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425 Schiller Ave.
Trenton, N. J.
May 23, 1913.

Hon. Joseph P. Tumulty.
Executive Department.

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ACK'D
MAY 26 1913
W.F.J.

Hon. Joseph P. Tumulty,
Executive Department
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Tumulty:—

I have been for some time answering letters of
inquiry from various portions of the country from leading
colored men, concerning President Woodrow Wilson as to
his fairness toward the negro. Many of the letters bear
the brand of an honest inquiry. These I have answered
from my knowledge, of our good President, and stated as
clearly as I could, that the negroes need not have any
apprehension or fear that justice would not be given them
in any department of the government that come under the
control of the President.I have pointed out to them
that there have been from time to time, things occurred
in some of the states against the negro that no former
President could control and that some of them are likely
to occur under the present administration, but they are
matters to be adjusted by the states in which they occur.

1 am just from New York where I had a talk
with Fred Maore the Editor of the New York Age - I told
him that the President was fair and that he should hold
upon criticising the administration.

I attended the A. M. E. Conference in Delaware
last week and the New York this week and the New Jersey
some two weeks ago. In these conferences I advised
patience and support of the administration. I want my
race to see the President from the angle of Justice and
if I can help along this line I intend to do so. You
may say to the President that I am doing all in my power
to have the colored people to stand by his administration
from his great record and patritism, and that they have
a friend in him who is intensely interested in their
uplift to a standard of good citizenship. I write you
this letter because I know that you appreciate any service
that I may be able to render the administration

Very truly yours.
T. W. [?]

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