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NOVEMBER · ~ 906 To Theodore Roosevelt tNew York City] November 2, 1906 Personal. My dear Mr. President: The enclosed extract is taken from a letter written by Ex-Governor Candler (not Chandlery and was published in the Washington Post, September fist, Egg. I think you ~ · · are sate In using It. Enclosed, ~ also send a marked copy of The Montgomery Advertiser, containing a recent address delivered in Montgomery in which I spoke out against Negro crimes, even more strongly than you have done. If you possibly can avoid doing so, I very much hope you will not take definite action regarding the Negro soldiers in the Brownsville affair, until after your return from Panama. There is some information which ~ must put before you before you take final action. I think that what you are trying to say regarding crime and education is going to accomplish a great deal of good. Very truly yours, tBooker T. Washington] TLc BTW Papers ATT. From Whitefielct McKiniay Washington, D. C., ~ ~ / ~ / ~ ~ go] 6 Personal Dr Mr Washington Imagine my surprise 8c mortification when approached by Dr Atwoodi tonight & asked whether a secret conference was held at my house on Tuesday at 3 P.M. to go over the question of the Presdts message on lynching. When I disclaimed all knowledge of it, he then offered to bet $~o.oo that he could name those present & tell what occurred. He came so near the facts that I concluded that some one leaked ~ it merely surpasses what so many of us painfully know that a colored man cant keep a secret. I am utterly at a loss to know who is the guilty one. Atwood re~3