No sooner did the news get out that a coloured man had been received at the White House than various _hot-headed Southern editors wrote fiery editorials, asserting that Roosevelt was trying to break down the social barriers between the two races, and to put the negro on an equality with the white. The feelings of large section of the South were pretty well stirred up for a time, and eulogy of Roosevelt gave way to" condemnation. As was to be expected, however, this sen-iment subsided on second thought, and in the face of the support of some of the broader-minded men of the section, and the issue is for the time buried. Whether it will come up again in political matters is uncertain, However it may be, Roosevelt has nothing to gain or lose by it, for the Solid South is Democratic for the present beyond hope of change. As to its effects on Roosevelt personally, there is no question but that he would do the same thing again if the occasion came.
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