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The following is a true copy of extract from a speech
made by Henry Lincoln Johnson, against Honorable Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United States, during the national
campaign of 1912, as reported in the Elizabeth Daily Journal
of Friday Evening, October 18, 1912, to wit:

Mr Johnson, then told why the colored men cannot vote for
Governor Wilson. He is essencially a southern man. Mr.
Johnson then described his intimate acquaintance with the
Wilson family. His mother he said, was a dressmaker for
Governor Wilson's mother for many years in Augusta. When
Governor Wilson opened a law office in Atlanta, it was three
blocks from where Mr. Johnson lived, and when the agitation
for separate compartments for white and black men in the
New Georgia Street Cars took place, he claimed Wilson was
a leader in it.

He said that he could be cited as the authority for
the statement that Hoke Smith said after some difficulty
with a colored policeman in Washington, when Woodrow Wilson
becomes president, the first thing I, will have him do, will
be to turn out these black policeman. Senator Hoke Smith
will be in Woodrow Wilson Cabinet surely if he is elected.

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