The Colorado Statesman

CHARLES
EVANS
HUGHES
TO
SPEAK AT FIRST NATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
LYNCHING,

Plans for the first National Conference on Lynching, called by 120 citizens in all parts of the country, which is to begin with a mass meeting in Carnegie Hall on the night of May 5th, were announced at the headquarters of the conference, 10 Fifth avenue, today.

The mass meeting is to be addressed by Charles Evans Hughes, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Emmett O'Neal, ex-governor of Alabama; General John H. Sherburne, commander of the colored artillery of the 92nd Division, and James Weldon Johnson, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The second day of the conference, May 6th, is to be devoted to organization of committees which will conduct a nation-wide campaign against lynching in the United States. Among the committees which it is planned to form are a committee to take legal measures against lynching, a committee to use publicity and educational methods to combat lynching, and a committee to finance the national campaign.

Meetings in the morning and afternoon of May 6th are to be held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and in the evening at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West and 63rd street.

Among the southern people who have accepted invitations to be present at the conference are J. A. Morehead, president of Roanoke College, Salem, Va.; Bishop William F. McDowell, of Washington, D. C.; and Desha Breckinridge, owner and editor of the Lexington, Ky., Herald; Jack C. Wilson, secretary Mississippi Welfare League, and J. R. Bingham, vice chairman of the league.

Other acceptances have been received from Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Charles H. Strong, William G. Willcox, Hamilton Holt, Owen R. Lovejoy, J. G. Phelps Stokes, Lawson Purdy, Mrs. V. G. Simkhovitch, Rev. Charles S. Macfarland and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.