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Show CLEVELAND DENIES IT Story That Negro Lunched With Him at White House Denounced. WASHINGTON. March 3. In theW House today Mr. Webb (N. C). calllng attention to the statement made a few '' days ago by Mr. Scott (Kansas), that a . negro had dined In the White House while Mr. Cleveland was President, an-, , nounced that he had written the former President, sending him an extract from the record, and) asking if the statements made by Mr. Scott were true. "This morning." he said, "I received the following reply." which he read amid applause on the Democratic side... as follows: "Princeton, March 2. 1904. Hon. E. - -W. Webb, House of Representatives: Dear Sir: It is a matter of small con-' oern to me that a Mr. Scott has seen fit to un my name in a display of his evil -propensities on the floor of the House of Representatives. "In answer to your Inquiry, however, t have to say of hie statement that-the colored man, C. H. J. Taylor, took lunch with me at the White House, that It Is a deliberate falsification out of the whole doth. "As far as Mr. Taylor Is concerned. I understand, prior to his appointment as Register of Deeds at Washington, that he had served as an assistant in the office of the City Attorney at Kansas1 City. HI nomination as Register was confirmed by the Senate, and he served in that place with intelligence and with efficiency. He has since dledV Some people restrain themselves from abus- 1 log the dead. "My inquiries concerning Mr. Taylor before his appointment, my observation of him during his incumbency and the little I have known of him since, convinces con-vinces me that hi9 character is very unjustly attacked In the diatribe of Mr. Scott. One charge Is made against Mr. Taylor by Mr. Scott which he doubly clinches with truth when he declares: . 'He was a black negro.' I am led, however, how-ever, to doubt his familiarity with his subject when he adds, "As black as you ever saw Tours very truly, - "GROVER CLEVELAND." ' Mr. Webb eald he wanted this denial to travel, that the 'statement of Mr. Scott be overtaken. " Mr. Scott said) he accepted the statement state-ment of Mr. Cleveland as true, and made apology to the former President. r |