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Trotter crossed over and supported you for the presidency. I
told Mr. Trotter and those who followed him that the Negro would
woe the day that they helped to send you from the school room
to the White House. Mr. Trotter and his army followers demurred.
I told them that the Negro’s day of tears would come. They
demurred. The tear day has come, and lo and behold Mr. Monroe
Trotter has shed them and, best of all, he shed them on the
White House door steps. This tear stream is now Nation-wide
and Nation-long. I have not seen Mr. Trotter in eight months.
I did not know that he was in Washington till the newspapers
had told me so. I have not yet sent him my heart felt congrat-
ulations, which are now over-due.

Having said what I have already said, I trust that the nice-
ety of the occasion will etiquettely allow me the humble priv-
ilege to frankly tell you that in the Wilson-Trotter-Equal-
Rights-League-Race Segregation - White House Controversy, I line
up with Trotter and against you, because I believe that Trotter
was right and you were wrong. Yet, I believe that you told
the truth when you said that Mr. Trotter was offensive. The
reason that I believe it, is this: I know Mr. Trotter pri-
vately and publicly and I know you publicly. Your public feel-
ings are of such tender touch that you have at times publicly
shown it even before Mr. Trotter's White House advent. During
the January Session of the 1912 New Jersey Legislature, you
called a conference of New Jersey State Democrats. James New-
gent, the then State Chairman and Democratic leader, taking an
opposite course to you so offended you as to have allegingly caused

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