The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page xxiv, in Introduction, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers light of unfavorable publicity on the interracial Cosmopolitan Club of New York in ~ 908 as he later ctid in ~ g ~ ~ . In this period also Washington greatly increased his control of the black press. He acquired part-ownership of the New York Age, the leading black weekly of the time, but repeatedly denied publicly and privately any ownership of newspapers. He and his secretary Emmett Scott directed in detail the editorial, news, and business management of the Age. Other newspapers in Washing':on and Chicago also fell under his influence. When }. Max Barber, anti-Bookerite editor of the Voice of the Negro, fled to Chicago after the Atlanta Riot, Washington and his lieutenants began systematic efforts to hound Barber into failure and succeeded in driving him out of careers in editing and teaching. Barber finally escaped Washington's wrath by becoming a (lentist. Washington's continued efforts to control black public life were manifested in this period by his private efforts to control the actions of two fraternal orders of which he was not a member. He was successful in keeping one of his supporters as editor of the Od Fellows' Journal, but after heated debate the Prince Hall Masons withdrew their invitation to Washington to be the orator on the occasion of their centennial celebration. To improve his relations with black colleges and to move them snore into line with his own educational ideas, he became a trustee of Howard University and secured Carnegie libraries for Fisk University, Alabama State College in Montgomery, and Atlanta Baptist College. Washington did his best privately to prevent and then to delay the Brownsville dismissal, but after it became clear that Roosevelt's mind was made up, he defended the President and Secretary of War William Howard Taft, not so much in this particular decision but in their general policies. He endorses} Taft early in the campaign of 1909 as Roosevelt's chosen successor, and successfully used the anti-Brownsville utterances of his own critics as a means of putting them in political disfavor ant} of moving his own lieutenants into their places. Washington and Emmett Scott also tried to use the occasion to improve the lot of blacks in the military system. They were successful in securing an order to replace white bandmasters with black ones in the bands of black regiments, but failed in a more ambitious campaign to balance the dismissed black infantry troops by the creation of a black artillery regiment. XXIV