The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 254, Jan. 1897, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ John Sherman (~823-~goo), after a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Senate, was Secretary of State briefly in 1897-98. 2 Henry White (~850-~927) was a career diplomat from the 1880s through World War I, holding a number of positions in European countries and advising President Woodrow Wilson during the Versailles Peace Conference in 19~9. McKinley appointed him first secretary in the London embassy. From Timothy Thomas Fortune Jacksonville, Fla., Jan 18, 1897 Dear Friend: Your favor of the ~ 6th instant was received this morning. I wrote you on Wednesday last acknowledgment of check from Milwaukee and last night I wrote you concerning Chase and the Bee and my father. I am glad you are home for a while. My father is still between life and death. We are likely to go to smash on the Cabinet make up. Sherman, John D. Long, Nathan Goff,2 Henry C. Payne,3 R. A. Alger,4 C. N. Bliss.5 It is a regular mugwump affair as far as we are concerned. ~ shall wait and see what the Cabinet is before opening my mouth one way or the other. But it Is simply outrageous to put old John Sherman in the State department. With kind regards, Yours truly T. Thomas Fortune ALS Con. ~6 BTW Papers DLC. ~ John Davis Long (~838-~9~5) was Secretary of the Navy (~897-~902~. He had previously been governor of Massachusetts ~ ~ 880-82 ~ and congressman ~ ~ 883-89~. 2 Nathan Golf (~843-~920) of West Virginia was Secretarv of the Navy briefly , , . in 188~, a congressman (~883-89), a circuit judge (~892-~9~3), and a U.S. senator (~9~3~~9) 3 Henry Clay Payne (~843-~904), a railroad entrepreneur and Wisconsin politician, was postmaster of Milwaukee from 1876 to 1886. From 1902 to 1904 he was Postmaster General and one of Theodore Roosevelt's chief advisers on patronage matters. In this role he worked closely with BTW and James S. Clarkson against the southern ''lily-white'' Republicans. 4 Russell Alexander Alger (~836-~907), a former governor of Michigan, was McKinley's Secretary of War from 1897 to 1899. From 1902 until his death he was a U.S. senator. ', Cornelius Newton Bliss ( 1833-~ ~ ), a successful textile manufacturer in Neal York, was Secretary of the Interior (~897-99) and treasurer of the Republican national committee ~ ~ 892- ~ 908 ~ . 254