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u!mmm4mf jjMy wwijij-wj ' -- . ' - - fc iigESS1- Vol. XV iide Lights on the Meeting of the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs MRS. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT, AND MISS BLASCOER, SECRETARY OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE AD VANCEMENT OF THE COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. HAD BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND ITS SESSIONS AND THEN THEY WERE GROSSLY INSULTED BY SOME OF ITS OFFICIALS AND MANY OF ITS MEMBERS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MONEY HE COLLECTS HIS SCHOOL. IN SUBSIDIZING THE NEGRO PRESS, SO THAT ITS EDI TORS CAN SUCCESSFULLY BOOST HIM UP AS THE GREATEST - LIVING BEGGING NEGRO IN THE WORLD. HE SKILLFULLY USES THE NEGRO NATIONAL BUSI NESS LEAGUE AS HIS OWN PERSONAL MACHINE. SO THAT HE CAN CONTINUE TO SUCCESSFULLY HOLD ALL OF THE AFFAIRS PERTAINING TO THE WELFARE OF THE NEGRO RACE IN THE HOLLOW OF.HIS HAND. The attention of the editor of The Broad Ax -was called to an article In The New York Age of last week, headed. "Hisses for Mrs. Barnett, Chi cago Woman causes Stir In Recent Loulslville Convention." The editor hecame interested to know the truth of the column article which went on to state that Mrs. Barnett accom panied by a white lady friend repre senting some Negro Committee ap peared on the scene; that neither of these ladles were members of the Na tional Association of Colored Women, or had ever had any relations with this organization; that Mrs. Barnett proceeded to offer a resolution before she had been many hours in the con vention, to have the place of publica tion of the National Notes changed and a new editor appointed; that Miss Glasgow (Blascoer), would have re ceived more courtesy had she come with letters of recommendation from responsible parties, stating who she was, and what she stood for. etc, etc. Ye editor called Mrs. Barnett up over the phone and asked her about the article In question. She replied that she had not seen or heard of it Permission was granted for an Inter view and the article was read by Mrs. Barnett, who said she did not mind the tissue of falsehoods about herself as everybody knew they were untrue and that nothing else was to be ex pected from a newspaper which exist" ed for and only because of the Tuske see Influence. But she did feel very keenly the attempted Insult to the National Negro Committee which Miss Blascoer represented. "Who is Miss Blascoer? we asked. "Miss Blascoer is the office secre tary of the National Negro Committee or Association for the Advancement of Colored People as It is now known. She is one of the many splendid white people who ar trying to help the Negro secure his rights, and feels the outrages and oppressions to which the Negro is subjected In this country far more keenly than Negroes of the stripe of the editor of The New York Age can possibly do. I never met a more faithful, earnest, sincere work er in our cause in my life and that she should be made the victim of this studied Insult to the Committee which Is doing bo much for us Is too mnch to bear. If the Negroes of this country thoroughly understood the animus of it all, and that it is d"bno deliberately as a stab at the only or ganization which Is trying to help us secure equal rights and opportunities tie editor and owners of. The Now "ork Age would be execrated and aed as traitors from one end oJ ttU country, to the other, said Mrs. Barnett HEWfTO TELE LINE; IjET THE OHKPS PALL "WHERE THEY 1MLA.Y SPENDS MUCH OF THE FROM THE WHITES FOR Whr did not Miss ..Blascoer have the letters of recommendation from the National Negro Committee, that would have given her the standing The Age says she needed? she was asked. "Miss Blascoer, like myself, was In vited by the president. Miss Carter, to visit the Association and present the work of the Committee and was there in response to that Invitation," said Mrs. Barnett. "I had been asked by Miss Carter to let her put me on the program to speak at one of the evening sessions. I had been urged by her for some time before the con vention to come to the meeting, and be a member of the Resolutions Com mittee. So when she asked me to be on the program and present the work of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, I lm- mediately consented for I thought It would be a ssplendid opportunity ta let our race know what this commit tee plans to do for us. I did not know Miss Blascoer was going until I received a letter saying she had at tended the New York State Federa tion, had met MIbs Carter there, had been urged by her, Mrs. Wylie and Mrs. Talbert of Buffalo, to go Jon to Louisville and would meet me theie. Do you think she needed more recom mendation than an invitation by Miss Carter herself?" "Nor Is that all," continued Mrs. Barnett," Miss Carter belongs to the organization Miss Blascoer and I re presented, and Bhowed her desire to help the work by theBe Invitations to us. Had we dreamed that sne would be unable to resist the Tuske gee Influence or that anybody of cul tured refined Negro women would so far forget their culture and refine ment as to offer gross Insult to Jts visitors we would never have accept ed these urgent Invitations. Because T am a Negro women I felt so asham ed "for the women themselves, who could bo guilty of such gross exhibi tion of coarseness and 111-breedirg that I have refused to speak of It. As a Negro woman I didn't want any body to know they could be guilty of ouch conduct, but since "The Age" hts told the world about it, 1 am ab solved from my 'promise to say noth ing about the occurrence, or nisses. etc." Tom tin resolution to endorse the work of the National Negro Commit tee Toted down? In the. resolutions wo printed In last week's Broad ax, was one endorsing the Committee, and yet The Age" says It was voted down?" we asked: -The lesolaoon was passed wunoui rfiMufflthur vote last as It appears la The Broad Ax," sal Hra, Barnett CHICAGO, AXJGTJ&T 6. 1910. gars HHHc,F'HBJ DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS. This week he was honored with an appointment as a delegate to the National Negro Educational Congress, -to be held In St. Louis, August 25-27, 1910, by Gov. Charles S. Deneetj. "In fact it was the eagerness with i which the women received the news they are opposed to that policy and of the formation of the National Ne- blffe wlthdrawn-theh-friendflhip-freni-gro- Committee and the work it Is lo- him on that account Then again, oar Ing, which alarmed the Tuskegee iu- fluence. Scores of persons flocked around after I finished my addrer.s Tuesday evening, asking for the books I told them the Negro Committee had sent Next day when Miss Blascoer was introduced and asked the women one woman rose and said they ought i to sing Praise God from whom all Blessings Flow. Without further In vltation, the whole body rose and sang the doxology. An effort was made to divert this enthusiasm by having the women go across the street to have a photograph taken. Although It took a half hour to get the photographs, and the women were worn out with the heat and it was near dinner time, near two hundred women came back in the lecture room to listen to Miss Blascoer and pledgo endorsement of the work. So many of them said, Mrs. Barnett I have something to take back to my club that is worth while. Why have we never heard of it before? "What Is the Teason the people do not know much about this National Association for the Advancement of! Stafford, Supreme Court Justice or Colored People?" I asked. .Washington, D. C, Charles Edward "The first reason is that the As- Russell, the great magazine writer, sociation is young yet It Js only a William English Walling and a host year old last May, when the second of other men and women of the white annual meeting was held in New race who are giving their Influence York," said Mrs. Barnett , to help us solve our problem. They The second reason "is that the Asso- have asked us to join with them and elation had no money and few Ne-'help fight our battles, and the Negro groes In the first meeting, who could or Negroes who will not do so and tell about it The third reason is 'want to keep others from doing so, that most of the Negro newspapers of J are enemies and traitors to their race. the country are subsidized by the Tnskegee Influence, and . therefore print nothing of which Booker T. Washington does not approve." "But does Mr. Washington not ap prove of the National Negro Commit tee? Is he not a member?" I asked. "Mr. Washington Is not a member ot lb. odauon (or tk. ment of Colored People," said Mrs. meat ot buiuicu icuyic, oau 4u. Barnett He has been invited to be- come a member, but so far has re- fralned-from doing so. The eyes of the white people of New York and the n in approuauuu " ,; country are becoming opened to the atrial scheme of education for ,.- w - ,o .rf nf , mon-v.the Negro, forms the most dangerous iavb uuw $ jr - they have given Booker T. Washing ton to teach the Negro how to work, has been spent in the large centers of the North .East and West to teach the Negroes in them to work for Tus kegee. You can count on the fingers of one hand the Negro newspapers that are not In the Tuskegee syndi cate, and not use all the fingers on that hand. These white people have also learned the political dictatorship that Mr. Washington hailt up safer i the Roosevelt administration, and committee not only condemns lynch- Ings, peonage, disfranchisement, jim crowlsm, legal or educational but is organized to abolish those evils. At both meetings one held in New York City, these things were exposed and the organization pledged to work posed of the best brain, some of the leading editors and most wealthy men of the white race. Hon. Moorfleld Story, president of the National Law yers Association is president, and ex-Attorney General Pillsbury of Mas sachusetts Is vice-president Mr. O. G. Villard, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Evening Post of New York, is treasurer, and Mr. John Milholland, president of the Constitution League of New York, which fought the fight for the Negro soldiers of Brownsville. Mr. Jacob Schiff, who next to Plerpont Morgan Is said to be the greatest Influence In Wall street. Is a member of our com mittee, also both of the surviving chil dren of William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs Villard of New York and Francis Gar- rison of Boston. Wendell Phillip. uooser wasningion uotu.m, u. resistance, ot concession, of condona tion of outrage Instead of protest; his policy of emphasizing worldly goods and Industrial education to the exclusion of demand for rights and equal opportunities; M pernicious system of blindfolding the race to the - - '-?. J LSS the Negro press, pulpit and manhood i - - ..... i. W Negro with the money, the PUge and po Itical power which 'the American white people have given menace to the race today. His Ne gro Business League, made up as it is of doctors, lawyers, politicians, edi tors, and a few husiness men who really have a bona fide business, Is in reality a personal machine which enables him to keep his grip on Negro affairs everywhere, and In time alms to throttle everybody who dares to express an isiepeBdttst thought I had thosght the National Association CComtiaaed pa page 2.) William T. Stewart Separates From His Wife Mrs. Marella S. Stewart PUTTING DETECTIVES ON HER TRACK, HE TRACED HER TO THE STATE ROOM OF THE STEAM BOAT "UNITED STATES," WHERE SHE WAS FOUND IN COMPANY WITH A WHITE GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF HARRY JAMES. S. A. McELWEE, IS ATTORNEY FOR MR. STEWART. HIGH SCANDAL AMONG EVANS AVENUE. On or about February 14, 1910, Wil liam T. Stewart, who holds down a good position for an Afro-American, at the stock-yards, wa3 united in mar riage to his present wife, Mrs. Mar cella S. Stewart who is the daughter of -Mr. Drlsh who Is In some way or other connected with the criminal, court building on the North side, and In order to put on the proper amount of style, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, with the many wedding present, moved in-J to fine quarters at 4224 Evans ave nue, where they were figuring on( spending many happy days and years far away from the common Colored! pcuym learning uu uiu niuiuui uicuuc and Dearborn street This; -howeveiy was not-tc- befor. shortly after they had promised the preacher that "they would dearly love, obey, cling to each other, that they would forsake all others and embrace each other for better or for worse to the end of time. Tt flashed across the mind of Mr. Stewart, that his good and loving wife was sharing her love with other men, In fact that she was wicked with her hips while he was away from home working hard each day In order to provide her with the comforts of life, but he was loath to accuse her of doing wrong without a just cause, ao early In April he engaged a detec tive to shadow her and for sometime the detective was unable to get any direct proof as to her side stepping, until last Saturday evening, It appears that Mrs. Stewart, had made It so hot for Mr. Stewart until he was forced to remain away from home most of the time lately, she refusing to cook his meals at the same time treating him like a dog, this state of affairs existed until last Friday, and on that day Mr. Stewart learned, some way or other that she was going to take a short trip out of the city which turned out to be her undoing, so he and the dective got real busy,, and they shadowed every movement made by her. Nothing happened of any import ance until last Saturday evening, for she appears to be pretty foxy her self, on that fateful evening, she left her fine home on Evans ave., quite early and not very long thereafter she showed up at the Clark, street docks, where she boarded the steam boat known as the "United States,' and proudly entered the "state-room,1 Michigan, which later on proved to be occupied by a white gentleman by he name of Harry James Mr. Stew art in company with a few of his friends and the detective hung around the "United States," steam boat until 10:55 p. m., then one mem ber of his party walked up lightly knocked on the door and for a few moments not a sound was heard in side, finally the door was opened just a little bit and then the hunting party rallied their forces and after they had thrown their combined weight against it the door flew open and they were well rewarded for their -trouble for they found Mrs. Stewart undressed and In bed, and Mr. Harry James ihe white gentleman was also undressed and had simply gotten out of bed to open the door, many empty beer bot tles were laying around In their state room, showing that after enjoying an elegant repast and after having plenty to drink they had settled down for the night on ft pleasure trip to Michigan city. Wo.44 u - THE AFRO-AMERICANS ON The register of the boat shows that they registered as Mr. and Mrs. Harry James, and after Mr. Stewart had walked up to the bed and pulled the cover off the face of his wife, Mr. James declared that "he did not know that she was a married woman, that he thought he was getting a single Colored chicken, at no time during the excitement of the evening -did Mr. Stewart attempt to strike Mrs. Stew art nor to injure the white gentle man in whose company she was found, he only wanted to be sure that he was right before the final seperation. On Monday morning through his attorney S. A. McElwee Mr. Stewart, instituted divorce proceeding in the Superior Court against his wife and on Tuesday the sheriff served her with a summons to appear at the beginning of the September term of court and to show cause why her husband should not be granted a divorce from her. In filing his bill for divorce Mr. Stewart, claims that at many times in their home on Evans avenue, and at 2978 State street, Mrs. Stewart com mitted adultry with O. F. Laster, D. L. Rogers, the same Harry James and with one John Doe, that on the 29th day of May, 1910 she returned to her home at 2:55 o'clock in the morning in a drunken condition and assaulted him; thjat she endeavored to kin him on another occasion pouring water in his mouth-while he was asleep; that on or about July 23, 1910, Mrs. Stewart by threats, vulgar and obscene language, forced him to leave their home 4224 Evans Ave., and fol lowed him Into the street and on 33rd street between State and Indiana ave nue assaulted him several times with rocks, and otherwise abused and ill treated him. Mrs. Stewart. Is very voluptuous In appearance, and being stunning look ing, dressing in the height of fashion and being a high stepper, with her head in the air like a very beautiful queen, most any man, black or white, would feel like hugging and kissing her. DR. AND MRS. EDWARD S. MILLER GAVE A DELIGHTFUL DANCING PARTY AT RASH'S GROVE IN HONOR OF THE KENTUCKY" GIRLS. Tuesday evening, Dr. and Mrs. Ed ward S. Miller, 3642 Wabash avenue, gave a delightful dancing party at Rash's Grove, 79th street and Bond avenue, in honor of the following Kentucky girls, who have been visit ing in this city the past three weeks. Mrs. Smith and Miss Iona Smith, Miss Laura Smith, Miss Lizzie Smith, Miss Ellen Layton, Miss Webb, Miss Clay Webb of Lexington, Ky- Mrs. Onna Oneal of Frankfort, Ky., and Miss Georgia Lattlmore, and Mrs. Cole of Louisville, Ky. Many other strangers aside frrm the Kentucky girls, were also among the. many invited guests. In every way it was a pleasurable affair and wen on to 150 of the social lights ot the city participated In It Mrs. Miller, who was charmingly gowned In white as wen as many of the other ladles, discharged her du ties to perfeetfeai as kettess. .1 - .a &XS