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THE ADVOCATE. WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISF NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME XII. Roosevelt Sentiment MAKES RAPID HEADWAY DE- SPITE "STEAM ROLLER" TAC- TICS OF OPPOSITION. The Rank and File Favor the Nomination of the Former President and Office-holders Are Being Hard Pressed to Stifle the Popular Demand. Washington, March 9.—Developments in the field of politics have come thick and fast in the last week, and every day has shown a decided growth in the sentiment for the nomination and election of Colonel Roosevelt. The "steam roller" tactics of the administration campaign managers have been exposed in several instances and the advertised sentiment in favor of Taft has been shown to be nothing but the clamorous shoutings of office-holders, spurred on by the Federal patronage club. From every section assurances have been sent to the Roosevelt headquarters in Washington, reiterating the strength of Colonel Roosevelt. In the very states where Mr. Taft's managers have made their strongest claims, it has been demonstrated that the undercurrent of Roosevelt sentiment is fast proving too strong to be coped with by the administration. In Pennsylvania the chances of Col. Roosevelt for getting a goodly portion of the delegates have increased tenfold in the last four or five days. Polls taken in Philadelphia and in practically every county in the state give Colonel Roosevelt nearly three times as many votes as polled by Taft. Roosevelt candidates for delegates are declaring themselves almost daily, and the sentiment expressed by the county papers shows the former president to rule a strong favorite over Mr. Taft. The progressive Republicans in Colorado have gotten together and formed an organization which includes thousands of votes throughout the State. The executive committee of this organization met several days ago and indorsed Colonel Roosevelt, declaring at the same time their belief in his ability to win, the nomination, and stating that the national convention would be controlled by the progressive element, notwithstanding the number of Federal officeholders likely to be present. A monster mass meeting, held in St. Paul several days ago, showed the remarkable growth of Roosevelt sentiment in the state of Minnesota. It is declared that the former President's following in the state has grown largely since his Columbus speech. Many Roosevelt clubs have been organized in North Carolina, where the Taft managers claimed to control everything in sight, and in Virginia and West Virginia sentiment in favor of Colonel Roosevelt is growing rapidly. In Maryland the rank and file of Republicans are for the Colonel and from practically every southern state have assurances that the people want Colonel Roosevelt and will have him, regardless of party affiliations. Inroads into the Taft strength have been made in the states in the New England group, and in New Jersey and New York, rapid progress has been made by the Roosevelt followers Reports from the central group, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin are such as to cause the Roosevelt managers to feel doubly confident of winning the nomination for their candidate. Especially in Indiana and Ohio has the outcropping of Roosevelt sentiment been manifested and the other states have shown in one way and another that the former President is the popular choice. Roosevelt sentiment in the southwestern group of states has grown to such proportions that there seems small chance of many delegates being instructed for the President. Several of the western states have been productive of news, encouraging to the Roosevelt managers. Outside of the letters and telegrams that are daily pouring into the Washington headquarters, sentiment may be judged by the attitude of county newspapers from practically every state in the union. More than threequarters of these papers are either openly fighting for Colonel Roosevelt or giving mild encouragement to his campaign. A comparatively small number are openly for Mr. Taft. Mrs. Thill Warcers, who has been visiting her husband the past ten days will return to Aan Arbor, Mich. tomorrow. Mrs. Fannie DeHonney was seriously ill at her home on Lewis st., last night, from the effects of pizomaze poisoning. She is reported to be out of danger. J. M. Hazlewood has so far improved as to be able to leave the house. Delegates to the General Conference Will Be Elected And Separation For Colored Membership May Be Discussed by Methodists. Washington, March 13.—The forty-ninth annual session of the Washington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will begin at sbury M. E. Church next Wednesday and continue until the following Wednesday. Bishop W. F. Anderson will preside. The conference is one of the first colored ones in the M. E. Church, and it is probable that a celebration of its fifteenth anniversary will be planned at the coming session. The Conference was organized in the Sharp Street Memorial Church, Baltimore, in 1863, and the next annual session and the celebration will also take place there in 1913, according to the present plans. While it is probable that a discussion of autonomy or separation for the colored membership o. the denomination will take place, those favoring and opposing the proposition are now lining up for a test of their strength in the election of delegates to the coming General Conference. The various presiding elders of the conference met here last week at the residence of District Superintendent Ernest Williams to discuss appointment and other matters that are to be considered at the session. New presiding elders will be appointed to take the places of Revs. M. J. Naylor and S. R. Hughes, and this may result in a number of changes in present pastorates. One or two of the ministers are said o aspire to succeed the Rev. W. H. Brooks as pastor of St. Mark's church, New York city. Among those mentioned as clerical delegates to the General Conference are: The Revs. J. W. E. Bowen, I. L. Thomas, W. A. C. Hughes, D. W. Shaw, Ernest Lyon, M. J. Naylor, S. H. Norwood, G. W. Jenkins and D. L. Washington. Those mentioned for lay delegates include: I. Garland Penn assistant secretary of the Epworth League; S. P. Ford, George T. Benson, both of this city; Dr. S. B. Hughes and Prof. George A. Owens, both of Baltimore. The Methodist ministers of Baltimore were the guests of the M. D. Ministers' Meeting of this city Monday. Bonaparte Discourses on"Black Ingratitude Roosevelt's Attorney General Takes A Fall Out of Those Who Charge His Chief Wife Having Been Ungrateful to President Taft. Baltimore, Md., March 9. — Under the caption, "The Wicked Roosevelt," former Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte is the author of an article published in the Evening Sun of today in which the former cabinet officer makes an able defense of his former chief. He suggests that a man might come from Mars, and, in attempting to understand American politics, would be led to believe that Roosevelt was incredibly bloodthirsty and afame with the lust of conquest. From the American press he would believe that a vast conscription of all our young men had been ordered, these men to perish in bloody wars of aggression which "this Moloch, if restored to power, will promptly wage against nearly all the rest of mankind." Then Mr. Bonaparte shows what Roosevelt did when he occupied, the office to which he now aspires, and continues: "The Democratic Representatives were aroused to great enthusiasm on February 22 when they heard read the passage of Washington's farewell address, wherein he speaks of the dangers of a third term for any President." Inasmuch, however, as there is no such passage, per one word on the subject, in the farewell address, this report shows only how intelligent are the representatives or how truthful are the chroniclers. "The hypothetical Martian would next learn that Colonel Roosevelt had been guilty of 'ingratitude'—of the blackest ingratitude—toward President. He would end 'ingratitude defined in the Century section as a state of unthankfulness for benefits conferred', and he might then inquire what were the 'benefits' which President Taft had 'conferred' on Colonel Roosevelt. He would probably be told that Roosevelt 'conferred' the Presidency on Taft, but if Taft has 'conferred' anything of moment on Roosevelt the public doesn't know it." THREE NEGROES LYNCHED. Columbia, N. C. March 13—Three Negroes have been lynched by a mob near Olar, S. C. They were accused of setting fire to a house in Olar, where recently there have been several fires supposed to be incendiary. C. W. Candidate for the Republican Nomination for Governor West Virginia has no better known nor more popular Republican than Chas, W. Swisher. Born of poor but highly respectable parentage, obliged early to earn his own living, educated largely in the School of Experience, advancing from a boy-driver of mules in the coal mines to a successful business career, then to the city council of Fairmont, then to membership in the House of Delegates, then to the State Senate, then to Secretary of State, and finally to the nomination of his party for the Governorship—his career has been one that cannot but exute the admiration of all fair-minded men. Obliged, as he was, to early make his own way, he had little time to attend school, but when he did have the time he made the best of his opportunities, attaining a brief months of few years what the three schools of his age had to give. His business success, as all must agree, has been phenomenal. He has long devoted his efforts to the development of the State's natural resources, being UPLIFT OF NEGRO RACE Is Hastened By Industrial Training Took T. T. Chicagoans. Chicago, March 10.—Booker T. Washington, head of the Tuskegee Institute, tonight before the Sunday Evening Club at Orchestra Hall spoke on "The Elevation of the Negro in the South," to an audience that packed the building. "There is a vast difference between 'being worked' and working," he said. "One is slavery, the other freedom. One is degradation, the other inspiration. "We now have got to the point where almost all of that old objection to working with the hands has disappeared. This we believe is the greatest and most significant change that has come over the race since its emancipation. "I believe industrial education is the greatest thing that has ever been tried for the general uplift of my race." CATHOLIC SCHOOL For Negroes Will Be Opened in Columbus. Bishop Hardley Announces Columbus, Ohio, March 10.—Bishop James J. Hartley, of the Columbus diocese of the Catholic church, announced the promised realization of hopes for a Negro school for the city under the control of the church. While the plans have not been completed, the building probably will cost $10,000. The school will go in charge of Catholic Sisters, but will be open to every denomination. Mother Catherine Brexel, of Philadelphia, head of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the order which has charge of practically all the Catholic colored school work in this country, was in the city a few weeks ago conferring with Bishop Hartley, and arrangements have been made for foum Sisters of the order to come to Columbus to take charge of the school when it is opened. DAILY EDITIONS Kansas City, Mo., March 13.—Arrangements have been perfected for the publication of the Christian Recorder daily during the coming A. M. E. General Conference, which will be held at Allen A. M. E/church in May. The Daily Recorder will contain all of the Import happenings of the General Conference, and will be sent broadcast over the country. The Rev. Mr. John Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. church, and other members of the General Conference Commission were in the city this week arranging for the coming session. at present engaged in oil, gas, coal, timber and other lines of development. Three years ago, when he was the choice of his party's regular convention for the gubernatorial nomination, he sacrificed his own personal ambition for harmony in his party, bringing about the nomination of William E. Glasscock of Moncaglia county, and thus saving the entire Republican ticket to the State. Many persons yet believe that had he remained on the ticket, even with another ticket in the field, he would yet have been elected in November of that year. Mr. Swisher could not see, it that way, however, so made way to a candidate against whom there was no factional fight. As a friend of the colored race of this and adjoining states, Mr. Swisher enjoys the confidence of the colored man. Now that he is again asking the nomination for Governor many of the leading Republicans of West Virginia believe that it is coming to him and will aid him in the primary election, June 4th next. PROMISES TO BE GOOD Negro Threatened With Mob Violence is Frightened Nearly to Death. Middleburg Md. March 13.—Emboldoned by the fact that the Maryland legislature killed the anti-lynching bill mulcting counties and cities of this State of $5,000 should a lynching take place within their borders about 50 of the white citizens nearly scared a colored man to death here Saturday. This man is said to have cursed all of the white people white drunk. Whites incensed at the colored man gathabed at the country store, procured a rope and, threw it over the colored man. They pulled him over to a tree and were talking of lynching the man, when they exacted a promise from him to never curse a white man. They then let him loose. INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE For Western Kentucky Practically Assured. Frankfort, Ky., March 9. A bill by Senator Eaton of Paducah, appropriating $10,000 for buildings and land of the West Kentucky Industrial College for Negroes and $2,500 annually to maintain it has been introduced in the Kentucky legislature. Prof. B. H. Anderson is in the city in the interest of the fund and says prospects for the passage of the bill are favorable. The proposed school will be built at Paducah, and will cost several thousand dollars. Many donations have been made to the school by Paducahans and people elsewhere. ESCAPE FROM DEATH Of a Negro imprisoned for Three Days Was a Miracle. Richmond, Va., March 13.—After being imprisoned at the bottom of a 42-foot well for three days in Goochland county, about 30 miles from this city, Smith E. Moss is now at his home recovering from a broken leg and three fractured ribs. Moss was at the bottom of the well, when rocks and dirt caved in, making him a prisoner. His leg was broken by the cave-in and his ribs were broken in getting him out. During his enforced stay in the well Moss had nothing to eat, but he chewed up a plug of tobacco. He says he did not get cold at all, but he thought his time had come. He is the wonder of all the people of his neighborhood since his miraculous escape from death. Selection of Nominee SHOULD BE LEFT TO THOSE WHO CAN ELECT HIM, SAYS OSCAR STRAUS. Government Founded Upon the Phila And Simple Principal of the Rights of the People to Determine for Whom They Shall Vote. Manchester, N. H., March 9.—In a big meeting held here last night, the Honorable Oscar S. Straus, formerly Secretary of Commerce and Labor, recently United States ambassador to Turkey, and a permanent member of the Hague Tribunal, had this to say on the presidential nomination: "The great principles for which Senator Clapp pleads and for which your young but distinguished Governor so boldly stands lead us back into the promised land, that land where virtue was vitalized and the moral conscience of the people was vitalized under the seven years administration of Theodore Roosevelt. (Applause.) This government was based and founded upon the broad principles of the rights of the people. It was a plain and simple principle. That principle cannot be maintained simply by giving the people the right to vote. They must have the right to determine who they shall vote for and that right is and has been largely taken away from the people, and instead of these men like Senator Clapp and others being reactionaries they are the real conservatives to lead the people back to those principles where they shall be endowed with those fundamental principles that are inherent and absolute in a Democracy. "On the tenth of February last the Republican governors of seven states who assembled at Chicago for the purpose of considering what will be best for the country and would most likely insure the continuance of the Republican party addressed a letter to expresident Roosevelt and appealed to his sense of public duty not to decline the nomination for President coming as a voluntary expression of the wishes of the majority of the Republican voters of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt replied that in the interest of the people as a whole he would accept the nomination for President if tendered him and that he hoped that the people might be given the chance through direct primaries to express their preference as to who should be the nominee of the Republican presidential convention. Because a President has been a President for four years, no matter how good a President he has been, that is no reason why he should have another four years, and the people of this country can secure somebody whom they think will make a better President. The office of the President is preeminently the people's office and the people should have the unrestricted right to select their nominee. "It is claimed not only by our political opponents but by some of our friends that while freely admitting all this to elect Roosevelt again would be a violation of a cherished precedent against a third term. That is a subject I want you to thoroughly understand. There has been a great deal of mystification on that subject and should be clarified and it is not clarified in the headlines of the press, that is controlled by interests which speak and split out spiteful untruth against Theodore Roosevelt. Let us see what the truth is. By Article 2 of Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States it is provided that no person holding any office of trust or profit under the United States shall be appointed as a Presidential elector. The purpose of this provision clearly was to prevent choosing a President or relecting one without regard to the welfare of the people, but with only regard to such electors personal interest in order to prolong their continuance in office. One thing is clear that this practice of a President using the power of office-holder to gain a renomination should be effectively prohibited in accordance with the spirit if not the very provision of the Constitution itself. The Republican party should not forget that methods such as these outraged public sentiment in the time of Harrison and the result was that he was defeated and deserved to be defeated. President Taft has recently called the genuine progressives political emotionalists or neurotics. If this be neurotic emotionalism then this is another name for a arousing the spirit of patriotism." SOUTH CAROLINA DELEGATES. Union, S. C., March 12.—Fourth district delegates to the republican convention at Chicago are: F. J. Young and Thomas J. Brer, uninstructed. Investigation of Senators' Election Will Be Delayed Till After the National Convention to Prevent Governor Glass'cook From Getting Too Much Prominence 'tis Said/ There will be no senatorial investigation of alleged corruption of the West Virginia Legislature in the election of Senators Wm. E. Chilton and Clarence W. Watson, as the successors of Senators S. B. Ellkins and N. B. Scott, until after the Republican National Convention at Chicago, Governor William E. Glasscock, who prepared a memorial for delivery to the Senate, was informed today in a letter from Washington. Withholding the name of his informant, Governor Glasscock asserted that a Republican member of the United States Senate had stated "to do so now would give too much prominence to Governor Glasscock, and that they did not want it at this time." Furthermore, it was stated that no action would be taken until after the national convention, and the Governor was informed that his activity in the Roosevelt movement was responsible for the delay. Some months ago the West Virginia Governor went to Washington and submitted to an Eastern Senator, reported to be Senator Root, of New York, a memorial reciting charges made on the floor of the Legislature last winter when the legality of the election of the two West Virginia senators was questioned. Since that time Glasscock has been prominent in the Roosevelt movement, and was one of the executives who wrote the letter to Roosevelt and elicited the information that he would accept the nomination if tendered. Of The Baptist Decommission Hold Their Second Semi-Annual Meeting At Winna With Representation from Six Schools. Wilsona, March 13.—The second semi-annual session of the Fourth District Sunday School Union was held Saturday and Sunday at the Jerusalem Baptist church. At seven o'clock Saturday evening President Rev. J. E. Bowles called the meeting to order and appointed Revs. J. L. Green and A. C. Wilson to conduct the opening devotional, which was followed by an excellent welcome address delivered by little Pearl Agee. This welcome was responded to by Rev. J. J. Turner, Rev. J. L. Sminu, of Braddgus, preached a good sermon. After appointing committees on finance, reading letters and new bodies the meeting adjourned. At nine o'clock Sunday morning a model Sunday School was conducted by Rev. Bowles. The class work was looked after by Rev. S. G. Agée, H. H. Hale and T. G. Woods. Rev. J. J. Turner, state superintendent of missions, made a good talk on "Jesus the Healer." After appointing committees on temperance and place of next meeting the introductory sermon was preached by Rev. J. J. Turner. The first part of the afternoon session consisted of choice recitals by the Sunday School pupils which showed that they had been well trained. J.-C. Justice, principal of the graded school, and his assistants, Miss F. Lousei Mellada and Miss Julia Jones, were introduced. Rev. J. J. Turner spoke on the Teacher Training work as it is being carried on throughout the country. After the address several enrolled members of the Teacher Training Department. The report of the committee on education advised that steps be taken to establish libraries in every community. The report on missions insisted that missionary collections be called for monthly and forwarded to the proper officers. Rev. T. G. Agee, Mrs. S. L. Tillman and Rev. E. G. Tillman discussed these reports. The schools were urged to strive to make a good showing in the State Sunday School Convention. Rev. J. E. Bowles was chosen as delegate to the Montgomery meeting of the Sunday School convention. The closing sermon was preached by Rev. A. C. Wilson, of Finlow. The following schools were represented: The First Baptist, of Winona, Mrs. Jessie Davis, delegate: Jerusalem, Joe Mitchell, Cliff Top, H. M. Saunders: Braggsville, Rev. J. L. Smith; Finlow, Rev. A. C. Wilson; Kaymoore, Aev. J. L. Green. The next meeting will be held at Braggville, on Wolf Creek. The image contains a series of symbols and text. The symbols include a circle with a line through it, a square with a line through it, a triangle with a line through it, and a rectangle with a line through it. The text is not clearly visible in the image. Samuel Fields spent a few days this week with his children at Montgomery. The Loyal Union will hold its public meeting Monday night, at the home of Mrs. Mary Mason, Bullitt street. Ursges Negroes' Aid in Col. Roosevelt's Nonitation and Opposition to the President Who Thinks He Has Found A Panacea for His Policy. Washington, March 13—The appointment of Oscar King D. head of the Washington Burial is the New York Times; as governor, publicity man and assistantigator Dixon in the Roosevelt general head quarters, was announced today by Senator Dixon. Mr. Dayls, it is stated, is to be more than the literary bureau of the nc. a headquarters. He is to be a working associate to Senator Dixon and a sort of an "assistant general manager." in the words of the Roosevelt campaign director. A further announcement of the selection of a well-known Middle Western Congressman to take active control of some of the Western work in the headquarters is expected within a day or two. The New Roosevelt publicity expert has been for several years a Washington correspondent and represented a New York paper in Manhattan during part of Mr. Taft's services as Governor. He wrote a campaign book on "Taft, the Man of the hour," in the last Presidential campaign, and has been an intimate friend of both Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft. The Roosevelt headquarters today gave out a statement prepared at a conference of Negro ministers in Washington, claiming to represent 400,000 Negro voters, declaring for Mr. Roosevelt as the "Friend of the Negroes." The statement is signed by Bishops J. S. Caldwell, of Philadelphia; A. J. Warner, of Tennessee; G. L. Blackwell, of Indiana; E. Trees of Nashville; and W. W. Clinton of Charlotte, N. C., and by over 30 Negro ministers from various cities. The petition, addressed to Negro voters, urges them to do all they can to aid in Colonel Roosevelt's nomination, "and do all you can to compass the defeat of William D.raft, who thinks that 1,000,000 Negroes should accept his appointment of Assistant Attorney General, and a Collector of Quotems as a partner for his degrading Southern policy." Commenting upon the action of the conference of Negro Bishops and preachers Chairman Dixon, said today: "No sane man who is informed regarding the fooling of the Negro voters against Mr. Taft, but knows that these voters will not support him in the election if he is the Republican candidate. Heretofore the Republican leaders could with confidence count upon the solid support of the Negro votes to the number of 23,000 in Ohio; 15,000 in Indiana; 22,000 in Illinois; 48,00 in Maryland; 13,000 in West Virginia; 19,000 in New Jersey; 28,000 in New York; 34,000 in Missouri and 6,000 in Delaware. "In the official statement given out today from the Washington conference of their bishops and preachers, they say: If Mr. Taft is appointed we will not support him in the election. We will support Colonel Roosevelt." "Certainly the army of federal office-holders and their allies who are seeking to nominate Mr. Taft at all hazard will pause long enough to 'stop, look and listen' to this solemn declaration of the leaders of more than 400,000 Republican voters in private Republican states. "If these Negro bishops and ministers are correct, in their statements continued the Senator, it means the certain loss of 15 electoral votes in Indiana, 20 more in Illinois, 18 in Missouri, 2 in Delaware, 8 in West Virginia, 24 in Ohio, 10 in Kansas and 8 in Maryland. With the elimination of these 115 electoral votes the nomination of Taft would mean political suicide." LEAVES $40,000 TO LINCOLN New York, March 9. —The will of John Burkitt Webb, of Glen Ridge, who died recently in Manhattan, was probated in the office of the Surrogate of Essex county the other day. In it there is a bequest of $40,000 to Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa. The bequest to the university is in real estate in Camden, Adamstown and Philadelphia, and he directs that it be diverted into cash. The residue of the estate goes to the widow and children. CORRESPONDENCE Henry Jefferson who has been sick for more than seven years and not able to do a day's work in all that time is now very low. Mr. and Mrs. F. Thomas, of Charles-ino, are here called home by the critical Illness, of Mrs. Thomas's mother. William Freeland who has been living in Richmond, Va., for the past two months is here on a short visit to Florida and relatives. F. Straughter Hinton, was a business visitor here one day last week. The pa: E. A. Boiling expects to attend the M.E. Conference which sits in Washington, next week. EAGLE. Emmett Saunders of Keeferton, was visiting his mother, Mrs. Emma League, Saturday. Luther Brown attended the Republican meeting in Montgomery, Saturday. Miss B. Holmes of Montgomery, was the Sunday guest of Mrs. Emma League. James Russ was quite ill a few days last week. Mrs. E. M. Hayden who has been ill for some time, is reported better at this visiting. Messames Lucy Dow, E. J. Collins, Hattie Claytor, Lillian Reed, and Miss Stella Cosby made a business trip to Montgomery last week. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Wade will move to Montgomery in their new home this week. Mr. and Mrs. James Russ entertained Luther Brown at dinner, Sunday. Mrs. Lula Andrews was shopping in Montgomery, Monday. Mrs. William Whiteing of Montgomery, was visiting friends here last week. John Godfree of Keefenton, was visiting his family last week. Mrs. Rosa Howard and Miss Fannie Collaway were shopping in Montgomery, Monday. HUNTINGTON. Rev. Reed, pastor of M. E. church preached his last sermon before attending conference, Sunday night. Several Huntingtonians will attend the banquet at Keystone on the 16th The pastor and choir of the First Baptist church assisted Rev. Reed of the M. E. church Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Megdames S. A. Thurston and A. D. Lewis are able to be out again. The Elk's entertained the Smart Set after the show, Thursday night. Lincoln Moore, of Russel, Ky., was in the city last week. H. O. James is able to be out again after a brief illness. Monday night, Mrs. Belle entertained the Benjamin club at her home on Seventh Avenue. In the quarterly rally of the First Baptist church, $178.85 was raised. The members of the Y. M. C. A. are showing greater interest in the work since they have a building of their own and are doing all they can to make the home for the young men attractive. The Negro Business League here seems to be an inspiration to the business men. Rev. S. A. Thurston, pastor of the 16th Street Baptist church, preached a very entertaining sermon, Sunday morning. Mrs. George Jackson is sick at her home on Gaines street. Miss Katherine Brown, teacher at Elk Ridge, spend the week-end at home. Mrs. Katharine Thomas, of Christianaburg, Va., who spent the winter here with her son, George Brown, returned to her home last week. She was accompanied by her son. O. T. Wilkerson visited his daughters at McDonald, Sunday. Mrs. L. E. P. Callendar who has been teaching a private school at her home, closed Wednesday. Rev. E. C. Page filled his regular appointment at Institute, Sunday. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows, of Huntington, was here several days this week. Rev. Jones of the M. E. church, preached his last sermon Sunday before going to conference. Miss Bertha Redd who has been sick for some weeks, is much better. Miss H. M. James was a business visitor to Red Star, Saturday. J. S. Noel spent the week-end here with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Railey, entertained the teachers Reading Circle, Friday evening. George Holmes and bride, formerly Miss Qualls, of Virginia, came home Saturday. CLARKSBURG C. W. Florence of Grafton, was calling on friends here Sunday. Miss Lily Allen spent Sunday with Miss Hannah Davison in Shinuston. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Buckner have returned from Washington, D. C. where they were called by the death of the former's brother. Rev. J. H. Jenkins was called to Baltimore, Md., last week by the death of his father. Irene, the eighteen months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Wise Lee, died last week of pneumonia. Rev, O. Dale King addressed a large assembly at trinity M. E. church, on Sunday afternoon. His subject was: "Missions." The Women's Mite Missionary Society will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. N. Gray-scen. The musicale and chicken supper given by the Anti Caut Club was a decided success from every view point. The church was crowded to its utmost capacity and all present seemed pleased with the splendid program rendered. Much praise was also given to the excellent supper served. John Martin, who has resided here for the past four years and made a host of friends by his genial manner and earnest work as a member of M. Zion Baptist church died Sunday morning of pneumonia. Mr. Martin's death came as a great shock because it was not generally known that he was sick, as he continued to go until Friday. A reception will be tendered Rev. J. H. Jenkins, Friday night. Rev. Mr. Jenkins is closing a very successful year's pastorate at Trinity M. E. church. The mock trial at Trinity M. E. church Thursday night was well attended. The Elk's banquet given on Wednesday night proved an excellent affair. PARKERSBURG. At a recent meeting at Logan Memorial M. E. Church, Rev. J. W. Carroll, pastor, the women under the auspices of the Helping Hand, raised $127.15. Mrs. Cornelius Watkins and Miss Laura Watkins are still sick. Rev. E. S. Williams has moved into the parsonage of the Zion Bajist church. The supper given by the Steward's at the K. of P. Hall for the benefit of the M. E. church station, was a success. At the Wesleyan Methodist church Sunday, Rev. Mr. Rollins preached in the morning and Rev. G. W. Jackson preached in the evening. Rev. Peter Tolliver filled his appointment at Rainbow last Sabbath and preached to a good sized congregation. Mrs. Annie Washington of 543 4th street, was very much indisposed last week, but is now rapidly recovering Rev. Mr. Carroll preached the closing sermon Sunday evening at seventh thirty, and will leave Monday evening for the Annual, Conference, which meets at Washington, D. C., March 20th MACDONALD. Thos. Christian had the misfortune to have his hand and arm mashed quite badly by a fall of slate in the Sugar Creek mines. O. T. Wilkerson and Samuel Childs, of Montgomery, were visiting friends and relatives here Saturday and Sunday. H. B. Hundley is making an extended trip along the N. & W. in the interest of his insurance business. Mrs. Julia Wilkerson is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Anderson. Jos. Wade has returned from the McKendree hospital where he underwent an operation. He will soon be able to resume work. Fravel Wilkerson, clerk in the Hundley grocery, spent Saturday and Sunday in Montgomery. Miss Annie Rotan, teacher at Sun, was visiting her aunt, Mrs. H. A. Johnson, Sunday. Mrs. J. R. Richardson closed a very successful term of school at Kilsyth last Friday evening. The program was highly complimented by the audience. The children showed the splendid training of their teacher. Rev. Wm. Jackson preached two very able sermons to a large audience Sunday morning and evening. The members of the Mt. Moriah M. E. church are planning a reception for their pastor, Rev. B. B. Martin, who will soon leave for conference, which convenes in Washington, D. C. The Macdonald Republican club held its regular meeting, Monday evening interesting talks were made by Dr. H. Calloway, Thomas Gray and A. T. Calloway. FAIRMONT. Dr. Moorman of Clarksburg, was here on professional business last week. Mrs. Fanny Traction is quite ill, suffering from an attack of indigestion. Don Jones of Institute, is in our city attending the Y. M. C. A. to which he is a delegate from Institute. Rev. J. T. Gibbons of Morgantown, was also a delegate to the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Charles Hamilton and baby, Ellen, returned Sunday night from Pt. Pleasant, where she had been the guest of her parents the post three weeks. Little Robert Jones is still very ill. Little Gracie Meade was quite ill a few days last week, also her brother, Richard Meade. Edward Holmes has returned to St. Marys after spending a few days with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brothin entertained at dinner. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Morton, Miss Florence Cobb, Wm. O.' Armstrong and Don Jones, of Institute. M. T. Obie is reported slowly improving. Miss Anna Washington is quite sick. The Aid Society of Trinity M. E. church will tender their pastor, Rev. C. C. Gill, a farewell reception Thursday night. INSTITUTE. Derv W. Jones attended the Y. M. C. A. convention at Fairmont. Miss Mary Gordon is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Guss. Rev. E. C. Page preached at the Baptist church. Sunday morning. Mrs. Jacob Johnson is very ill in the hospital at Charleston. She was operated upon Saturday and at this writing there is very little hope for her recovery. The school chorus, under the direction of Mrs. C. E. Mitchell, will render jubilee selections Sunday evening in Hazlewood Assembly Hall at the West Virginia, Colored Institute. CHARLESTON Pastor Praised—With out one dissenting vote, resolutions of a highly complimentary character were adopted by the official board—trustees and stewards—of Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, at a meeting last week, on the pastorate of Rev. J. S. Carroll, who finishes two year's work here Sunday. So well pleased are these church officials that they plan to send a delegation to the conference at Washington asking for the reverend's return to this station. The pastors of the several other colored churches in the city have also endorsed Rev. Carroll's pastorate and the activity of his wife in social and religious service. Rev. and Mrs. Carroll will be honor guest at a banquet at the church tonight and the former will preach his farewell sermon, Sunday. At St. Paul Church—Regular services will be held at St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Sunday. The subject for the discourse at 11:00 a.m. will be, "Is the Pulpit Apostolic in its Presentation of the Gospel?" In the evening, the pastor, Rev. E. Fort, will discuss, "A positive Christianity." To these services, as well as the Sunday school in the forenoon, the public is cordially invited. Hotel Brown Arrivals—There were registered at Hotel Brown this week E. L. Nunnelly, Philadelphia, Pa.; M. Davis, Lyachburg, Va.; C. A. Parker, S. J. Stewart, William Robbins, Columbus, O.; D. White, Gulf, Frank G. McDaniel, Winifrede; B. S. Ballard, J. M. Ballard, H. L. Howard, B. W. Howard, Institute, L. Hurt, Malden; Mr. and Mrs. William Mickens, Plymouth; Miss Rosie Mosby, Greenwich, Conn.; C. Washington, Malden; Mr. and Mrs. E. Pickens, Hugheson; S. H. Deom, White Sulphur; Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, Boomer; G. W. Wilson, Raymond City; and E. Grigsby, Washington, D. C. Miss Roach Honor Guest—Miss Louise Scott entertained complimentary to Miss Mary Roach at the home of Mrs. Mattie Moss, Craig street, Friday evening of last week. The other guests were the minister's Social Helpers club of the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Lake Dead—Much regret is being expressed here at the death of Mrs. Lake, wife of Rev. Moses Lake, former pastor of Simpson M. E. church, at Richmond, Va., Friday. During their residence here, Mrs. Lake made many friends among all classes and denominations who held her in very high esteem. Interment was made at Baltimore, her late home. Pastor's 56th Birthday—A large number of the members and friends of all the churches gathered at the First Baptist church. Monday evening to join the atheism club in celebrating the anniversary of the fifty-sixth birthday of the pastor, Rev. B F. Reco. On this occasion the following program was rendered: selection choir; invocation, J. A. Jefferson; selection, choir; address, G. H. Edmonds; organizer of the U. M. of A. Enterprise, Iowa.; selection, by choir; paper—The pastor's relation to the church—Miss Eva Holland; solo, Miss Minnie Peters; address —Push—R. C. Melver; recitation—Dare to do Right—Miss Victoria Brue; solo, Mrs. Marion Green; solo, Mrs. Rosa Thompson; remarks, Rev. B. R. Recd. Mr. Edmondis and Mrs. Green deserve more than ordinary credit in that the former, without notice, filled the place of Prof. C. W. Boyd, and Mrs. Green was forced to respond to repeated encores. Mrs. Minnie Harris, presided at the piano and the proceeds of the entertainment were $26.00. Baptist . Church . Notes—Missionary Section No. 2, was largely attended, Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Frank Henley—Miss Lizzie Humbles was hostess to Section No. 1. Thursday of last week—The Tribe of Judah had as hosts Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, JohnBranch', John Huffman and J. C. Lewis. An effort will be made to interest more members in the club. An interesting meeting of the Ladies All Society was held with Mrs. Ada Langhorne, Washington Court. Thursday evening after listening to the merits of a cooking utensil, as extolled by an agent of the company manufacturing it, and transacting the regular business, the club was served with refreshments; by the hostess assisted by Misa Alber- ta Hicks and Mrs. Gertrude Mciver. Personals and Locals. Mrs. Julia Jones, of Paducah, Ky. is spending a few weeks here visiting her sister. L.Roy Hall, teacher at St. Albans, was here Tuesday on business. It is probable that a number of local politicians will attend the meeting of the McDowell county Republican club at Keystone, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bond's had as their guest at dinner Sunday evening: Revs. R. R. Downs and E. Fort and Mrs. Robert Hamlin. A. P. Straughter of Hinton, and Rev. J. W. Robinson, of St. Albans, were business visitors here Saturday of last week. Mrs. John Scott and Mr. and Mrs. Ford will entertain the Atheneum club, Monday evening at the latter's residence, 717 Morris street. Miss Lillie J. Smith is expected home Friday from Wytheville, Va., where she was called in January by the illness of her mother. Mrs. Francis Lowry is ill at her home on Truslow st. Miss Katherine Gamble spent a few days at home last week because of illness. Miss Rhoda Wilson very pleasantly entertained a few friends Friday evening in honor of Mr. Frank Mc Daniel. Mrs. Jake Johnson of Institute, is seriously ill at the General Hospital. J. Q. Adams entertained the following at dinner at the Brown Hotel Sunday: Misses Hattie Peters, Rhoda Wilson and Mr. Frank McDaniels. Arthur Schafer is seriously ill with 'uberculosis at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, Quarrier st. Mrs. Ballard Brooks entertained the Improvement League Friday evening of last week. Mrs. Lillian Starks and Mrs. G. P. Porter were guests. Miss Maude Vincy spent the weekend with Miss Lula Ghee in Gallipolis, O. The Physical Culture club gave a matinee dance Friday afternoon at the K. of P. Hall. The L. T. L. met Tuesday afternoon at the Garnett school. Miss Daisy Jordan will leave Friday for a short visit to friends in Columbus, O. VOICE OF THE PRESS Office-holding does not itself make leaders; but it is the duty of the appointing power to see to it that the man it places in high office should have the elements of leadership, to the end that the place shall be adminis ered in the interest of all the people.—Florida, Sentfnel. RACE ON TRIAL The Age aims to be, above all else, a newspaper, national in its scope, seeking to serve in the best and highest sense every cause that relates to the welfare and progress of the Negro Religion, politics and business are the causes that most vitally effect the worth and standing of the people. The great religious denominations managed and controlled by Negroes are legitimate subjects for discussion in these columns. The character and capacity of the men placed at their head, their legislation, policy and government are matters that concern the entire race. While it may be measureably true of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, it is in the A. M. E. and A. M. E. Zion churches, as nowhere else that the capacity for self-government of the entire race in this country is on trial. The N. Y. Age. WE HAVE THE SAME TROUBLE. It is not uncommon for a teacher or a minister to go to some white shop which would go out of business before it would employ a colored person, and have his printing done. After paying the white man for the program, the next thing in order is to send one to us to note in the paper for notning. Gentlemen, quit doing this way. It does not show good sense. We called your attention to this before. Stop it now.—Dallas Express. They do the same thing, down this way, and we have as you, been bothered with their write ups—Palestine, Texas Plaindealer. This is a racial weakness. It applies to all branches of business and is usually done by the educated class of our people, those who are higher up. The best way to break it up is to expose the people practicing it and to force them into the newspaper and job printing business where they can be punished by losing money, time and patience like the rest of us. White printers are kindly disposed towards the colored print-shops and they make little or no effort to secure this kind of trade which these servile people are constantly forcing upon them.—The Planet. THE ECHO'S ANSWER While we question the sense and good taste of Roosevelt, himself making the race, still we must confess that we are not surprised that he should be disgusted at the miserable weakling who now occupies the presidency. Of all the presidents since Lincoln we are of the opinion that there is not one who has not shown himself stronger and more able in every respect than William Howard Taft. All of them at least possessed some individuality of opinion and the courage to sustain it. The biggest thing in the opinion line ever held by Taft is that the Negro in the South is unfit to hold office, be the office ever so small and insignificant. What help has the holding of this opinion been to him? Where are the political converts which such an opion should naturally bring to his fold? Where in the South or in any other section for that matter, is the name o William howrd Taft held in high esteem and the bearer of the name acclaimed as a benefactor of a people? Echo answers, where?—Charlottesville Messenger. HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. If the heads of the other departments of the government had co-operated to give the race a square deal in the matter of representation, as secretary MacVeagh, of the Treasury, and Attorney General Wickersham has done, the great and good President of these United States, Wm. H. Fatt, would not b the object of attack from some the race as he is today. Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary MacVeagh have given the race a square deal. In the Post-office Department, presided over by Mr. Hitchcock not a single colored appointment has been made, but many have been removed. The Bee approves of the attack made on him by Recorder of Deeds Johnson and only regrets that Mr. Johnson did no, break with him sooner. In the exclusive Navy Department, presided over by Mr. Geo von Meyer, a colored man has just about as much show for a square deal as a lump of ice would have to retain its frigidity in the realms of his Satanic Majesty, and in the War Department, over which a Southern Democrat at first presided, there as been the same prejudice against recognition for the race. In the Department the policy has been to keep the few colored consuls in the service marooned in the unhealthy troops, and without hope of promotion. In the Agricultural and Interior Departments a colored man finds little or no encouragement whatever, and in the Department of Commerce and Labor he has been completely overlooked. In the Treasury and Department of Justice are the only two Departments in this government where the race has been given anything like a fair show and a square deal. We do not hold President Taft responsible for the failure of some of his cabinet officers to treat us fair, for The Bee knows that the resident's attention has not been called to it before. President Taft has done much for the race, and he would have done more if his cabinet officers had shared with him his interest in the race. The two best cabinet officers President Taft has for our race. The Bee is frank to state, are Secretary MacVeagh and Attorney General Wickersham.—The Washington Bee. "God give us men! A time like this demands Great hearts, strong minds, true faith, and willing hands. Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and will; Men who have honor, men who will not lie." TRUSTEES SALE OF PROPERTY By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me as Trustee by A. L. Leachman and R. D. Leachman, his wife, dated the 16th day of February, 1910, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 36 page 123, to secure and provide for the payment of eight certain notes therein described, I will, on THURSDAY, THE 28TH DAY OF MARCH, 1912, AT 10 O'CLOCK, A. M., Execute said trust and sell for cash, at the east front door of the Court House of said County, the following described parcels of real estate, lying and being in the city of Charleston, West Virginia: 1. A certain lot or parcel of land and the buildings thereon, being Lot No. 40 in Block 16 in West Charleston, as laid out in lots, streets and alleys on the map made by Vonable & Vance, filed in the office of the Clerk of the County Court of Kanawha County, said lot fronting twenty feet on Third Alley and running back along Bream Street one hundred and twenty feet to an alley, and being the same lot or parcel of land conveyed by UpshurHigginbotham and wife to the said R. D. Leachman, by date dated the 16th day of February, 1910. 2. All that certain lot of land with the house and improvements thereon, being Lot No. 24 of Block 16 of West Charleston, as laid out and described on the map thereof made by Venable & Vance, said lot having a frontage of twenty-five feet on Third Avenue and extending back between parallel lines a distance of one hundred and twenty feet to an alley, and being the same lot conveyed by W. B., Taylor to R. D. Leachman, by deed-bearing date the 19th day of December, 1902, and of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Court of said Kanawha County in Deed Book No. 111, page 215. 3 Two certain tracts or parcels of land, in said city, with the houses and improvements thereon, situate on the north side of the Kanawai River and on the northwest side of Elk River, and being Lots Nos. 20 and 21 of Block No. 2 of the Holly Hunt Place, as laid out in lots, streets and alleys upon the map of same filed in said Clerk's Office on the 23rd day of November, 1905, together with the right to use for the purpose of ingress and egress certain streets and alleys in common, with M. H. H. the Charleston Improvement Company, a corporation, its assigns and owners, of other lots in said Holly Hunt Place, the fee in said streets and alleys subject to such right being reserved by the said Charleston Improvement Company and being the same lots conveyed by said Charleston Improvement Company to Dove Leachman, bydeed dated the 22nd day of June, 1907, and of record in said Clerk's Office, in Deed Book 111 page 214. H. D. RUMMEL, Trustee. 3-5-4Tues. NOTICE OF ROAD SALE Notice is hereby given under section 59 of chapter 52 of the acts 1909 that public meetings will be date and at the place below set out in the magisterial district of Kanawha County, at which time and place the County Road Engineer will offer and expose for sale roads, in said magisterial districts either by roads, or by sections as may then be determined upon, to the lowest responsible bidder. Such sale to be subject to the rejection of the County Court should the bids be deemed too high or objectionable from any good reason. CROWN AND BRIDGE HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1 Dr. JAMES Dental Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. J. E. JOHN FUNERAL DIRECTORS All Calls Prom Our Prices are the Most For Promptness and Care Our Ambulance Service 800 SUMMERS STREET, CHARLESTON SPECIAL ATTENTION CAL D BRIDGE WORK A. M. to 1:30 P. M. MES B ental Sur P. Bldg. JOHNS DIRECTORS A This Promptly the Most Rea and Care Tr Service. Open CHARLESTON, W. ENTION GIVE CALLS. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. Dr. JAMES B. BROWN Dental Surgeon Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. Home Phone 429 J. E. JOHNSON CO. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN OUT OF TOWN CALLS. HENRY T. M'DONALD, President. STORER C Harper's Fe Founded More than 400 men and women ha in the state for Colored students, Ma- Remarkably healthful. Ample buildi ING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS teen highly educated, earnest teachers Our Library catalogued according STORER COLLEGE Founded in 1867, women have gra- dents. Magnificu- ple buildings. T N T THIS YEAR, test teachers does according to the FICATES ARE O NG CLASSES W EDUCATION. Story. Its whole influ- cient Organizati- State Normal. In More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent. location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest teachers does not include assistants. Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of the largest in the State. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living: Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Music. For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to Specifications of the work to be contracted for may be seen at the office of the undersigned County Road Engineer. Big Sandy District, Clendenin on March 19, 1912. Ek District, Pricedale on March 20, 1912. Malden District, Malden on March 21, 1912. Cabin Creek District, Lewiston Post Office, on March 22, 1912. Loudon District, Kanawha City, on March 23, 1912. Washington District, Ruth, on March 25, 1912. Jefferson District, St. Albans, on March 26, 1912. Union District, Bonham's Store on March 27, 1912. Charleston District, Court House, on March 28, 1912. Poca District, Sissonsville, on March 29, 1912. F. G. BURDETT, County Road Engineer of Kanawha County. 3-5-2Tues. PHONE US YOUR DRUG'ORDERS FITCH AND GOFF, DRUGGISTS 341 CHARLESTON ST. 3-11-3t. WORK A SPECIALTY 30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. B. BROWN Surgeon Home Phone 429 NSON CO. S AND EMBALMERS aptly Attended. Reasonable. Try Open DAY and NIGHT Phone 2472 M. W. VA. GIVEN OUT OF TOWN LS. COLLEGE Berry, W-Va. in 1867 have graduated here. The oldest school significant location. Elevation high. ages. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BE- EAR. The regular faculty of six- does not include assistants. to the Dewey System, is one of the N. C. BRACKETT Treasurer. HEARS APOSTLE OF REJIGIOUS TRAINING ON ATTRACTIONS AT-DURHAM. Efficient Leadership Of the Race is, Uged At Meeting of Mu-So-Lite—Happens in the Educational, Religious and Political Arsen. (W. R. W. Thompson.) Washington, March 12.—Plans are being perfected to give the brilliant young educator, Dr. James E. Shepard, a royal recitation when he comes to the capital on the 26th to deliver an address before the famous Bethel Literary and Historical Association. Dr. Shepard will speak on "Religious Training the Hope of the Negro Race," a subject on which he is an acknowledged authority. Dr. Shepard stands in the forefront of the nation's practical educators and is being supported by the country's best thinkers, and aided substantially by philanthropists who give liberally, but only when a movement has shown itself able to successfully withstand the "acid test" of reliability. Dr. Shepard is a constructive statesman—a pioneer in his special field of racial uplift in the South. His new propaganda of moral training, plus the academic and industrial, strikes directly at the root of the needs of our people, and his energetic advocacy of his system is inaugurating a revolution in the educational methods of the century. Metropolitan A. M. E. Church will be crowded on the 26th to hear Dr. Shepard. Dr. I. N. Ross, the eloquent pastor of the church, gives the young educator a rousing endorsement, and is especially anxious that the religious and educational forces of the community turn out and give evidence of their sympathy with the worthy cause for which Dr. Shepard stands. Previous to the meeting at the church, Dr. Shepard will be tendered a complimentary dinner at Murray's Cafe by a number of Washington's leading citizens, as a testimonial of their appreciation of the splendid work he is doing for all the people. The committee in charge of this function is made up of W. Calvin Chase, chairman; R. W. Thompson, secretary; W. Sidney Pittman, treasurer; Hca. John C. Dancy and Attorney Armond W. Scott. At the church, Dr. Shepard will be introduced by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and Rabbit Abram Simon, of the Jewish Synagogue, will make supplementary remarks. Both are staunch friends of the Negro. Dr. Shepard, who stopped over this week, en route southward to join his co-worker, Judge J. C. Pritchard, spoke of the fine program of lectures that is being presented this spring at the National Kellogic Training School at Durham. During the present week, Dr. Russell H. Conwell Philadelphia's eminent divine, will speak. April 4 will come Dr. Henry Lewis Smith, the new president of the Virginia Union University, at Richmond, Va. About March 28, 'the school will be visited by Mr. Walter H. Page, editor of "The World's Work," New York City. Later the students will hear Dr. Edwin Mimms, of the chair of literature of the University of North Carolina, now called to a similar chair at the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and others of like prominence in the religious and educational arena. The annual commencement exercises will take place May 19. The principal orator has not yet been announced, but he will be up to the standard selected in former years. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Dr. Griffin W. Ball, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Scranton, Pa. the usual large attendance at the commencement is expected. In Rebalf of Equality, Justice and Liberty, A monster mass meeting is being arranged for next Tuesday night at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church to acquaint the public with the work which the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People is doing in behalf of equality, justice and liberty. Well-known speakers from New York are expected to be present, among them Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Prof. J. E. Spingar, president of the New York City Branch; James F. Morton, an attorney; Miss Martha Gruening, secretary to Editor Oswald Garrison Villard, of the New York Evening Post. Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford has been asked to preside. The meeting is being held in conjunction with the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, of which Mr. A. D. Washington is president, and Miss Mary Curtis is secretary. The committee on arrangements is composed of Mesdamgs Mary Church Terrell, Carrie W. Clifford, Kelly Miller, L. B. Moore, John Hurst, L. M. Hershaw, W. L. Houston, N. B. Marshall, J. Milton Waldron and Miss Jesse Fauset. A local branch of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been organized here, with the following temporary officers: President, L. M. Hersaw; secretary, Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford; treasurer, Prof. W. H. Richards. It is hoped to largely increase the membership through the mass meeting Tuesday night. A list of 200 patrons is rapidly being filled up. Mr. Napier in Florida. Hon. J. C. Napier, register of the treasury, who accompanied Dr. Booker T. Washington on his recent educational pilgrimage through Florida, was the cynosure of all eyes at every city visited in the "Land of Flowers." The people of all kinds and conditions were anxious to catch a gimpse of the distinguished Negro whose name appears upon every dollar issued by the national government. Mr. Napier was in constant demand for speeches, and he responded in his usual happy vein, invariably extolling the beautiful natural resources of the Southland and pointing out to the Negro the golden opportunities that lay within his grasp. Mr. Napier made a fine impression upon the Floridians and was a valuable asset to Editor Lewey's representative party. At the close of the itinerary with Dr. Washington Mr. Napier went to his home in Nashville, Tenn., and assisted materially in sending two Taft delegates to represent his district at the Chicago convention. Among Player-Folk and Musicians. On Tuesday evening, March 21, Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the distinguished tragedienne of Washington, will give New Yorkers their first glimpse of W. Edgar Easton's thrilling emotional drama, "Christophe." The play will be presented at the Lenox Casino, 116th street and Lenox Avenue, and Miss Davis will be assisted by a capable company, including such well-known artists as R. Henri Strange, Lawrence Chenault, Frederick Douglass Hogan, Otis Sherman, Mrs. Blanche DeForrest, Miss Friend and others. Miss Davis has given close attention to every detail during the vigorous rehearsal period, and the production will mark a notable advance in theatrical standards in the nation's metropolis. The proceeds will be for the benefit of the Provisional Regiment, of which Col. C. W. Fillmore is commander. Following the production of "Christophe," Miss Davis will return home for a brief season of rest, and will sail March 30 for Kingston, Jamaica, to appear in a grand dramatic recital on Easter Monday under the direction of Prof. T. Ellis Jackson. Miss Davis has an abiding faith in the future of the Negro on the legitimate stage, and has made many sacrifices to hold up the dignity of the profession. She believes the-fittest artists will survive and that the stage will come to be regarded as an educator and agency for moral uplift, along with the pulpit and the school house. "Black Patti's Troubadours," with Mme, Sissieretta Jones, Happy Julius Glenn, Tillie Seguin and others, are putting in a big week at the Howard Theatre. "Tallaboo," N. R. Harper's notable problem play, attracted much favorable comment last week, and will probably be booked for a return engagement. Frank Montgomery's "Dixie Players" are to produce "In Ethiopiaville" at an early date. Mr. Montgomery has a company of twenty-five artists, including Miss Florence McClain, a charming comedienne and dansueas, as dainty as a bit of silken gossamer, whose work shows intelligence and a painstaking attention to every detail. The Blue Mouse, the Hiawata, the Chelsea, Maryland, the Foraker, the Star and Ford Dabney's are all getting their share of the business. Lew W. Henry, the Howard's efficient stage manager, is writing a comprehensive history of "The Negro on the Stage." The musicale by the Choral Club of the Washington Conservatory of Music scheduled for the Howard Theater, March 22, under the direction of Harry A. Williams, promises to be a swell society affair. The dances will be arranged by Miss Theresa Lee, director of physical culture in the public schools. The testimonial in honor of Miss Jean Kelly, the popular mezzo-koprano, is to be given at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church April 4. Mme, Anna Lee Shade, a singer and reader of talent, is planning a dramatic offering for the vernal season. Noted Newspaperman in Town. Franklin F. Johnson, of the news department of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger, circulated among journalistic friends in the city Monday. Mr. Johnson is one of the brightest men the race has in the newspaper business, and besides his work on his home journal, dishes up choice correspondence for a score of colored papers throughout the country, is a member of the staff of the American Press Association of New York City, and contributes valuable local matter to the Baltimore American, a leading white daily. A Piece for Efficient Race Leadership Arguing convincingly the necessity for efficient race leaders in every line of useful endeavor, Mr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, of the faculty of the M Street High School, read a remarkably interesting and profitable paper last Friday evening at the regular monthly meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club at Martin's Cafe. The attendance was the largest of the season, and a number of distinguished visitors enjoyed the exercises. Mr. Wilkinson presented statistics showing the progress the Negro has made in his fifty years of freedom, and gave unstinted praise to the leaders of the past who have wrought so well despite many limitations in education, experience and opportunity. His study of the educational institutions, the churches, business enterprises and political history was a veritable encyclopedia of information, and is well worth preservation in some permanent form. His conclusion—that the pressing demand of today is trained leaders men specially prepared to deal systematically and intelligently with the mass of problems that confront our people at every turn—found ready agreement at the hands of his hearers. "Honesty of purpose counts for much," said Mr. Wilkinson, "and willingness to serve is a desirable asset in our development, but to secure the very best results in this fierce competition with the best blood and brain of the century, the Negro must build up an aggregation of highly-trained and exceptionally equipped leaders, who can measure arms on equal terms with the most efficient and capable of any other race on the face of the earth." Mr. Wilkinson was generously applauded. The vigorous discussion which followed, was participated in by Lieut. T. H. R. Clarke, James E. Chestnut, James C. Waters, Jr., and L. E. Johnson. Lawyer N. R. Harper, a practicing attorney in Louisville, Ky., of forty years' standag, author of the classic drama, "Tailaboo," playing at the Howard Theater, was introduced and gave an inspiring story of how he came to write the play—a problem play with a purpose—to preach a sermon from the stage on racial uplift. Other addresses were delivered by Hon. W. T. Vernon, supervisor of Indian schools, Mr. W. H. J. Beckett, who comes from Pittsburg, to be physical director of the I. M. C. A.; Mr. E. L. Scott, of Bethel Literary Society. Under the skillful pilotage of President Robert A. Pelham, the famous Mu-So-Lit Club is having the most prosperous season of its eight years of existence. The News In Brief. W. L. Houston's "hat is in the ring" for Grand Secretary of the G. U. Q. of L. F. Dr. J. F. Hurst is in Mississippi. Dr. W. T. Vernon is in educational work—"mum" on politics. President Taft is to speak for the Howard University Alumni April 9. Funds are to be raised for the proposed gymnasium. Mr. Unah Sumpler Richards, of Sycamore, N. Y., assisted Mr. Joseph H. Douglass at a star recital last week at Howard University. The Howard University Orchestra is making praiseworthy progress under Mr. Douglass' efficient guidance. Mme. E, Azalea Hackley says Mr. Richards is "the best basso she has ever heard." Literary Notes. Four remarkable children appear in the early chapters of John Fox's serial, "The Heart of the Hills," which begins in the April Scribner—a boy and girl from the mountains, and a boy and girl from the plains of Kentucky, "The Heart of the Hills," is of a rather later period than Mr. Fox's previous Kentucky novels, this one dealing with some political and social events that are still vividly remembered. From time to time there is a positive announcement that a branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific will extend from the middlewest of Canada to James Bay, at the foot of Hudson Bay, and there a great sea-port will be built which will convey the grain from Western Canada directly to Liverpool. George T. March describes the country through which this railway is likely to run in an article in the April Scribner, entitled "The Albany Trail to James Bay." He made the journey of thirteen hundred miles by canoe. Frederic C. Howe, in the April Scribner, comes to the "Defence of the American City." He does not believe that they are our most conspicuous political failures; he sees in them many things to praise, such as our library systems and the efficiency of our tax system. For some years, he says, German cities have been adjusting their real estate taxes to American methods. Elmer Roberts, who lived long in Germany, as representative of the Associated Press, will contribute to the April Scribner an enlightening article on "Monarchical Versus Red Socialism in Germany." It brings the developments of the Socialist movement down to the recent elections, and explains much that is obscure to American readers in German politics. Madame Waddington, in the April Scribner gives a most entertaining account of the social life on Lake Como where she spent some time at a beautiful villa near Cadenabla. Peixotto, who had a studio on Lake Como last summer, illustrates the article. Hornung's "Witching Hill" stories, which are now appearing in Scribner's have many qualities which would form the basis for a successful play, as did his previous "Raffles" stories Henry van Dyke's "Half Told Tales", which have been appearing in Scribner's Magazine for several months, show a new phase of his wonderful versatility and literary skill. They are modern fables, and they are so pertinent that the application to our present conditions is orcibly grasped even by the casual reader for entertainment. In the April number of Scribner's appears "The Downfall of Stronghold, in which may be seen an allegory of present-day attacks on the foundations of faith. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, whose poems have been appearing in Sorbner's, will have in the April number a "Song of the By-Ways;" the same number will contain a "Prayer Before Planting Trees," by Walter Malone, Judge of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Memphis, Teen. Fisk Alumni Will Aid In Raising Fund Campaign for $25,000 by May 1st Is Inaugurated, Despite Opposition to Appointment of Southern White On Trustee Board. Nashville, Tenn. March 13—Fisk graduates held a meeting at Howard chapel, Sunday afternoon in the interest of the Fisk endowment rally. George W. Moore the president of Fisk College Alumni, presided. The meeting was overwhelmingly in favor of the plan being worked out by Thos. J. Calloway of Washington, and H. H. Proctor of Atlanta. The graduates are struggling to raise $25,000 by May 1, to supplement the fund of $240,000 required before Fisk can secure the $60,000 offered by the General Educational Board. M. V. Boutte a recent graduate of Fisk and an instructor in the department of pharmacy at Mebanry raised a question regarding the wisdom of the graduates supporting the administration of Fisk because of the choice of Senator Luke Lea as a Fisk trustee. Mr. Brown then objected to Senator Lea because he is a Southern man. He felt that Fisk would very likely suffer because of the presence of Senator Lea on the Trustee Board of Fisk. The Fisk graduates did not endorse the viewpoint of Mr. Boutte and the sentiment prevailed that the discussion was likely to injure the possibility of success in the present campaign for money. H. L. Keith, Mrs. L. H. Carr and others spoke vigorously against the disposition of Mr. Boutte and a few others to inject "grievances" into a campaign for an endowment fund. Nashville Negroes have recently organized a board of trade with Dr. R. F. Boyd, as president. The purpose of the organization is to foster business enterprises and co-operation among the members of the race. Nashville has had other organizations of the kind but they have died for various reasons. J. C. Napier is here circulating among his friends and "pulling" for Taft. He will not meet with much success in trying to change the heart of Tennessee people who have rejected the present incumbent of the White House. Next November will tell how much Tennessee likes Taft if the National Convention makes the error of nominating him. 50TH ANNIVERSARY. Is the Occasion of a Big Banquet Tendered Rev. Jenifer by Members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Chicago, March 13—Rev. Dr. John T. Janifer was tendered a big reception at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. church last (Tuesday) night, the occasion being his fiftieth anniversary as a minister in the A. M. E. church. He received gifts in gold from all sections of the country, including the Baltimore A. M. E. Preachers' Meeting, with which he was connected for a number of years. Dr. Jamifer was born in Prince George's county, Md., March 10, 1835. He was one of the first graduates of WHerforce University. His pastorate included Quinn Chapel, this city; Little Rock, Ark.; Charles Street Church, Boston, Mass.; Metropolitan Church, Washington; San Francisco, Cal., and various appointments in the Baltimore Conference. He started the work of the A. M. E. Connectical Preachers' Aid Society and is at present a member of the financial board of the A. M. E. church. He was superannuated by the Baltimore Conference in 1999. RETIRED FROM NAVY After Thirty-Four Years Service Does Perry P. Dobson. Baltimore, March 13.—Dr. D. Grant Scott has been elected superintendent of the Provident Hospital and Dr. R. H. Hall assistant secretary. Bishop J. Albert Johnson preached three times in local churches Sunday. Tonight (Wednesday) he delivered an illustrated address on "South Africa" at St. John's A. M. E. church. Plans are being discussed for the securing of a new hall or the remodeling of the old quarters of local lodges of the Masonic order. Perry P. Dobson, of Annapolis, grand master of Odd Fellows, has been retired from the United States Navy after 34 years' service. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Alexander, of New Rochelle, N. Y., are spending their honeymoon in this city. The bride was formerly Miss Daisy Booze, of this city, and her marriage to Mr. Alexander took place in Greenwich, Corn., last week. Mrs. I. M. Carper entertained the Improvement League this week at her home on Bradford st. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hale are the pround parents of a son. Negroes' Progress In 1911 The WEST VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE OFFERS THREE LITERARY COURSES ENGLISH, ACADEMIC, NORMAL ```markdown ``` Various Industrial Courses are Offered. Climate Healthful. Surroundings Good. From time to time during the year the census bureau has issued interesting information concerning the Negro. The Negro population in the U. G. In 1910 was 9,828,294. Of this number 8,749,390, or 89.1 per cent. of the Negro population live in the South. The census reports show that Negroes are not going to the cities as rapidly as the whites are. The white population of cities during the last ten years increased 46.6 per cent. and the Negro population 30.5 per cent. The most interesting thing that the census reported during the year concerning the Negroes was that Negroes are becoming farmers at more than twice the rate of the whites. From 1900 to 1910 the number of white farmers in the country increased 9 per cent. and the number of Negro farmers 19 per cent. In 1900 there were 767,764 colored farmers. In 1910 there were 917,465 such farmers. The farm labor in the South has occupied a considerable amount of attention during the year, particularly when the census report showed that in many parts of the black belt in the South the population was decreasing. It was suggested that the large plantations be cut up and sold in small tracts to farmers. It was also suggested that emigrants be secured from the North and from Europe. Dr. Booker T. Washington called attention to the importance of landlords and others providing good, comfortable homes for their tenants, having good schoolhouses, good churches and making life in the rural districts safe. Negroes during the year made gains in the field of organized labor. At the 1910 annual meeting of the National Council of the American Federation of Labor a resolution was unanimously passed inviting Negroes and all other races into the labor federation. The officers of the federation were instructed to take measures to see that Negro workmen, as well as workmen of other races were brought into the unions. Following out this policy, steps have been taken to unionize the Negroes working in the Pittsburg district. New Orleans in October the Negro Longshoremen were admitted to the International Longshoremen's Union. Among the 4,000 conductors that recently attended the annual meeting of the National Railway Conductors of America at Jacksonville, Fl., there were four Negroes. At the eighteenth biennial session of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which met at Rochester, N.Y., fifteen Negro delegates were also present. NEGRO SECRET SOCIETIES Financially Negro secret societies appear to be very prosperous. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Alabama at its annual meetings reported $75,949.93 had been received during the year. The colored Odd Fellows of Louisiana paid $36,000 for a three story brick building in New Orleans. The United Brothers of Friendship erected a $20,000 building at Louisville, Ky. This order in Texas collected during the year $67,459. Fifty-two thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars of this amount went to the widows and orphan's fund. In no state do the secret societies handle more money than they do in Mississippi. At the annual meeting or the Masonic Grand Lodge of that state it was reported that during the year $230,000 had been expended for the payment of endowment benefits and that a balance of $19,000 was on hand. At the recent biennial convention of the Negro Odd Fellows of that State it was reported that during the two years $507,000 had been paid out by the treasurer for the benefit of widows and orphans and that a balance of $78,000 was on hand. The Missisissippi societies are not only giving attention to the collection of funds for sickness and death but are endeavoring to promote the health of the members. In their local and state meetings a considerable amount of time has been devoted to lectures on farming, domestic economy and other subjects have been given by experts from the United States Department of Agriculture and other places. The Knights of Pythias are financially one of the strongest Negro orders in the country. At the biennial session of the Supreme Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, which met in August in Indianapolis it was reported that over $1,000,000 had been collected for endowment; that there was in the grand lodge treasury $42,835; that the property owned by the grand lodge was valued at $776,294.55. The total real estate holdings of the order were valued at $1,500,000. It was decided at the Indianapolis meeting; to begin the erection in Chicago of the Pythian Temple to cost between $150,000 and $200,000. Reports show that in 1911 the value of property on which Negroes paid taxes was: in Arkansas, $20,500,000; in Georgia, $23,234,437; in North Carolina, $28,600,000; in Virginia, $27,000,000 and in Texas, $3,000,000. The total value of property owned by Negroes in United State is estimated to be about $600,000-000. EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT. Negro students have shown ability. Edith Palmer of Philadelphia, won the free scholarship prize to Cornell University. Edward Linthrop Robinson was awarded a scholarship at Amherst College. Bessie Ganner was valedictorian of her class in the Hilburn, N. Y., High School. She finished a four-year's course in three years. Marlon Reed of the Grightion High School was the best student to graduate from a secondary school in Boston. She was valedictorian of her class and received a $100 scholarship to Simmons College. The five fighting committees of the American Civic Association of New York City offered a prize of $10 for the best essay on the housefly as a carrier of disease. Willie Henderson, a 13 year old colored girl, won the prize. Ethel Davis of Boston, in a competitive examination against 1,400 other pupils won a scholarship of $500 per year in Wellesley College. George W. A. Scott won the second prize in the Curtis medal contest at Columbia University in 1910 and first prize in 1911. James B. Clark a Junior Negro student at Cornell University, was awarded the prix d'honneur in the annual competition in French essay writing and translation, held under the auspices of the Society of French Professor in America, Charlege Henry Crippen of New York, in a competitive examination won the state school- ship in Cornell University, William C. Gulun of New Boston, won a $200 scholarship at North College. Thomas S. Lorye, graduate of the medical department, Howard University, also attended the Florida State medal examination. P. E. Robinson of Durham, P. C. graduated with the highest honors from the Northwestern University Dental School of Chicago. He was appointed demonstrator in clinics, the first time a colored man has ever held such ap position. L. Aldridge Lewis of Nashville, out of fifteen competitors, received the highest grade 92-5-8 for internship at the city hospital and the city dispensary in Indianapolis, Ind. James B. Murphy, in a recent examination at the St. Paul, Mann., post office made an average of 99.97 per cent. the highest general average ever established by a government employee in the Northwest. FOR SHRIEFF OF FAYETTE Editor The Advocate: Please announce through the columns of your paper, that I am a candidate for the nomination for the office of Sheriff of Fayette county, subject to the action of the Republican primary to be held June 4th, 1912. To my friends I promise that they will have the honor of being with a winner, or loser, but no quitter, as I now promise that I will stay unfil I am elected or defeated. I further promise, if nominated and elected, that I will conduct myself and the business affairs of the office in a way that will bring no discredit, to those who have honored me with their support, and will do all in my power to administer the affairs of the office in a safe, conservative, fair and business-like manner, treating all in an impartial manner. Very truly yours, T. J. DAVIS, Montgomery, W. Va., March 7, 1912. DIAMONDS combine three important qualities, all of which no other one thing possesses: 1 Beauty 2 Durability 3 Investment Value You can use them without decreasing their value. They charm of beauty which no other gem possesses. As evidence of success in life they give prestige. They steadily increase in market value. We are offering attractive prices on choice diamonds. ERNST The Jeweler & Mgr. Optician. 208 Capitol Street. ED INSTITUTE Y COURSES NORMAL Published every Thursday by The Adobe Printing and Publishing Co., Inc. Entered an second class matter at the Post Office at Charleston, W. Va., under Act of Congress of March 20, 1879. Office: Room 11 K. of P. Building. Phone 2185. We regard it as unfortunate, to say the least, that the Johnson Amusement Company in New York City, has decided to load down its new colored playhouse with such a numbersome title as "The Walker-Hogan-Cole Theatre." The three men selected for honor rank with the best the race has produced. We yield to none in our admiration of their work, but we can see no fitness in saddling all their names upon a single place of amusement, to the tangleing of the tongue and the distraction of the ear of the suffering public. In this generation, simplicity and time-saving devices are at a premium. "The Walker-Hogan-Cole" advocates have overdone a good thing. Let the new theatre be The Hogan, The Walker or The Cole, if you will, but one name is sufficient to indicate our respect for the thesplans who have gone before. That hunglesome title should be changed at once. DEAD OR SLEEPING? The Nashville Globe is not satisfied with the manner in which a number of fellows abused the confidence of the men who had at heart the best interests of the National Negro Press Association. Says Editor Hart "The National Negro Press Association, at its last meeting in Little Rock, Ark., raised a big racket and shelved several of its original organizers and hung out signs telling that great things would be done between the adjournment of that session and the convening of the next. Maybe great things have been done; if so, the officers of the association are very selfish." It appears that President Lewey is anxious to forward the work of the association. Of the attitude of the others we know nothing. How about you, Mr. King, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Jordan and Mr. Moore? "WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT." The spectacle of Ben Davis firing broadsides from the deck of his Atlanta Independent into Ed. Morris, Grand Master of the Odd Fellows must furnish no end of amusement to those who recall the adoration he heaped upon Mr. Morris at Baltimore less than a year ago. At that time his slogan was "Morris for Grand Master by fair means or foul." The means are said to have been mostly foul. The cause of Mr. Davis' displeasure with this quondam idol is, ostensibly, the Grand Master's hiking off to Terra Del Fuego or some other climate warmer than Chicago without even having notified his deputy. In this action Mr. Davis professes to see the clay,—or is it the cloven?—hoof. The oil in the coconut is, however, that Mr. Davis aspires to the Grand Mastership and he must, of thinks he must, discredit Mr. Morris. In this he may be mistaken. It was understood at the last B. M. C. that, in consideration of his reelection, Mr. Morris would serve only one term and then give way to Mr. Davis as Grand Master and Mr. Houston as Grand Secretary. The independent's attitude would lead to the belief that Mr. Morris has attempted to break the compact. However that may be, one cannot help recalling the adage, "When thieves fall out, just men get their dues." CHANGING THE PRESIDENTIAL TERM. Suggestions are affoat at the nation's capital to the effect that both of the great political parties are seriously considering inserting a plank in their platforms for changing the length of the Presidential terms from four to six years. The business men of the country are clamoring for such a change, as they say that there is no use in plunging the country into the uncertainty and unrest of a Presidential campaign every four years, which depresses business for that year and discount ages new enterprises. Either party would be apt to win the hearty support of the large and small business men of the country in making such a move. DELEGATES AT LARGE A number of white newspapers have commented very favorably upon The Advocate's suggestion of some weeks ago that the Negro voters of the State be given representation among the delegates at large to the Republican convention, but we have yet to read a single line in another Negro paper on the subject. Why so silent, gentlemen? Does the proposition not meet with your approval or is it that you suspect the motives of the proposer? If there be any of the latter, to these we have nothing to say, prefering to allow them to fatten upon their But the proposition itself The Alvocate thinks, as do others who have expressed themselves upon it, is a good thing and should be pressed. It has surely been demonstrated often enough for the veriest tyro in politics to know that the Negro voters are not going to be given any thing they do not make an effort to secure, and rarely then. If we want to get those two places on the delegation, we have got to get up and to some hustling. The white political leaders in the several counties must be impressed with the justice of our claims; they must be told how little is the share of political patronage that comes to us, and how essential it is that some further recognition be taken of the Negro'sears of faithfulness to the party. As far as this race recognition is concerned, it matters not whether the delegation is instructed for Taft or Roosevelt. There are capable men among us favorable to both candidates and they are men not only willing but able to defray any expense that may attach to such an honor. We deserve to have it and may get it, but most assuredly will not, unless we make an effort. A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN. It has not been the pleasure of the writer to be as intimately acquainted with the Rev. J. S. Carroll us with some of his predecessors; in consequence, this opinion of him must be based largely upon reputation and deeds. Of these, the former is the best; the latter, of service. In substantiation of our estimate is cited the action of the official board of the church in which he was labored for the past two years. With but one dissenting voice, they endorsed his pastorate at a recent meeting, and, thereby, invited his reappointment. The ministers of the other colored churches took similar action. All this speaks well for Rev. Carroll and his church. It shows that he has been able to quit himself well under trying circumstances, and that the members of Simpson are more inclined toward that union and brotherly love so essential to the well-being of any organization. To those who have followed the history of the church under the pastorate of the four or five immediate predecessors of Rev. Carroll, the board's action is a rift in the clouds and gives them hope that the church may yet be restored to that place in the religious life of the community to which it is entitled. If it should not be the pleasure of the bishop to return Rev. Carroll to this station—as many earnestly hope—the church to which he is assigned may assure itself that it is getting as a spiritual leader a gentleman, a scholar and a christian, more than which none may expect. C. W. SWISHER FOR GOVERNOR Mr. Charles W. Swisher announces in The Advocate this week his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of the State of West Virginia. It was the pleasure of The Advocate to support Mr. Swisher for nomination and election four years ago. At that time we saw in aim many qualities which should commend him to the favorable consideration of the electorate. Fearless, trustworthy, popular and a Republican of the first water, his claims for preferment could not be denied, and a grateful party conferred upon him the honor he so justly deserved. To preserve harmony within the party he put aside all personal ambition, denied himself the fruits of a hard-won victory, stripped off the insignia of a leader and stepped back into the ranks where he fought among the foremost for party success. Four years have passed since then, years fraught with momentous changes. He has seen the office to which he aspired filled, most admirably filled by another, but no lessably than he fought to place him there has he fought to sustain him. Mr. Swisher has grown bigger and broader and better fitted for the governorship. With renewed and a greater confidence he again enters the lists and, now, that which he once surreached for party harmony he asks for party success. As four years ago, The Advocate thinks the party could go far and seek long before it would find a better leader in its fight against Democracy. In him the party has one who has passed through the fire test and has come out unbleaished. We commend him to the consideration of our readers with the assurance that in giving him their support they will make no mistake. GIVE ALL A SQUARE DEAL. In thus publicly expressing our appreciation of the invitation to attend the meeting of the McDowell County Colored Republican Organization, at Keystone, Saturday, and regret that we cannot accept it, the opportunity is seized to commend it upon the effort to thus, present the face a unit in quest of its political rights and civic privileges. But—and this is said here with the same earnestness it would be said at Keystone—the wisdom "of agreeing upon two candidates to repent the evil people on the state central committee as committees-at-large" is questionable. Just why delegates from the several other counties which have candidates should go to McDowell county with the certainty that all of them cannot be agreed upon, does not appear. It is a certainty that McDowell with her overwhelming representation in the meeting will see that her candidate is endorsed. That is natural and right. But what of the others? Even if they are represented they must accept McDowell's decision, or else. When this proposition was first broached, immediately following the announcement that the colored people would be given two of the committee-men-at-large. The Advocate opposed it as unwise. Its opposition was based wholly upon the fact that the reservation of the two places confines their occupancy to Negroes: that, unlike a free for all race, two dark horses are bound to win. This being the case, it seems better to us to let the candidates fight it out on their merits, although we do not recede one inch from the stand that McDowell and Fayette counties are entitled to win. But we would have them win by means which are above question, we would see them give every candidate a square deal. Washington is suffering from the over production of presidential booms. Politicians may say this or that is the issue, but the advance of 25 per cent, in retail prices during the past twelve months is going to determine more votes than the new Nationalism. It is now more necessary than ever to send statesmen instead of political thimbleriggers to legislatures and Congress. "It rarely ever gets cold enough in Alabama for one's breath to turn foggy," an Alabama contemporary asserts. It takes a pretty low temperature to affect alcohol that way. Many a man cannot afford to dress well because his wife does. Chicago reports the marriage of Miss Annie Rooney. No doubt her bridesmaids were two little girls in blue. If they don't stop using so many straws for the taking of votes, they will certainly be a shortage of hats his spring. A statistician avers that one-tenth of the people of New York are criminals. When he meets some more of them he'll change that estimate Things have certainly begun to look up in the South. Not many month ago a white man was hung in Georgia for murdering a person of color. Now two more are under leath sentence in Tennessee for a similar crime. The equality clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the States to deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This clause is judicially held to confer immunity from any discrimination, as a federal right. The protection which the State extends to one person must be extended to all. It does not forbid discrimination merely in the making of laws, but in the equal protection which the laws are designed to afford. Forbidding the State to deny equal protection is equivalent to requiring the State to provide it. Equal protection is withheld if a State fails to provide it, and the guaranteed immunity is infringed. The constitutional requirement may be violated by acts of omission, no less than by acts of commission. The omission of the proper officers of the State to furnish equal protection, in any case, is the omission of the State itself, since the State can act only by its officers. It would seem to follow that when a citizen or other person is put to death by a lawless mob, in default of the protection which the State is bound to provide for all alike, there is a denial of equal protection by the State, in the sense of the equality clause, which Congress may prevent or punish by legislation applying to any individuals who participate in or contribute to it, directly or indirectly.—Hon. Albert A. Pillsbury in the Crisis. THE WEST INDIAN NEGRO IN AMERICA. From The Southern Workman. Every West Indian immigrant has a definite purpose in view when he lands in New York. In his own country there were activities which were wholly in the hands of white men; but here he can enter upon these and assume that position of natural leadership which was denied him at home. His ambition is aroused; a massive race consciousness, the like of which he has never experienced heretofore, binds and consecrates him to the service of his race; the superiority of his early training inspires him with a new and strange sense of power; and with this comes the desire seen among aliens, the strong and steadfast determination to master a new society and civilization for the sake of self-preservation. Seeing that the standard of intellectual requirements in the average colored school is below what would have been exacted of him in his own land, he steadily and vigorously pushes his way to the front, and finds little opposition in doing. He questions everything, taking nothing for granted, and never resting until he can see the reason underlying all. American methods of education seem to leave too little for the mental teeth of the student, the whole diet being pre-digested. The American student usually make a better recitation, reciting page after page to the astonishment of the West Indian; but the latter cannot do this, as he has been accustomed to correlate and associate every new fact with an old. He carries with him only facts which he can incorporate into his mental consciousness for all time. The West Indian student does not care how long he takes so long as he understands every move and step leading to the solution of a problem. Where routine work is concerned, the American will very often surpass the West Indian; in initiative the latter is better. Aunouncements FOR STATE AUDITOR To the Republicans of West Virginia: I hereby declare my candidacy for re-nomination and election to the office of State Auditor, subject to the decision of State-wide primary election to be held June 4th, 1912. Respectfully, J. S. DARST. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 12, 1912. STATE TREASURER I hereby announce my candidacy for re-nomination and election to the office of State Treasurer of West Virginia, subject to the approval or rejection of the Republican Primary Election, June 4th, 1912. Respectfully, E. L. LONG, Charleston, Feb. 1st, 1912. STATE SUPT. OF SCHOOLS I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for State Superintendent of Free Schools of West Virginia, subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election. Respectfully, M. P. SHAWKEY. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 2, 1912. FOR SHERIFF To the Republicans of Kanawha County: I hereby beg to announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Sheriff of the County, my candidacy being subject to the decision of the voters as may be recorded in the primary election for nomination of county candidates. Respectfully, U. G. YOUNG. Charleston, W. Va., 12, 1912. COMMISSIONER COUNTY COURT I hereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Commissioner of the Kanawha County Court, subject to the decision of the voters in primary election or by such other method as may be decided upon. M. P. MALCOLM. FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE I announce myself a candidate for Justice of the Peace of Charleston District, subject to the Republican primary, when held. I earnestly soffelt the support of my friends. A. M. PAULEY. Subject to the approval of my party, I am herewith announcing my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Justice of the Peace in Charleston district, and solicit the support of my friends. If elected I shall be on the square. Yours in earnest, JOHN H. BLOUNT. I hereby announce to the voters of Charleston Magisterial District that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for Justice of the Peace of said district, subject to the decision of the voters as may be rendered in primary election. Respectfully, Charleston, Feb. 12, 1912. C. W. DERING. For Committeeman At-Large. To the Republican Voters of West Virginia: I hereby nannounce my candidacy for Committeeman at large, subject to the approval or rejection of the Republican voters of the state, in the primary election to be held, June the 4th, 1912. I will heartily appreciate the support of my many friends and Republican voters of the party generally. I hereby announce my candidacy for nomination of Justice of the Peace of Charleston Magisterial District, subject to the Republican Primary when held. Your support is earnestly solicited. E. R. CARTER. To the Republicans of Charleston District: I am a candidate for the nomination by the Republican party for Justice of the Peace for Charleston District. If nominated and elected I shall, to the best of my ability, discharge the duties of the office in an honest and efficient manner. Your support will be appreciated. Sincerely yours. FRANK A. McGREW. --- ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a truck or hiding it somewhere about your house—You Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent. Interest—Your-Money is Working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first door is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, PRESIDENT State Summer School Colored Teacher Third Session, June 17th, to July 26th Two Distinct departments will be demic, which will be devoted to thorough the school course, for which credit may be tutions. Also in this connection thorough expecting to pass the examinations will Professional, which is designed for princi- and other advanced students. Some o country has been secured for this school, tinguished educators in this country have Summer School Faculty, viz: KELLY B. Du BOIS, Ph. D., BOOKER WASH This is to be the Biggest and Best S enroll. For particulars address: Byrd Va., R. P. Sims, Bluefild, W. Va.; H. Ferry, W. Va.; or M. P. Shawkey, Chan State Summer School for Colored Teachers. Third Session, June 17th, to July 26th, 1912, Institute, W. Va. Two Distinct departments will be maintained: 1. The Academic, which will be devoted to thorough work on the branches of the school course, for which credit may be had in the various institutions. Also in this connection thorough drill classes for persons expecting to pass the examinations will be maintained. 2. The Professional, which is designed for principals, high school teachers, and other advanced students. Some of the best talent in the country has been secured for this school. Three of the most distinguished educators in this country have accepted places on the Summer School Faculty, viz: KELLY MILLER, A. M., W. E. B. Du BOIS, Ph. D., BOOKER WASHINGTON, LL.D. This is to be the Biggest and Best School Yet. Prepare now to enroll. For particulars address: Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va., R. P. Sims, Bluefild, W. Va.; H. T. McDonald, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.; or M. P. Shawkey, Charleston, W. Va. Teste: IRA MOTTESHEARD, Clerk. EMORY R. CARTER, Solicitor. Notice to Take Depositions To George Williams: --- FOR SHERIFF To the Republican Voters of Kana-wha County: I herewith announce myself a candidate for the nomination for Sheriff of Kanawha County, subject to the approval or rejection of the voters in primary election. My record of three years service as County Commissioner is offered in evidence of my ability to administer the affairs of the office of Sheriff, if nominated and elected. Your support is earnestly solicited. Respectfully A. R. SHEPPARD. March 5. 1912. I hereby announce my candidacy for nomination for Justice of the Peace of Charleston District, subject to the Republican primary when held. I solicit the support of all Republicans, pledging the faithful administration of the duties of the office if elected. Respectfully MARION GILCHRIST. February 20, 1912. At Rules held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Kanawa County on the first Monday in the Month of March, 1912. Julia Williams, Plaintiff, vs. (In Chancery, No. 2013, George Williams, Defendant. (The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.) This day came the plaintiff by her attorney, and on his motion and it appearing by affidavit filed, that the defendant is a non-resident of this State. It is ordered that he do appear within one month after the date of the fast publication hereof, and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. Take Notice! That on the 6th day of April, A. D. 1912, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M., at the law office of Emery R. Carter, 6041-2 Kanawha street, Charleston, W. Va., I will take the deposition of myself and others to be read in evidence in my behalf of a certain suit in chancery now pending in the Circuit Court for the County of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. If from any cause the taking of said depositions shall not be commenced or completed on the day aforesaid, the same shall be continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place, and between the same hours, until the same shall be completed. JULIA WILLIAMS, By Counsel. E. R. CARTER, Solicitor. 3-7-48 It is expected that the management of the Taft campaign in Michigan will be placed in the hands of former Congressman Derrit L. Dickema. For a number of years Mr. Dickema was chairman of the Republican State committee of Michigan, and he is said to have a better acquaintance with the political situation in his State than probably any other man. He is a member, and leader among the Dutch settlers who predominate in the southwestern part of the State, who, naturally, might be expected to favor Colonel Roosevelt on account of his Dutch ancestry. years. He represented Wyoming in Congress in the territorial days and was the first United States senator from the new State. As United States senator he framed the "Carey Act", which is said to have done more to revolutionize agricultural conditions in the West than any other measure ever put on the Federal statute books. Truman Newberry, who has been intrusted with the task ofooking after the financial end of the Roosevelt national campaign, was Secretary of the Navy in Mr. Roosevelt's last cabinet. He is a son of the cabinet. He is a son of the Congressman Newberry of Detroit, from whom he inherited a fortune of several millions. Like Colonel Roosevelt Mr. Newberry saw active service in the Spanish-American war and it was during that period that the two first became ac WESTON, W. VA. Governor Joseph M. Carey, of Wyoming, who is mentioned for second place on the Roosevelt ticket, has been in public life for many VOICE OF THE PRESS POSSIBILITIES OF THE FARM. Young colored men have some excellent opportunities that they do not value. We have said, time and again, that some of them, a few of them about Indianapolis and about other large cities, should make it a business to help feed all of the thousands in their respective cities. We say a few most timidly, because when this subject is mentioned it seems as if the whole race takes it up as a plea for "back to the farm." No such thing; we mean that some of the race should take advantage of every opportunity that presents. The farm, with its money-making possibilities in these times of high living, together with the attraction nature sets up, ought to prove a very alluring place.—The Freeman. BISHOPS ON THE NOMINEES. Bishop W. H. Heard: "I do not like the policy that the present administration has inaugurated regarding the holding of federal offices by colored men in the South, and am in favor of Roosevelt's nomination for the presidency." Bishop L. J. Coppin: "While I do not agree with the Southern policy of Mr. Taft, I believe that he has made a good president in other respects and will vote for him if he is nominated." Bishop J. S. Flipper: "I will not support Mr. Taft if he is renominated while I believe he is sincere in his belief I cannot be persuaded that the exclusion of colored men from holding of federal offices in the South. and the appointment of Southern Democrats there will build up a strong Republican party in the South. —W. Va. Register. THROW THE RASCALS OUT. We will not take it back! There is too much ignorance in the pulpits of the average colored church. Until we have an educated ministry, the church will recede; there is more foolishness and strife carried on by ignorant preachers than any other set of men. The intelligent, studious, clean minister is a power and the people appreciate him—the intelligent people. Think of it, a preacher coming to town and in less than a year "fussing" and falling out with members, etc., etc. We are tired of this foolishness and these rascals must be driven away. Close up the church door and let us have order and Christianity.—The Forum. The exclusion of Mr. Lewis from the bar association is not the most important element which is connected with this matter. We are face to face with the fact that all the judges in the land are lawyers; that all color-litigants must submit their cases to lawyers and expect through them to receive the equal protection of the laws. But if the Lewis case means anything at all it means that a colored person cannot receive equal and exact justice at the hands of American courts. It means more than that. It means that colored persons who have legal business, in time, will have to take unscrupulous white lawyers and be satisfied with whatever treatment is dealt out to them. SLAYER OFFERSTO SURRENDER AND THEN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Young Shot in Head Three Times. Dies Soon After SLAYER AN EX-OFFICER Murder was done this morning at the county infirmary, about eight miles below this city. B. P. Thompson, better known as "Val" Thompson, former chief of police of the city of Charleston, shot Edward Young three times in the head, almost instantly killing him. The shooting took place soon after nine o'clock this morning, at the gate which marks the entrance to the Infirmary. Thompson was formerly warden at the institution but was succeeded by Young last October during the term of Judge Levy Harless, under whose administration both of the men had worked. Mr. Thompson worked last night as merchants' policemen, on the principal business streets of the city and at three o'clock this morning was in apparent good humor and willing to watch through the night before going to his home on Donnally street, where he has lived for a number of years with his wife who is now visiting her sister at Ward. Telephones Officers. Immediately following the shooting which resulted in the death of Mr. Young, Thompson telephoned to Howard Smith, local detective, and said he was on his way back to the city for the purpose of surrendering himself to the officers of the law. Detective Smith, and Sheriff S. P. Smith went to West Side and it was at the car station that they met the murderer. The detective went toward the man, and Thompson drew a gun, evidently the same one with which he had killed Young, and made an effort to shoot himself through the heart. He pulled the trigger of his gun, which is a 38 caliber, blue steel. The bullet missed fire and the life of Thompson was saved for the time being. Since that time he has been closely guarded and no chance will be given him to end his own life until his trial is held. A warrant for the arrest of Thompson was issued this morning byquire McGrew, and soon after one clock this afternoon he waived nomination and was remanded to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury. Just before the officers reached the accused who had walked to the West Side from the place the killing took place, he sat down by the roadside and wrote: note which reads as follows: "My wife at Ward, W. Va., two sons at Huntington, on the Herald-Dispatch office, one son at Madison, W. Va. Please notify. "B. P. Thompson, "227 Donnally street, "Charleston, W. Va." The wife and sons were immediately notified of the trouble in which Thompson had gotten into and all of them will reach here this evening for the purpose of doing what they possibly can for his benefit. Attorneys Collect Littlepage and M. F. Matheny, of the firm of Littlepage, Matheny and Littlepage, were called into conference with the accused and will handle the case for him. He was in such a condition mentally that but little satisfaction could be obtained from him by his attorneys. He acted from the time of his arrest as a man bereft of his senses and those who saw him at the office of Detective Smith assert that he has lost his mental balance and that officers should continue to keep a watch over him to prevent him from taking his own life. On Local Police Force. Thompson worked on the local police force for more than a year and was successor as chief to Dan Montague when that official was suspended for conduct unbecoming to one in his position. Later he was engaged in the restaurant business at the corner of Capitol and Patrick street. He retired from that place to assume the position at the Infirmary and worked several months there. He had told some of his friends here that life was made miserable for him at the Infirmary and that he expected to quit as soon as he found something else to do. Then Howard Smith gave him a position on the streets looking after the business houses of the city during the closing hours. He worked steadily and early this morning, showed no evidence of any intention to commit a crime such as he later did commit. Mr. Young was one of the best known men of the Kanawha Two Mile neighborhood. He was comfortably situated, having owned a good-sized farm, after having disposed of another farm a few months ago. He was married and was aged about 40 years. He is survived by his widow and an adopted son, his own son having died a few years ago. Thompson is about 45 years of age and has been making Charleston his home for a great many years. He has many friends in Charleston and immediately after he surrendered, scores of them called at the office of he detective where he was being held and offered their assistance in his behalf. When approached by a representative of The Mall, the accused said that he had nothing to say concerning the shooting. He would neither admit nor deny that he had done the shooting, but suggested that he was not feeling in condition at the moment to say thing at all concerning the matter. The attorneys for the accused have also refused to discuss the case and it will require several days for all the details concerning the shooting to be given to the public with any degree of accuracy other than is contained in the foregoing article. The murdered man is survived by four brothers, namely: John, Bascomb and David Young, who reside one one or the other of the three branches of Two Mile, and Benjamin, who is a barber with a shop on the West Side of Elk river, this city. His father is also living, he being M. S. Young, a prominent farmer of Two Mile. KILLED JUDGE, PROSECUTOR AND COUNTY SHERIFF SEVERAL JURORS ARE WOUNDED ALSO; ONE MAYBE FATALLY Outlawry Flames Wipe Our Entire Court In Virginia BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Hillsville, Va., March 14. In flames of unprecedented outlawry the entire human fabric of the Carroll county court in session here today was wiped out by assassination. Just as Judge Thornton Massie had sentenced Floyd Allen to prison for aiding in the escapement of a prisoner, two of Allen's brothers and several of their friends, opened fire with revolvers. Judge Massie fell dead, on the bench, at the first volley. Then the weapons were turned on Commonwealth's Attorney William Foster, and he sank down with bullets in his brain, his death being instantaneous. Sheriff Lewis Webb was shot dead before he had taken ten steps. Several jurors were injured. J. H. Blankenship probably fatally. MRS. SLACK DEAD Mrs. M. M. Slack, aged 78 years, died at the home of her son, J. R. Slack, 1551 Jackson street, last night at 11:30. Deceased with another son, N. S. Slack, of Handley, W. Va., and one daughter, Mrs. J. E. Sweeny, of Montgomery, W. Va. Funeral will be held at the residence tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock. Interment in Spring Hill cemetery. Come in on Private Car Graceland on Business Trip PAYS $2,600 FORFEITURE Hon. Davis Eiklbus, Senator Joseph H. McDermott, John T. Davis and a party of capitalists are here in Senator Davis' private car, GraceLand. The party is interested in the Blue Creek oil territory and are examining their property, and arranging for drilling of new wells. "Taft, Roosevelt and oil is about all you hear these days," said one of the party. Indicating that other candidates had not apparently become headliners in political discussion, and that the discovery of oil near this city is considerably more than a local matter so far as interest is concerned. The local hotels show that oil men from every section of the United States have visited the Blue Creek field, and many have taken chances by acquiring leases, in some instances, miles beyond what is now even known as defined territory. Because he failed to return all his property for taxation, Louis A. Rolf, or rather his estate, has paid to the State Tax Commissioner $2,600 as a forfeiture. This represents ten per cent of the amount not returned for taxation by Mr. Rolf in 1911. The discovery was made after Mr. Rolf's death last year, and his estate appraised. For the purpose of developing coal and timber lands a charter has been issued to the Boone Coal & Timber Company, with principal offices in Humbington, but with operations to be located in the State of Kentucky. The company is capitalized at $50,000, and has the following incorporators: William S. Edwards and John A. Willis, of Charleston; F. L. Whitaker, G. D. Miller and H. T. Lovett, of Huntington. A charter was issued to the Mose-Tailoring Company, of Huntington, W. Va., to manufacture and sell clothing. Authorized capital, $5,000. Incorporators: Harry DeBosky, H. D. Morse, D. M. Morse, M. P. Wiswell and A. C. Reynolds, all of Huntington. Notary commissions were issued this morning to G. G. Teter, of Riverton, Pendleton county, and B. A. Robinson, of Charleston, Kanawha county. For the purpose of expressing his views to the leading advocates of the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for president, Governor Glasscock, left last night for Washington. He was accompanied by Houston G. Young, secretary to Secretary of State Stuart F. Reed, who is also one of the dyed in the wool Roosevelt men of West Virginia. They will be gone several days and while in the national capital will acquaint themselves further with the means that will be employed by the backers of the former president, who are busy in their efforts to make him president of the United States for the third time. Governor Glasscock conferred with a number of other Roosevelt supporters before he left and goes to Washington with assurance that the Hero of San Juan Hill will get the support of the majority of West Virginia Republicans. NEW WELL IN ON BLUE CREEK IS 35 BARRELS With a production estimated at about 53 barrels a day, the No. 5 oil well on the Kanawa and West Virginia Railway tract, in the Blue Creek region, was drilled into the pay sand last evening. It is considered a good well and while it does not compare with some of the gushers which have been struck in the field, it is expected to be a payer for an indefinite period. It was drilled by the Wm. S. Edwards Oil Company and is a little southwest of the principal part of the field. The farm adjoins the Davidson and Gates farm. Amherst, Ohio, March 14—Mrs. Angelo Miraglotta was arrested here today and taken to jail in Elyria on a warrant by Mrs. Catlafo, that her two yer old boy Phillip was killed by being thrown into a kettle of scalding water by Mrs. Miraglotta. EXPORTATION OF WAR MUNITIONS FORBIODEN Washington, March 14—The House today passed the consurrent resolution passed by the senate yesterday forbidding the exportation of war supplies to any American country where domestic violence exists. COL. ROOSEVELT AGAIN EXCUSED FROM THE JURY Mineola, L. I., Mar. 14—Colonel Roosevelt was excused as a juror today, the counsel having confided to the court that his presence in the box would distract his fellow jurors. New York, March 14.—Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. John A. Dix, Mrs. O. M. P. Belmont and many other well known women are among the patronesses of the Women's Industrial Exhibition, which opened in the Grand Central Palace today and will continue until March 23. Ten organizations, representing 10,000 women, are he active promoters of the exhibition, which is designed to show to the world at large the advancement made by women in the past few years in every branch and occupation of trade, science, art, philosophy and literature. OF SENATOR FRYE Washington, March 14.—Exercises commemorative of the life, character and public works of the late Senator William P. Frye of Maine were held in the senate chamber this afternoon. Eulogies were pronounced by all of the member of the Maine delegation in Congress and by 'Senators League of Massachusetts, Bailey of Texas, Cullom of Illinois, Gallinger of New Hampshire, Stone of Missouri, Simons of North Carolina, and a number of other friends and admirers of Senator Frye. "CANADA" STATES ON INITIAL TRIP. Naples, March 14—The new Fabro line steamship "Canada," recently completed at the shipbuilding yards at Toulon, sailed for Nables today on her maiden trip to New York. The ship will be employed regularly in the New York-Mediterranean service. She is of 14,000 tons and of modern equipment in every respect. COSTS OVER $60,000,000 TO GET ON THE MAP. It costs over $60,000,000 to get on the map of the world. Only a small proportion of the stations given on any railway folder are included in the encyclopedias and atlases which form the permanent records of masking, and yet some great historical event may place a town of comparative former unimportance in the category of the well known. In the much heralded 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, about a column is devoted to Portsmouth, N. I., where in 1905 the treaty ending the war between Japan and Russia was negotiated in what is known as the Peace Building in the United States Navy Yard on 'Seavey's Island.' This is hardly a fair example, however, as Portsmouth was of sufficient previous importance to be 'on the map'. Beverly, Mass., has about half a column in the new Britannica, and Oyster Bay, L. L., over a column, but no mention is made in these articles of President Taft or Colonel Roosevelt. The War of Revolution put Trenton, N. L., on the map, aside from the fact that it is the capital of that state'. Ampere, N. L., where the plant of the Crocker-Wheeler Co., which has turned over some $6,000, 000 in manufacturing electric motors and generators in the last 23 years, is located, is not included in the encyclopedia, but Newark is. As a measure of the wealth necessary to be included, we find reference to the fact that in 1908 the assessed valuation of Jersey City was $267,039, 753. New York fans will probably come across with an automobile for Christy Mathewson some time during the coming season. Ty Cobb ("Nap" Lajole, Frank Schubel and Ed Walsh have been presented with speed wagons and "Big Six" is surely entitled to one. Hamilton, O., March 11—Three men are believed to be buried in the ruins of the New Butler county court house which was burned today with a loss of $150,000. Rev. T. H. Binford, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, says: "When I begin to think about the acts of the Holy Ghost, as Brother Cates said a few moments ago, so many things rush into my mind that it is hard to get any form to it. "I want to say that before this meeting came off I do not think that I ever had anything quite at heart as much as having this meeting, and when I learned that Brother Cates was coming to us I felt that we would have one of the greatest meetings that had ever been seen here. As I look back this morning, it strengthens my faith because I realize that God has ben with us in a wonderful way. "In the first place when I go to count the blessings received from this meeting, I begin at home. I could not put into words the blessing this meeting has been to me. I feel that I have gotten a firmer grip on God. The one expression that Brother Cates has used so much, I would not take anything in the world for this morning, and that is 'Believe God.' It seems to me that my faith is stronger than ever before, and that my life will count for more than it ever has before. "Taking a step further to my own church, it is hard to express in words the good that has been done there, and I just feel like praising God. We stopped everything for the meeting. We haven't even had a choir practice or anything else, and yet our church attendance has doubled, and our Sunday school last Sunday was larger than ever before. Over one hundred people have been added to our church during this meeting, and a large band of personal workers have been trained to carry on the work. Last Sunday morning our congregation was larger than I have ever seen it at any evening service, and before this meeting commenced our evening congregation usually doubled the morning one, and now the morning congregation taxes the scaring capacity of our church. I do not know what we are going to do until we can get a new church. We are planning to build one, and I believe this Union revival has solved that problem. "When we think of the city and the surrounding country, we feel like thanking God again. So many have bowed here at this altar who had never went to church before, and when I asked them to pray they would say that they did not know how to pray. I thank God for the great number of people who have been reached by the meeting. A few nights ago two Assyrian boys gave their hearts to Jesus; last night an Italian came, and great numbers of ohr own people have been saved until the converts have grown to such a number that we do not know how many have been saved. We have a report from one church away from here stating that they have had seventeen new additions of people to their church. We have heard from traveling men how that the influence of the meeting has spread up and down the Kanawha Valley, and Cabin Creek, and other creeks up the river. "We believe that the influence of this meeting will last throughout eternity, and as it looks to us, it is not simply a wave of enthusiasm, but it is the organizing of a band of Christian soldiers enlisted and making vows to God that the war shall never end until Jesus comes again." Rev. R. T. Webb, Pastor of the First M. F. church, Scottsville. Things have been happening so rapidly and so much has been crowded into these days that as I look over them it is hard to determine what I ought to say and what I ought to leave unsaid. When we agreed to invite Bro. Cates to come and hold this meeting he was at Hinton, and we were feeling the influence of that meeting here, and from the time I heard Brother Cates express himself, heard him talk and pray, my heart was strangely warmed, and I was drawn to Brother Cates in a peculiar way. I knew that he was a man that knew God, and from the very first I felt that the Lord was going to do great things for us. At times things looked a little discouraging and it took a good deal of faith to hold on, but we did hold on, and what God has done for us should rejoice our hearts very much. "As Brother Binford has said, one great thing that I have gotten out of the meeting is Brother Cate's constant repetition that we ought to have faith in God. I have been trying to make my people see that a man that God can use to teach us to have faith in God becomes to us a great blessing. "I am glad that the Christian workers have gotten so well acquainted in this meeting. I feel that the friendships that have sprung up between us will last throughout time and eternity, and, as Brother Cate has so often said, I hope that the Lord will give us who have worked together in this meeting the privilege of being neighbors in heaven. I think that we have learned to appreciate each other as never before. "In so far as my own church is concerned, our people were never so hopeful. Our people are beginning to see that we must have a larger building, and I want you to pray with me that the Lord will bring that about for his glory. Ours is the only Methodist Church between Elk River and Morris street, and here are a great multitude of people, possibly ten thousand people, and a great many of them are Methodists, or prefer the Methodist denomination, and our church only has a seating capacity of about five hundred. At Sunday school, last Sunday morning I had thirty-seven men in my Bible class. There were two hundred and sixty-seven in Sunday school, and the church was taxed at the morning service to its utmost capacity to seat the people. Our people see a vision now of what God wants us to do for his glory as we never seen it heretofore. Within the last six months we have had 125 additions to the church, 96 during this campaign, and there are 40 or 50 more who say they want to unite with our church, and this is just, I think, a small part of what will be done. "So far as what has taken place here at night is concerted, so much of the time I was so busy trying to lead some soul to Christ that I hardly had time to see what was taking place. Some of the scenes here have been almost indescribable when in the presence of new born souls the Pentecestal power of God would fail upon the people and hundreds would be made to rejoice in his saving grace. "The best thing possibly I have not mentioned, and it is this, that Brother Cates has taught so many people how to bring souls to Christ. Heretofore Charleston on this side of the river (I do not know, how it is on Brother Blinford's side), church work had largely gotten to be a thing of form, church suppers, and serving suppers and looking after the tables of the church, and there was no time for winning souls to Christ. However, I think that a great army of workers have been trained in this meeting who will continue to do this work after Brother Cates is gone from us, and that their lives will mean much for God's glory." Rev. L. C. Johnson. Dr. T. C. Johnson, Pastor of the Baptist Temple, says: "It is hard to recount all the blessings that we have obtained in these services. Like Brother Wobb, the first-time I heard Brother Cates speak on his first Sunday evening with us, it struck the right chorl in my heart and I felt that something was going to be accomplished. Now, from the very first of these meetings I have received many special blessings. It is hard to estimate the value of these sermons on faith. They have ben wonderfully helpful to me and I am sure they have been helpful to all who attended these meetings with any regularity whatever." "Brother Cates' methods, so far as he has any methods, have been in some sense unique. I think that we have all learned a great deal in these meetings as to how to win souls. As to my church, the morning congregation has at least doubled since these meetings commenced. The evening congregations have been overflow meetings, but they have been large notwithstanding that fact. Most of our people are here at the evening services. They want to be here, and we encourage them to come and help in the services here. As to our Sunday school it is growing larger all the time. I think that we all ought to feel greatly encouraged in this work for the Lord, and may we keep our enthusiasm up and go right along working for God out of season as well as in and the Lord will bless us in the effort." Dr. T. S. Potta, in whose church the Memphis meeting started, said at the close of our campaign that he had spent four years in the seminary four years in college, many years in the pastorate, but had learned more about how to win a soul during our meeting than he had ever learned all the former years of his life at the college, seminary and in the pastorate. "I have prayed God to make me the most effective soul winner on the face of earth and make me the best teacher of soul winners who ever lived." - George C. Catts With the Boyers. Billy Nolan would like to get back into the game and take the Sultivan Twig under his management. The dingo fighters are in bad in London. The National Sporting Club of that city, has barred colored boxers in future from competitions. They say that Battling Nelson all in, but the old Danish gentleman continues to fight and what's more, gives the fans a run for their money. Boston is to have something new in the way of flags on top of the grandstand. The Red Sox flag will be red; Highlanders, Scotch plaid; Athletics, blue with a white elephant emblem; Detroit, orange and black; St. Louis, brown; Washington, purple; Cleveland blue and white; Chicago White Sox, white. Worked the Racket on Many Before His Exposure BROKE IN AND STOLE William Capers, colored, was before Judge MacCorkle this morning charged with working the short change racket on a Kanawha street saloon keeper. His method was buying a drink and tendering in payment thereof either a dollar or half a dollar, and then when the bartender had turned away Capers would substitute a nickel for a quarter calling the bartender's attention to the fact that he had made the wrong change. A number of witnesses, in various lines of business, were in court this morning to testify against Capers, he having worked the same game on them at some recent period. The officer in charge of the case said that if necessary he could bring in a number of other persons who had been tricked by the foxy colored gentleman. Capers was only tried on two of the charges this morning, and was given 15 days on each charge. He will probably be tried on the other charges after the expiration of the present sentences. Charles Smith, who claims to be a coppersmith and to have come from Cincinnati, got himself in bad by entering the house of Robert Washington, on State street, and stealing therefrom certain lead pipe and other fixtures from the bath room. Smith was traced through having sold the pipe to Silverstein, the junk man, the fact being discovered by a plumber who had been hired by Mr. Washington to make the repairs. The plumber went to Silverstein's, and after asking if they had certain kind of connections on hand he was shown the identical property that had been stolen, and was informed that it had been purchased a few days before, giving a description of the man who made the sale, which answered to that of Smith and he was soon in custody. In court this morning Smith admitted to having stolen the pipe, claiming that the house was standing open, but Mr. Washington said it was locked, so Smith was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of house-breaking, his bond being fixed at $500. Amelia Ferrell, Ella Henderson and Lelia Vincent, all colored, were up on an assault charge. The Ferrell and Henderson women were fined $15.00 each and the Vincent girl dismissed. Pat Wanzer, drunk; $5.00. BASEBALL NOTES. The Atlanta Club has signed Pitcher Martin Walsh, brother of "Big Ed" Walsh, of the Chicago White Sox. Edmund Lamy, the Saranac Lake skating marvel, is also a ball player. He has signed with the Mansfield team of the Ohio States league. Washington and Lee leads the college baseball teams in the number of games scheduled for the coming season with a list of thirty-three contests. President Comiskey has promised the White Sox crew a training trip to California in the spring of 1915, the year of the Panama Exposition. The singing of Harry Steinfeldt by Roger Brosnan means that Harry and Mike Mowrey will fight it out for the third base job with the Cardinals. The genuine big show of the preliminary season cones on March 30, when the New York Americans will open the new National league park in Cincinnati. Manager McGraw has put the kibosh on poker games for big stakes among the Giants, and placed the limit at 25 cents. Failure to observe this rule will mean $100. fine. Now that Rock Island is out of the Three-I league, a new league is being talked of to be composed of Rock Island, Waterloo, Iowa City, Clinton, Cedar Rapids and Freeport. The Doston Nationals landed in Augusta, Ga., twenty-three strong after making the trip from New York in twenty-three hours. A double dose of "links" Good night. A Philadelphia scribe says that Pitcher Salmon of the Athletics has more smoke than Vesuvius on a blow-out. Sounds kind of fishy, but perhaps the scribe intended it for a cod. Umpire Tommy Connolly, of the American league, has been elected a member of the Citizens' party Committee at Natick, Mass. Everybody is doing it now. Even umpires are throwing their hats in the ring. The Pittsburg team will do the most traveling of any of the sixteen major league clubs during the coming season. Allowing 25 men on each trip, Barney Droffus will have to buy 316,673 miles of transportation. While Celebrating King Humbert's Birthday ASSASSIN IS CAUGHT Rome, March 14. Selecting the birthday anniversary of the late King Humbert, a young anarchist today fired three shots at King Victor Emmanuel as the king, with Queen Helena, was going from the palace to Pantheon to take part in the memorial service for his father. The procession was passing along via Lata when three shots rang out. The soldiers escorting the carriage immediately dashed forward, and their commander fell from his horse. The wounded officer was moved to one side by some of his men, who dashed up to the carriage where they found the king and queen sitting calm and unmoved. Meanwhile the crowd had seized the man who had fired the shot, and attempted to lynch him, handling him so roughly he could scarcely answer questions when rescued by the police. The procession moved on to the Pantheon where the memorial service was passed through without further incident and the king learned for the first time that the commander of the escort, Major Lang, had been dangerously wounded. He at once went to the hospital where the major had been taken. The king and queen traveled through the streets in an open automobile and showed no signs of having passed through an ordeal. The would-be assassin was taken to the nearest police station where he said he was Antonio Dalba, a stone mason, aged 21. He denied that he had made any attempt on the life of the King as a protest against the organization of society. All the circumstances lead to the belief that he was not concerned in any plot. In all quarters demonstrations have been prepared to protest against the outrage whose effect has been to increase the king's popularity. The most touching scene occurred when the king and queen reached the Pantheon. There the dowager queen, Margarita, awaited them, but they said nothing of the attempted assassination. All assisted in the service and at its close the king told his mother of the shooting. She appeared stunned, then looked him over to see that he had not been hurt. Then she threw her arms about his neck and kissed him repeatedly. CHARLESTON COMPANIES INSPECTED LAST NIGHT In the city of Charleston are two splendid military companies identified with the National Guard of the state. These organizations were officially inspected last night under directions from the war department, and the showing made was gratifying to everyone who has to do with the military of West Virginia Adjutant General Elliott, Major James L. Pratt, Capt. John Bead, Capt. L. C. Jenks, C. S. A. Capt. Huttsinpeller Capt. Burdette and Lieutenant Cornwell, were in the inspecting party. Company M presented itself under command of Capt. Charles A. Wood and Lieutenants Gall and Thompson, with 45 enlisted men in line. Then Company C was inspected with Capt. L. G. Levy in command, with Lieutenants Cork and Davis. There were 48 men in line and remarks were numerous concerning the splendid condition in which the arms of this company were found by the inspectors. The physical make-up of both companies was fine and the commander of each company was commended by the inspecting officers. TELEPHONIC DEVICE NECORDED TALKS WITH CLARENCE DARROW Darrow's Associate to Be Witness for the State Los Angeles, March 11 - District Attorney Fredericks stated today that probably a dozen conversations between Attorney Glarence S. Darrow and John R. Harrington, the Chicago attorney associated with him, had been taken down by a telephone device. The conversations took place in a hotel here, since Darrow's indictment to the charge of jury bribery. Harrington, it is announced, will be a witness for the state. THE BAUER MEAT AND FISH CO. 28 and 30 Capitol St. Beef, Veal Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage, Our Own Make Try Our Machine Sliced Hams and Bacon The best qualities in all the popular kinds of We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more. 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POLITICS AND POLITICIANS Bolse, Idaho, has voted to adopt the commission plan of government. The Michigan Democratic State convention for the election of delegates to the Baltimore convention will be held at Bay City on May 15. The national convention of the Socialists, which was to have been held R. P. SIMS, Principal. at Oklahoma City, may be transferred to Indianapolis. President Taft has accepted an invitation to the banquet of the Union League Club of Philadelphia on April 27, the birthday of General Grant. Speaker Clark has been compelled by pressure of official duties to decline all invitations to make speeches in various parts of the country. The Michigan Republican campaign is to be formally opened with a banquet at Hastings on March 15, with Senator William Alden-Smith as the chief speaker. Ex-Governor John D. Long, of Massachusetts, who was Secretary of the Navy when Theodore Roosevelt was assistant secretary, has been selected as president of the Taft League of Massachusetts. Representative William B. McKinley, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee, is the principal owner of a vast network of electric railways covering a large portion of Illinois. Three Republicans and three Democrats are in the field for the seat of United States senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon. Senator Bourne will be a candidate for re-election but will refrain from making an active campaign. Next to Congressman McKinley, the most prominent of the managers in charge of the Taft national campaign are W. Murray Crane, United States senator from Massachusetts, and James A. Hemenway, former United States senator from Indiana. Senator Joseph M. Dixon, manager of the Roosevelt national campaign, is a native of North Carolina, but has been a resident of Montana for twenty years. Prior to his election to the United States senate he served in the Montana legislature and in the lower house of Congress. For the Purpose of the Nomination of State Officers AND STATE COMMITTEE Be it Resolved: That a primary election be held throughout the several counties in the State of West Virginia, on the 4th day of June, A.D. 1912, by the members of the Republican party in said State, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices: Governor of the State; Secretary of State; Superintendent of Free Schools; Auditor of the State; Treasurer of the State; Attorney General; Commissioner of Agriculture; and Members of the House of Representatives of the U.S., to represent the State of West Virginia at large. At said primary election the voters of the Republican party, in each senatorial district, shall elect one member of the Republican State Executive Committee, and the voters of the entire State shall elect two members of said Committee at large, the two members at large to be chosen from the colored race; and all the members of said Committee to hold their respective offices for a period of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualify. Said primary election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 67, of the Acts of the West Virginia Legislature, Session A. D. 1891, and the provisions of said act shall apply to the holding and conducting of said election, and all the pains and penalties therein prescribed shall be enforced against any person violating any of the provisions of said act, in conducting or participating in such primary election. Said primary election shall also be held in accordance with all of the provisions of Chapter 3, of the Code of West Virginia, except as hereinafter provided. Any call for a primary election, by any Congressional Committee, Judicial Circuit Committee, Sentorial District Committee, and County Executive Committee, shall expressly provide that the primary so called shall be held under the provisions, and, in accordance with the terms of Chapter 67, of the Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, Session A. D. 1891, and Chapter 3, of the Code of West Virginia, and the rules and regulations prescribed by the Republican State Central Committee. The Republican State Central Committee respectfully requests the several Congressional Committees, Judicial Circuit Committees, Senatorial District Committees, and County Executive Committees, for the Republican party throughout the several sub-divisions of the State, to participate in the primary election called by the Republican State Central Committee, to be held on the date above stated, and to provide for the nomination, at said primary election, of candidates for the House of Representatives in Congress from the several Congressional Districts, for Judges of the several Circuits, for members of the State Senate in the several Senatorial Districts, candidates for the county offices, or offices to be filled by the voters of the entire county, and candidates for magisterial district offices in the several counties. Each of said Committees are requested to meet in their several districts, circuits, and counties, at least ninety days before June 4th, A. D. 1912, and after notice of such meeting shall have been published for at least ten days prior to the date of holding the same and make provisions for nominating officers and electing members of said Committees, at the primary election now called by the Republican State Central Committee. V. L. HIGHLAND, Chairman, liingthdaccor W. R. MESERVIE, Secretary. Clarksburg, W. Va. Feb. 5, 1912. Clarksburg, W. Va. To the Republican Voters of West Virginia: In accordance with established usages, the Republican State Central Committee directs that a State Convention of delegated representatives of the Republican party be held at the City of Huntington, in the County of Cabell, on the 16th day of May, 1912, for the purpose of selecting six delegates at large, from the AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE ADVOCATE WILL BRING RESULTS State and one alternate, for each delegate, to the National Republican Convention to be held in City of Chicago, State of Illinois on the 18, day of June, 1912, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President and Vice-President of the United States of America. Also for the purpose of nominating two candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of West Virginia, and three presidential electors; and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before said convention. Said convention shall assemble at one o'clock p. m., on the 16th day of May, 1912, and shall consist of delegates from the several Counties of the State to be apportioned among the several magisterial districts of each county. Each county shall be entitled to one delegate in said Convention, and no more, for each one hundred and fifty votes, or major fraction thereof, cast in the county for the presidential elector receiving the highest number of votes at the election held in 1908; that is to say: Counties. Votes. egates Barbour 2072 14 Berkley 2675 18 Boone 994 7 Braxton 2365 16 Brooke 1374 9 Cabell 4900 33 Calhoun 1006 7 Clay 1320 9 Doddridge 1773 12 Fayette 5874 39 Gilmer 989 7 Grant 1305 9 Greenbrier 2415 16 Hampshire 683 5 Hancock 1185 8 Hardy\ 646 4 Harrison 4946 33 Jackson 2615 17 Jefferson 1255 8 Kanawha 9663 64 Lewis 2239 15 Lincoln 2202 15 Logan 703 5 Marion 4368 29 Marshall 3680 25 Mason 3116 21 Mercer 4229 28 Mineral 1986 13 Mingo ..... 2058 Monongalla ..... 3131 Monroe ..... 1523 Morgan ..... 1134 McDowell ..... 6176 Nicholas ..... 1795 Ohio ..... 7312 Pendleton ..... 898 Pleasants ..... 987 Pocahontas ..... 1687 Preston ..... 3928 Putnam ..... 2098 Raleigh ..... 2530 Randolph ..... 2863 Ritchie ..... 2242 Roane ..... 2834 Summers ..... 1940 Taylor ..... 2106 Tucker ..... 1886 Tyler ..... 2113 Upshur ..... 2571 Wayne ..... 2410 Wobster ..... 932 Wetzel ..... 2235 Wirt ..... 1028 Wood ..... 4596 Wyoming ..... 1251 Total ..... 18580 No county shall have more delegates than the number to which it is entitled, under the above apportionment. No alternate shall be appointed or selected and no proxy admitted to the convention. The delegates present from each county shall be entitled to cast the entire vote of the county, in the convention. The name and postoffice address of each delegate must be certified to the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee at Clarksburg, on or before May 6th, 1912. The Republican County Committee for the different Counties shall meet, after ten days published notice of such meeting, and provide, by a proper call for a district mass meeting or district primary election for the selection of such delegates from the various magisterial districts in the county. Notice of such district mass convention or district primary for the selection of delegates must be published for at least thirty days prior to the date fixed for holding the same, in the Republican newspapers published in the County or in such of them as will publish such notice without charge or at a reasonable charge. All district mass conventions or district primary elections for the selection of delegates to the said convention must be held not later than April 26th, 1912. The meeting of County Committees for the purpose of calling district primary elections or district mass conventions for the selection of delegates to the Republican State Convention must be held not later than March 26th, 1912, in order that thirty days notice of the primary election or mass convention may be published. The Republican County Executive Committees must ascertain the result of the district primary election or district mass convention for the selection of delegates, and certify the same to the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. All notices of contests, and all statements, evidence, etc., relating thereto, printed or typewritten, must be sent to the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee at Clarksburg, on or before May 6th, 1912. W. R. MESERVIE, Secretary. Clarksburg, W. Va. V. L. 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