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[* 1916 Jan 21]

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Open Letter to President Wilson,
White House,
Washington, D. C.

Honored Sir:

In this open letter I desire to thank you most heartily for
audiences granted and favors given me since your election as President
of the United States, and further I thank the Heads of the Departments,
for appointments and promotions made in their several Bureaus.
There is a sentiment abroad that it is not the policy of the National
Democratic party to appoint and confirm Negroes to prominent offices.
In the light of the following letter and the nominations of Mr. Patterson,
Judge Terrell, and Mr. Curtis, it is hard to believe that your Excellency
shares in this sentiment.

98-W.State ST. Trenton, N. J.
October 16th, 1912.

My dear Bishop Walters:

I hope that it seens superfluous to those who know me,
but, to those who to not know me perhaps it is not necessary for me to
assure my colored fellow-citizens of my earnest wish to see justice done
them in every matter, and not mere grudging justice, but, justice executed
with liberality and cordial good feeling. Every guarantee of our 1aw,
every principle of our constitution, comands this, and our sympathies
should also make it easy.

The colored people of the United States have made extra
ordinary progress toward self support and usefulness, and ought to be
encourged in every possible way. My sympathy with them is of long
standing, and I want to assure them through you that should I become
President of the United States, they may count upon me for absolute fair

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