Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-09
NOTABLE NEGRO CONFERENCE.
Representatives Of Many Organiza-
lions at PHILADELPHIA Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April "A
two day conference of prominent col
ored men from all over the country.
and representing negro organizations.
was held here this week. Two hundred
delegates from twenty seven states are
in attendance. The conference is of a
political nature and is hostile to the
administration at Washington. The call
for the meeting is strong and unequivo-
cal in it's condemnation of President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft for their
discharge Of the negro soldiers FOR their
Brownsville. Tex. and for their general
tolerant attitude toward negro disfran
chisement in the south.
The conference represents the six
most prominent negro organizations in
the Countrywide Afro-American Coun-
New England Constitution and Suffrage
League the Niagara Movement the
Constitutional Brotherhood of America
and the National Independent Civil and
Political Negro League of Amerira. The
body went into permanent organization
by electing as officers: President w. NJ.
Trotter editor of the Boston CIuardia n
and president of the New England Suf-
frage League: Vice president. Bishop
Alexander Walters of New York. presi-
dent of the AfroAmerican Council: sec
rotary. l.. G. Jordan of Louisville. Ky.
secretary of the Baptist foreign mis-
sion board: assistant secretary. W. t.
Ferguson of New York.
The following committee on address to
the country was named: Bishop Alex
ander Walters. DID. New York: Rev
S. I. Corrothers. DID,, Washington
d. c.: J. Max Barber. Illinois; Rev
| lucky: ]. l.. Brewer. Indiana; Rev
| r. s. Remer. Rev. G. r. Waller. Mary
land; William NJ. Trotter. Ma sachu-
sets: ]. r. Clifford West Virginia: J.
F. Churchman, New Jersey: George II.
White. Pennsylvania: w. o. Harper.
ohio: G. II. Woodson. Iowa; Bishop ].
w Alstock. Alabama: Rev. L. H. Mar
shall. Virginia.; Judge M. w. GIBBS. Ar
kansas.
Committee on permanent 'reanizaa
tion-Rev. G. L. Waller. Maryland: l..
G. Jordan. kentucky: Capt. Walter
| Thompson. New York; ]. .. Fonr or.
| New Jersey: E. 7. Marvis. Massachu-
sets: Capt. r. r. Wright lll!nols' ;.
mers. Ohio; E. S. Cunningham .'ennsyl-
vania: Granville Martin. New fork; A.
B. Mcknight. Arkansas; c: r Anthony.
Arkansas: A. w. Price. Flori Ii; Dr. j.
l. Lowe. Arkansas.
These are excerpts from the address
which was adopted in the form of resolu-
lions and mailed to negro centers all over
the country:
"Our civil and political rights, contrary
IN the fundamental law of the nation.
have been ruthlessly taken from us III
the Southland A new slavery has arisen
in that section in the form of peonage,
which is almost as vicious as the old slav-
ery. The army record of our soldiers. I'M
SMILED for 100 years, and of which every
negro is proud, has been disre garded. and
1877 brave black soldiers have been arbi-
trar;ly dismissed from the service with
ont honor and without trial.
Secretary Taft sees turn for the bet
ter in our southern ACKNOWLEDGMENT
laws In that he is not different from
Vardaman and Tillman He has justified
President Koosevelts rash outrage in
discharsins our soldiers without honor
and without trial. Even Tillman has not
done this President Roosevelts act in
discharging those soldiers without trial
was a cruel injustice.
I'VE demand that our soldiers be rein
stated in the army and restored to their
rank without prejudice and without loss.
I'VE want to smash Jim Crow cars. If
we cannot smash them We will undertake
to smash the party which. being in power.
tolerates them.
I'VE want the negro bosship which
deprecates progressive NOV em ants among
negroes overturned. and we are against
any administration that encourages and
gives influence To sycophancy III order to
crush our selfassertion.
I'VE oppose the policy Of President