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1251 South 18th Street
PHILADELPHIA PA. March 17, 1913.

Joseph P. Tumulty, Esq.,
Secretary to the President,
Washington, D.C.

[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
MAR 18 1913
RECEIVED]

My dear Mr. Tumulty:-

I am sending, in your special care, another letter to Pre-
sident Wilson. I wish you would kindly read this letter, and the
enclosed newspaper clipping, with care yourself before bringing it
to the attention of the President, because it takes up the question
of Negro political patronage, with which I learn you are already
much beset, and which I very much fear is being handled from the
outside in a way that is most likely to embarrass both the Negro
race and the Democratic Administration.

If you will give this matter your earnest attention I
trust that I will not again soon find myself called upon to in-
trude upon your generosity of nature.

Your humble servant,

J. S. Stemon

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