Many government leaders and finally President Roosevelt himself tried to talk Randolph into Canceling the march.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
The great fires in Chicago and Northern Michigan stopped farther work of this character; but we did what we could toward Canceling arrearages, being confident that were it not for the continued and faithful toiling of Jane A. Smith the asylum would have died during my long and serious illness.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland
Leonidas, though of himself sufficiently inclined to oppose Agis, durst not openly, for fear of the people, who were manifestly desirous of this change; but underhand he did all he could to discredit and thwart the project, and to prejudice the chief magistrates against him, and on all occasions craftily insinuated, that it was as the price of letting him usurp arbitrary power, that Agis thus proposed to divide the property of the rich among the poor, and that the object of these measures for Canceling debts, and dividing the lands, was, not to furnish Sparta with citizens, but purchase him a tyrant's body-guard.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh