The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 488, Apr. 1908, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers As you may have heard, the meeting held in Stewart's interest last week, at which Bishop Walters, A. H. Grimke, Max Barber, J. Douglas Wetmore and Jim Hayes spoke, both you and I were as savagely denounced as the President and Secretary Taft. In fact, the meeting, while ostensibly in Stewart's behalf, seemed to be really in opposition to you and myself. Walters, Grimke, Wetmore and Barber were especially bitter in their references to us. The net result of their work and the expenditure of large sums of money along San Juan Hill by Milholland and Odell, was that they came nearly losing the district, which they had carried by a vote of almost three to one at the last Primaries. In other words, a district which was carried by Odell at the last Primaries before the Brownsville episode, by a tremendous vote, was only carried by less than a hundred votes, with Brownsville as the battle cry. The republican vote in this district, as you know, is almost exclusively a black vote. Thus you see, Brownsville didn't cut much of a figure. Yours truly, Charles W. Anderson TLS Con. 38 BT~T Papers DLC. ~ Herbert Parsons. 2 Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. 3 Martin Saxe (~874-~967)' a New York lawyer, was president of the New York Tax Commission and served as a state senator from 1905 to 1909. 4 Abraham Gruber (~86~-~9~) was a prominent criminal lawyer and Republican politico, often called ''Little Napoleon.'' A foe of Theodore Roosevelt, Gruber supported the campaign of Benjamin Odell to defeat Herbert Parsons in the 1908 primary election in New York City. From Daniel Hale Williams Chicago Apr. and o8 My Dear Dr. Washington, Have just returned from Washington to day. Saw and had a very pleasant and satisfactory conference with the Secretary.t It is necessary that I see you on very important matters while you are here. I have a verbal message from the Secretary to you. Any arrangement other than my office hours would suit me. At your Quarters, my office, or our home. If you will give 4SS