Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-09-17 | Page 5 | Negroes Praise Foraker

NEGROES PRAISE FORAKER FORMER Resolutions Denouncing Roosevelt Almost Disrupted National Baptist Convention Washington Sept 16 Despite the ef efforts efforts efforts forts of some of the leaders to keep out of its discussions all matters political the National Negro Baptist convention today toda after a stormy session hotly holly de debated debated debated bated the Brownsville affair Resolutions Resolutions on the th subject had been prepared which censured President Roosevelt and strongly praised Senator Foraker It was only through the fear tear of dis disrupting disrupting disrupting the convention that the dele delegates delegates gates after supporting the purpose of the submit the report re ye reconsidered reconsidered considered and consented to a milder set of resolutions offered by the pre presiding presiding presiding siding officer The resolutions are arc as follows In common with all an good citizens we deplore what has come to t be known as the Brownsville affair and we trust the time will yet reveal the real perpetrators perpetrators of the crime The entire country Is under a debt of gratitude to J B Foraker and others who secured for the soldiers the right to be heard In their own de da defense d dlease tense lease