The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 289, Aug. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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A UG U S T · I 9 I I failed to put in appearance; no action was taken and it may never be tried.'' Now, the point of this letter is to ask if it is not possible for you to arrange to send out from New York to the colorecl newspapers an official statement regarding the status of this case, so that the unthoughtfu] may not be misled. It Is decidedly painful to have to stand such widespread publicity as Trotter anal others are giving to what they call our failure to be represented when UIrich was caged for trial recently. ~ believe that you are watchful of every interest in this matter, and yet ~ cannot fad] to appreciate the harm likely to be occasioned by our failure to counteract the baneful prejudices now being propagated. Yours very truly, [Emmett J. Scott] IL Copy Con. 607 BTW Papers DLC. Enclosed in Scott to BTW, Aug. a, 19~, Con. 607, BTW Papers, DLC. A press copy Is in Con. 435, BTW Papers, DLC. ~ When the Ulrich case come up in July and BTW failed to appear, thus causing postponement until the fall term, black newspapers inclined to be censorious of BTW, including the Boston Guardian and the Cleveland Gazette, renewed earlier criticisms of his seeming reluctance to prosecute. Harry C. Smith wrote in the Cleveland Gazette: ''He certainly had had plenty of tune (many months) in which to arrange to be present if he intended to 'prosecute Ulrich to the full extent of the law,' as he promised many weeks ago.'' Smith suggested that BTW did not wish to have to explain what he was doing in that ''free and easy'' section of the city, ''and on a Sunday, too.'' (Cleveland Gazette, July as, 19~, a.) To Edgar Gardner Murphy Fort Salonga, Long Island, N.Y. August 5, 19 My dear Mr. Murphy: ~ have your letter of July 3 ISt. I shall be very glad to cad to see you sometime when ~ am. in New York. ~ hope that you are reasonably wed and are having a good summer. ~ have just returned from Alabama, and am glad to say to you that conditions are very hopeful there. ~ have never seen a better feeling of good will and cooperation between the races in Alabama than there is now. All the Montgomery papers, especially the Advertiser, are 289