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February/8/16

Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President, United States,
White House,
Washington, D. C.,

Honorable Sir:-

While we know that you are a democratic
president, we also know that you are the President of
the United States.

While we keenly feel the unconcern of the
leaders of the democratic party about the interest and wel-
fare of the Negro, yet we know that there are men in that
party whose second nature is justice and fair play, whose
integrity cannot be lessened by party affiliation or party
principles unless those principles are commensurable with
equality, and we would want to class you with such characters,
but if you cannot bring to bear enough influence to impress
upon Congress the legitimate claim of the Negro to the regi-
star of Treasury-ship, then we may be compelled to place you
in another class.

We believe that there are Negroes in the
democractic party who are eligible for the position and the

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