed this measure and it failed. I do not find that I interposed a veto and I have forgotten the course the matter took, but I know that what ever I did was in favor of maintain ing separate colored schools instead of having them mixed. Yours very truly, (Signed) ' Grover Cleveland. watson in reply. The following letter from H^n. Thos, E. Watson in reply to the above is hot stuff and will be read with in terest: Thomson, Ga., April 5. To the Editor of the Augusta Chroni cle. Sib: In your issue of yesterday you publish a letter written by iMr. Cleve land to my friend Hon. Chanes Bart lett. This letter is dated March 4th. Just why it was kept from the press for an entire month, is not stated. Mr. Cleveland says that he does not suppose that I believed, or had any reason to believe, that my charges were true when they were made. The intimation that I would wilful ly charge upon him things which I knew* to be false, does both himself and me an injustice. To publicly make against a man so prominent as Mr.? Cleveland serious accusations which were known to be untrue, could only be the act of a knave who was at the same time a fool. A slanderer who is simply a knave may whisper falsehoods which he knows to be falsehoods; but such slanders are never published over the signature of the man who makes them, unless the author is a fool as well as a knave. When Grover Cleveland assumes that I'am either a knave or a fool he will find no respectable man who knows me to agree with him. The gentleman to whom he addressed his letter would tell.him quickly enough that any such construction put upon my act, or any such imputation cast upon my character, would be repudi ated by both the Democratic senators from Georgia^and by at least a ma jority of the Democratic delegation from this state to the lower house. People of the state in which my life has been passed do not endorse my politics, but they do not doubt the honesty of my convictions nor the purity of my character; and Mr. Cleve land will not strengthen himself in this state by reflecting upon either. Now let us see what Mr. Cleveland's letter amounts to, as a reply to my charges. I beg to remind your readers that the issue arose out of the controversy which raged around the Booker Wash-1 ington incident. A Republican member of congress, to offset Mr. Roosevelt's treatment of Booker, had alleged that Mr. Cleve land dined C. H. j. Taylor at the white house. Mr. Cleveland denied the statement; and his card, when published, was headlined in such a way as to carry the impression.that he had never practiced social equality at the white house. In an article which was published in the Atlanta News, I pointed out that Mr. Cleveland had confined his denial to the negro Taylor, and that the head lines went further than the letter?as is often the case. Furthermore, I added that Mr. Cleveland had practiced social equali ty in three particulars: 1. In appointing a negro to be min ister to one of the South American re publics. 2. By signing the bill for mixed schools in New York. 3. By inviting Fred Douglass and wife to his wedding reception at the white house. Upon what grounds were these charges made? Necessarily, they were based upon current and contemporaneous news paper reports which were not con tradicted. How else is a citizen to have knowledge of public affairs? The newspapers are the source of our in formation; and if a public man allows the newspapers to make gneral and repeated statements about his con duct, he must expect such statements to be credited, unless denied. How do I know that Mr. Roosevelt dined Booker Washington? I was not there. I did not see it. I have not spoken to any one who did see it. But the newspapers made the charge, and it was not denied?hence I believe it. How do I know that Grover Cleve land made a private and almost secret sale of United States bonds to j J. Pierpont Morgan, and by this private deal made it possible for the varaclous Wall street financiers to pocket about ten million dollars of the money of the tax-payers of this republic? I was not there; yet I know it hap pened, because 'the newspapers made such a row about it tbat Cleveland was afraid to sell any more bonds that way. In like manner, I believed he signed the bill for mixed schools in New York because it was so charged in the news papers, and he never denied it at the time. As to the White House reception, I had precisely the same grounds for belief that the public bad in the case of Booker Washington. It was so charged; and no denial was made. ' It has not only been charged in newspapers, but appeared in book form. The book to which I refer is "The, Lifeand Times ofFrederick Douglass."' The author was Douglass himself. In this book Douglass glorifies Mr. Cleveland for the reason that Cleve land treated him and "Mrs. Douglass" as social equals. This book was published in 1895 near where Mr. Cleveland lives, and nobody has challenged its statements so far as I know. Douglass was an ardent admirer of Mr. Cleveland. The Democratic presi dent bad, for a considerable time, al lowed the Republican negro to con tinue to hold one of the fattest offices in Woshington City. But it was not for this that Douglass'loved Cleve land. What won the heart of the negro was the fact i;hat at a critical time when both whites and blacks were condemning Douglass for his marriage with a white woman, Mr. Cleveland was brave enough to defy public opinion and to extend social recogni tion, to the negro and bis white wife. Some extracts from the Douglass book were published last Saturday in the Atlanta News, but as Mr. Cleve land's letter was written a month ago, it becomes necessary for me to go over he same ground a second time. Douglass says that his1 'false friends" both colors were loading him with proaches because he had recently arried a white woman. "Popular prejudice" among the oiacks as well as the whites had been aroused by this act of miscegenation. But Fred eays that Mr. Cleveland, in spite of all the clamor/about the white wife, singled him, out for special attentions. What these attentions were he, pro ceeds to state. He says that Mr. Cleveland never failed to invite him and his wife to all of the grand receptions; and Douglass ;ays that "myself and my wife never failed to attend them." At these receptions Douglass states that Mr. Cleveland showed to himself and "Mrs. Douglass" a bearing "not less cordial and courteous than that extended to the other ladies and gentlemen present." Douglass call this conduct of Mr. Cleveland a "manly defiance by a Democratic president of the malignant and time-houored prejudice." What was the malignant prejudice which Mr. Cleveland was defying in so manly a manner? Obviously, undeniably, Douglass meant to give Mr. Cleveland praise for defying popular prejudice or the subject of social equality. What else was Cleveland's "manly defiance" aimed at? Again, to show more clearly how Douglass understood the true meaning of Mr. Cleveland's conduct, the negro goes on to say that tbe cordial and courteous treatment accorded him and "Mrs. Douglass" by Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland was extended while he was "surrounded by distinguished men and women from all parts of the coun try, and by diplomatic representatives from all parts of the world, and under the gaze of the late slaveholders." Now, if there ever was anything clear in a book it is clear that in this book Fred Douglass meant to give Mr. Cleveland credit and praise for defying malignant prejudice on the social equality question, and for treating himself and "Mrs. Doug lass" as social equals in the presence of the representatives of the white race throughout the world. What made this "manly defiance of malignant prejudice" the more exqui sitely gratifying to the negro whs that it was done "under the gaze of the late slave-owners." In other words, Fred says, in effect, that Southern ladies and gentlemen were present and were compelled to witness in silence the social triumph of him self and "Mrs. Douglass." Oh, how full the cup of Fred's joy must have been! And what a sly gleam of victorious insolence there must have been in the negro's eyes as he looked at the late "slave-owners" to whom Mr. Cleveland was giving his "manly defiance!" That spirit is shown in his book, and I have no doubt it was shown on his countenance in those blissful hours when he and "Mrs. Douglass" were being treated just as "the other gentlemen and ladies" were treated in the white house. Heaping up his gratitude and his praise, the negro goes on to say (page 648) that tbe Democrats of the South fiercely and bitterly reproached Mr. Cleveland for his social recognition of Douglass and wife, but that he (Cleve land) "never faltered or flinched," and "continued to invite Mrs. Douglass and myself and "often wrote the in vitations with his own hand." Then, to show conclusively what Douglass understood by Cleveland's conduct, he adds: "Among my friends in Europe a fact like this will excite no comment. There color does not decide the civil aud social position of a man." Now I|ask all impartial, intelligent men if these extracts from Douglass' book do not prove that he undertood Grover Cleveland to have defied she malignant prejudice of Southern Democrats by treating him and his white wife as social equals? If it does not mean that, what in the name of common sense does it mean? Douglass alludes to the newspaper criticisms which were leveled at Cleve land because of that very thing. Did not Cleveland see them? If he did not, where were his eyes? If he M. 0. DAfNTZLER. April Specials. 68=Inch Pure Linen Damask, Mill Ends. 85c Quality for 59c. Pillow Cases 42x36-in. for 10c. Mohawk Valley Sheets, 90x90 68c. 45 inch Damask Towel, 23c. 36 fnch Embroidery Cloth 9c. Embroidery Crash, 2oc. 36 inch Scrim, 5c. 36 Inch Black warranted Taffeta, $1.50 quality, 98c. John B. Stetson Hats, $5.00 Kind, $3.98. All the Latest Things in Straw Hats from 25c to $2.00. A good Mattress Ticking for 4 l=2c Dutchess Trousers from $1.00 up; fit the figure, and the figure fits your pocket. Beautiful assortment of White and figured Vests at $1.00. Just received full line of shirts, neat patterns, 50c to $1.00. ? Light=weight Serge Coats and Vests from $1.00 to $5.00. Queen quality Sandals and Blucher Oxfords, combining comfort and style at no extra cost. 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' Send for our book "flotherhood" free WZ BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA Phone J. M. Way, lOti, for fresh fish, eggs, chickens, vegetables, gro-i ceries, etc. what Mr. Cleveland means by stand ing on his head, but, as the preachers say. "I must not dwell." The point is this: Did Feed Doug* lass tell lies on Cleveland in that book? He had no motive for doing so. He evidently did not intend to do so? fie, a negro Republican, was praising a white Democrat for conduct which the black man considered heroic. He did not mean to injure Cleveland or to misrepresent him. He was eulogizing | that gentleman; he was showering! praise upon him; he was throwing bou quets at him; he was singlinp, him out as the brave, manly Democrat who defined the Southern race prejudice,1 and who gave to him, the negro, the same treatment which was accorded him in Europe "where color does not decide the social position of a man." j For nine years this book has been j in circulation. For nine years Cleve land has been enjoying the credit for all the good things his negro admirer said of him. Doubtless there are thou sands of people who have thrilled with admiration as they read of the manner in which Mr. Cleveland defied the ma lignant race prejudice of the South, wrote invitations with his own hand to "Mr. and Mrs. Douglass," accorded them the treatment due in one's house to all ladies and gentlemen, and bold ly conformed to that European stand ard which disregards color in fixing social status. And now after nine years?after Douglass has died, and after the Southern negro has been disfranchis ed, cometh the said Grover Clceland and declares that he is not the hero Fred Douglass said he was. Is there any sence in splitting hairs about wedding receptions, and other social receptions, or other social-equal ity practices? None whatever. The question at issue is: Did Mr. Cleveland invite and receive Douglass and wife upon terras of social equality? That is the pith and marrow of the dispute, j If it be true, as Douglass says, that I Mr. Cleveland often wrote the invita I tlons with his own hand, and that he treated the negro and wife at all the I white house receptions as social I equals, defying the predjudice and the criticism of the Southern accuracy of j my statement stands proved without ! reference to any particular reception. If Mr. Cleveland will condescend to read pages (346, 647 and 648 of the j bouk relerre? to, and will then specify 'to what extent the author lied, he will clear up the atmosphere consider ably. Poor old Fred! What a lesson* is here, my brethren. In his day and time, Fred Douglass was a power in the laud. White politicians courted his support. The highest leaders in the land made much of him. President Grant petted him; Garfield petted him; Ilarriaon petted him; and Cleve land?but that's another story. Poor old Fred! lie is dead now, Pretty much everybody who wants to kick him can come up and doit. Once upon a time his voice, along the line of battle, "were worth a thousand men." In those days, he was a "dis tinguished colored gentleman and statesman." How have the mighty slipped down hill! At present, he seems to be nothing more than "a d?d nig ger," who never was invited anywhere by anybody, whether on their heels or on their heads, drunk or sober; and if ever he got into the white house at all he just "butted in." Old Fred will turn over in his grave when he learns that the great Democratic president whcm he so much lauded for his maniy defiance of malignant prejudice has caught "the damned nigger" fever, and shows a rising pulse every time we take his temperature. I will make further investigation about the New York school law; but if, in the meanwhile, Mr. Cleveland has anything to say about appointing that negro as minister to the white republic in South America, he might write Charley Barlett another "head or heels" letter, while we wait. Tnos E. Watson. 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