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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers To John Stephens Durham [Tuskegee, Ala.] April 18, 1904 Personal My dear Mr. Durham: Mr. Scott has just returned from Washington where he had a long conference with the President at my request. The status of the San Domingan matter is this: The Dominicans have diplomatically made the President understand that they do not wish a Negro sent as Minister and the President, of course, says that he will be under the necessity for the reason mentioned, to send a white man to occupy the place temporarily at least. I think I am not violating any confidence when I say to you that in the course of the conversation, even before your name was brought up by Mr. Scott, the President remarked that if he were to send a colored man you would be his choice. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. zo BTW Papers DLC. To the Editor of the Birmingham News [Tuskegee, Ala.] 28 April ~ go4 Private and Confidential Dear Sir: I have just had the opportunity of reading the enclosed editorial taken from the issue of your paper dated March ~6. For your private information, because you have been so kind to me and our Institution that I do not like to see you imposed upon, I wish to say that, in the first place, I did not on the occasion referred to discuss the subject of lynching with the President, nor have I ever done so; and in the second place, that the President asked me to come to the White House to discuss with him the advisability of employing colored men to do various kinds of work in connection with the construction of the Panama Canal. 49o