The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 102, Mar. 1903, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER Te WASHINGTON Papers Crum case is so complicated that I have not been able to make up my mind as to what the best thing to do is, and I often find that when in doubt the safe thing is to go slow or do nothing. Of one thing, however, I am convinced and that is, if the Senate does not act and you decide to give him a recess appointment, the sooner it is done after Congress adjourns the better it will be as it will stop the discussion and the agitation. As I see the situation it is about this: With very few exceptions the colored people North and South together with the regular white Republicans in the South, are back of Crum. While the majority of the people in the North favor him, there is an element including the trusts and those who have money invested in the South, that is making trouble. The rank and file of the Southern whites I believe have little interest in the Crum case, but the Southern Democratic press, and the ''Lily Whites'' are keeping the waters stirred. There are some indications that the South is getting tired of the agitation and is beginning to see your actions in their true light, to see that in your policy you have really been most considerate of the South. As I said in the beginning it is hard, very hard to decide as to the wisest and best thing to do, but of the above conclusions I am well convinced. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Theodore Roosevelt Papers DLC. An earlier draft dated Feb. ''7, egos, is in Con. 249, BTW Papers, DLC. To Robert Curtis Ogden Tuskegee, Ala.] March a, 1909 My dear Mr. Ogden: I have your kind letter of February Pith and I thank you very much for what you say regarding my Brooklyn address. I have been surprised to see how favorably it has been received throughout the country. I shall take advantage of your suggestion and see that the address is reprinted in pamphlet form ~02