(6) I think they begin to understand it. The more they see of the negro _in Mass_, the better they will realize our problem. As long as they seem to think that all the Southern negroes are as nice and wise as Booker Washington, they will, of course, find it difficult to get our point of view of the race question. But they will gradually come to see that there is only one Booker Washington and that _he_ isn’t doing anything more than running a large school which any ordinary white College President could run on one half the money which Doctor Washington rakes in—why opinion will change. The doings of the negroes in San Domingo—where there are no mean Southern whites to beat, cheat, or lynch them—will also have influence in opening the eyes of the world as to what the negro, _in Mass_, actually is. The idea that the negro is merely a white gentleman whom the Almighty inadvertently painted black will disappear, in time. (7) The “suppressed vote” in some of the states of the Union appears to be quite large and the number of illiterate, criminal and incompetent voters is likewise great. A square deal would demand that whatever rule is applied to the South should be applied to the others. * * * * * IDALIA, COLO., December 29, 1905. _Hon. Thomas E. Watson, New York._ DEAR SIR: Will you kindly print in your next issue of your Magazine the names of Presidential candidates of the Democratic and People’s party of 1896 and 1900. Most respectfully, ⸺ ⸺. ANSWER 1896, Democratic Candidates, Bryan and Sewall. People’s Party Candidates: Bryan and Watson. 1900, Democratic Candidates: Bryan and Stevenson. People’s Party Candidates: Barker and Donnelly. * * * * * GILMORE CITY, MO., December 2, 1905. _Hon. Thomas E. Watson._ DEAR SIR: I am a reader of your Magazine and am highly entertained by its editorials especially, also by its Educational Department. Am a member of the Old Guard and I take the liberty to ask you a few questions in the line of Populism. (1.) Does England call her navy to a certain point from thousands of miles distant to fire a salute on George Washington’s Birthday, or that of any of our noted Presidents, as we did eighteen vessels a month ago for King Edward? How ridiculous for a republic! (2.) Why has not the Census of 1900 been given to the public, as were former ones, within two years after being taken? It was the disclosures of the 1890 Census that tripled the Populist vote in ’92. (3.) Has the $900,000,000 of farm mortgage indebtedness been increased or diminished in the ten years following 1890? (4.) Are the free holdings of the people increasing on a ratio with the increase of population in these U. S.?