The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 267, Feb. 1910, U. of Illinois Press

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FEBRUARY . 1910 gan. Vardaman and Percy had a word battle in Jackson yesterday. I send you a clipping from the Commercial Appeal of this date, in which Mr. Percy mentions your name in a connection that is, no doubt, pleasant to you. Look after Keys matter at once, if practicable. Yours truly, Chas. Banks TLS Con. 49 BTW Papers DLC. Addressed to BTW in New York City. ~ Lonzo B. Moseley (b. 185~), a former planter, merchant, and U.S. marshal, was a member of the Republican National Committee from Mississippi beginning in 4. 2 On Oct. 6, 1908, while BTW was speaking before a packed house in Jackson, Miss., the Jim Crow gallery collapsed, injuring a number of persons including some whites. (See Reports of Pinkerton Detective F. E. Miller, Oct. 3-~, 1908, above, vol. 9.) According to Senator LeRoy Percy, James K. Vardaman wrote in his newspaper after the incident: ''I am glad that no one was killed or seriously wounded, but especially the negroes. The white people who attended were out of place and a few scratches and bruises, lost hats and torn coat tails, and being sat upon by a few rancid negro women were no more than they deserved. I am opposed to white folks and negroes associating even on such occasions as this. The negro can't stand it, and I am in favor of protecting the negro in his racial rights.'' (Memphis Commercial Appeal, Feb. I, Rio, I.) Shortly after the 1908 incident BTW had written Francis Jackson Garrison: ''Since I left the state, Vardaman has come out in a savage attack, through his paper, on the white people who attended my meetings. This is just what I wanted. This attack on the white people has resulted) in a division of white public sentiment; and, of course, in proportion as we can get such a division, why, things will be more hopeful in the future.'' (Oct. at, 1908, above, vol. 9.) From John Henry Washington Tuskegee Institute, Alabama February ad, To Dear Brother: I am enclosing to you a list of persons who have not paid their poll tax, which Mr. William V. Chambliss asked me to hand you. Your brother, J. H. Washington fEnclosure] LIST OF PARTIES IN TUSKEGEE WHO HAVE NOT PAID POLL TAX W. T. Adams, owes from egos to date I. L. Adams owes from egos to date 267