New-York tribune., 1909-05-31
CONFERENCE ON NEGRO
SOME DISCORD EVIDENT.
Georgia Fireman YIN SPEAK at
One of the Meetings.

To make the National Conference on the AnAell-
can Negro beginning to-day and continuing 70
morrow as realistic possible one OF IAe hes!"
aremen who suffered in the strike on the Georgia
z2u-o.d will sneak AT one os the meetings. Bishop
II II Turner Of Atlanta. has promised the pro
meters Of the conference that the fireman VIII o.
here. He VIII be entertained by the cohl-KeiCo
members and viii not have return TO his home
for situation Of some kind will be found Tor MN
here.
They have tl,eir Indian conferences at ARE
Mobonk every wear and II is intended that rlis
conference shall be an annual a1an also
Oswald c. Willard last night AZ the ope"iHs
re-tIon given al abe Henry street sette1l>ellt 10
-rose who had res ponded the many letters sent
out asking for cooperation Mr. Willard vas one
Of those who pror1soted the conference Wlhcn ne
said has for its purpose the uniting OF q! 80
for the moral, educational and political ADVANCE
,,en+ NJ the negro in this country, and the form
snE Of q permanent organization
Nr Willard had with him in the preparation Tor
she conference Miss LElian Wald- the head worker
I'm the settlement who was thc hostess last night
T2sf f,hi Stephen : WISE Charles Edward Russell
and Miss ovington Nj. Wizard said that all ne
letters sent out had not brought back promises OF
aid in fact SONS criticised the purpose or 'he
movement Seth Low had sa1 that he did not
think II wise 70 ernph asizas only the points OF
oHerse: Francis Lyn6e Ske1son that Il was uroe-
sirable 10 agitate the negro question, and Ihor1as
Wentworth Higginson tha[ the organization 1n-sf1r
ernbarrass the President.
Willard said 10 reporter for The Tribune, but
have not heard from him We anticipated the oo-
sections ne might have 70 attending tbs confer
ence and said that would understand his posi-
ton y he declined 70 come. The objections OF
others were mainly TO the political aspect OF the
oreanization as proposed. You will see that one
% the sujects fer the conference IS The Civil and
Political Starus OF the Negro
This political emphasis 70 The purpose Of the
ference kept others besides Mr.. Low, Nj stetson
end Mr. Eigginson from favoring the cause. An
drew Carnegie declined 70 Subscribe 10 il, saying
THAT he thought he could 90 for the cause by
seyotinE his time and means to other lines Of ef
fort Professor W1liam James said he believed IL
unfortunate 70 have conference this time as II
-rould bring preudices TOO prominently 10 the
fore Rev. Quincy Ewing. Of louisiana, de
ciined because he said that he did believe that
race prejudice existed AZ ALL that II vas caste
prejudice ard that II he spoke here II might be
thought he vas expressing the opinion Of Southern
ers when in fact they antagonized his view Other
educators in addition Professor James, objected
was said that oG the objects Of the confer
bring together these conflicting perscts
End 70 harrnonize them Thus II hoped that
DR.. Washington, who represents the ative
movement would attend and harmonic with Pro
fessor ". L. B. Du Bois, OF Atlanta University. a
negro. and the leader OF the radical movement for
the advancement Of tie race. Professor Du Bois
was ~ the reception
The conference Will open this morning at the
United Charities Building. when addresses will be
fessor Burt O. Wilder OF Cornell, and Professor
Livingston Farrand, of Columbia whose subject
win be Race PREJUDICE Viewed from a Scientific
Standpoint A discussion will follow. The civil
and political subject and The Industrial
and Educational Status Of the Negro" Will be dis
subsequent meetings. eli Of which will be
secret excepting the mass meeting at Cooper Insti-
tute tonight. which will be presided by Judge
wendan ?. Stafford of the Supreme Court of the
District OF Columbia
and her will
be Edwin d. Mead. Of Boston: Bishop Alexander
Walters. OF the Zion Methodist Church. Leslie
Pinckney Hill principal Of the Manassas Industrial
School at Manassas. Va; Mr.. Ida Well Barnett
of Chicago: William Sinclair, Of Philadelphia; Dr.
William BuIkley, superintendent of a Southern
negro school; Joseph c. Manning, editor OF The
South American: Ray Staunard Baker. the Rev.
-Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Clarence Darrow, Professor
John Spencer Bassett Of Smith College: the Rev J.
Milton Naldron, Of Washington, a leader OF the
negroes. and Mrs Celia Parker Wooley, president
Of Mount Hoyoke College With few exceptions,
these were at the reception last night.