PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE COLOUR LINE.
ANOTHER NEGRO APPOINTMENT.
United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright
(Received January 14th, 9.15 a.m.)
NEW YORK, January 13.
President Roosevelt has Appointed a coloured lawyer as assutoni States attorney for Boston. According to has own statement, President Roosevelt at the time of his visit to Charleston last May, and since that time, has made a number of appointmente of negroes to public positions. "For. example," he says, "I made one such appointment in Mississippi and another in Alabama, shortly before my Tisit to Charleston. I had at that time -appointed two coloured men as judicial magistrates in the district of Columbia. I have recently announced another suoh appointment for New Orleans, and have just made one from Pennsylvania. When I wae Governor of New York I appointed two coloured men of good character and standing to responsible positions—one of them to a position paying a salary twice as large as that paid in the office now under consideration—one of them as director of the Buffalo Exposition."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11482, 15 January 1903, Page 5
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