The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 323, Oct. 1913, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · I 9 I 3 fight against that infamous Judge Zeller. ~ collected ad ascertainable facts about the Civil Rights cases which came before him and were decided against us. It made a very formidable array. I placed these facts In the hands of Mr. Guthrie,~ President of the Bar Association, and then verbally called his attention to the doctor's ''frame-up.'' The Bar Association met the other day and endorsed several candidates for judicial positions on both tickets, but unanimously declared that Zeller was unfitted by training and by his actions on the bench to serve as a judge of General Sessions, for which position he is now a candidate on the Tammany ticket. Fred is supporting Judge Foster,2 who is one of the candidates on the Tammany ticket for General Sessions. This is a very foolish thing to do. There are but two candidates on each ticket for Judges of General Sessions, and it would be very difficult for a man to vote for one of them without voting for the other. Besides, the judges do not run one against the other, as other candidates do; that is to say, one particular Fusion judge Is not running against one particular Tammany judge, as in the case of Mayor, Comptroller, County Clerk and other offices. The two judges receiving the highest number of votes wiD be elected. They may be both Fusionists, or they may be both Mammary men, or it may turn out to be one Fusionist and one Tammany man. Thus you see every colored vote given to Judge Foster on the Tammany ticket takes away one from one of the Republican candidates. In this way, Judge Foster would receive the solid Tammany vote plus the colored Republican vote; Judge Zeller would receive the solid Tammany vote plus the German vote, for he is himself a German. This would leave Judges Wadhams and Nott3 with the Fusion vote minus a part of the colored Republican and a part of the German vote, and would probably elect Zeller with a vote less than his colleague, Judge Foster, but considerably above either of the Republicans. I am giving you this exposition to show you that Fred's action in supporting one of the Tammany candidates for Judge of Genera] Sessions is directly helping the infamous ZeDer, against whom I have been fighting with might and main since the opening of the campaign. However, it is a foregone conclusion that we will elect the entire Fusion ticket and bury old Zeller.4 Put this down as a prophecy from me. Many thanks for your last installment. Please let the good work go on, and when you need funds notify me. Yours faithfully, Charles 323