The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 360, Oct. 1907, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers to conspire against the reputation of the leader of Negroes; that I was not a black-guard, and intended never to be one; nor to give quarter to those who sanctioned any such methods; that it was simply chiseling its own headstone by standing with or for those men amongst us, who, like the woman crusader of olden times, stood in the roadway, a porringer of fire in one hand; a pail of water in the other—with the fire she would burn up heaven; with the water she would put out hell; nor offered anything for the loss of either. Mr. Milholland responded by offering me the Ectitorship of all matter emanating from the League, much to the evident chagrin of some of the elclers. Now, the Conference specifically considered the advisability of holding a ''huge'' demonstration in Cooper Union; and definitely decided to ''pack the house'' on the evening of Nov. ~4th; aiming to attract the attention of the country towards the Senate investigation of the Brownsville riot, which, you will remember, resumes its hearings on Nov. 18th. This meeting is to immediately follow a Conference to be held in Philadelphia for several days during the same week. This Conference is to be, from all reports, quite an affair, as no few of the reformers of first one thing and then the other, are to participate in the deliberations, and sign the address to the country. The event however that is to shake the foundations of many mountains and set the earth a trembling, is the Cooper Union ''protest.'' The speakers for that occasion are (we were implored to hide them under our tongues) Congressman McCall3 of Mass.; Mrs. M. C. Terrell; Alexander Trvine4 (who investigated peonage); Manning and Middietons Of Alabama; Rev. Mr. Ransom and Miss Ovington. Miss Ovington is to work up interest in the meeting among the leading whites of New York; that clas which most likely would pack Carnegie for Tuskegee or to honour Schurz. There is some talk of Senator Foraker coming over; but I can head this off, I am positive, if I could get to Cincinnati. You will instruct me here. The bone for the mouth of the growlers on this occasion is to be the abuse of Mr. Roosevelt and the scorn of Mr. Taft. Mr. Hughes6 is to be extolled for ''his many virtues.'' Both Mr. Smith and myself refused places on the program. I also declined the Editorship or Censorship of the periodical publications of the League and as the spokesman, so far as the public press is concerned of this par360