New-York tribune., 1909-06-02
NEGROES STIR MEETING
nFR4TE At CONFERENCE.
FINALLY Tote for annual COnsiderG-
ton of Their Lot.

a-.- conference called to consider the status
:, -. negro in this country wound up last night
~, T-,fted Charities Building by arranging for the
..llisl,r1ent Of q permanent organization to con-
-, che conference annually. The result not
.t.-.d until after three hours Of animated de-
hate
- Charles Edward Russell there is no telling
-, the conference would have adjourned
.Astber sny OF the resolutions would have gone
L-,-,eh Spirited Tits between the negro members
.rIivened the whole meeting. and toward the very
,lose there was brisk three-cornered personal
ooutroversy-
A4,sr adoptins resolutions demanding that civil,
oli-ical and educational rights be assured 70 the
80 &c 10 all other citizens, the conference finally
-o- down TO the work Of organization, and COM
--4--ee Of forts appointed by the chairman,
-rFs is 20 act as 4 temporary committee on Perma-
-.nr organization and TO formulate plans for a
conference in 1870 On motion OF ". NJ TrotteT,
"a Esos-on. an amendment TO the resolutions recon-
-,.,dinE that Iynching be made federal crime
rss passed
The resolution demanding 9 grammar school and
,-srs-risl education for the negro passed. but
rot without some opposition from Mr. Trotter. q
nero editor Of Boston, and from the Rev. William
= wsld-eon. 4 negro preacher OF Philadelphia.
N- Trotte- objected 10 the conference putting
ssslf on record as regarding industrial and agTi-
cultural education for the negro of first i'm
ro-rsncs" TIE Rev. Nj Waldreon didn't want it
IN that me negroes were Wiling 10 ne
pa-ronize5. 50 they made 1t of vital importance
,r6 asked for complete education for negroes,
sc Tor I'll others The conference also passed a
resolution denouncing industrial discrimination.
When the main resolution came up Nj Trotter
wanted the conference 10 put itself on record as
--o,sstins against Mr.. Taft's discrimination against
negro ofHceholders. A white member OF the con
ference then drew the attention Of the body TO the
Presidents stand in the Maryland disfranchisement
case and II voted to protest against his action
n the one case and commend it in the other. Mr.
Trotter wanted his Iynching resolution included.
tye vas backed sp by Mr. Waldreon. and there
were many acrimonious passages At this point
half z dozen more members were their feet
sf one time seeking 70 gain recognition The reso-
luton declaring that lynching should be made
federal crime finally lost
Oswald c. Villarq made the report for the com
rit-ee OF organization. and submitted resolutions
for the establishment of Incorporated national
committee for the advancement OF the negro race.
After heated debate among the negroes the resolu-
nor finally carried
Al the morning and afternoon sessions or the
conference both white and negro speakers de-
rnsaded that the negro be accorded the full enjoy
rnent Of the political rights guaranteed him by
rhe Constitution. and took President Taft to task
for his failure 20 enforce the Fifteenth Amend
-ne1t Albert L Pillsbury, former Attorney
General Of Massachusetts. said that the Illegal
Acknowledgement Of the negro threatened the
political rights Of white voters throughout the
country
Al TIE morning session Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett,
. negro woman. Of Chicago, chairman OF the Anti
Lyuching Bureau. declared that the contention OF
the lynchers that they stood between the negro
and the white woman was Untrue She gave
figures showing that. out Of 2S5 cases OF lynchng.
N only nine miscegenation the cause. in one
Gaze man was lynched for writing letter 10
white woman, and in another for asking white
woman TO marry him There were five cases where
insulting women was given q the cause. and III
Two elopement- In the other cases the causes OF
ly-nchinr ranged from throwing stones 10 threat
ening political exposure
Il ni7s-v-tvro cases the causes were unknown;
n ten cases there was cause given, and
torty-uine negroes were Iyuched il was said. sim
Ply because OF race prejudice. William Z y alling
declared there be naturalization OF deEnoc-
racv and The obiteration OF secIonalIs,n- ana
Joseph G Manning. OF Alexander City. Ala the
white editor Of The Southern American de-
nounced the brutal white minority in the South
whose political domination was as bad for the
whites for the blacks ID that section. Poor
white and black must work together. the speakers
agreed for their good against the Southern
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