Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — COMMENDS PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

COMMENDS PRESIDENT

Senator McLaurin Praises Roosevelt’s Course In Brownsville Affair. Washington. Feb. 12.—Senator McLaurin spoke on the Brownsville affair, upholding the course taken by the president In the discharge of the negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth regiment and maintaining that Roosevelt could not sign a bill for their re-enlist-jn«nt without stultifying hipaself. “The president," said McLaurin, “Ip entitled to the plaudit ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,’ for the act discharging the whole worthless band. It it not expected that he will do any act in reference to this matter that will draw' a black, mark across a course of conduct deserving such high commendation.”