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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers are to-day in a position to do more good than any man in Al. or perhapse in the South. I bid you God's speed. May your last days be your best. Whatever I can do to aid you as Supt. of Education to promote your College or the interest of your people- ~ shall only be too glad to do so. Again thanking you for your repeated acts of kindness while in Tuskegee. I am Very truly your friend . ~no. O. Turner ALS Con. 863 BTW Papers DLC. ~ John Orman Turner (b. 1850) was the Alabama state superintendent of education from 1894 to 1898. Previously he had been principal of a high school and president of Ashville College (now Samford University). A warm supporter of BTW and of Tuskegee methods, Turner seems to have been a sincere promoter of black as well as white education within the limits set by Alabama politics and racial restrictions. A Democrat until 1896, he opposed Bryanism. He also opposed ratification of the Alabama constitution of I9OI, which disfranchised most of the black voters. He supported Theodore Roosevelt and unsuccessfully sought a federal office through BTW's help. ''Nothing was too good for the Democrats to say of me when I sang their song,'' he wrote BTW. (Turner to BTW, Nov. 18, 1902, Con. a43, BTW Papers, DLC.) A News Item from the Tuskegee News [Tuskegee, Ala., June ~3, 1895] A SHAMEFUL EPISODE ! Last Saturday night about lo o'clock the residents of Tuskegee were startled by a wild hubbub in the N.E. end of the city a furious barking of dogs was accompanied by other sounds of a more startling nature. Suddenly four or five pistol shots rang out on the air,. followed by agonized screams of women, and a man's voice shrieking in pain. It was terrible to listen to: ''Help ! Help! My God, they have killed him Oh they.have killed him!'' These words shrieked over.and over . . . soon drew a crowd of men and boys to the residence of Mr. John Alexander where it was found that Mr. Alexander had been a:ccidently shot and was supposed fatally wounded by a mob of masked.men.who had entered his premises in pursuit of Tom Harris,' a notor~ous.mulatto man, negro lawyer and rather a. seditious character, who had against Mr. Alexander's orders taken refuge within his gatejs.£;om. a 558