The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 492, July 1902, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers do with the ''brokerage'' feature of office filling but only & decidedly with the character of colored men whom the President is considering in certain particulars, it will be well. I attach editorial from the Atlanta Constitution.2 If Mr. Howell should be written to he will be sure to print your letter and so it will be better if you can have some friend like Mr. Leupp prepare an authoritative statement & give it out from Washington. I am sure he could reach the best & most serviceable of the Correspondents. I do not see how you can refuse to serve the race & the President in these matters. To get good men, who will reflect credit upon all concerned, is a great step forward & we can not go back to the old condition. I hope you will not fee! that you are jeopardizing matters here. I do not believe you are & I know & all fair men know that your disinterested service is of incalculable service to the race & to the nation as well. Yours sincerely, Emmett J. Scott ALS Con. 46 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Josiah Kingsley Ohl (~863-~g~o) was the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution. 2 The Atlanta Constitution, June 23, 1902, 4, said: ''The Constitution as much as any one anywhere would regret any false step on the part of Booker Washington that would sacrifice his standing and potentiality in the chosen sphere and work that he professed is the heart of his life.'' The editorial reported that it was rumored that BOW was acting as an adviser to President Roosevelt on black appointments in the South. The Constitution hoped the reports were riot true and added: ''It is up to Booker Washington to elect whether he will be a negro political boss and so lose the respect and support of the heretofore friendly white leaders of the south, or whether he will be true to his promise to let polities alone and continue the truest and safest Moses his people have ever known in their emancipated condition.'' From Peter Jefferson Smith, Jr. Boston July 3d-o2 My dear Doctor: From what I can learn the ''Guardian'' folks are going to use every effort to have the Afro American Council Denounce you at their meeting soon to be held, and from what Bishop Walters said they have got their plans pretty well in hand and purpose to capture the convention for that end. 492