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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers To Whitefielc3 McKinTay Tuskegee, Ala.] Nov. 8, 1909 My dear Mr. McKinlay: There is absolutely no foundation for the story about my son going into the army, in fact he is only ~6 years old; he is now here at Tuskegee studying. I cannot understand how such a falsehood originated.'' I have just come from casting my vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. While I could not just now say so publicly, more and more I feel that great good is going to come out of the changed conditions so far as the election is concerned in the South. For example, ~ ~ years ago in this county the elections were a mere farce; the colored people voting and their votes being thrown out or in some way destroyed. How different it is now. When I went into the polling place I found two intelligent Republican watchers and an equal number of Democrats of the same character. While there will not be more than 50 Negro votes cast in this county, perhaps 40 of them being cast right here in Tuskegee, every Negro vote will be counted as cast, and it seems to me that, after all, there is great gain. When I went into town this morning to vote, I heard of a good many of my white friends who had refused to vote for Heflin on account of his remarks regarding me. When I went into the room to vote, I could not have been accorded more respect in Boston than I was in Tuskegee. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. ~~ BTW Papers DLC. ~ The Washington Post, Montgomery Advertiser, and other papers on election day published a report that BTW Jr. had sought a position as paymaster in the U.S. Army as evidence that BTW encouraged black office-seeking. BTW on Nov. 9, 1909, gave a statement to the Associated Press categorically denying the report. (Press release, Nov. 9, 1904, Con. 193, BTW Papers, DLC.) 124