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you to have him reported as throwing the conference door wide
open and dismissing Chairman Nugent in these words: "Mr.
Nugent, there is the door! If reports are correct, the Woman
Suffrage delegation that called on you a few months ago, did not
fair much better. If these things happened to white delega-
tions that called on you as Governor and as President, what could
be expected of a colored delegation? Then again, it might be
expected that any man put in the White House Chair by the help-
ing vote of Mississippi and South Carolina would become readily
offended whenever a Massachusetts and an otherwise
delegation of colored gentlemen would knock at the White House
door for a bite of human justice. I believe that Mt. Trotter
offended you; but, my honored sir, I do not believe that there
was any ground for offense. Anyhow, Mr. Trotter was publicly
against race segregation in the Government departments at
Washington and publicly repudiated it. Mr. Trotter was right
and I am with him. You were publicly in favor of segregation
and publicly endorsed it. You were publicly wrong and I am
publicly against you. As my method of congratulating him, I
shall send Mr. Trotter a copy of this letter.

Yours for a stand pat Republican President,
Joseph W. Henderson

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