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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers it. In a speech on Lincoln's Birthday which I am to deliver in New York, I am going to take the liberty to quote liberally from what you have said. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Joel Chandler Harris Papers GEU. ~ Joel Chandler Harris, ''The Negro of To-day: His Prospects and His Discouragements,'' Saturday Evening Post, ~76 (Jan. 30, 1904), 2-5. Harris concluded that the Negro race was improving and that the great majority of blacks in the South led ''sober and industrious lives.'' Harris wrote of BTW: ''He is an orator of great power, a writer of unusual ability, and an extraordinary administrator of large and complicated interests.'' To James H. Hayes ~Tuskegee, Ala.] Feb. 2, Atop Personal My dear Mr. Hayes: Both of your kind letters have been received. I am very sorry that Mr. Fortune continues to hammer on the suffrage convention. I made an earnest effort with him to get him to stop and supposed I had succeeded, although I could not get a promise that he would stop. He was considerably agitated when I spoke to him about it, but I have the feeling that the best thing is to let him alone and he will forget all about it in a few weeks and will find some other fellow or some other institution to hammer on and will forget you and your organization at least for a while. You will note that the other papers I think without exception, that I promised to help with have ceased to trouble you. When I see you, I am particularly anxious to talk over the questions raised in Mr. Asbury's letter. More and more I feel inclined that Mr. Asbury is orate of the most level headed and square men in the race and I think a great deal of his suggestions on any point. Mr. Humphreyst was the man that I wanted you to see with me sometime when in New York. I am to be in New York on the lath of February but my stay there will be so very short that I very much fear I cannot find time to see you at any length. I shall be there, 422