The Washington bee., 1907-09-14
NOT HARMONIUS
MEETING OF THE NIAGARA
MOVEMENT.
Outlook GOOD. Trouble in Massachusetts

Outlook Good Trouble in Massachusetts
Boston, Mass. Sept. ?, 1907.
The Niagara Movement held its third
annual meeting here Monday, Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
! The attendance was good. representa-
tives being present from as far south
as Texas. TIE membership of the meet
ing did not reach one hundred, so that
/ those who attended the gathering had
to pay full fare returning to their
homes. On Thursday the members sf
| the movement were the guests of the
City Of Boston, and were given a lunch
con and sail down the harbor.
The meetings were held in the Par
ker Memorial Building, Appleton and
Berkeley streets.
Public meetings were held Monday
and wednesday evenings in ,Fanuen
Hall, The Cradle of Liberty" The
meeting Of Wednesday evening was not
able and addresses OF great power were
made by w. E. B. Dubois, George w.
Crawford of Connecticut, Rev Charles
Morris of New York, Rev. r. c. Ran
som, Mr. A. B. Humphrey, and William
Monroe Trotter.
At the business meeting of Wednes-
day an address to the country was is
sued, which reaffirmed well-known Nj
agara doctrines, and in addition demand
ed the exoneration and reinstatement of
the discharged members of the Twenty
fifth Infantry. A letter of appreciation
was sent to Senator Foraker.
w. E. B. Dubois was reelected gen
eral secretary, and Rev. J. Milton Wal
dron was elected treasurer to succeed
George H. Jackson, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Though the members of the NiagarA
Movement were not disposed to talk
about it, there is trouble in the Massa-
chusetts local movement From people
in Boston it is learned that there is
a serious breach between ". NJ. Trot-
ter, editor of the Guardian, and C. G.
Morgan, the Niagara Movement secre-
tary for Massachusetts,. The breach. it
IS said, grows cut of the gubernatorial
campaign in Massachusetts, of last year.
Trotter and his followers refused to sup
port Governor Guild for reelection be-
cause he Governor Guild) forced an
appropriation through the Legislature
for the Jamestown Legislature. Nor
gan and others who just as earnestly op-
posed the appropriation as Trotter did
before the election, voted for Governor
Guild on election day. When it was de-
cided to hold the annual meeting of the
NiagaraMovement in Boston. Secretary
Morgan began to devise means to raise
funds to meet expenses incident to such
meeting. An entertainment was planned
with this object in view, and the wives
of number Of prominent persons were
invited to become patronesses of it, and
persons not members of the Niagara
Movement were given places of promi-
nence in the affair." all of this without
consultation with the local members of
the movement in Boston and Massachu-
sets. When a meeting of the local
membership was held, some acts of Sec
retary Morgan were inferentially not ap-
proved, and he was given instructions,
etc, which, it is said, he did not obey.
This whole matter, it is said, was brought
to the attention of the National body,
and a committee was appointed to in
vestlgate and report whether Niagara
principles had been violated by anyone.
Rumor has it that the committee in its
report lodged the issue, and recon-
mended that for the coming year some
one be appointed secretary for Massa-
chusetts who had not been mixed I'D
in the local trouble. The committees
report was adopted by the Movement
but General Secretary Dubois gave the
Movement to understand that he intend
ed to reappoint c. G. Morgan, secretary
for Massachusetts for the coming year.
1t is said that Morgan is to be given
the Republican nomination for the Leg
islature this fall for his loyalty to the
ticket last fall With the exception of
the Massachusetts, situation, it is said,
the Niagara Movement is in good fight
ing trim.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
Popular excursions to Niagara Falls,
onfv Sxo ro,,,d trio. A,,rr,st ., 81 x.