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DIXON or
Inquiry Into the Z\Lo
r Southern J
lu a recent letter to the editor of
the News and Courier, Hev. Thomas
Dixon spoke of Kobert C. Ogden, the
leader of the so-cilled Southern relo
cation movement, as a negro lover,
and his remarks brought forth a de
fense from the Columbia Mate. Mr.
l>ixon has replied, and hU reply,
which was furnished the News and
Courier a- well as the Mate, appeared
in both pap< rs last Friday. This is
what he says;
To the Kditor of the State:
Thanks for your kind offer of your
columns for a reply. I am sorry my
letter to the News and Courier was
printed in the raw. It was very hur
riedly written and very clumsily ex
pressed. The truth of my statements,
however, cannot be questioned.
The quotation in the State's editor
ial from Mr. Ogden's private letter,
as follows, is very vague;
"The statements contained in the
article have no foundation in fact, in
general and in particular.
"I have never uttered a word in
the introduction of Hooker T. Wash
ington to a public meeting that you
and all my reasonable friends in the
South would not cordially approve.
"The allegations concerning my re
lation- with colored persons in my
place of business are too contemptible
for notice and so absolutely absurd as
to make a denial or explanation purely
ridiculous."
These lines were evidently not
written for publication and I fear Mr.
Ogden will be far mote distressed over
their appearance than I am.
He simply declares that his "rea
sonable"* friends will cordially ap
prove and that my allegations are
"too contcmptablc for notice." I do
not understand him to deny them.
He will not deny them ever his signa
ture, for Mr. Ogden, apart from his
crazy notions about the negro, is a
truthful and loveablc old gentleman, a
very estimable citizen.
I repeat my allegations with re
newed emphasis and challenge Mr.
Ogden or any other man to deny
them.
I know that his introduction of
Booker T. Washington to a Cooper
Union audience was a loathsome and
disgusting performance, because I
was present and witnessed it. Tho
lady with whom I went was anything
but an enemy to the negro or Mr.
Ogden, a woman of well poised mind
and sound common sense. When Mr.
Ogden finished his remarkable speech
of introduction, she turned to me,
with a look of contempt, and said:
"Well, I have heard of Buch things,
but never in my life before did I see
a white man get dowu in the dirt and
kiss a negro's fect! I've enough, let's
go!"
I said: "No it isu't the negro's
fault. He can'i help it. Ilo would
crawl under the table if he could, but
he can't escape. The negro is good,
let's hear him." Wc stayed, and she
liked the negr.) much better.
Among other things he said in that
introduction, I recall one sentence in
substance: "Men tell me sometimes
that I have made a success in life.
Ladies and gentlemen, I count all my
achievements and all my honors as
trash compared to the glorious privi
lege of standing here tonight and
truthfully saying to you that I am the
personal friend of the illustrious man
whom I bave the honor of introducing
to you."
This is only a sample.
I repeat the allegation that Mr. Og
den walked through the Wanamakcr
store in New York with bis arm
around this negro, because I saw him
do it. How long he kept in there on
that occasion, I can't say. He may
have done it unoonsciously; if bo, all
the worBe, as a revelation of his char
acter.
I might prolong tViis controversy at
great length and have muoh fun with
the venerable president of the "South
ern" Educational board, but I have
no time at present, being under con
tract to furnith three articles to
great northern periodicals on this
theme and its allied ones in the near
future.
I allow myself a single statement,
however, "to make the tale simple
and unvarnished; straight to the
point; without tatters of passion or
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4 OGDEN.
tive o? .Movement l'or
Education,
thunder of invective." following the
admonition of the editor of the State.
1 think it will be HufOcicnt to con
vince the editor ar.J all hi.- .southern
l eadcrs.
I repeat with emphasis ujy assertion
that "Mr. Ogden is a negro worship
per, pure and simple," because he
teaeh.es a school six days in the week
on Broadway where negro equality is
taught in the most direct and power
ful manner possible by personal exam
; pic.
Mr. Ogdcn is the head of the .lohn
I Wanamakcr store in New York, and
t he conducts there the only lirstclass
restauraut in the metropolis where a
big buck negro is allowed to enter and
seat himself at the name table with
a white man's wife and daughter. So
far as 1 know, this is the only restau
rant where such a digesting spectacle
can be seen in New York, and so far
as 1 know, Mr. '/./den is the originator
of the idea in tl.is mwn.
' 1 am inclined .o think that our pco
! pie of the South were a little unfair
to President lloosevelt about his fa
! mous lunch with Hooker T. Washing
I tou. It was purely an accident of
i the president's busy life. Hooker
happened to be there at the lunch
hour, the president wished to talk
with him, atid accordingly lunch was
served in an informal manner. Mr.
Iloosovclt did not mean to preach
I social equality with negroes he does
J noi believe in it. In the heat of
I politics we of the South didn't tote
: fair with our dashing young presi
dent.
i 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. iic not only preaches it, he prac
I tioes it. I have nothing to say about
j what be may choose to do at his own
j table in his owu home. But 1 have
the right as a citizcu and patron of
his store to object to h?3 attempt to
force my family to cat at the samo
table with negroes.
The State declared, before learning
my identity, that "tho author's inti
macy with thingc southern is not the
point, his knowledge of Mr. Ogden's
mode of association with persons of
color is the question at issue."
The point is well taken. I have
voted in New York continuously since
1BR??. My knowledge on this issue is
ample and first-hand. Mr. Ogden's
store is the only one where I keep an
open account from year'to year. I
have had this account thero about ten
years. My wifo (and daughter now,
also) aro alllictcd with tho "Wana
makcr V.abit" (a disease for which
Kcc?y never in' - 'd any cure.)
They go there an*. all day- ?ytand
on their fect, looking at his tempting
wares, as the tippler hangs around a
saloon, until thoy come home at night
in a condition of collapse. I can't
blame them. They arc made that
way. Mr. Ogdcn koeps a fine store?
a tempting store -one of tho beBt in
America. In all my dealings with
him, ho has never sold mo a shoddy
piece of good?I have always got my
money's worth. As a morchant, ho is
a man of the highest order of gonius.
But as a tcaoher on the race problem,
ho is a man of profound and pathetic
ignoranoe, where money and position
make him a fanatic of dangerous and
far-reaching power.
If Mr. Ogden ran a restaurant for
nogroes and whites apart from his
store, it would be a matter of little
importauce. 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. Og
den's dining room is not run to make
money. It is there for the accommo
dation of his women shoppers, that
they may not leave as long as their
money last9, hence tho atrocity of
his use of it for the purpose ef preaoh
ing'.aoeial equality.
If you ask me why I ooctinuo to
patronise his store, I say to you
frankly that I am 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 " Wan p maker
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; I don't object to her
going there on his account?far from
it. She is a good Georgia girl, who
graduated on tho raoe problem loog
ago. I confess tny reasons aro finan
cial.
I am now consumed with a seorct
hope that when Mr. Ogden reads this
he will find it so "contemptible," so
"absolutely absurd," as to make "a
denial or explanation purely ridicu
lous," and that be will order the head
of bis bouk department to throw "The
Leopard's Spots" and "The Clans
man' out ami make my nauic taboo in
his shop forever more. Then, oh
Lord, will 1 give thanks, f<-r my wife
will never go there any more, and I
fdiall be saved! At least, I'll save
from $500 to $1,000 annually.
If the editor of The State wishes to
test the question of Mr. Ogdcn's piti
ful negro obsession, let him challenge
the president of the "Southern" Edu
cational conference to give up his ne
gro propaganda restaurant, or resign
his presidency! I'll guarantee that
negroes will continue to eat with
WH I'IK ladies in his store, and that
the conference will find a new presid
ing ofliccr! I may be mistaken; it is
barely possible that Mr. Ogdcn's in
novation of the past few years in asso
ciating with Southern white people
may have broadened his mind but I
will not believe it until 1 see it.
The State asks why I have delayed
my attack on the efforts of a group of
good Inartcd, weak minded Yankee
philanthropists to pauperize the edu
cational system of the South in the
interests of negro equality.
Again, I will be frank. This
"Southern" Educational society is
composed of many of my warm per
sonal friends, among them Mr. l'agc,
my publisher. They are in dead ear
nest 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 >he editors of the
northern negro organs like the Outlook.
Hut it seems a vain 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.
Asa Southerner, who loves the
South and the North, and who believes
that the South has performed a migh
ty Hcrvice for this republic in preserv
ing our racial integrity in spite of the
ellorts of such men as Ogden to cor
rupt it, I view with suspicion the
Greeks who boar gifts. And I venture
mildly to suggest that a "Southern"
Educational board with its headquar
ters in a negro equality restauraut on
Broadway, New York, is a legitimate
subject of discussion.
The State has been deceived, at
leasi about Mr. Ogden, -whose real in
terests have always been with the ne
gro during his entire life. He is the
president of the board of trustees of
the negro school at Hampton, and on
tho board at Tuskegec. If be were to
deny over his signature his negro lov
ing obsession, ii. would raise n laugh
among his friends which could be
heard to Philadelphia. This soft spot
iu 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 in
sanity.
It is a good time for The State to
gracefully withdraw as an Ogdenito
obampion. Yoc. are not bound to
keep it up.
Many subtle forces are at work in
America to undermine the barriers
which separate our 0,000,000 Africans
from tho white race. There is enough
negro blood here, if allowed to mix
with ours, to drown the national char
acter at last in a wcltor of negroid
mongrclism. Neither toloration, edu
cation nor religion can make a negro
a white man, nor justify the pollution
of our blood with bis?
In my humble judgment the most
insidious, dangerous movement against
Southern sentiment since the war is
concealed behind the fair front of tho
"Southern" Educational board, with
its millionaire backers, of which Mr.
Robert C. Ogden of the Hampton ne
gro school, proprietor of tho Broad
way negro equali'.y restaurant, is
chairman.
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
New York, June 6.
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Her First Railroad Ride.
An old lady in Missouri took he?
first railroad trip last week, says the
Butler Democrat. She noticed the
bell-cord over-head, and turning to a
boy, she said: "Sonny, what's that
for?"' "That, marm," he said, with
a mischievous twinkle in his eye, "is
to ring tho bell when you want some
thing to eat."
Shortly afterward the old lady reach
ed her umbrella up to the oord and
gaze it a vigorous pull. Tho train
was in the middle of a trestle. The
whistle sounded, the brakes were pull
ed on, the train began to slaoken its
speed, windows were thrown up, ques
tions asked, and confusion reigned
among tho passengers. The old lady
sat calmly through it all.
Presently tho conductor came run
ning through the train and asked:
"Who pulled the bell?"
"I did," replied the old lady meek
ly.
"Well, what do you want?" asked
the conductor impatiently.
"Well," said the old lady medi
tatively, "you may bring me a ham
sandwitoh and a.cup of tea, please."
? When a 180-pound woman loses
half a pound in weight because she ii
wearing lighter clothes she spe?,ka of
the day when she was so much stouter
than she is now.
? It is next to impossible not to
have some money if you don't get
married. '
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Dr. McConnel'8 Vagary.
There is an ev?;.j money chance in
our opinion that the pastorate of the
Clifton Heights Presbyterian church of
Des Monies, is goin<.' to bo vacant be
fore very long. It is now occupied by
the Rev. Dr. A. W. McConnell, an
able aud earnest divine, and it is one
of the most fashioned parishes in the
Iowa city. As far as we know Dr.
McConnell has no present intention
of going elsewhere, but the opinion we
have formed is drawn from an an
nouncement whioh he made to Iiis
iloek last Sunday. Ile requested that
persons attending services iu the Clif
ton Heights Presbyterian Church
would in future wear just as enexpen
sivc clothes a* they could, to the crd
that no one, however huaiblc, might
be embarrassed by the poverty of his
or her own garments. So radical a
departure as this naturally occasioned
much comment and surprise; and the
future will all depend upon the efforts
which Dr. McConncll may make to in
sist upon its observance.
The place of purple and, tine linen
iu modern worship is too well estab
lished to be lightly -tampered with or
denied. The picture hat and the Eas
ter frock as means to salvation are
widely approved by the pew anl tacit
ly accepted by the pulpit. It is all
very well for Dr. McConncll to wish
that poor people should not feel badly
in his church, but are not his parish
ioners also entitled to protection for
their feelings? If the church is, as
reported, one of the most fashionable
in Des Moines, these latter are great
ly in the majority. They are entitled
to enjoy their religion to the utmost,
and Dr. McConncll or any one else to
the contrary notwithstanding, there
never was a woman who could enjoy
her religion or anything else as much
in home-made calico as in the modest
made silk. A sudden burst of enthu
siasm may for a few Sundays sober the
hue of the gowns seen in the Clifton
Heights Presbyterian Church, but if
Dr. McConncll persists in this vagary
of his it is much to be feared that
most of his parish'oners will discover
before fall that his sermons are begin
ning to loose that soul satisfying
quality they once possessed and that
the "spirit" is not manifesting itself
as powerfully in his private ministra
tions as it once did.?News and Cou
rier.
Foot Raca Shifted His Heart.
Shippcnsburg, Pa./, May 30.?Burd
Duke, of this place, died last evening
after a lingering illness and a remark
able experience. About 20 years ago
he took part and won in a foot raoe,
but as a result of his exertion his heart
is supposed to have changed from the
left to the right side and he fell ex
hausted at the end of the race. Since
then he has been a great sufferer.
Last night a post mortem was held
by Dr. E. S. Berry, in the presence
of the other doctors of town, and his
heart was found on the right side, and
his stomach in the place where the
heart should have been on the loft
side, and grown fast to the left lung.
He was about45 yoars of ago and a
man of wonderful endurance. It is a
question whether there is a similar
case on record.
Fooled.
A regiment of soldiers was drawn
up for churoh parade in the barrack
square, but the ohuroh was being re
paired and could only hold half of
them.
"Seargeant-major," shouted the
colonel, "tell all the mon who don't
want to go to churoh to fall out'on the
reverse flank."
Of course a large number quickly
and gladly availed thomselves of the
privilege.
"Now, aeargeant-major," said the
oolonel, "dismiss all the men who did
not fall out rfnd maroh the others to
churoh; they need it most."?London
Standard.
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Tourainc u as rich in historic in
ten ^t as it is in natural beauties.
The house of Valois had a special
liking for the banks of the Loire,
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built ne;:r the royal residences their
own < hat eaux?marvels of architec
tural L'ni'/o, strength and beauty,
but of which there is not Q stone
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and they met plot with counter plot.
If treason could not bo met with
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and liberties of his vassals as he
deemed lit. He had other privileges
also, some 'of which make us wonder
why the revolution did not come
some centuries earlier. ? Frederick
Lees in Architectural Record.
Calvinized.
One very hot day Dr. (?eorge E.
Ellis, the historian, going to an in
formal dinner with a friend, wore a
very comfortable but unfashionable
thin coat and manila hat. A noto
riously orthodox clergyman began
to banter the Unitarian divine
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long?'" "Because it has been Cal
vinized," replied Dr. Ellis. The
host, misunderstanding the word,
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hat could be galvanized. But Dr.
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ister as he replied: "I did not say
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A Useful Member.
The small son of a clergyman
who was noted for his tiresomo ser
mons overheard two friends of his
father saying how dry they were,
and how hard it was to keep awake
during them. The following Sun
day, while the minister was preach
ing, he was astounded to see his son
throwing pebbles at the congrega
tion from the gallery. The clergy
man frowned angrily at him, when
the boy piped out in a clear treble
voice :
"It's all right, pop. You go
on preaching; I'm keeping them
awake."?Harpers Weekly.
His Slight Mistake.
"Do you remember, dear," he ask
ed as they sat down on one of the
rustic seats at the summer resort,
"that 1 cut our initials on this tree
behind us three or four years ago?"
"Why, no, George," she replied.
"I don't remember that. Are you
sure ?"
He arose, walked around the tree
and inspected the bark closely.
"Yes," he said, "it's the saine
tree, all right, but it was another
girl."?Chicago Tribune.
? A girl haa an awfnl queer kind
of eyes to see a man without looking
at him.
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