MANAGEMENT OF THE WAR "IS A PRIVATE WILSONIAN PARTISAN STRUGGLE" TAFT, WILLIAM H. Typed Letter Signed, "WmHTaft," to NAACP President Moorfield Storey, thanking for a copy of his letter to [Oswald Garrison?] Villard, expressing approval about the proposed awarding of a medal to Hawkins, explaining that he suffers only from discouragement about the conduct of Wilson's war. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. (TFC) New Haven, 22 January 1918
". . . [T]hank you for sending me a copy of your letter to Mr. Villard. I . . . made some inquiries about Hawkins. They seem to me to show that he is a man worthy of receiving the medal . . . . ". . . I am not suffering from a lack of coal or Federal orders curtailing my activities, except so far as one may suffer from discouragement over the conduct of the war, on the theory that it is a private Wilsonian partisan struggle, in which no one but partisan Wilsonian Democrats and Progressives have any concern except to pay the price."
