Mr. Gray is Wrathy
September 12, 1908
Summary
In a letter to John Mitchell, a man praises the newspaper for its racial awareness and declares, “I am proud to say the Planet has opened the eyes of thousand of colored people, if not millions of whites.”
Transcription
Editor of The Planet,
Since reading your able paper, I find much more to be gained I have learned more of the two races than I have known in forty years. I am proud to say The Planet has opened the eyes of thousands of whites. The Planet has put men to reading and your paper has brought the best brained colored men to the front to ask for a fair showing before the law. Mr. Editor, I am some what put to a stand when a colored man condemns his race and defends the Party that is no friend to his race. Mr. Edito, I have said The Planet has opened the eyes of thousands. To my surprise, J.H. J. Davis of Virginia, who claims himself a Baltimorean is trying to condemn the editor of the Richmond Planet for publishing the Brownsville affair and for publishing Rev. J.M. Waldron’s speech at Washington, D.C., and he condemns the editor for publishing the contested delegations of colored men at the Chicago, Ill. Convention. J.H. J. Davis condemns volume XXV, No 28, June 13, 1908. J.H. J. Davis condemns the paper dated August 15, 1908, No. 37, J.H.J Davis said that the editor was hired by the Democrats to print these lies and he said none of the reports are true. J.H.J Davis charged the editor of The Planet with being the author of all the speeches delivered against Roosevelt and Taft. J.H.J. Davis and Sam Stalks of Baltimore and Thomas Johnson of Washington, D.C. condemn all the colored people in the South, East, West, and North if he or they disapprove of any of the acts of President Roosevelt and Judge Taft. It matter not what had happened or what may happen to the colored race. Mr. Editor, as The Planet has so enabled the race to become known I wish to say I am a Republican and defend the Republican and defend the Republican principles. I am glad to say The Richmond Planet shows the traitors of the Negroes. Dear Sir, I have just named the very worst of foes to the race. They claim before men to be Republicans, but this class of Negroes defends the “Jim Crow” laws, they defend the disfranchisement laws, they defend the lynch law and every other law to deprive us of just laws.
Geo. W. Gray.
Since reading your able paper, I find much more to be gained I have learned more of the two races than I have known in forty years. I am proud to say The Planet has opened the eyes of thousands of whites. The Planet has put men to reading and your paper has brought the best brained colored men to the front to ask for a fair showing before the law. Mr. Editor, I am some what put to a stand when a colored man condemns his race and defends the Party that is no friend to his race. Mr. Edito, I have said The Planet has opened the eyes of thousands. To my surprise, J.H. J. Davis of Virginia, who claims himself a Baltimorean is trying to condemn the editor of the Richmond Planet for publishing the Brownsville affair and for publishing Rev. J.M. Waldron’s speech at Washington, D.C., and he condemns the editor for publishing the contested delegations of colored men at the Chicago, Ill. Convention. J.H. J. Davis condemns volume XXV, No 28, June 13, 1908. J.H. J. Davis condemns the paper dated August 15, 1908, No. 37, J.H.J Davis said that the editor was hired by the Democrats to print these lies and he said none of the reports are true. J.H.J Davis charged the editor of The Planet with being the author of all the speeches delivered against Roosevelt and Taft. J.H.J. Davis and Sam Stalks of Baltimore and Thomas Johnson of Washington, D.C. condemn all the colored people in the South, East, West, and North if he or they disapprove of any of the acts of President Roosevelt and Judge Taft. It matter not what had happened or what may happen to the colored race. Mr. Editor, as The Planet has so enabled the race to become known I wish to say I am a Republican and defend the Republican and defend the Republican principles. I am glad to say The Richmond Planet shows the traitors of the Negroes. Dear Sir, I have just named the very worst of foes to the race. They claim before men to be Republicans, but this class of Negroes defends the “Jim Crow” laws, they defend the disfranchisement laws, they defend the lynch law and every other law to deprive us of just laws.
Geo. W. Gray.
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“Mr. Gray is Wrathy,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 19, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/715.