The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-31
The Green-Waltcrs Episode Again
Arose Yesterday Morning in
Spirited Manner.
ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS
AN AMENDMENT IN REFERENCE TO
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY.
Address In the Afternoon by Senator
Pritcbard, of North Carolina
-Omcers Elected.

Officers Elected.
Sensations sprang up thick and fast at
the sessions OF the Afro-American Council
yesterday. The first occurred when j.
b. Green, United States stamp agent OF
Washington, ID. c., arose and demanded
that statement I'm a morning paper. to
the effect that he had been led from the
council chamber the evening previous. be
retracted. a storm OF protest arose and
at once babel reigned. DIR. Mason finally
succeeded I'm securing recognition, and then
declared that the statement was so nearly
correct that Mr.. Green could not COM
plain. DIR. Mason further urged that Mr.
Green owed President Walters an apology
for his assertion that the president was
seeking TO sell out the council TO the DEM
ocratic party. Mr.. Green made the amende
honorable, saying that his statement had
been made in the heat of passion and he
would not have uttered such a thing had
he not been worked up at the time. Dis
cussion of the newspaper statement left but
little time for the report of the committee
on resolutions before adjournment of the
morning session. However. the resolutions,
which were prepared I'm addition to the
address issued Wednesday night. were pre-
sented TO the convention and adopted with
single amendment. The resolutions were
as follows:
Whereas, The members of the Afro
American Council, in annual session as
sembled, desire to invoke the considerable
Judgment OF the people OF our country upon
questions OF vital Importance to our race
and Nation, be IL
Resolved, That we express our earnest
desire to lay aside all craftsmanship preju-
dice and disqualification and with malice
towards none, but charity for ALL we rea-
son with our fellow-citizens over the prob
lens OF the hour.
Resolved, That we realize that condl-
lions cannot be theorized away, and point
10 our many years of patient burden BEAR
ing as proof that to the wise adjustment
or all menacing conditions, the Afro-Ameri-
can Will contribute the best judgment of
an earnest self-sacrificing, law-abiding cit
izenship.
ASK FOR A FAIR FIELD.
Resolved, That we realize that the SAL
walton Of our race is In our own hands:
that the immutable laws OF nature know
no color line. With thirty-fve years of
freedom we gladly accept all the RESPONSE
bilities which civilization and citizenship
place upon us and ask only fair field and
no favor. We plead no excuses, seek no
particular privileges, ask no special laws
In favor OF ourselves or on account of our
grandfathers,' but We do appeal to the chiv-
airy Of the nineteenth century, that, IL 1t
be too busy TO help us forward, that II will
be too generous TO push us back.
Resolved, That we heartily commend the
various movements for moral reform re-
ported to the council. The sacredness Of
the home. the protection of childhood, the
purity OF womanhood and the nobility of
manhood must be the first consideration of
every race. We welcome all just laws that
protect womanhood, and we pledge our
most hearty support TO every judicial pro-
cess which tends to swift and condign pun
ishment of every aSsailant of the sanctity
of the home.
Resolved. That we reaffirm our faith in
the supremacy OF the law. That we con-
oemn as subversive or all government that
doctrine which tends TO substitute the fury
of the mob for the judgment of the courts.
We urge upon the sober thought of the
Nation the fact that in the past twenty
years more than four thousand men, wom-
en- and children have been put to death by
mobS which denied the accused the right
or trial by jury or the safeguards of law
That hundreds of the persons thus put 10
death were charged only with misdemean-
ors, that forty-two were not charged with
any criminal offense whatever, and that
less than one-fifth of the number of per-
sons lynched were charged with assault
upon womanhood.
Resolved, That we urge the lynching
record upon the consideration of the Pres
ident or the United States, who in his last
| message asked Congress TO enact a law to
protect foreigners residing In this country
from lynchtng, and that we ask the Pres
ident of the United States TO use his best
offices To secure the same measure of pro-
lection for citizens Of the United States
which the contemplated legislation will ex-
tend TO foreigners
Resolved, That we heartily approve a
gradual haoIthfIl nfcyra &C. a
citizens from the congested districts OF the
South and from the densely populated
metropolitan centers of the North TO the
fertile and undeveloped territory of the
West, in order that the Afro American race
| may become an Indispensable factor in the
agricultural development Of the country
Resolved, That we heartily commend
| the objects of the council as being the
most effective of organized efforts for the
Improvement and protection of the race.
and urge those in attendance To return to
their homes and begin at once the organi-
zation of local councils so that the people
may be brought into closer touch with the
work and be better prepared TO aid in the
contamination of its purposes.
VALUE OF EDUCATION URGED.
Resolved, That we urge upon our peo-
| pie everywhere the value and necessity of
education in its broadcast sense; education
| of the head. of the hand and of the heart.
We appreciate and recommend the zeal of
| the student who refuses to concede that
there are any intellectual heights to which
| he may not attain. The Afro-American
| being a. citizen of the United States. ac-
| cepts every responsibility which citizen
! ship imposes and is bound to prepare him
| self to take his place as such wherever
| duty calls, and patriotism leads him. He
| therefore needs the highest order of leader
| ship which can be produced only by the
| broadest culture of the best minds of the
race. We most heartily approve the prac-
| teal form of education which will give
| efficiency in the industrial arts, agricul-
| ture and in domestic economy that will
maks us. a race, invaluable members
| of the communities in which we reside.
make us competent. self-reliant bread-win-
ners in the race of life.
Resolved. That we sincerely deprecate
all forms of legislation which in any man.
ner encourages the common carriers to dis
| criminate against us as a race and we are
| firm in the belief that such unjust dis
| elimination = a direct threat at our self
| respect ant "a premeditated outrage upon
| our manhood against which we earnestly
protest.
| Resolved. That we extend our sincere
| thanks 10 the citizens of Indianapolis for
/ the splendid hospitahties extended to the
council and its visiting friends: 10 the
| State and municipal government which
| has given US cordial welcome and most
| hopeful facilities for our work: and TO the
public press which has faithfully and i'm
| partially recorded the proceedings OF our
| sessions. we express our most grateful rec
| ignition.
| AN AMENDMENT INTRODUCED.
4 The amendment which was mot u,;tt,