Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-09-29
REPORT AND ECHOES FROM MA.
TloNAL .AFRo-AME RIcAN
COUNCIL.
Held in Detroit, Mich by Our Dele.
gate. S. Joe Brown.

/ vi lHG SoluRlOlG dAu COMPREHENSIVE
report read by our delegate, S. Joe
Brown. who represented the local
Afro-American Council He reported
at their meeting held last Tuesday
evening. Arriving at Detroit. August
80, we went directly to the A, NJ. E.
church, which is pastored by DR.. ID.
A. Graham, formerly of Bethal church,
Chicago The council was called
order by the president, Hon. w. H.
Steward, editor of the American Bap-
t!st, Louisville, KY. Regular dele
gates from twenty.one different states,
numbering more than seventy-five ac-
credited delegates. Many of. the dele
gates are our great race leaders from
Massachusetts to Washington. from
Michigan to Florida, doctors. lawyers,
politicians; ministers, dentists. mer-
chants and business men. There We're
many able and eloquent addresses.
Among the best was one delivered by
Mrs. Mary Church Terrill of Washing
ton, D. c., Hon. J. G. Napier of Missis-
sippi, Hon. VIM. H. Lewis of Massa-
chusetts, Prof. W. S. Scarborough OF
Ohio, Bishop G. w. Clinton OF New
Jersey and r. Thomas Fortune of New
York and Judge d. Augustus Straiker,
DR.. NJ. G. B. Mason of Cincinnati, Mrs.
Fannie Barrier Williams Of Chicago
and D. H. T. Healing of Pennsylvania.
Two o'clock p. M, at which time Oc.
CURED the election of officers, which
resulted in the election of Atty. c. N
Sellers of Buxton, who was the only
other Iowa delegate present, fifth
vice-president; Rev. H. McCraven and
Mrs. w. H. Warricks of Des Moines
and Atty. Geo. H. Woodson of Oska-
loosa, Iowa members of the national
executive committee and your dele
gate director Of the emigration bu-
reau. composed of the director and
Rev o. A. Johnson, of Des Moines,
Prof. o. A. Fuller of Texas and Mr..
D. B. Blair OF Fairbanks. s. d. The
principal other officers elected were:
Bishop A. Walters, president; Mr.. Cy-
rus Field Adams, recording secretary;
Rev. l.. J. Jordan, corresponding secre-
tary; Mr.. J. w. Thompson, treasurer,
and Editor w. H. Steward, chairman
committee.
The closing feature Of the council
proper was the report of the commit
tee on Resolutions, of which T. Thos.
Fortune was the chairman, and which
reported a lengthy address to the
which l shall not reiterate in
full, which contained six important
declarations, which were in substance
as follows:
1. That largely through the efforts
Of the national council the number OF
lynchings have sbeguiieto decrease.
2. That we urge our people to or
ganize and to contribute OF their
means for the purpose of testing the
Jim Crow laws Of the southern
states.
Weprotest against the disqualifying
laws obviously in contact with the
law OF the land and
against which the American people
will yet protest because of the injus.
tice done them by the preponderant
political influence enjoyed by the late
slave states, because of basis OF
more advantageous to
them than that they enjoyed under
the slave basis of proportionment in
congress and in the electoral college.
The 4th demands reforms in south
ern prison regulations.
The 9Th discourages emigration OF
negros from the south and the 9th
endorses both industrial and higher
education.
In conclusion we desire to say that
the Detroit convention was in many
respects a great convention, perhaps
the greatest ever held by the National
Council in the number of delegates.
humber of states represented, divers
ity of sections represented, as well as
of the character of the representatives
and in the amount of money raised.
AS secretary of the committee on
Credentials your delegate received
and paid over to the treasurer $4,000
in membership fees; and as secretary
of the committee on Finance we re-
ceived and paid over to the treasurer
$1O4.5O of contributions for the test
ing of the "Jim Cow laws. making
total of $29450 collected at said meet
ing. Of this amount $144.50 was paid
out for expenses. leaving in the treas
ury a balance OF about $4,000.