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C. G. V. No. 2.

I believe that your editorial and a good frank talk with the President and his secretary
will result in changing this hurtful policy before it goes further.

The colored people are especially embittered and discouraged over the fact that an
Indian was made Register of the Treasury instead of a colored man. Added to this, it seems
that a white man has been nominated for Minister to Haiti instead of a black man.
I think that the President ought to know that one of the most hurtful and harmful
organizations in Washington is one called the "Democratif Fair Play Association," composed
of a lot of white clerks in the various departments. This organization is constantly seeking
to stir up strife between the races and to embarrass the colored people. If the President
or somebody else could suggest that they ought to attend to their own business in the depart-
ments and let matters alone the President run the government it would help imensely.

I think and hope that before President Wilson is in office much longer that he will
demonstrate to the world that he is a firm true friend of both races.

Yours very truly,
Booker T. Washington

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