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JUNE · 1907 To Emmett Jay Scott Huntington, L.I., June 9, 1907 Dear Mr. Scott: You will be interested to know that I had a very satisfactory conference with the President Saturday night. In all the years I have known him, I have never seen him looking better or in such fine spirits. FIe says that notwithstanding all the criticism heaped upon him from a certain element of the Negro race he is riot soured or discouraged in the least. He said that he intends going right on doing what he believes to be for their interest, as he has done in the past. Ele further said that the Negro race had not acted near so badly over the Brownsville matter as the laboring element had acted over the Haywood affairs He spoke freely of other matters which I will tell you about when I see you. Very truly yours, Booker T. Washington TLS Con. 359 BT\\1 Papers DLC. ~ The arrest and trial of labor leader William Dudley ''Big Bill'' Haywood, accused of ordering the murder of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg in 1906. Haywood and two other labor leaders were arrested in Denver and moved to an Idaho prison, where they were held for a year and a half before coming to trial in May 1907, with Clarence Darro~v as attorney for the defense. Haywood was eventually found not guilty. To Seth Low Huntington, L.I., June ~ 8, ~ 907 Dear Mr. Low: Replying to yours of May Roth, I would say that the statement which you propose to issue to the public, with possibly some changes in detail, is very satisfactory and I think will be wise. It would be hurtful to the institution if it should be thought that you, or any individual, was in a large degree, responsible for the financial support of the institution. I realize fully that the time has come when the Tuskegee Institute must be placed upon such a footing as will secure its future 297