The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 239, July 1903, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY . 1903 arranged and had placed men in different places of the church to hiss arid to spread cayenne pepper around. ''What makes us look with greater horror upon the proceedings of that mob is that the leaders are men who have graduated from Harvard and Amherst colleges, and others who are in some way connected with the local and national government as employees. As for the Guardian it represents nothing more or less than yellow journalism, and will soon put the race in a very bad light in the east. I was pleased with the way the great majority of the people in spite of the persistent efforts of the disturbers conducted themselves, and I think that Dr. Washington tonight is stronger with the colored people in Boston than ever before. When he had finished his address he was given a grand ovation. Boston colored people like fair play.'' Mr. Lewis said: ''Two or three men made an abortive attempt to break up a meeting by a hostile demonstration against Mr. Washington. The disturbers were promptly ejected by the police and the meeting went on as scheduled. The address of Mr. Washington was the most eloquent I ever listened to, and he was heartily applauded throughout by the great audience.'' In regard to the trouble, Napoleon B. Marshall,7 a lawyer and deputy collector at city hall, who was present, said: ''The movement against Mr. Washington, was started by the colored people in Boston, who have been much displeased of late at the method that he has taken of trying to uplift the race. He has advocated the jirr~-crow car, and shows up unnecessarily the failings of the people. Thus the people took this opportunity of showing to the country their disapproval of Mr. Washington and his methods.'' Boston Globe, July 3~, egos, I, 3. ~ The episode was not a true riot, though popularly called so. Trotter had for years been frustrated by the refusal of the white press to recognize that there existed alternative philosophies and programs to those of BTW. In Boston he succeeded at what he had failed to accomplish in Louisville a month earlier. He temporarily disrupted a meeting in which BTW was the chief speaker, though there was no violence and the meeting was not completely shut down. Washington and his Boston friends through strenuous efforts succeeded in putting Trotter and a cohort in jail for a month. The incident marked a rise in the level of intensity with which Washington harassed his critics, as though he felt panic at the prospect of losing his power and influence. Trotter's action did not, however, result 239