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Show NEGRO WOULD BE DIPLOMAT Washington. Mar 21 When Secro-1ary Secro-1ary Daniels of the navy department returns today from a visit to his home in Ruicicrh. N C, he will pas along to the state department the appUca- t.icn of a colored man who has sblned his shoes and otherwise made him presenUble, or a position In the diplomatic di-plomatic service. When the secretary first came to Washington ho was the guost of an ola friend, Dr Sterling Ruffin The ph-slclans valet, J Richard Davis, took eajMJcial care of the cabinet officer of-ficer and when the secretary left for Raleigh Davis dispatched a letter to him telling of his aspirations for the position of secretary to tho American Ameri-can legation in Liberia. Davis, who has been in the employ of Dr. Ruffin for some time, BpealtS and writes Spanish perfect y, having spent four years (n Cuba. He is hii expert stenographer and In his le'6-urc le'6-urc moment studied for the examination exam-ination for the diplomatic service He ha? the Indorsement of the Colorado Democratic league |