A. E. Patterson to Joseph P. Tumulty

Title

A. E. Patterson to Joseph P. Tumulty

Creator

Patterson, AE

Identifier

CS71

Date

1914 November 18

Description

Letter expressing regret that "W.M. Trotter and his Committee proved to be unqualified for the mission they sought to perform."

Source

Library of Congress
Wilson Papers, Series 4, 152A Reel 231, Manuscript Division

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
African-Americans--segregation

Contributor

Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock

Language

English

Provenance

Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.

Text

Muskogee, Oklahoma.
November 18, 1914.

Hon. J. P. Tumulty,
Sec'y., to the President,
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Sir:

I want to express to the President my deep regret that W.M. Trotter and his Committee proved to be unqualified for the mission they sought to perform. Mr. Trotter is a fanatic who imagines himself to be the re-incarnation of some champion of the oppressed; a social and mental fire-brand who wants to suffer martyrdom but who stands generally repudiated by his own people throughout the United States. I regard the President's rebuke to him purely as a need of personal chastisement, and the good colored people of Oklahoma request that I say that they regard the President as their friend.

Allow me to take this occasion to thank you for the interest you held in my recent candidacy for the office of Register of the Treasury.

Yours very respectfully,

A. E. Patterson

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CS71.pdf

Citation

Patterson, AE, “A. E. Patterson to Joseph P. Tumulty,” 1914 November 18, CS71, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.