The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-09
Fiery Resolutions Passed by
Washington Mob Demand
ing Votes and Rights
DECLARE THAT SOUTH
VIOLATES ALL LAWS
Supreme Court Comes in for its
Share-Nation-W Wide Move.
ment Historically
Urged.

WASHINGTON, d. c., August g.
Armed with fiery resolutions adopted
at an exciting mass-meeting. a COM
mittee OF prominent negroes of this
city to-day began work on plan to
induce all the negroes Of the United
states to Join In a protest against
ynching and race riots in the South
and to demand protection and equal
rights in all parts of the country.
Texas was denounced: the whole
South s-arraignea;- the Supreme
Court of the United States was In
Weighed against and the newspapers
OF the country were attacked, amid
scenes that at times bordered on a
riot
The race war at Palestine, Texas,
was the chief cause of the protest;
recent lynchings In Florida and the
attitude of the white people and the
press following the victory of Jack
Johnson at Reno were among the
matters most prominently mentioned.
No such meeting was ever held in
washington, before and 1t Is looked
upon here as a serious proposition.
Among the negroes present were
Federal office holders. many. of whom
outrank whitu men In the service and
some of whom have white women as
their subordinates.
Several OF the most prominent
speakers were negro preachers. Ne
gro lawyers and other prominent re-
representatives. of the race took an ac-
tive part. The meeting was held in
! the Metropolitan Baptist church,
which was crowded to the doors The
! speakers were cheered wildly, and
| each orator shouted his denunciation.
some of them actually screaming In
| their excitement
| Black Epochs.
| I'll. A. Clarke, a negro. one of tAe
| most prominent speakers. said:
| The South again has made herself
| conspicuous by the recent lynching
of innocent and defenseless negroes
according to the report of Sheriff
Black, of Anderson county. In the
neighborhood Of Palestine. Texas. In
violation Of the laws of God and man,
she has been the principal in three OF
the blacklist epochs in the worlds
history, namely, the epoch of slavery
and rebellion. the period OF Ku-Klux-
| ism and ballot box stuffing and the
era OF lynching, Acknowledgement and
| Jim Crowism."
Ross, of the colored Metropolitan
Methodist church. said
God wants the negroes to get to-
gether to take care of themselves
! IhtTe are 4VV,uVu negroes IN WaSn-
| ington. and they are told by the white
people to run to God with every
thing They are taught to be afraid
of themselves. They won't strike out
for themselves. II the Supreme
Court of the United States had put
down racing, rioting and bent all it.
efforts to stopping mob violence, thi'
Texas murder would never have oc.
Cured. The white preachers should
condemn this mob violence in Texas
as vigorously as they did the Jeffries.
Johnson prize fight. The newspaper:
too are strangely silent on the subject
though they gave enough space tC
the Jeffries- Johnson prize light"
Other speakers exhorted the ne,
groes throughout the country TO use
the ballot as their most effective
weapon, and join in nation-w wide
movement Resolutions to this eff
feet were adopted.