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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
JUNE 15 1914
RECEIVED]

[stamp: ACK'D
JUNE 15 1914
C.T.H.]

June 12th 1914.

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

Mr dear Sir:

I am herewith enclosing a clipping from a negro newspaper of this
City of local circulation, issue of June 10th., 1914, which purports to be a
letter to the President and upon which an alleged correspondence with the
President is assumed and built up - but for the deliberate misstatement of
fact contained therein I would not trouble you with this note.

There appears to be two objects in view by the writers (the Repub-
lican boss, now enjoying the hospitality' of the Democratic party, and the
Tammany boss, now struggling for life in the grasp of the negro anti-Tammany
stalwarts) of this letter; to-wit: a fling at Mr. Dudley Field Malone, who ap-
pears to be able to care for himself, and an effort to give the impression
that ALL negro Democrats, in Greater New York, are followers of Tammany Hall
to quote "Our organization includes all colored Democrats in New York. "
ABSOLUTEIY UNTRUE. To quote further, "In New York County, where we are
strongest, we had in 1912 a membership of more than five thousand voters. "
A BRAZEN MISSTATEMENT OF FACT.

There are more than five thousand enrolled negro Demoorats in New
York County - very true - but less than five hundred of them are followers
Of Tammany Hall.

There are some among us who have some political standing, both
Nationally and Locally,and who also have some moral courage, who refuse ab-
solutely to hover under the protecting wing of the Tammany buzzard, even
though the political winds be chill and the shaking of the political plumb
tree for us be far distant.

In conclusion, permit me to state, that this alleged correspondence
with the President contains one statement of fact - as I set forth in my let-
ter to the President, under date of May 26th., 1914, to-wit: that negro
Democrats of this State, and the Country at large, are greatly chagrined and
disappointed at the treatment they are receiving at the hands of Democrats
both National and Local.

These facts are submitted for your information.

I have the honor to remain,

Respectfully yours,
Robert Lewis Waring

two inclosures
Second enclosure will
explain itself.

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