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[stamp: ACK'D
NOV 14 1914
T.M.H.]

[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
NOV 14 1914
RECEIVED]

152a

435 Schiller Ave.,
Trenton, N. J.
November 13, 1914.

Hon. Wodrow Wilson,
President of the United States,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. President:-

I address you this letter to assure you that the more
thoughtful colored people of this State and the country don't
approve of Mr. Trotter's insult to you on yesterday. The
good colored people of the country are too fairminded, decent,
patriotic to set their approval for a moment upon the conduct
of Mr. Trotter, who seems to be famous for this kind of a thing.

There are thousands of my race who believe that you are
fairminded toward the negro race and that you stand ready to do
what you can for their elevation to a higher ideal of citizen-
ship.

I have expressed this time and again to members of my race
who have called upon me to get my views concerning you and the
probable course that you would pursue toward them in your present
administration. In addition to this I have advised a number of
colored gentlemen to talk with me before seeking conferences with
you in order to prevent just such an odium which was heaped upon
the race yesterday by men of Mr. Trotter's type. You are the
nation’s President and any insult offered to you is offered to
the nation, it matters not how just and important a question may
be or what party may be in power, the nation will not set its
approval upon an insult offered to its President by one of its

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