The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 238, July 1903, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers in connection with their development.' Do you not know that the ballot is the only self-protection for any class of people in this country? ''6. In view of the fact that you are understood to be Unwilling to insist upon the negro's having his every right (both civic and political), would it not be a calamity at this juncture to make you our leader? ''7. Don't you know you would help the race more by exposing the new form of slavery just outside the gates of Tuskegee than by preaching submission? ''a. Can a man make a successful educator and politician at the same time? ''g. Is the rope and the torch all the race is to get under your leadership?'' TRO(rER S EXPLANATION William M. Trotter gave the side of the anti-Washington men as follows: ''The cause of the riot at the colored Methodist church was due to the absurd ruling of the chairman, W. H. Lewis, when he said that any one who hissed or manifested objection to the speaker of the evening, or who demanded the right to ask him to explain some of his previous statements favoring disfranchisement, and discriminating in rim Crow cars, would be subject to arrest. ''The dissatisfaction was at once manifested by those who opposed Mr. Washington, and, to add to it all, Mr. T. T. Fortune, who had been brought over from New York to make a political speech, made an attack on the New England representatives to the recent Afro-American council which was called to protest against disfranchisement, but was turned into a republican rally. ''This naturally brought objection to Mr. Fortune's remarks. This hissing was increased when Mr. Washington attempted to speak and when he refused to entertain any questions.'' Rev. J. Henry Duckery6 of Cambridge said: ''Some of us preachers learned at To today that there was a deeply laid plot in operation to prevent Dr. Washington from speaking in Boston tonight. I have frequently warned Mr. Trotter relative to his tirade upon Mr. Washington and other persons. We understood this afternoon that Messrs. Forbes and Trotter had 238