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FEBRUARY · I 8 g 3 From Henry Demarest Lloyd1 Chicago, Illinois, February ~ 6th, ~ 893 Dear Sir; I am very much pleased to know that you intend to accept the invitation to address the Labor Congress.2 According to our present plans my wife and I intend leaving Chicago next Sunday, arriving in Montgomery Tuesday morning in time, we hope, to! attend your convention. Will you be good enough to have two bed rooms reserved for our accommodation? Very truly yours, H. D. Lloyd TLS Con. 6 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. ~ Henry Demarest Lloyd ~ ~ 847-~ 903), a Chicago lawyer and newspaper writer, was a champion of labor and reform causes, including defense of the anarchists convicted after the Haymarket Riot in ~ 886 and the miners in the anthracite strike in 1909. He was the author of Wealth against Commonwealth (~894), a scathing criticism of monopolies, particularly Standard Oil Company. He ran for Congress in 1894 on the People's Party ticket. In the last year of his life he joined the Socialist party. 2 The Labor Congress was a feature of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. (See BTW to Lloyd, July 29, 1893, and an account of BTW's speech, Sept. 2, ~ 893, below. ~ An Account of Samuel Chapman Armstrong~s Visit to Tuskegee ''Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. ~ 8-cat Mar. ~ I, ~ 893]2 Gen. Armstrong's welcome to Tuskegee will never be forgotten. When those who witnessed it have passed away it will take its place among the traditions of the School. As a mark of sympathy and respect to him, Gen. Tyler,2 of the Western R.R., stopped the New Orleans limited, at Chehaw, and Capt. Wrights ran out a special from Tuskegee. Though nearly midnight, the students waited patiently for his coming, and when the courier announced his approach, the whole campus was suddenly wrapped in flames; students, armed with brilliant torches, in open ranks, lined the 991