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May 6/13.

J.P.T. #9

relied upon him as one of the representative colored
men in the eastern states. He is a candidate for
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Boston, Mass.

Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. C. He is
the moving spirit of the National Independent
Political League, having Headquarters at Washington.
Dr. Waldron was very active four years ago and last
fall, and in close touch with me during both
campaigns, and is in pretty close touch with a
number of Congressmen and some of the Senators.
Confidentially, he wants about the biggest office
that can be secured, and while he is entitled to
recognition, yet I do not think that some of the
men I have referred to above would be pushed aside
for him. I know he will use his considerable influence,
in view of the alleged work he has done. As between
the two men, Walters and Waldron, Walters is the
reliable and absolutely dependable one. Waldron is
very jealous of Walters, and he and his following
would like to supplant him, if possible, but the

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