The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 551, Oct. 1902, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · ~ 902 find men who will be agreeable to Senator Platt, as well as to the President. I fee] too that the appointment of one of your people at this time should be preeminently fit and as much for the vindication of the intelligence of the race as for the recognition of it by the President. Charles W. Anderson seems the most fit of all and is certainly the most agreeable to Senator Platt; when I went to him to confer about it before I started in, he suggested Anderson at once. You know Anderson without my telling you what he is. He has held important places in this State and rendered great credit to himself and his people in doing so. He holds a $~ooo office now, but says he can secure the position for another man of his race. Consequently, I am going to send him over to Washington today, with a letter to the President telling him that Senator Platt desires Anderson's appointment and that I recommend it. The President himself, when he gave me the commission to find men to appoint, said he would prefer Anderson, so I think the matter will go through if they can find a place that will be agreeable all round. I shall try ant} find some one else to present to the President, although I fee] that if he should appoint Anderson now that wouict probably be enough for the present. T. Thomas Fortune has been in to see me, and I could see he was quite irritated because he was not invited into the conference at Washington. He seemed to take it for granted that I hac! met people there by arrangement and by appointment, and also accepted the newspaper statement that I presented Bishop Walters, Bishop Clinton and Rev. Dr. Carrutherst to the President, whereas they were with the President when I went to his room and I had no previous knowledge of their movements. He also seemed dissatisfied, as I had seen by the last issue of his paper, over the appointment of Judge Rou~hac. I told him yesterday that you had recommended this and I was satisfied that under all the circumstances it was the best thing to do, and that subsequent developments had proved this. I had a Tong visit day before yesterday from Revenue Collector gingham of your State. He came on the strange errand of trying to persuade me that the course of the Alabama Convention was right, and he went away with a totally different opinion.2 He is very smart and very plucky, but I told him that he and his associates could 5