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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
DEC 15 1914
RECEIVED]

Dec. 12th, 1914

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My dear Sir:-

I am sending you hereon "clippings" from the Kansas City
Herald, a Negro journal devoted to the interest of the Negro Nat'l
Educational Congress. We neither seek nor expect any favors at the
hands of President Wilson, but we shall give him full credit for
the many splendid things which he has done for the American people.

Respectfully,
J. Silus Harris

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

EDITORIALS.
Editors of the Negro Press are
warmly commending William Monroe
Trotter for insulting the President.
Thus the Negro kills himself.

Negro journals that were loudest in
praise of Mr. Wilson, when that gentle-
man was a candidate for the presi-
dency, are now foremost in denounc-
ing him. Why? We did not support
Mr Wilson, yet from all indications
he is measuring up in statesmanship
with his predecessors in the White
House. It is barely possible that our
Negro Democratic brethren expected
too much at the hands of the Presi-
dent. If so, we would remind them
that the age of miracles are past.

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