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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers olize any part of your time by complaints I shall await your return. Your friend Jenkins P.S. Politics are warm here. Lives have been threatened. To see men going by here heavily armed has been a rather common sight of late. It seems as if some one is bound to be hurt before the excitement fully dies out. Old man Baxley formerly of Tuskegee but now of Tallapoosa County stole the ballot box from a precinct near Franklin. The Populites threatened to kill him. Last night about fifteen Tuskegeeans heavily armed went out to guard the offenders house. They returned this morning; no harm having been done. I shall speak at Sweet Gum to-morrow on invitation. I should have said that Ben Walker with about c50 populites came to town August fist, and after Walker had made one of the most abusive speeches that I have ever heard, repaired to' the Court House and signed a paper declaring to have a fair election or lose their lives in the attempt. Result: fairest election ever had. Walker seized one of the boxes because the manager refused to come to town same night of election. Result: box thrown out. Many was probably elected by Negro votes. Your friend Jenkins ALS Con. 18 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Simon Marx, a Tuskegee merchant, was elected sheriff of Macon County. From George Washington Albert Johnston Tuskegee, Ala., Aug. ~ o. ~ 896 My Dear Uncle, Your letter received O.K. I am very glad to know that Aunt Jacobum~ is getting on very well. I hope she will be able to stand the operation. The children are doing very well indeed. We are having some hot weather here now. I received the ~o.oo to go on Marx's note. As soon as Mr. Logan can pay me any of the first install206