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Noted
ACK'D
MAY 24 1913
W. F. J.

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

Dear Mr. Tumulty:-

Regarding the list of names in
connection with appointment to office of colored
men, you will observe by referring to same, that I
called your attention to William Monroe Trotter,
Editor of the Guardian, Boston, Mass, as worthy of
appointment. To-day I received a letter from Mr.
Trotter in which he says he is not a candidate for
appointment to any office, but suggests the nanes of
Rev. A.W. Adams, of Norwich, Conn., and Mr. William
D. Johnson, of Winchester, Mass., as colored men
eminently qualified and fitted for Public Office.
I know the Rev. Adams. He has done splendid work
in the democratic movement amongst the colored race
for a number of years past, and is an educated man
and fully qualified for public office. Mr. Johnson
I do not know as well, but I understand he stands
very high amongst the colored people in Massachusetts.

You may remember that Trotter
was an active worker in connection with the National

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