d about
considerably. At last he said, "Well, I guess I'll have to
appoint him, but I am awfully sorry he voted for Bryan." He
then asked me who Dr. Crum[1] is and I told him that he was
a clean representative character, and that he was favorably
considered by Harrison for the Charleston postmastership,
etc. He did not know him and asked me what place was
referred to. You had not discussed it with me, but I told
him you most likely referred to the place made vacant by the
death of Webster. He then called Mr. Cortelyou, Secretary,
into the office and asked him if he knew Crum. He said he
didn't but that he had heard of him and always favorably.
The President then asked Cortelyou what place a man named B.
was being considered for, and he said the place made vacant
by Webster's death. He then turned to me and said that he
was sorry, that he would certainly have considered the
matter if he had had your word earlier. He asked me to tell
you that if you wish Dr. Crum considered for any other place
that he will be glad to have you communicate with him. I
then asked him what I should tell you in the Governor Jones'
matter, and he said: "Tell Mr. Washington without using my
name that party will most likely be appointed--in fact I
will appoint him--only don't make it that strong by wire."
So I consider the matter closed.

The colored brethren here are scared. They don't know what
to expect, and the word has passed, they say, that you are
the "Warwick" so far as they are concerned. I hope to find
you well in Chicago.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed) EMMETT J. SCOTT.

[Footnote 1: This refers to a suggestion made by Mr. Washington in his
telegram recommending the appointment of Dr. W.D. Crum, a colored
physician, to a South Carolina vacancy, so that the President could
thereby announce at the same time the appointment of a first-grade
Southern white Democrat and a first-class colored man.]

This precedent-breaking appointment of a Southern Democrat by a
Republican President, made primarily on the recommendation of Booker
Washington and Grover Cleveland, was acclaimed with enthusiastic
approval by all Democrats everywhere, and in fact there was no
dissenting voice except from the officeholding Southern Republicans
who naturally resented this encroachment upon what they regarded as
their