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January 30, 1914

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

My Dear Sir:-

I write to request of you to arrange for me an au-
dience with the President as soon as it will be convenient for
him to see me.

Matters of recent developement as affecting the colored
people of the country makes it imperative that I be given the
opportunity to see the President and state our side of the ques
-tion.

Daily I am being taken to task for not seeing the President
and branded as a traitor because I have not presented to the Pres
-ident the colored man’s side of the question.

I had hoped that I might have been called in ere this to
have presented to the President the democratic Negro's view point
of this critical situation; for say what you will or may there is
a growing resentment on the part of ten millions of Negroes against
the President.

This feeling of bitter resentment is not confined to the col-
ored people only but is shared by a host of their white friends.

Enclosed you will find clippings that will sustain my con-
tention.

Yours most respectfully,
Alexander Walters

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