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THE ADVOCATE. WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME XII. Illiterate Percentage IS DECREASED IN STATE ACCORDING TO FIGURES OF CENSUS BUREAU Negroes Progressing Just A Little More Than One-fifth of Entire Colored Population is Unable to read and write a t the Census Taken in 1910. Washington, May 6.—The percentage of persons who cannot write is larger in West Virginia than it is in the United States at large according to figures made public today by the census bureau. The percentage in West Virginia, however, is lower than in any other southern state except Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The percentage of those who can write has not grown in West Virginia in the last ten years as rapidly as it has in the country generally. According to the figures given by the census bureau there were in West Virginia in 1910, 74,866 persons above ten years of age who could not write. This was 8.3 of the total population over ten years of ages. In 1900 the number who could not write was 80, 105 or 11.4 per cent. The percentage of illiterates has decreased in West Virginia more rapidly than it has in the United States generally. In 1900 there were twenty-one states whose percentage of illiterates was less than West Virginia's but in 1910 there were only eighteen states with a smaller percentage, showing that the people of West Virginia are being educated more rapidly than the average in the United States. Among the white population over ten years of age average per cent. of those who cannot white is 5.0. In West Virginia the percentage is 7.6, but this shows a great advance over 1900 when the percentage for the United States was 6.2 and that for West Virginia was 10.3. Great advances have been made among the Negro population of West Virginia as well as throughout the country. In 1900 there were 11,033 Negroes in West Virginia who could not write or 32.3 percent of the Negro population. In 1910 there were only 10.347 Negroes who could not write or 20.3 per cent of the Negro population. The percentage in the United States of Negroes who could not write decreased from 44.5 in 1900 to 30.4 in 1910. In only two states did the number of those unable to write increase from 1910. These states are Connecticut and New York and the fact that the number of illiterates remained practically the same in each state is attributed to the heavy immigration into those states in the last ten years. In only two states of the union, Texas and Louisiana and in he District of Columbia the number of white persons unable to write increased in the ten year period, while the number of Negroes unable to write increased only in Oklahoma. To Recover Damages From Members of a Mob Which Destroyed his Property and ran him From Town. (Special to The Advocate) (Special to The Advocate.) Nortfolk, Va., May 9—The trial of the suit for $100,000 damages for false arrest that Samuel Burton, now a resident of Baltimore has brought against the town of Onancock, Va., and a number of whites who are said to have members of a race-rioting mob on August 10. 1907, is expected to begin the federal court Monday. During the riot a number of colored citizens were attacked one killed. Mr. Burton's store was burned down and the newspaper plant of Samuel D. Uzzle, who then published the Peninsular Times in Onanceck, also burned. The mob got hot behind, Mr. Burton, Mr. Burton, Mr. Muzzle and along with S. T. Conquest, they were arrested on a charge of riot and murder. The cases were removed to Norfolk, the three men convicted. Uzzle getting sentence of three years in the penitentiary and the other two gentlemen two years each. They appealed the cases to the State Supreme Court, which reversed the verdict of the lower court. Mr. Burton's business as a merchant was destroyed, and he is now connected as a salemsan with a large white firm in Baltimore. Mr. Uzzle publishes the New Century in this city, while Mr. Conquest lives in THE ADVOCATE. Educational Event of Great Importance WILL BE THE NON-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE AT SHEPARIDS RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL. Durham, N. C., May 7. All indications are that the summer school and chautauqua and especially the ministers' conference at the National Religious Training School, this city, will be the greatest educational event among Afro-Americans during the year. An appreciable amount of interest over the ministers' conference which will be held July 6-13 inclusive, and the summer school and chautauqua from July 3rd to August 11th, 1912, reveals the fact that the plans of the founder and president of this noted institution are comprehensive and far-reaching. This meeting will be of national import and epocal at that. Being non-denominational, substantial results will be gained, as vital questions affecting the race's progress will be discussed by the ministers. President Shepard is hearing from ministers in every section of the country and his generous invitation to entertain free of cost the visiting ministers during the conference week with the exigencies for such a call will bring preachers from the rural districts as well as from the large cities of the country. Leading white divines from various parts of the country are giving impetus to the movement and prominently among them is the noted lecturer and preacher, Dr. W. Y. Chapman, who is famed as one of the oldest preachers in America and pastor of one of the richest churches. He says that many of the problems of the race must largely be solved by the ability of the Afro-American preacher to become a true and potent factor in the activities of their race. Since the doors of this unique and beneficient institution opened for the dissemination of principles which will lift the race to higher standard of true service Dr. Chapman, who is a forceful character and a staunch defender of every right of the Negro as an American citizen, has given a series of lectures at the school. Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Hurlbut, of New Jersey, who is considered one among the greatest Bible authorities in the world and a widely famed Bible instructor and author, with Dr. Chapman, will be in charge of the expository features during the conference week. Another authority on the Holy Writ and foremost theological instructor found in the white race is Dr. Johnson, of Xenia, Ohio. He is one of the lecturers for the chautauqua and summer school. He says that this movement is analogous to such of the white race. The high standard of same and its effective influence and helpfulness, he says has placed Dr. Shepard's life among those of the race who accomplished remarkable things for the Negro. After a careful investigation it has been found that there are 30,000 Afro-American preachers in this country and that only one-third of that number measure up to the requirement of the high profession, hence the ministers' conference which will be devoid of such features that will hinder united action for the obtaining of good for the race, will be a potent agency in reaching the masses of the race and turning the activities of thousands of them into avenues of usefulness. From July 3rd to August 11th, some of the ablest lecturers and educators of 10th races will be featured as instructors and lecturers for the occasion. Prominently among them will be Prof. Kelly, Miller, Dr. D. Webster Davis and Hon. John C. Dancy. Other strong and inspiring attractions will be noted singers and such world famed talents as Prof. Joseph Douglass, the violinist. Miss Nannie Wutkins, who is the guest of Miss Estella James leaves this week for her home in Keyston, W. S. Glimer is ill at his home on State street. Mrs. C. W. Boyd and Mrs. Helen Farrar attended the Baptist Sundav School conversion held at Montgomery last week. Dr. B. A. Crichlow, of Keystone, is here for a few days visiting friends. Petersburg. The suit is expected to be hotly contested, and both sides will be represented by an array of counsel. Attorneys W. Ashbie Hawkins, of Baltimore, and Land of this city are among Mr. Burton's counsel. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912 Colored Members OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH COMMENDED IN BISHOPS' ADDRESS. Education Offered As a Solution of The National Problem, but Bishops are Silent on Questions Which Have Been Occupying Attention of Colored Brethren. Minneapolis, Minn., May 9—No mention whatever a suffragan bishop or bishops, autonomy or complete separation from the connection of its Negro membership was made by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church in their address to the quadrennial conference now in session here. Resolutions have been offered, however, authorizing the election of two Negro bishops for the South and requesting the President of the United States to use his influence in promoting the passage of legislation giving the Federal government control of the prosecution of all cases of lynching. "Our Colored Membership "On grounds of expediency and, it may, as well be said, by mutual preference, in view of all conditions, our Negro members have their separate Annual Conference and local Church organizations. But not by one jot or little are their legal rights or sanctuary benefits abated by this arrangement. The Constitution and Discipline of the Church operate impartially and without reference to race, color, or previous conditions. Our colored people are represented in this body on exactly the same basis as our white membership, and in proportion to their numbers they have equal voice with their white brethren in legislation and in all General Conference elections. If the Church might have done more for them, it is also true that she might have done less. Of the value of her work to the Nation, as well as to the Negro, there can be no challenge. Her answer to the oft-repeated question—"What shall be done with the Negro?"—is, "Educate him, evangelize him, and respect his rights as a man". Time, patience, and religion hold the only solution of this National problem. In demonstration of the correctness of our answer, we claim as lawbiding and progressive a body of colored people as can be found under the flag. In this great co-operative undertaking, which involves an experiment without precedent in history, we constantly confront new tests of our working theories; and we seem to have reached a period that in a vital point is to try our work, of what sort it is—with all the world looking on. In the evolution of our methods we have now to face the fact that about one-tenth of this great legislative and judicial body is made up of the sons of the bondmen of fifty years ago. This fraction represents a vote sufficient to decide the most important question of policy! With many thoughtful men of this body, and of the Church at large, the question of this new hour is not, "What shall the Church do with the Negro" but "How will the Negro affect the Church?" "In this assembly Asiatics, Europeans, South Americans, Africans, and North Americans—all, are Methodist Episcopalians, sharing equally both privilege and responsibility. No nationality, no color need act on the defensive. Here, as everywhere, the trained man will be known not by his Conference, his nationality, or his color, but by the force of his own personality and his intelligent discernment of men and measures in the large. "We congratulate the Nation on the rapid progress made by the Negro race since the pen of Lincoln wrote the magic words that made it free on American soil. We recognize the devotion of our colored membership as shown in its response to every call of the Church. Condemning every act of prejudice or contempt by which their way is made more difficult, we do the more covet for them and for the Church such a record in the use of their high privileges in this great legislative and judicial assembly as will vindicate at once their own manhood and the faith of the Church in her educational methods." Born, Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scales, Washington Court, a seven pound boy—Mother and son doing nicely. JOHN B. BROWN Candidate for Member At Large of Republican State Committee. J. P. D. GARDNER I hereby announce myself as candidate for committeeman-at-large at the solicitation of my many friends. I have been engaged in teaching in the public schools of the state for twenty-five years in the counties of Greenbrier, Sunnervers, Monongahelia, Mercer, and Raleigh counties. I am a graduate of Storer College, was admitted to practice law in the year of 1896. I am now a member of the Mercer County Bar. If elected I promise to do all in my power to elect the ticket nominated at the June primary. Your support solicited. Big Event of Contest FOR. DELEGATES WAS RELIN- QUISHMENT OF MASSA- CHUSETTS SUPPORT Roosevelt Commended By the Opposition Press.' Which Very Generally Praises, and Approves This Evidence of his Desire to Let The People Rule. Washington, May 7.—The voluntary and immediate action of Col. Roosevelt in giving up to Mr. Taft the eight delegates-at-large from Massachusetts instructed for himself, because of Mr. Taft's majority in the preference vote, has excited the admiration and approval of newspapers and individuals the country over, regardless of political affiliations. Taken, as it was, of his own volition and without consultation with his political advisors, the action of Col. Roosevelt has with few exceptions received the commendation of newspapers of every political complexion, and among them several of the strongest administration organs in the country. The New York Times, than which there is no stronger supporter of Mr. Taft, comments editorially on the Colonel's action as follows: "In surrendering to President Taft the eight delegates-at-large from Massachusetts who were elected as pledged to vote for himself, Mr. Roosevelt has done a manly and honorable thing. It is an act that will have an instant response of praise and approval for him the country over. * * * "The voters declared a preference for Mr. Taft, and that, under the law, is the exact equivalent of resolutions of instruction in a State convention. It should be binding upon the delegates at large. This Mr. Roosevelt frankly and with most commendable candor acknowledges, and he will urge and continue to urge the eight delegates at large to support Mr. Taft at Chicago." From the Hartford Courant, a bitter anti-Roosevelt newspaper, comes the following editorial paragraph: "Theodore Roosevelt has released the eight delegates-at-large from their pledges to vote for him and requested them to vote at Chicago for William H. Taft as being the choice of the preference primary. It is a very sportsmanlike action." The Detroit News places the relinquishment of his delegates by Colonel Roosevelt as an event of equal importance with his success in the Bay State. The News comments in this wise: "This voluntary relinquishment of supports is easily the big event of the contest. It is a concrete demonstration of "the square deal" which President Taft has so recently charged Roosevelt with repudiating. It makes more evident than ever before the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is fighting for (Continued on Page Three.) Primary Election IN NORTH CAROLINA WOULD GIVE T. R. THREE VOTES TO ONE FOR TAFT. Sentiment Strong For the Ex-President Among The Tar Heels who are Incensed Because a Democrat was appointed Federal Judge in Eastern Section. Wilson, N. C., April 7.—Throughout North Carolina, if a primary was held, Roosevelt would receive three votes to President Taft's one vote. The sentiment is daily growing stronger for Roosevelt and it has been voiced by a number of prominent democrats in this section that if Roosevelt is nominated, that remarkable personality and peculiar ability which have made him the cynosure for the eyes of the entire world, would ultimately make him triumphant at the election next November. The Republicans in the western section of the State first voiced the sentiment of the State by asserting their allegiance to the "strenuous one." Taft handed the Republicans in North Carolina a "big stick" when he appointed a Democrat a judge for the eastern section of the State. Hitchcock's hand has been felt in the state. Despite the fact that there are several postmasters to be appointed, Tatt can't become a ruling factor in the affairs of the party in North Carolina. In the piedmont section, is where the strength of the party is to be found. Previous to the last election of representatives to congress the Republicans had two representatives, and if Roosevelt is nominated and returns to that section, as he said he would do during his recent trip, many of the knowing ones claim that he will carry the western part of the state with a good margin. The colored contingent of the party is "sawing wood" and they prefer Roosevelt to Taft. The "Lily White" wing of the party will find in this representative element of colored Republicans a factor to be considered. Every progressive Afro-American stands out in bold relief in favor of the movement quite extan' in the State, to register the fact that they are citizens and a factor in the party in North Carolina. The commencement exercises of the National Religious Training School, Durham, will undoubtedly be one of the greatest events of its kind among Afro-American institutions of learning in the South. The progressive citizens of Durham, of both races, are preparing to make the stay of the large number of visitors of both races from nearly every section of the country, a continuous round of enjoyment and enlightenment. The "Shepard Idea" is a popular chord and the races, in North Carolina especially, are supporting him in this great effort for the reaching of the masses of the Afro-American folk and at the same time lessening the antipathy between the two races. The Afro-American farmer, especially in this section, is shipping hundreds of dollars worth of strawberries and other early vegetables to northern markets. The Negro as a farmer and a business man is "making good. The cause of the success of the farmers of ebony hue in North Carolina can be quite conservatively attributed to their ability to contribute to the economic, civic, religious, moral and intellectual uplift of the race and mastering the work in which they are engaged. A concrete evidence of silent fidelity to his people and one of the main elements contributing to the substantial progress of hundreds of ambitious Afro-Americans in the eastern section of North Carolina and a goodly number of other places outside of the State, is Prof. Samuel H. Vick, expostmaster of this city, and one of the most prominent capitalists in the race. Prof. Vick has made it possible for a large number of farmers to become recognized as successful agriculturists. Many young men have gotten homes through his assistance and timely advice. One can readily appreciate why the Negro in this part of the country is having a snug bank account, comfortable homes, farms yielding a good profit and giving employment to many; keeping their children in school and meeting the exigencies of a civilized age, where one meets Prof. Vick. (Continued on Page Three People for Teddy In "Volunteer State" NEGRO VOTERS HOLD BALANCE OF POWER AND MAY DESERT G. O. P. IF ROOSEVELT IS NOT NOMINATED. Special to The Advocate. Memphis, Tenn., May 7.—The Republican party faces a peculiar situation in this State. It cannot succeed in the state and national elections without the support of the Negro voters. The administration "machine" favors Taft but the majority of the Republican voters are clamoring for Roosevelt. The ex-president is the only man of the party who can command the strength of the party in this State. Secretary Renfro, of the Statg Committee, says Tennessee is all for Taft and that more than a majority of the Republican delegates are already pledged. He also says that the uninstructed and contested delegations combined with the chosen Roosevelt delegates would not give the State of Tennessee to "Teddy." In the convention there will be 591 votes. Roosevelt has 147 uncontested votes. There are 108 in contest and 20 going to the convention uninstructed. 296 are required to carry the convention. It is the belief of Mr. Renfro that Mr. Taft already has enough votes to give the four delegates from the state-at-large. He adds: "We do not expect any discord in the state convention for there prevails a very friendly feeling for Colonel Roosevelt and there is no disposition on the part of any member of the state committee to deprive him of any delegate to which he may be entitled." Settles, of Memphis, received a hearing at the last state convention and H. H. Pace was elected assistant secretary. They represent about 5,000 Negro voters in Memphis alone. Settles and Napier are political "chums." It is hardly probable that the attachment will have anything to do with influencing the coming contest. It has been "noised about" in Tennessee that the Register of the Treasury is "home sick" and anxious to get back home and remain forever. The political wise ones say that "the home-sick feeling of Napier is due very largely to the fact that he sees the hand-writing on the wall. He sees no chance of a future for his benefactor, Taft, and therefore is beginning to have the "come back" feeling. Some say it is good evidence of the fact that Napier realizes what a hopeless failure Taft has been in dealing with the Negroes and that he can have no chance with the Negroes at the coming election. Over in Nashville, "the political pot" is boiling. There was a Republican mass meeting of Davidson county Negroes at A. N. Johnson's Majestic Theatre last Friday night. Roosevelt was endorsed and delegates elected to go to the convention. The first county convention held was a Taft convention and the "road roller" was very much in evidence. The Negroes had no more chance than a snow-flake in a fire. The convention held at the Majestic last Friday night represented in a very large measure a union of all the Negro political factions of Davidson county. T. Clay Moore was elected chairman. He is a young man and a good politician. SOUTHERN LEADERS Montgomery, Ala., May 6—Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee Institute, is at war among the Negro delegates to the Republican National Convention to switch them from Taft to Roosevelt, according to statements made by Republican leaders. Washington is influential among the Negroes of the South, and some of the administration leaders are beginning to feel that they made a serious mistake in giving the Negroes equal representation. It is understood that Washington is working on the Negro delegates in all of the Southern states and in Mississippi. It is certain that two of the delegates, P. W. Howard, of Jackson, and Charles Banks, of Mound Bayou, will not vote for Taft despite the instruction of the state convention. Banks is Booker Washington's closest friend and ally in Mississippi and is quite at work lining up the Negro delegates for Roosevelt. It is said Washington has agents at work on Negro delegates in Georgia, Florida and other states, and other states, and that as a result of his work the Taft leaders will not be able to hold the Negro delegates in line. THE ADVOCATE. ADVERTISEMENTS PLACED IN OUR COLUMNS BRING RESULTS. TRY IT. NUMBER13 Prof. Cook Honor Guest TESTIMONIAL DINNER IS GIVEN IN HONOR OF SECRETARY OF HOWARD Lewis Toastmaster Congressman Kendall Speaks and Brilliant Career of Education is Reviewed by Appreciative Friends at Largest Function of the Kind at Capital. (Thompson's No. 1 News Bureau.) Washington day 8.—The testimonial ban in honor of Prof. George W. Cook, held last Friday evening in Her Hall on the campus of Howard University, was the largest fur its kind ever known in the Dis. of Columbia. Covers were laid for over two hundred guests, and the dining hall was crowded to its utmost capacity with appreciative friends of the energetic secretary of Howard University, representing the best brain and culture of the Negro race in the world. Prof. Cook has been identified with the institution for thirty-nine years, and a more fitting recognition of his valuable service, efficiency and the esteem in which he is held by the people of the community could not be conceived. Hon. William H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, was toastmaster, and his speeches, abounding in rich witticisms and flights of real eloquence by turns, justified the wisdom of the promoters in selecting him for this arduous mask. The Toasts. Toasts that sparkle with humor and carried information of much value, eulogizing in felicitous and sincere fashion the central figure of the occasion, were responded to as follows: "Howard As She Was," Rev. Logan Johnson: "Our Guest as a Citizen," W. Justin Carter, of the bar of Harrlsburg, Pa.; "Howard As She Is," Prof. Kelly Miller; "Our Guest as an Educator," Prof. Dwight O. W. Holmes, of Baltimore. To all of the many expressions of commendation of his efforts to place Howard in the front rank of educational centers and to exert his influence toward the advancement of civic righteousness, Prof. Cook feelingly responded, taking for his theme, "The Two Seals," relating the story, of how the University came to have two seals and describing the sublime spirit of human and national uplift for which they stood. His outline of the work that Howard has done since its forty-five years of existence was intensely interesting, and the large portion of the historical data presented at first hand, was new to many of the guests. His happy tributes to such eminent founders of Howard as Gen. O. O. Howard, John M. Langston, Dr. Robert Reyburn and others evoked hearty applause. Prof. Cook's address is voted by his admirers to have been the most comprehensive study of the University yet given to the public and it marks the orator's high-water mark in forensic quality. At the close of Prof. Cook's speech he was presented with a beautiful bouquet of American Beauty roses, a gift of the ladies of Howard University. Just before he spoke, the audience was keyed up to the spirit of the hour by the condition of a song, "Howard! I Love Old Howard," by the Howard Academy Quartet, Messrs. Charles Howard, Charles W. Preston, Gonzalo James and Linwood G. Koger. Congressman Kendall Speaks. One of the truly delightful treat of the evening was the graceful and encouraging address of the Hon. N. E. Kendall, member of Congress from the "Buxton District" of Iowa, who was present as a special guest, coming at the direct request of his friend and alumnus of Howard's law department, Mr. G. H. Woodson, now a practicing attorney in the State of Iowa. Mr. Kendall saw in this gathering a promise of great things for the Negro race in the future. He believed that color prejudice is gradually disappearing as the black man gives continued evidence of his ability to cope with the best brain and brawn of America and is getting hold of the elements that make for the most advanced civilization. He said he would not have missed this occasion for anything, as it was a distinct "eye-opener" to him well acquainted as he was with the colored people in many CORRESPONDENCE PAGE TWO HINTON The series of prayer meetings which have been going on at the second Baptist church for the past two weeks closed last Friday night with eleven conversions. Mortimer M. Harris, who is a college student of Howard university, spent last week with his sister, Mrs. G. W. Holley. He came over to accompany her with her infant son to Washington, where she will spend on week and then leave for her home in Montgomery, Ala. They left for Washington May 5th. Mrs. Jessie Adams Jackson is house-keeping at the Sanitarium while Mrs. Holley is away. Maurice Pierce who has been teaching in Florida the past school term, was a guest of Miss Alfreda Smithers the past week. The Misses Smithers entertained complimentary to Mr. Pierce on Monday evening. Only the members of the club were present. On Tuesday evening Miss Blanch Christian verry charmingly entertained in his honor. The club members and other friends. Miss M. Sordartha Booth was hostess at six o'clock dinner Wednesday afternoon complimentary to Mr. Pierce and the club. Russell Jackson, who was operated on last week for appendicitis at the Holley Sanitarium, is recovering nicely. Mrs. Coleman J—ackson, of Staunton, Va. was in town last week visiting her son Russell. Mrs. William Washington entertained the "Progressives" Monday night. Miss Eva Wells has opened her ice cream parlor on second ave., for the summer. MONTGOMERY Mrs. J. S. Noel entertained at dinner Thursday. Prof. Byrd Prillerman Miss Emma Meadows, of Institute, B. E. Carter of Keystone, A. P. Straughther, Miss Hattie Mickens of Hinton. Missess Francis Starkes Ella Holmes Mesdames Helen Farrar, Rosa Thompson Charles Walker, of Charleston; Miss Murry and Mrs. James of Hill Top. Miss Hattie Mickens of Hinton was the week-end guest of her cousin Miss Mary W. Noel. Edward Manley, of the Manley & Martin Undertaking firm, returned home Saturday from Pittsburg where he was called because of the death of a sister. Woodson Jones is able to be out after several weeks' illness. An Art Club has been organized by Mrs. F. D. Railey and Mrs. Lizzie Brown, about forty young ladies joined. Mrs. Railey and Miss Mary Noel will teach the Drawn work and embroidery and Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Goldie Page, Mrs. J. V. Wilkerson and Miss Katharine Brown will teach plaid sewing. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Avery Johnson Sunday night a girl. Mother and baby doing nicely. Mrs. George Gough, entertained Monday afternoon with a birthday party for her little daughter, Josephine Louise. A number of little girls and boys were present. Miss Lolo M. Lavender, teacher in the Elkshorn school, is home for the summer. Mrs. Mayme N. Jackson has returned home after visiting friends in Charleston and Huntington. Editor of the McDowell Times M. T. Whititie, and Atty. B. Carter, of Keystone, were business visitors here last week. While here they were guests of H. H. Railey. LEWISBURG Rev. James Whiton occupied the pulpit of the M. E. church Sunday morning and the night and preached two good practical sermons. Rev. Terrell, of Ronceverte, preached a very acceptable sermon at M. Tabor Baptist church. Sunday night The closing exercises of the Lewisburg graded school took place Thursday night, May 2, before a large and appreciative audience. Nearly one hundred white persons were present. The whole entertainment was very creditable and received the highest praise from every one. There were seven graduates and the diplomas were delivered to them by E. A. Bolling, Jr., in a very appropriate address. Miss Annie Garrison received the gold medal for scholarship. Miss Nicey A. Morris, one of the graduates took the teachers' uniform, examination in April and received good grades in nearly all the subjects. This speaks well for this young lady and also for the good work of the Lewisburg graded School. Miss Morris will attend the State Summer school at Institute in June and July. Miss F. V. Woodson, one of the assistant teachers of the Lewisburg school left for Columbus, Ohio. Saturday morning. INSTITUTE. Miss Cabiness, of Washington, D. C., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mitchell. honored inside at Glen Jean. The Baltimore, May S.—The presidential young woman is said to have been very primaries, held here yesterday, popular with the younger set and resulted in Roosevelt winning the State sire to see her mother, from whom she by 4,000 majority. Councilman Harhad been separated for some time, is by S. Cummings, leader of the Taft said to be responsible for her mental forces in the Seventeenth ward, lost derangement. As long as her condition the ward by 622 majority. Mr. Cummion permits she will be cared for by mings has been confined to his home her mother and two brothers. If there by illness for the last ten days, how is a change for the worse she will be ever. He and Dr. Ernest Lyon, who sent to virginia or placed in the asy- was also defeated as Taft delegate to Miss Amelia Wilcher visited friends here Friday and Saturday George Mitchell, of Greensboro, N. C., was the guest of Miss Lucy Smith, Saturday and Sunday. J. W. Scott, of Huntington, spent Sunday here. Pres. B. Prillerman and Mrs. E. R. Carter attended the Sunday School convention in Montgomery last week. H. H. Harper spent a few days with his relatives in the village. The baseball game Friday between The West Virginia Colored Institute team and the Montgomery teams resulted in a score 4 to 5 in favor or the former. The drama presented by the Junior Class the West Virginia Colored Institute was a success. Misses Rhoda Wilson and Hattie Feters visited the West Virginia Colored Institute Saturday and Sunday. FAIRMONT. E. L. Morton returned Thursday from Charleston where he attended the funeral of J. M. Hazlewood. Mrs. Samuel Wilson is visiting relatives at Harrisburg, Pa. Sumner Mills is the guest of Wip. O. Armstrong en route to his home in Boston. Mrs. Geo. Whiting has recovered from her recent illness. Mrs. Mary Brotten was hostess to Ladies Aid Society No. 1 at the residence of Mrs. E. L. Morton Friday night. The annual thanksgiving sermon of Mt. City Lodge No. 3532 G. U. O. O. Fellows was preached Sunday afternoon by Rev. Toney at Trinity M. E. church. A large number of Odd Fellows and Households of Dartmouth. Clarksville, were present. A solo by Miss Willa Lee, of Clarksville, and Clarence Lee, this city, were very pleasing features of the program. Misses Willa Lee, Lily Allen and Mrs. Dale Dean, of Clarksville, spent Sunday here the guests of Mrs. E. L. Morton and Chas. Hamilton. Harrison Jones is moving his family from Jackson to Spencig street. M. T. Obie is rapidly convalescing from a long attack of rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Boyer have both been very ill the past week, but are reported better at this writing. "A Peddler's Parade" will be given Thursday night at M. E. Church by Ladies Aid Society No. 1. The Apple-Pie Social given by Ladies Aid Society No. 2 was well attended and a success financially. CHARLESTON Hotel Brown Arrivals.—The following persons were registered at Hotel Brown this week: J. D. Morris, Fire Creek; Mr. and Mrs. B. Williams, Coal River; W. A. Spriggs, Institute; Miss May Broyles, Raymond City; C. E. Davis, Burnwell; Dr. J. E. Hunter, Lexington, Ky.; J. A. Pannell, Lynchburg, Va.; J. H. Campbell, Moundsville; S. D. Duncan, Cincinnati; B. E. Carter, Keystone; Miss Nannie Jones, Miss Lizzie Winston, Dayton, O.; Miss Lena M. Hopkins, Huntington; J. B. Bowles, Ward; Miss May Cabell, Hugheron; M. Pierson, Raymond City; A. A. Hopkins, Alderson; C. Logan, Whrd; M. H. Winger, Ypsilanti, Mich.; Mrs. H. C. Harvey, Burnwell; Mrs. E. J. Graham, Miss Ananda Williams, Pldwell, O.; Miss A. B. Goins, Miss A. J. Brown, Clifton Forge, Va.; N. Hughes, Lynchburg, Va.; M. T. Jackson, Stone Cliff; Miss Frances Woodson, Columbus, O.; F. Whiting, Montgomery. Tribe of Judah Meets.—Mrs. M. J. Preston, Miss Willie Brown and J. C. Lewis, entertained the Tribe of Judah. Thursday evening at the home of Miss Fannie Thomas, Sentz. Arrangements were perfected for memorial services for Mrs. Ruth Fields who was a faithful member of the Tribe. The meeting this week will be held with Mrs. M. A. Alexander, Mrs. Lizzie Scruggs, John Battles and Prof H. B. Rice acting as hosts. May Fair next Week.—The annual May fair will be held at the First Baptist church next week, beginning Monday. The first night the Atheneum club will stage a play styled "Jemima, or the Witch of Bender;" Missionary Secti on No. 2 will have charge of the Tuesday entertainment, another play "An Evening Among the Gypsies." "The Colored Suffragettes" will be staged Wednesday night by the Tribe of Judah. Young Girl Insane.—Mrs. Gertrude Gough Mciver, of Columbus, O. was called to this State, Thursday to see her daughter who has been pronounced insane at Glen Jean. The lum at Weston. - Atheneums Render Program.—A solo, "All I Ask of You," by Mrs. H. Meadows, select reading by Norman Haven, solos by Alexander Gregory and Mrs. O. Walker and an address by Rev. E. J. Woodard were the features of the Atheneum club meeting. Monday evening, at the residence of Mrs. Vivgie Jefferson. Although the weather was inclement, forty-three members were in attendance and a pleasant evening was spent. At the conclusion of the program refreshments were served by Mrs. Marlon Green Mrs. O. Walker, Mrs. Cordelia Johnson, William Dickerson and Alonza Creech. Tribe of .Joseph Meets.,—J. P. Caul, George Smith, and J. W. Jarrett assisted Miss Mary Tull and Mrs. Janie Amos in entertaining the "Tribe of Joseph." Friday evening, at the home of Mrs. Charles Walker. An excellent program was arranged for the meeting this week with Mrs. Mollie Mills, North Rand St., and R. C. McIver expressed the thanks of the forty-eight members present to the hosts. m,aBgR Oic.;g dyHeBOTYRIPir-fYI C. W. Kingsley, G. R. Caveness and Richard Price, of Raymond city, were here last week on business. Prof. J. W. Scott, principal of the Donglass school at Huntington, spent Sunday here. Mrs. H. B. Rice, Mrs. Mary Mason and Mrs. Rosa Thompson were elected delegates by the Loyal Union to the State Federation of Women's Clubs which meets at Hill Top the 51 inst. Mrs. Wheeler of Montgomery, accompanied by her children is visiting her mother, Mrs. C. L. Burke, Capitol street. Fred Haynes, manager of the Piedmont Pressing Co., at Huntington, is in the city on business. Mrs. Julia Jones has returned to her home at Paducah, Ky., after a month's visit to her sister, Mrs. Mary Starks. Mrs. Eva Mickey is ill at her home on Sentz street. A pleasant surprise panty was tendered Mrs. Julia Jones at the home of Mrs. Mary Starks, Shrewsbury St. Monday evening. Mrs. Patrick Hawkins will be hostess to the Ladies Art Club at her home on Sentz street Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Minnie Harris visited her nephews at Montgomery, last week. Mrs. A. C. Harvey, of Burnwell, was the guest of Mrs. Walton at Hotel Brown, Sunday. Miss Della Brown left Friday to spend the summer with her mother in Boston, Mass. Mrs. R. R. Downs returned last week from Florida where she spent the past three months with her mother. Mrs. E. M. Wilson, of Huntington, was a mid-week visitor to the city. Horace Carter, of Powellton, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Winston, this week. Arthur Shaffer and family left this week for their home at Fincastle, Va. Mrs. Alonza Layne, of Gauley Bridge, passed through the city Tuesday, to visit her husband at Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. W. A. Watt, of Huntington, visited her husband at Hotel Brown, last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Graham and daughter, of Bidwell, O., spent a few hours here Tuesday on their way to visit friends on Cabin Creek. Mrs. C. T. Burke, of Hugheston, was a mid-week visitor here. The little son of Mrs. Lady Hill, Court St., died Saturday of Tuberculosis. The funeral services were held at the residence Monday afternoon. Misses Rhoda Wilson and Hattie Peters visited friends at the Institute the latter part of last week. Miss L. O. Hopkins will entertain the Improvement League Friday afternoon. Miss Estella James entertained the Fluer De Lis Whist Club and a few other friends Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Nannie Watkins, of Keystone. Mrs. Minnie Harris visited relatives in Montgomery last week. Miss Naola Farrar spent the latter part of the week in Montgomery. Mrs. Maiinda Wells and Mrs. Anna Watson left Saturday for their homes in Pomeroy and Columbus, O., respectively. Miss Jeannie Douglass left Saturday for a visit to relatives in Athens. LYON AND CUMMINGS Lost Their Ward in the Contest For Delegates Between Taft and Roosevelt. THE ADVOCATE the State convention, had been slated as delegates to the Republican National Convention. Among the colored Roosevelt delegates elected were: William C. McCard, Louis Davenport and John W. Ryan. Truly Hatchett, the first colored notary public in the state, took the oath of office Monday. Mr. Thomas H. Turner has been appointed a clerk in the postoffice. A reception was tendered Rev. W. Edward Williams, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church, Monday night. Napier Gives Taft a Clean Bill of Health REGISTER OF THE TREASURY SAYS CHIEF EXECUTIVE HAS BEEN SYMPATHETIC AND DE- SERVES A RENOMINATION. (Special to the Advocate.) Baltimore, May 9—That the colored people, as a class, is one of the country's greatest economic factors was asserted by Hon. James C. Napier. Register of the United States Treasury, in an address at John Wesley M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Register Napier was introduced by Dr. Ernest Lyon, who described him as "one of Tennessee's foremost citizens." "In the course of his address Mr. Napier said that the $3 per cent. of the farm work in the South was done by colored men, and that the major portion of the cotton crop was raised by the race. "Many of us do not stop to think, of the fact that the Negro is the South's greatest asset." The bulk of the cotton crop is raised by us, white men making great profits by selling this crop to the manufacturers, and they, in turn, making clothing for the world. In every branch of industry you can see the Negro's hand. He has been in everything from the battle of Bunker Hill down to the discovery of the North Pole save one—the decorable Titanic disaster." Speaking of President Taft, he said President Taft has proven himself a friend of the race. What President has spoken out against lynching, however great the provocation, as he has? What President has let the world know that he opposed disfranchisement, as he did when they were trying to disfranchise you in Maryland and what President has, on the advice of reputable Colored men refused to appoint a man justice of the United States Supreme Court as he did in the case of Judge Cook, who recordered a decision upholding incrow cars? "President Taft may have done some things that you and I did not agree with, but there is no chief executive who had been more sympathetic in his attitude for the race than has Mr. Taft, and certainly none that could be approached so easily. He deceives a renomination at the hands of the Republican party, and the Colored people of this country should show their friendly interest by voting for his renomination and reelection." Mr. Napier was accompanied to the city by Mr. Cyrus Fiedt Adams, assistant Register of the Treasury. Election of Roman As Editor of Review OF THE A. M. E. CONNECTION AND RETENTION OF BRYANT BY TENNESSEANS. (Special To The Advocate.) Nashville, Tennessee, May 9—Tennessee are expecting the election of Roman as editor of the A. M. E. Review Jones as editor of the Southern christian Record. They also look for the return of J. C. Caldwell, Ira T. Bryant and W. A. Lewis as heads of their departments of the A. M. E. church work. The Florida Georgia and South Carolina delegations passed through here Saturday morning and the Tennessee delegation joined them. The four formed a combination hard to beat at Kansas City. The Convention of Colored Episcopalians held recently at Jackson, Tenn., had the Rev. Mr. T. Thos. Denby as presiding officer. It is Archdeacon Denby now. He is the first man of his race to be advanced to such a place by the church in Tennessee. The change is a welcome one to the colored churchmen and the prediction is made that the new Archdeacon will carry the work forward rapidly. Archdeacon Denby has formerly had charge of the work in Memphis, Tenn. The Rev. A. Goff Coconbs was elected secretary of the convention at Jackson. He succeeds Archdeacon Denby in that position. The colored Episcopalians of Tennessee are getting ready to do a large work for the race and their influence in the Church is likely to be felt throughout the South. The Tennessee Conference of Congregational church. Rev. C. W. Morrow pastor, was host. There was a number of visitors and delegates from surrounding cities in Tennessee and Kentucky as well. The conference was the twenty-third in the history of the Tennessee church "Friendship with God in His Work" was the subject of an inspiring sermon by Rev. A. Eugene Thomson, D. D., Principal of Lincoln Institute of Kentucky. Mr. Roger N. Baldwin, Secretary Of Civic League, St. Louis, Mo., delivered another very forceful address on "Social Reforms." Prof. G. E. Haynes had a paper on "Co-operation of the Church Social Service." The delegates were not pleased with Mr. Haynes line of thought and his address was roundly criticised at the Friday night meeting. The Commencement season at Walden and Roger Williams University are claiming the attention of the people now. The Walden commencement exercises began Thursday, May 2. The baccalaureate sermon was preached Sunday, May 5, by President Kumler. The normal and collegiate class held their exercises Monday night. Tuesday night Councilman S. P. Harris delivered an address to the normal class. J. W. Grant delivered the alonnii anniversary address on Wednesday night and on last Thursday morning at 1:00 o'clock Rev. Ira Landrith, D. D., regent of Bolmont College delivered the commencement address to the graduates of all departments. Delegates Disavow Allegiance to Taft Delegates Disavow Allegiance to Taft SIX OF THEM FROM SOUTH CAROLINA SEE THE ERROR OF THEIR WAY AND HASTEN TO HOP IN ROOSEVELT WAGON. Columbia, S. C., May 7.—At last the colored contingent as delegates to Republican convention, from this state, have disavowed their allegiance to President Taft and by this act rejuvened his southern policies. Telegrams to the Roosevelt headquarters at Washington were sent a few days ago to the manager of ex-President Roosevelt by Lawyer W. T. Andrews, of Sumiter and Dr. J. I. Levy, of Florence; "We are delegates at large to Republican National Convention from South Carolina. The convention was held February 29th, and instructed for Taft. At that time Col. Roosevelt was not a candidate, and it did not appear that President Taft could be elected. Since Col. Roosevelt entered the field it is evident that he is the choice of the great mass of Republican voters in the states that elected Republican nominees. It has also become palpably evident in states where the popular will has been tested that it will be impossible for Mr. Taft to be elected, even if nominated, and we have therefore reached the conclusion that our duty to the party and the country demands that we should vote for Col. Roosevelt, and we shall so vote." That they are voicing the sentiments and strong desires of the colored voters in South Carolina is evidenced in the following telegram dated from this city from the following popular men: C. M. English, M. M. Morrison, Frank G. Young and J. P. Goodwin. The telegram is as follows: "We are delegates from South Carolina to the Republican National Convention. Our convention was not instructed and it gives us great pleasure to say we shall vote at Chicago for Theodore Roosevelt, because we believe him to be the embodiment of the principles which stands for the best good for the American people and American institutions, and for the further reason that he is the undoubted choice of the great mass of Republicans of those states which furnish the votes for the election of the party nominee after he is nominated." MARYLAND ODD FELOWS Will have Small Representation in Next N, M, C, P Places of the Baltimore, May 8—The coming session of the Biennial Movable Committee of Old eFilows, at Atlanta, promises to be shy of some delegates if the plans of some of those opposed present ruling regime carried out. According to those opposed, eight lodges in Maryland have already agreed not to elect delegates for the reason as one man put it: "The B. M. C. had a chance in Baltimore to revise the laws of the order, to adopt beneficent measures, out, on the contrary, developed into a logrolling match in favor of the present ruling oligarchy. Why should our lodges pay their good money to send delegates to Atlanta, right in the heart of the enemy's camp, to do the same thing?" That Julius C. Johnson of this city will have a fight on his hands for re-election as grand treasurer of the order, is becoming apparent. Jesse L. Nicholas, grand secretary for Maryland and candidate for grand director, has been placed on the program to take a leading part in the annual thanksgiving services of the local lodges of the order here the coming Sunday, and the name of Mr. Johnson omitted from the program. As Maryland would hardly be awarded two of the big officers at the disposal of the next B. M. C., it seems as if Mr. Nicholas has the inside track. Rumors of independent lodges of the order here are flying thick and fast, and it is said that Mr. J. C. de Asbury, former editor of the Odd Fellow Journal will soon organize several lodges in Baltimore and the counties. The African Methodists The most compact and powerful of the Negro churches is the African Methodist Episcopal church. Its membership has grown from 42 members in 1787 to 200,000 members in 1876 and 494,777 members in 1906. It is governed by a board of bishops, fifteen to eighteen in number, over whom the senior bishop, at present the Rt. Rev. Henry M. Turner, presides. The church has 7,000 local organizations, with property worth over $11,000,000. It raises about $2,000,000 a year; of this about $800,000 goes to pastors, $200,000 to bishops and presiding elders, and the other million to schools, missions and general expenses. There are two publication houses, weekly papers and a quarterly magazine and some publication of books. The church supports over forty schools, of which the largest and oldest is Wilberforce University, in Ohio. The church, however, is chiefly noteworthy, on account of its board of bishops. These bishops are elected for life by a general conference meet- State Summer Colored Third Session, June 17th, to Two Distinet departments demie, which will be devoted to the school course, for which cred tations. Also in this connection expecting to pass the examinati Professional, which is designed for and other advanced students. country has been secured for this tinguished educators in this cou Summer School Faculty, viz: B. Du BOIS, Ph. D., BOOKER This is to be the Biggest and Be enroll. For particulars address Va., R. P. Sims, Bluefild, W. Ferry, W. Va.; or M. P. Shawk CROWN AND BRIDGE HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 Dr. JAMES Summer School Colored Teachers June 17th, to July 26th, 1912, let departments will be maintained be devoted to thorough work for which credit may be had in this connection thorough drill the examinations will be made is designed for principals, hi- red students. Some of the secured for this school. Three ers in this country have acce- fulty, viz: KELLY MILL, D., BOOKER WASHINGTON. Biggest and Best School Yet. P. Sculpers address: Byrd Priller, Bluefild, W. Va.; H. T. Me- M. P. Shawkey, Charleston, AND BRIDGE WORK A SPR 1:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to State Summer School for Colored Teachers. Third Session, June 17th, to July 26th, 1912, Institute, W. Va. Two Distinet 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, LLD. 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, Bluefield, W. Va.; H. T. McDonald, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.; or M. P. Shawkey, Charleston, W. Va. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. Dental Surgeon 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. 600 SUMMERS STREET, CHARLESTON SPECIAL ATTENTION CAL JOHNSON DIRECTORS AND E Calls Promptly Attend the Most Reasonabl ness and Care Try Service. Open DAY a Phone VET, CHARLESTON, W. VA. ATTENTION GIVEN OUT CALLS. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN OUT OF TOWN CALLS. HENRY T. M'DONALD, President. STORER COLLEGE Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Founded More than 400 men and women in the state for Colored students. Mr. Remarkably healthful. Ample build- ING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS teen highly educated, earnest teacher. Our Library catalogued according largest in the State. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES BERS OF THE GRADUATING CLAS- THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION its faculty and student body. Its wri- ing. Literary Societies, Christian O- Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State No. For illustrated catalogue and other Founded in 1867 men and women have graduated here and students. Magnificent local l. Ample buildings. THREE N PLANT THIS YEAR. The re earnest teachers does not include logged according to the Dewey TERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED EDUCATING CLASSES WHO ARE OF EDUCATION. Storer is in that body. Its whole influence is uses, Christian Organizations, Mus omic, State Normal, Industrial, catalogue and other printed matter The 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 ing every four years. The membership of the general conference consists of ministerial and lay delegates; the clerical delegates are elected from the annual conferences, one for every thirty ministers. Two lay delegates for each annual conference are selected by the representatives of the official church boards in the conference. Thus we have a peculiar case of Negro government, with elaborate machinery and the experience of a hundred years. How has it succeeded? Its financial and numerical success has been remarkable, as has been shown. Moreover, the bishops elected form a remarkable series of personalities. Together the assembled bishops are perhaps the most striking body of Negroes in the world in personal appearance; men of massive physique, clear-cut faces and undoubted intelligence. The General Conference, which meets in Kansas City Mo., May 6-27, is a quadrennial meeting having the highest legislative and judicial authority. Meeting as seldom as it does, it is necessarily a body of great importance. Its membership will be 522, consisting of the bishops, heads of general departments, presidents of colleges and ministerial and lay delegates representing American and African conferences. The revision of the discipline and the election of bishops and heads of departments will be the chief business of the session.—The Crisis. er School for Teachers. July 26th, 1912, Institute, W. Va. will be maintained: 1. The Acad- lorough work on the branches of it may be had in the various insti- lorough drill classes for perso- nions will be maintained. 2. The for principals, high school teachers, Some of the best talent in the school. Three of the most dis- tinctly have accepted places on the KELLY MILLER, A. M., W. E. WASHINGTON, LLD. First School Yet. Prepare now to Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va.; H. T. McDonald, Harper's Day, Charleston, W. Va. WORK A SPECIALTY 40 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. B. BROWN NSON CO. AND EMBALMERS aptly Attended. Reasonable. e Try Open DAY and NIGHT Phone 2472 N, W. VA. GIVEN OUT OF TOWN LS. N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. in 1867 have graduated here. The oldest school significant location. Elevation high. ings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEYEAR. The regular faculty of six- does not include assistants. to the Dewey System, is one of the ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM- SES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO N. Storer is interdenominational in inole influence is toward Christian liv- organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and ormal, Industrial, Music. her printed matter write to The President, Home Phone 429 THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1912. Big Event (Continued from page one.) principles more than votes or office. It is a stinging rebuke to the methods of the Taft managers who have grabbed off votes wherever possible and by any methods at hand, even to the contesting and unseating of regularly elected state Roosevelt delegates. It is Theodore. Roosevelt's most powerful exemplification of his sincere and disinterested belief in his doctrine that the people should rule." The New York Evening Post, one of the strongest Taft organs in the country and one of the bitterest opponents of Colonel Roosevelt, comes to the front with a handsome acknowledgment of his honesty of purpose in reenquishing his Massachusetts delegates-at-large. The Evening Post says: "It would be unfair to question Mr. Roosevelt's motives in announcing, as he did so promptly yesterday, that he did not want the eight delegates-at-large of Massachusetts. Elected by a ballot mistake, and in opposition to the clearly expressed preference of the majority, he declares that they ought to vote in the convention for Mr. Taft, and that he will strongly urge them to do so. This is one of those square and manly actions in political life which everybody must admire, and which should not be meanly criticised. It is in line with the early tradition about the character of the ideal Roosevelt, which he has unfortunately done so much since to shatter. For our part, we give his course in this business ungrudging praise, and shall not join with those who are intimating that it was all a trick, designed in the first place to effect public opinion and then to make sure of 20 or 30 delegates in Oregon and Illinois in return for the eight handed to Taft in Massachusetts. We prefer to regard it as simply one of those instant and instinctive decisions by Roosevelt, at once expressing his sense of the right thing to do and hitting the sentiment of the people between wind and water, for which he has always been noted. That it was adroit politics does not alter the fact that it was handsome and honorable." Under the caption, "People Against Bosses," the Chicago Tribune speaks of Col. Roosevelt's action thusly: "Col. Roosevelt's prompt renunciation of the eight delegates-at-large from Massachusetts is a consistent application of the principle which he and his supporters are fighting for throughout the country. "That principle is, 'Let the people rule.' "In a total vote of about 148,000 Mr. Taft received less than 4,000 more than Col. Roosevelt. But small as it was, it registered the direct vote of the people, and Col. Roosevelt asks that it be followed in spite of any technical claims. "The position thus taken is a refreshing and a significant contrast to the sordid violence of machine politics which gave Mr. Taft delegates in Indiana, where no one doubts a direct preference primary would have swept the State as it did in Illinois for his rival, and which gave New York and Kentucky to Taft." The Pittsburg Leader contributes the following comment on Col. Roosevelt's action under the caption, "The Square Deal:" "The attitude of Theodore Roosevelt in the case of the eight Roosevelt delegates-at-large elected at the Massachusetts primary, Tuesday, is only what might have been expected of him. "It is unusual for a man engaged in a great political battle to surrender anything to the enemy, even under the demand of a plain principle, but that is what Roosevelt has done. "In urging the eight delegates to vote for Taft because the state's preferential vote showed a plurality for the President, is exactly what everyone who knows the real Roosevelt expected he would do. "He believes in and acts the square deal for an enemy, just the same as for a friend. The square deal is the square deal. Roosevelt is square." Primary Election (Continued from page one) North Carolina True Reformers come next to Virginia, when the membership of this organization is taken into consideration, so there are thousands of anxious members of the organization in North Carolina manifesting much interest in the trial of Burrell and the former officials of the fraternity. The prominent members of the order, here, seem to have confidence in the present officials of this once great movement. There is yet a chance for the order to regain license to do business in the State. Prof. Cook (Continued from Page 1.) sections of the country. It was his final suggestion, that the young men and women who come to Washington to secure advantages in education not obtainable elsewhere, go out into the West and South and carry their cultivated talents to those of their people who stand in the greatest need of their illuminating touch. Congressman Kendall struck a popular chord and was cheered to the echo. The closing feature of the program was an original skit, "Facts and Figments," by Messrs. Robert A. Pelham and Shelby J. Davidson, assisted by Mr. Herbert D. Myers, who operated the lantern and slides used to illustrate the points brought out by the humorists. Many familiar scenes with which Prof. Cook was connected in his life work at Howard University were shown to a decided advantage, including portraits of the University workers. The portraits of Dr. W. P. Thirkield, Hon. J. C. Napier, Dr. W. C. McNell, Dr. C. Sumner Wormily, Dr. W. A. Warfield, following those of Gen. Howa-d and Prof. Cook, were given a hearty greeting. The decorations consisted of American flags, the white and blue colors of the University, electric lights, palms and ferns. The menu was gotten up in Caterer W. W. Martin's best style and was unusually toothsome and varied. The executive committee, to whose intelligent, painstaking and indefatigable efforts the success of this remarkable function is due, was made up of W. A. Madden, chairman; Andrew F. Hillyer, secretary; Shelby J. Davidson, financial secretary; Prof. G. M. Lightfoot, treasurer; Robert A. Pelham, C. F. M. Browne, Dr. J. H. N. Warling and C. B. Lee. A Word About the Guest of Honor. Prof. Cook, besides his connections as pupil, tutor, teacher, principal of the normal and commercial' departments of the University, has also found time in his continuous service to take a deep interest in civic affairs and to contribute to the uplift of his people in a decidedly orational fashion. For some years he has been a member of the District Board of Charities and is now serving on the President's Home Commission. His splendid work at the Industrial Home School, Blue Plains, D. C., where during a brief severance of his relations with the University, at the request of the commissioners, he established this school, marks an epoch in the industrial opportunities of the race. It is regarded as an open secret that in the event Dr. W. P. Thirkeld is elected to the bishopric by the M. E. Conference now in session at Minneapolis, Prof. Cook is likely to be a formidable candidate for the presidency of Howard University—a position for which his friends claim he is eminently fitted by temperament, experience and capacity, and which he has fairly earned by long and productive service. Baltimore, May 9.—The Fisk Jubilee Singers gave a concert last Tuesday night for the benefit of the endowment fund of Fisk Unicersity. The congregation of Grace A. M. E. church, which was destroyed by fire last week, is now worshiping in the Odd Fellow's Hall, Catonsville. Rev. C. H. Murray, pastor of the church, is attending the A. M. E. General Conference as a delegate. William E. Hall, of Boston, is here trying to organize the Colored stevedores, who, along with the whites, are now out on strike. A large audience was present at the Lyceum Theater last Friday night, when Mr. L. H. Murray presented a play entitled the "Garden of Allah." The annual closing exercises of Christ's Institution, a local educational institution, were held tonight at Waters A. M. E. church. That the pull that certain colored saloons long enjoyed under the Democratic regime will be no more is indicated by a raid of an alleged gambling game at Gans' Goldfield Hotel Saturday night. "Tom" Smith, who has laid a snug fortune, by running a saloon with a hotel license for the past ten years, was content to apply for only a saloon license this time. The Board of Liquor License Commissioners is now composed of Republicans, and the pulls of many who relied on the Democratic ring are said to have gone a-glimmering. The fact that all Republican magistrates took charge of the police courts Monday is another indication that the colored proprietor who depends upon the favor of the Democratic ring will have to look elsewhere for his pull. Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the stockholders of the Sanitary Laundry Company, a corporation duly incorporated under and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of West Virginia will be held in the office of the company, 11th and V streets, N. W., Washington, D. C., on Friday, the 24th day of May, 1912, at 12 o'clock, Noon, at which meeting a resolution will be presented authorizing the sale of the stock of the company below par in such amounts and at such price as the board of directors in their judgment may determine. This notice is given under Chapter 52 paragraph 24 of the Code of West Virginia. FRANKLIN DAVIS, President Sanitary Laundry Company 5-10-2Fridays. Sunday School Convention OF THE WEST VIRGINIA BAPTISTS RECEIVES REPORTS ON THE PROGRESS OF THE WORK IN THE STATE WHERE LARGE SUM IS COLLECED. Organization at St. Albans heads the list with $105.10, Charleston with much larger membership running a bad second. Second banner is given to Handley because of largest percapita collection. Few changes made in list of officers. Montgomery, May 7.-The West Virginia Baptist Sunday School Convention held its 19th annual session at the First Baptist church Thursday and Friday of last week. At an early hour on Thursday morning the church was crowded to its uttermost capacity. At 9:30 President A. P. Straughter, after greeting the messengers called the meeting to order and appointed Rev. D. C. Hunter to conduct the opening devotionals. After appointing the committees on new bodies, finance and enrollment, Attorney V. C. Champ, represented the mayor in welcoming the convention. Mr. Champ paid a high tribute to the Sunday School work, showing what the Sunday Schools are doing for civilization as well as for Christianity. Mr. F. H. Montgomery in an excellent speech, welcomed the meeting on behalf of the white Sunday Schools. Rev. D. C. Deans reflected credit upon the occasion by delivering an address of welcome on behalf of the First Baptist Sunday School. Miss Mary Noel represented the First Baptist church in the welcome exercises. These addresses were fittingly responded to by R. L. French, of Sylvia. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows spoke very interestingly on the need of greater activity in the missionary field stating that he had endeavored to interest all the schools in the northern part of the state to represent in the convention. Rev. J. J. Turner claimed the attention of the house and spoke on the necessity of more efficient teachers and appealed to the teachers to take the Teacher Training course to which several subscribed. After a brief song service by the young Sunday School choir of the First Baptist church, President Straughter delivered his annual address in which several recommendations were offered. The annual report of the executive board was read by Secretary J. W. Scott which showed the work to be in excellent shape and that the missionary work had been well looked after by Rev. J. J. Turner. Nine district Sunday School unions have been organized that promise to be fruitful tributaries to the convention. The following district presidents further explained the conditions of the unions in their districts: G. B. Cousins, R. L. French, Rev. M. S. Malone, Rev. J. E. Bowles, B. B. Daulton and Rev. J. W. Robinson. Rev. Meadows read a resolution outlining the work of the unions which provided for semi-annual meeting with none meeting on the same date. The superintendent of missions will be expected to be present in all the meetings to bring about uniformity in the work. At the evening session Dr. M. T. Sinclair delivered an address on "the Sunday School and the Home." It was shown in this address that the child must have training in both home and Sunday School and that neither the home nor the school should neglect its work in regards to the child. Prof. B. Prillerman further discussed the subject in which he pleaded for daily Bible reading in the home. Mrs. M. S. Reed read a paper on "The Sunday School in the Religious Life of the Young People," which was further discussed by F. C. Browl. Rev. Mr. Fountain, of Clifton Forge, Va., spoke very interestingly on the necessity of the Negro doing something for himself. Editor M. T. Whittico, of Keystone, in a humorous manner paid a tribute to the Sunday School convention. Prof. H. H. Raily agreeably surprised the convention by informing the delegates that the reception committee had spread a free banquet for the enjoyment of the convention. The delegates on adjourning went to the Odd Fellows' Hall and found all things ready with Superintendent P. Wt Wright at the head of the receiving line which was composed of his corps of Sunday School teachers. After the usual devotionals on Friday morning and some routine work Prof. C. W. Boyd, president of the Metokas of the National Baptist Sunday School Congress, delivered an address in which he made a strong plea for better conditions for children. The convention has never listened to a better address. Rev. J. D. Coleman, of the Bluefield Colored Institute, preached on Temperance. He pointed out the wastefulness brought about by the use of intoxicants. In the afternoon session Rev. J. W. Robinson conducted a round table. The following topic was discussed: "The Qualification of a Sunday School Teacher." Mrs. F. C. Carter discuss- THE ADVOCATE School Convention STS RECEIVES REPORTS ON THE IN THE STATE WHERE IS COLLECED. List with $105.10, Charleston with a bad second. Second banner is best percapita collection. Few changes ed methods of conducting cradle roll and primary classes. After reading the report of the committee on Temperance, Rev. D. Stratton spoke on the report, making a strong appeal to the voters to vote for the prohibition amendment in the fall elgition. At the request of the president, Prof. Boyd introduced Rev. N. H. Pius, D. D., superintendent of the National Teacher Training department of the National Baptist Convention, who delivered the annual conventional Sunday School address. Dr. Plus spoke at length on the progress that is being made through the efforts of Baptist Sunday schools throughout the world. He made a strong plea for better things for the child. At the conclusion of his address a resolution was passed thanking the Board for inviting this talented speaker. The finance report was read by G. W. Winston which showed that more than a hundred schools were represented and that $1,055.00 had been sent up for all purposes. The twelve schools that contributed the largest amounts were St. Albans, $105.10; First Charleston, $80.00; Montgomery, $61.50; The 16th Street of Huntington, $61.00; Hinton, $54.50; Donwood, $53.00; First Baptist of Huntington, $41.00; Macdonald, $24.50; Holden, $22.00; Page, $22.00; Bancroft, $20.00; Handley, $15.50. The St. Albans school received the first banner, having sent up the largest amount. The Handley school received the second banner, having sent up the largest amount per capita. The banners were awarded by Rev. G. N. Harris. The following officers were installed by Rev. Meadows. President, A. P. Straughter Hinton; vice president, Mrs. Josephine P. Turner, Kimberly; general secretary, J. W. Scott, Huntington; corresponding secretary, S. E. Chiles, Montgomery; treasurer, Rev. D. Stratton; St. Albans; statistical secretary, Rev. D. C. Hunter Sylvia; executive board, Miss Nannie L. Watkins, Algoma; G. W. Winston, Huntington; Mrs. Helen Farrar, Charleston; W. W. Hall, Eccles; Rev. L. Dabney, Bramwell, and Monroe Peyton, Gauley Bridge. The closing marks a new epoch in the Sunday School convention. Two teachers having completed the Sunday School teachers' training course, were awarded diplomas from the teacher training department these being the first to receive Baptist teacher training diplomas in the State of West Virginia. They were presented by Prof. J. M. Arter, who made a good speech. The convention has never held a better session. The royal manner that the delegates were entertained by Rev. W. Brown and his good people had much to do with its success. DIAMONDS OFFERSTHREE LITERARY COURSES ENGLISH, ACADEMIC, NORMAL 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. 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By mail, one year..... $1.50 By mail, six months..... $1.00 By Mail, three months..... .50 NOT A CANDIDATE Writing on the subject of prospective members of the West Virginia delegation to the Republican national convention at Chicago, next month, the local correspondent of the Cincinnati, 0., Tnquirer said in that paper Sunday: "Some of the Negro leaders will contend for the sixth place on the state's delegation at large for one of their race. State Librarian John C. Gilmer is a candidate and has the support of his race for the place, the leaders insisting that they should be allowed one of the delegates. Heretofore the Negroes have been given the preference in the election of alternates, but this year they desire to do some of the voting in the convention. There are possibly several others who aspire to go to Chicago and as yet no formal state has been agreed upon." It can be stated on the best authority that, for reason which need not be stated because they would be of no interest to the public, the name mentioned above will not be presented to the convention at Huntington on the 16th because the person bearing it is not a candidate. It does not follow, though, that his interest in the question of Negro representation is abated or his activity toward that end lessened. Quite the reverse. As the time approaches for holding the convention the writer has redoubled his efforts to get one, if possible two, Negroes on the Big Six roll. It has been discouraging that so little sympathy in the movement has been expressed by those whom it is purposed to benefit; it has been disheartening that of the few who have manifested any interest some, by no means deserving, are eagerly awaiting its success with the hope that they may be chosen. But, since such conditions attend every effort for the political advancement of the race, it is not at all surprising. There remains yet much that might be done by the Negroes of the State to get this recognition. It is not yet too late for them to impress upon the delegates from their districts the justice of the contention for Negro delegates. They can remind them that there has not been before nor since 1882 a Negro delegate to a national convention, district alternates and alternates at large being our usual portion. The leaders might be reminded that 15,000 Republican voters are justly entitled to this honor since they are denied nearly every other place of honor or emolument or both. They ought to be told, for few of them know, that in the Federal service we are represented by four lone postmen, that there is not a court house in the whole State where there is a Negro attache higher than a jailor; that in the State House only three Negroes hold representative positions. If the Negroes, ranked as leaders, would bestir themselves in this matter, a successful outcome would be assured. Since but few of them would refuse a delegateship it would seem that selfishness, if every other motive were lacking, would dictate such a course. They should not wait in the rear, as they now seem inclined to do, till the battle is fought and the victory is won and then demand a share of the spoils. COMPLEMENTS MR. TOWNSEND The attention of the readers of The Advocate was called last week to the candidacy of Mr. T. C. Townsend for the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney of this, Kanawha county. The high esteem in which Mr. Townsend is held by a leading party daily in the northern part of the State is attested by the following editorial reprinted from the columns of the Charleston Mail: "Yesterday's Wheeling Intelligencer, remarking editorially upon the candidacy of Hon. Thos. C. Townsend for the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney of aKnawha county, and after quoting from The Mail in reference thereto, turned the following nice compliment: "The Intelligencer takes pleasure in commending Mr. Townsend's candidacy. Only those who were in close touch with the important work in the tax commissioner's office realize how much the State of West Virginia owes to T. C. Townsend. Ag chief clerk under Commissioner Dillon and Commissioner White, and later as tax commissioner, Mr. Townsend did more than any other man to organize the tax commissioner's department to create the machinery necessary for the successful operation of th new tax laws, and to maintain and enforce those laws through vigorous legal proceedings During six years of constant and close application to the duties of a responsible office, he made a record in public service equalled by few men in the history of West Virginia. In the courts and before the legislature on many different occasions Mr. Townsend met in conflict the ablest lawyers employed by the corporations of the state, and upheld with splendid success the cause and interest of the people of West Virginia. He is not only fitted for the office of prosecutor of Kanawna county, but for any other office in the gift of the people of West Virginia." There is such a diversity of opinion among the Negroes themselves as to the wisdom of giving them suffragan or full-ledged bishops that the failure of the bishops, in their address to the Methodist Episcopal conference at Minneapolis, to mention the subject will create no surprise. These high dignitaries seem content to let well enough alone, or at least to allow the delegates, without any啃ing from them to decide the question. Much has been printed in the Negro press, religious and secular, on this subject. As in the Negro annual conferences, it has and many opponents and not a few supporters, both sides advancing excellent reasons in line with their contentions. Eat the weight of the argument has been with those who opposed this innovation, a wedge, they claimed, for the entrance of autonomy and possible separation. That they read the signs aright has been demonstrated more than once. Even so recently as the last session of the Washington conference there were some who advocated this drastic step. They expressed th opinion that the Negro communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church have passed the age of swaddling clothes and should demand men's attire and all that term implies. May be they are right. The Advocate does not pretend to know what is best in the circumstances, but it would very respectfully remind these separatists, autonomists and tentative candidates for bishoprics of the liberal financial support their educational institutions and churches have received from their white brethren. Possibly these gentlemen have plans by which if they get their hearts' desire, no loss will be sustained, but it would be well to get J. Pierpont Morgan's approval of them, or that of some other high class financier, before putting them into operation. ILLITERACY DECREASING The Census Bureau report that the Negroes of West Virginia lowered their percentage of illiteracy more rapidly in the past decade than did the whites is a cause for congratulation and speaks well for the work being done by the teachers in common and normal schools. But there is a fly in the ointment. One can not help but speculate upon what the percentage of illiteracy would be if there had not been soa an influx of adults from states at the South where educational opportunities are so very limited, where six month terms for Negro schools are almost unknown and the per capita expenditure is a mere trifle. West Virginia was one of the few states in which the ratio of the Negro increase in population was greater than that of the whites. This fact is wholly due to the development of its natural resources and the consequent demand for unskilled labor, largely cooled: These immigrants, unfortunately, have not come from among the best in their communities, but from among the worst. It has been from their ranks that the inmates of the jails and penitentiary have been recruited and the criminal record of the race in the state increased proportionately. Bu, in spite of this handicap, we have made commendable progress and can point with justifiable pride to the results of ten years of endeavor. NEGRO HEROES. A local contemporary was in error in stating that a Negro who rescued another from a cave-in was the first to receive recognition and reward at the hands of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. In the report issued by that body on the first of last year, as stated by Dr. Booker T. Washington, nine cases of heroism by Negroes were cited and since that time three others were mentioned, among which was that commented upon by a Pittsburg paper recently. The first was that of John B. Hill who rescued a white child and its colored nurse from a runaway, December 1, 1907, and was awarded a bronze medal and $500. Since then not a year has passed that some Negro's name has not appeared in the Commission's report. REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. JUNE 4, 1912. The leading Republicans of this district having expressed the belief that it was not best for the party, or for candidates to have on the State Committee office-holders or office-seekers, for the reason that it frequently became the duty of the State Committee to pass upon questions arising between candidates. And they having further expressed the opinion that some new blood on the state committee would be desirable. In compliance with their requests, I have consented to become a candidate for state committeeman. And if elected to chat position, I guarantee e to discharge the duties of the office impartially and to the best of my ability. Not being an office-holder myself, or an aspirant to any political office, I will be absolutely free to act impartially upon all questions coming before the state committee, and without being biased or influenced by any self interests, faction, office-holder, or candidate. And I further agree to use such influence as I may have to grant a fair and impartial primary by which to select every candidate for office. And shall insist, so far as it may be possible, upon every candidate having a fair representation among the primary election officers. If the above assurances meet with the approval of the Republicans in this district, I shall appreciate their support. I am adopting this method or stating my position to Republican voters for the reason that it will be impossible for me to see my friends in person and explain to them where I stand on these questions. Yours very truly, J. W. DAWSON. Candidate for State Committeeman. 5-9-41 Announcements FOR GOVERNOR: You are authorized to announce through the columns of the Advocate that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor subject to the will of the Republican voters in the State primary. C. W. Dillon I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for Governor of West Virginia, subject to the decision of the Republican voters of the State as may be recorded in the State-wide Primary called for June 4th, 1912. Respectfully We are authorized to announce the candidacy of Dr. H. D. Hatfield, of Eckman, McDowell county, for nomination for Governor, subject to the Republican Primary Election to be held on June 4th, 1912. FOR STATE AUDITOR FOR STATE AUDITOR To the Republicans of West Virginia. I hereby declare my candidacy for re-nomination and election to the ofice 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. FOR STATE TREASURER. Editor The Advocate:— I hereby announce my candidacy to the office of State Treasurer, sub- ject to the action of the Republican Primary to be held June 4th. C. F. RATHBONE 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 JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT The Advocate is authorized to announce the candidacy of George Poffenbarger, of Pt. Pleasant, Mason county, for the Republican nomination for Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, subject to the action of the state convention to be held at Huntington, May 18th. FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGE. I hereby announce my candidacy for Supreme Court Judge, subject to the action of the Republican State convention at Huntington on May 16. Respectfully, H. M. WILLIS New Martinsville. For Committeeman At-Large. To the Republican Voters of West Virginia: I hereby nounce 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. THE ADVOCATE The Advocate is authorized to announce the candidacy of Dr. C. C. Barnett, of Huntington, Cabell county, for committeeman-at-large, subject to the action of the primary election to be held June 4th. FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for member of the House of Delegates from Kana-wha county, subject to the decision of the Republican primary to be held June 4th, 1912. Respectfully, J. HOWARD HUNDLEY. Charleston, April 22, '12. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce my candidacy for Sheriff of Kanawha county subject to the decision of the voters at the Republican primary election. If nominated and elected, I promise to personally conduct the affairs of this office and give honest treatment to all, with special privileges to none. Your support is earnest solicited. To the Republicahs of Kanawina 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. I hereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Kanawha county, subject to the decision of the primary election, when held. I will heartily appreciate your support. 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. 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. 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 solicit 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. C. W. DERING. Charleston, Feb. 13, 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. 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. FOR SHERIFF OF FAYETTE CO. 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 until 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 to administer the affairs of the office iness-like manner, treating all in an impartial manner. Very truly yours, T. J. DAVIS, Montgomery, W. Va., March 7, 1912. 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 trunk or hiding it some where 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 opoprtunity 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. FOR STATE SENATOR I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for State Senator from the Eighth Senatorial District composed of the Counties of Kanawha, Logan and Boone, subject to the decision of the Republican voters in the primary, held June 4th, 1912. Your support is earnestly solicited. Respectfully. TO THE MINISTERS OF THE U. S. The National Religious Training School and Chautauqua extends a cordial greeting to the ministers of all denominations to be the guests of the school for one week, beginning July 6, 1912, and closing July 13, 1912, for the purpose of discussing the following and kindred questions: What is the moral condition of the people of your community? Is crime on the increase? If not, what is the cause of its reduction? What is the sanitary condition? What effort, if any, has been made to improve the sanitary conditions? Is the death rate increasing? To what extent do you co-operate with the Civic Improvement Leagues Has settlement work been conducted to any extent in your community, and with what results? What has been the effect of the Temperance organizations, and have you co-operated with them? To what extent has the work of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. been effective in your community? Do you approve them? What is the general fitness of the city and country school teacher? What has been the attitude of the day-school teacher towards the Church and Sunday School? What is the real religious condition of your people? Revivals, how conducted? Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Huribut and Rev. Dr. W. Y. Chapman will be in charge of the expository features during conference week. All ministers who intend attending this Conference should make it known at an early date, addressing the President National Religious Training School, Durham, N.C., so that reservation can be made for them. There will be no charge while in attendance upon the Conference. The Summer School and Chautaqua of the National Religious Training School will open July 3, 1912, and continue for six weeks. The most complete and most up-to-date Summer School for the Colored Race in the United States. For particulars and terms address PRES. JAMES E. SHEPARD, Durham, N. C. TO THE CLUB WOMEN OF WEST VIRGINIA The State Federation will hold its fourth annual meeting May 29 and June 1st, with the "Womans Improvement League," of Hill Top, this meeting promises to surpass in numbers and interest any former meeting for reasons, first, West Virginia Women are deeply in earnest concerning the club movement in the State and because they are deeply in earnest about (Special to the Advocate.) Baltimore, May 9—In an address on "Hygiene and Longevity" at the annual meeting of the Maryland Medical, Pharmaceutical and Dental Association, held at Allen A. M. E. church last Wednesday night, Dr. John R: Francis, of Washington, declared that excess in eating, drinking and smoking, lack of bathing and sleep and undue sugar were responsible for many premature deaths. He ended in praying the following tribute to the Jew: "The Jew drinks less than his Christian brother; he takes, as a rule, better food; he marries earlier, he rears his children with greater personal care, he tends the aged more thoughtfully, he takes better care of the poor and he takes better care of himself. He does not boast of tomorrow, but he provides for it, and he holds tenaciously to all that he wins, becomes powerful and, scorning boisterous mirth and passion, is comparatively happy. "When mankind has learned to so live as to bring us to such an end as to claim the reward of death by nature, then this act of death, now, as a rule, so dreaded because so premature, shall, arriving at the appointed hour, suggest no terror, inflict no agony." The monthly meeting of the association was held Monday night at the residence of Dr. Terrell. Dr. E. V. Stokes read a paper on "Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence," after which the following officers were installed: President, Dr. B. M. Rhetta; Vice-president, Dr. Albert O. Reir; secretary, Dr. F. N. Cardozo, and treasurer, Dr. Edward Short, the retiring president. For VITAL WEAKNESS and KIDNEY TROUBLE Try the old. Saw Palmetto remedy, and join the army of strong, healthy. healthy, vigorous men and women. Get testimonials. Sold by T. B. STAINAKER DRUGGIST. 612 Kanawah St. Charleston, W. Va. Some derangement causes every headache. Capudine removes the cause—whether from heat, cold, stomach, or over-tense nerves. Capudine acts quickly, is a liquid pleasant to take. It is good for colds and gripp also. Try it. OR MONEY? ING FOR YOU? where you get no interest, keeping it for Money. away, where it will be working day and t. interest—Your Money is Working give us an opoprtunity to put the picture of our building on the Capitol fck building on one of the main bus-Huntington Herald, the largest daily for office rooms, while the third floor After the Charleston building had six per cent. allment plan. Ask your agent in your X FOR YOU INVESTMENT the purchase of three lots at Institute to be used as a club house. West Virginia club women have large responsibilities. The capable, intelligent club women throughout the state are therefore arousing themselves to greater efforts to create a desire for better homes, better schools better churches and all the influences that contribute to make a higher class of citizens. The program is a good one. The questions to be discussed will especially affect the mother, the child and the home. The program committee has some excellent things in store and will go to press next week. The clubs should elect their delegates at once. The womans Improvement league, of Hill Top, is expecting a large delegation, and is planning to entertain them royally. Let every woman's club in the state represent and reflect credit upon itself, and add strength to the Federation. Mrs. Fannie Cobb-Carter. State organizer. Mrs. H. C. A. Washington, Pres. Red Star, W. Va. 5-9-2t BOARD OF MISSIONS (Special to the Advocate.) Kansas City, Mo., May 9—The annual meeting of the board of missions of the African Methodist Episcopal church, held here Saturday, revealed the fact that $131,874.10 was raised by the various missionary agencies for the benefit of home and foreign missions during the past four years. The report was made by Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, of New York, who is just winding up a four-year term as missionary secretary. The money reported came through the Parent Missionary Society, the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society and $5,000 raised by Bishop Heard. This money was spent in furthering the missionary work of the denomination in West and South Africa, Central and South America, Canada and the West Indies. Ministers with poor charges in this country were also helped. The report of Dr. Beckett is regarded as an excellent one, considering the fact that the last general conference reduced the department's share of the Easter day collections by one-third, and cut off all the 40 per cent, that the department received from the $1 paid annually by each pastor for missions. With the money sources of revenue thus curtalled, Dr. Beckett succeeded in raising within $2,000 of the total raised within the preceding four years. Bishop C. T. Shaffer presided at the meeting. Other members present were: the Revs. J. H. L. Watkins, I. N. Ross, W. H. H. Butler, G. H. Shaffer, Jesse Peck, B. J. Ramsey, J. W. Washington, C. R. Turner, J. W. Rankin, D. A. Perrin and James W. Walker. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912. Delivers a Forceful Address on Hy- LASICO SUPERB MANHOOD PRICE $100 SMALL SIZE 50¢ DOUBLE FARE! LAKESIDE MEDICINE CO., CHICAGO, IL. Hicks' Capudine Stops Headaches 10c, 25c and 50c at drug stores. WESTON, W. A THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912. TAFT'S RECORD ON RECALL OF COURT DECISIONS NOTORIOUS WHISKY RULING. Reconcilied His Conscience to the Promulgation of a Presidential Order Legalizing Every Demand of the Makers of Imitation Whisky—He "Recalled" Seven Federal Court Decisions to Accommodate the Opponents of Roosevelt and Dr. Wiley. Now that Mr. Taft is so violent in his opposition to any proposal to permit the people of a state to assert their understanding of the meaning of the constitution made by them when that meaning has been perverted by a judicial ruling, it is well to examine his past record in this particular. Recorded facts prove that President Taft is not opposed to the "recall of decisions" of the federal courts when the recall is made by "a representative part of the people," even though that part consists of one of 100,000,000 Americans. Here is an "expose" especially interesting at this time. It appears in the editorial columns of the Philadelphia North American: "Long before Theodore Roosevelt upheld the hands of Harvey Wiley and forced the passage of the pure food law there had been notorious frauds in the making, marking and branding of distilled liquors. But the question seemed pretty well settled by the upholding of the explicit provisions of the national pure food law in the rulings of Dr. Wiley, sustained by repeated messages of President Roosevelt, opinions of Attorney General Bonaparte and decisions of different federal courts. Merely Common Sense. "The question was simply one of common sense. There was to be no prevention of or penalty for the sale of any sort of liquor. The rulings meant only that the purchaser was entitled to the privilege of learning from the label whether he was buying what he was paying for. "Undoctored whisky was to be labeled 'whisky.' A mixture of two real whiskies was to be labeled 'blend.' A mixture of a whisky with something that is not whisky was to be labeled 'compound.' A concoction that smelled and tasted like whisky, but contained no whisky, was to be labeled 'imitation.' "That was all there was to the provisions of the pure food law governing interstate commerce in whisky. It was such a simple, incontrovertible regulation for square dealing that every American who thought he knew along-what lines the administration of William H. Taft would be conducted scoffed at the idea that the question was not at a closed chamber." "When the rectifiers of Cincinnati and Peoria binted at the influence they could bring to bear upon a Cincinnati newspaper and Speaker Cannon and prophesied the discrediting and the downfall of Wiley we thought them overconfident in proclaiming that they could reopen a contest which had been won and won over and over by the people, by the state food commissioners and friends of pure food before President Roosevelt and the federal courts. "So there was wonder when there followed President Taft's executive order reopening the whisky branding question settled by Attorney General Bonaparte's successive opinions and President Roosevelt's orders giving executive effect thereto. Taft's Conscience Reconciled. "At the time of the ruling in favor of the swindlers by Solitaire General Bowers, in June, 1909, the North American said: "The real meaning of this reopened controversy, of course, is that the conspiracy to break down and nullify the pure, food law is withered and persistent. * * * With President Taft rests the responsibility of spreading credence or giving the lie to the general boating of the druggers of food and drink that the entire tail of Roosevelt and his guard the health of the people is to be obliterated before 182 for the benefit of certain strong but not altruistic interests. "Six months' consideration resulted in President Taft's reconciling his conscience to the promulgation of a presidential decision legalizing every demand of the cheating poison makers of the Taft-Cox and Joe Cannon bailwicks. But this notorious annulment of a portion of the work of Wiley and Roosevelt is not the point of present comment. The focus of present interest is President Taft's aversion toward any questioning of the sanctity of judicial decisions. "But when the food committee of the National Consumers' league addressed to President Taft an appeal for the 'recall' of Dr. Wiley's resignation and cited certain facts decidedly pertinent to President Taft's horrified denunciations of 'nostrum makers' and 'subverters of the constitution', who lay 'the ax to the roof of the tree of liberty', who dare question the infallibility of any judicial construction of any law? "For the Consumers' league makes clear in taking up the Taft decision in favor of the makers of imitation whisky that in this ruling the president recalled the decisions of President Rosevelt, Attorney General Bonaparte, Solicitor General Bowers and seven federal courts. Seven Times Sustained. "Finding themselves unable to sway the Roosevelt administration in spite of the efforts in their behalf of Secretary Wilson, the whisky polsonists went into the courts. Seven times the Roosevelt ruling was sustained, as follows: "Aug. 24, 1908, in federal court at Cincinnati. "Aug. 27, 1908, in same court, strong supplemental opinion refusing a rehearing. "Aug. 29, 1908, in same court, difficult Illinois, later in the same year, completely sustained the Roosevelt ruling. "Feb. 4, 1900. United States Circuit Judge Cochran, at Richmond, specifically ruled that the stuff which Roosevelt had ordered be labeled as imitation whisky was exactly that. "Aug. 11, 1908. the court of appeals for the District of Columbia broadly sustained the Roosevelt ruling. "Aug. 11, 1908. United States district court for western New York completely sustained the Roosevelt rulings. "The supreme court of the District of Columbia, by decree in a case, "United States District Court for New York," complying to be whisky, held that the contents was an imitation of whisky. "Oct. 28, 1908. federal court at Baltimore broadly sustained the Roosevelt ruling that the contents was an imitation whisky, and must be so labeled. Alphonso Taft's Opinion. "What the Consumers' league failed to cite, however, was that President Taft in that one ruling not only recalled seven federal court decisions, but also another which, while it did not emanate from a court, was certainly judicial. For it was handed down by a great and honored jurist who sat in the cabinet of President Grant. This was the eighth decision recalled: "Alcohol and whiskey are, unquestionably, different articles in contemplation of law, as they are in fact, having different qualities and different values. (Opinion of Alphonso Taft, attorney general, construing 349 of internal revenue laws, said internal Revenue Record, Aug. 2, 1863, volume 2.)" "Just what process of reasoning the president employs to determine positively that he has the right to recall seven court decisions with a single signature, while the recall of one by the sober judgment of millions of citizens in a state would destroy our fundamental national liberties, we are unable to understand, except by remembering that striking portrait drawn by the lamented Dolliver of the amiable person in the White House 'entirely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want." "GRATITUDE" MEANS MALIGNANT ATTACK UPON ROOSEVELT Taft's Tirade Not New to Men Who Know Him. When Seeking the Presidency in 1908 He Strove to Appear as a Stanch Progressive—Wore a Mask For Two Years—Has Now Openly Stamped Himself as a Reactionary. Washington, April. — Stung to the quick by his belated recognition of the long patent fact that the voters of the Republican party had repudiated his candidacy for renomination and are overwhelmingly in favor of the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt as their candidate for the presidency this year, Mr. Taft has at last thrown aside all restraint and carried out the threat which he has been muttering to his intimates for some weeks to speak out in public his real thoughts about the man who made him president. In Mr. Taft's tide against Mr. Roosevelt at springfield, Mass., there is nothing essentially new to those who have been on anything more than relations of casual intimacy with the president for some time. It is a fact known to not a few of those closely connected with the campaign of 1908 that even at that time the Taft family was displaying that peculiarly malignant temper toward Mr. Roosevelt which so often takes the place of gratitude in the hearts of those who have benefited by a great service rendered by a friend. It is a fact known to not a few persons that at times during the campaign of 1908 the talk about Mr. Roosevelt among members of the Taft family was such as to cause the greatest uneasiness to the managers of Mr. Taft's campaign for the presidency, lest it should become public and work serious damage to the campaign. Those familiar with the true feeling toward Mr. Roosevelt in the Taft family have been surprised that Mr. Taft has concealed for so long his real attitude toward his benefactor. From the time last fall when the strong sentiment of the country in favor of Colonel Roosevelt began to manifest itself unmistakably, there has been much talk from Taft sources about Colonel Roosevelt's ingratiate to Mr. Taft. It has been assumed by Mr. Taft's partisans that, because Colonel Roosevelt was instrumental in bringing about Mr. Taft's nomination and election to the presidency, he was therefore bound at all times, under all circumstances and at all costs, to support Mr. Taft's administration and Mr. Taft's renomination and election. That assumption is entirely unwarranted and has no logical justification. The fact is that Taft, the president, is not and never for one moment has been the Taft Mr. Roosevelt and his intimate ga- sociates knew as secretary of war and whom they supported as a candidate for the presidency. While Mr. Taft was seeking the presidency he constantly sought to appear as a stanch and true progressive. But on that November night in 1908 when the count of the votes showed that he had been elected to the presidency he ceased to make any effort actually to be a progressive. For some time he continued to wear a mask as a progressive, but in the last two years of his presidency he has not kept up even that feeble effort to deceive the people of the country. By his constant association with the Aldriches, the Cannon and the Lorimers, by his ready submission to their influence and advice, by his active support of the measures they devised and favored; by his co-operation with them in matters of patronage, and by his unbushing attempt to coerce the real progressives through the brazen use of federal patronage, he has stamped himself openly as the reactionary which he has always been at heart. A single illustration will suffice for the demonstration of this proposition. In his speech at Cincinnati, in July, 1908, accepting the nomination for the presidency, Mr. Taft took occasion to reiterate his endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt and to enumerate some of the acts which he regarded as the distinctly beneficial achievements of his predecessor. In that speech he said: "He (Mr. Roosevelt) recommended the passage of a law, which the Republican convention has since specifically approved, restricting the future issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways to such as may be authorized by foredal authority. He demonstrated to the people by what he said, by what he recommended to congress, and by what he did, the sincerity of his efforts to command respect for the law, and to save the country from the dangers of a plutocratic government, toward which we were fast tending." In numerous speeches during the campaign of 1908 Mr. Taft declared his cordial support of Mr. Roosevelt's proposition to secure the enactment of a law controlling the issue of securities by interstate carriers. When he became president, he pretended to make such a law one of the paramount measures of his legislative program. He caused to be prepared, with much advertisement and publicity, a bill purporting to contain provisions aimed at such control of the issue of securities. This bill was drafted by the eminently successful corporation lawyer whom Mr. Taft had placed at the head of the department of justice. The moment that bill was read by the genuine progressives of the senate and house, they denounced its provisions to control the issue of securities as intended really to further the designs of the railroad reactionaries and the special interests whom Mr. Taft has steadily sought to please from the day he was inaugurated. After a hard fight in the house, the Taft-Wickersham provisions were stricken from the bill and a substitute provision was adopted which at least embodied a recognition of the principle of federal control over the issue of such securities, and was, therefore, a distinct step in advance. When that measure reached the senate, Mr. Taft's allies and cronies there were vastly distributed by this provision. Aldrich Crane, Penrose, Gallinger and all the other representatives of the special interests in the senate at once protested against it. These were the men with whom Mr. Taft was associating intimately, with whom he was working constantly, and upon whom he was relying for support in the senate. They were the same men who had most vigorously opposed his nomination when they, like Mr. Roosevelt, believed him to be a real progressive, but already they had learn that his progressiveness was merely a mask worn for the purpose of securing the presidency. They knew now that he was as good a reactionary as any of them and they counted upon his support in defeating this provision for the control of the issue of securities by interstate carriers. They did not count in vain. With Mr. Taft's knowledge and convince, they arranged a deal with the Democratic opposition in the senate whereby they not only struck from the bill this provision which was in accordance with the Republican platform and the many speeches of Mr. Taft's campaign, but they stopped the further efforts of the real progressives in the senate to make the railroad bill, of which this provision was a part, a genuinely effective and valuable measure. Then they inserted in the bill as a sop to the public clamor for real legislation a provision for the appointment of a commission which was to determine not the method by which the government was to exercise its right to control the issue of securities by interstate carriers, but whether or not the government had such power. The appointment of this commission was a utilification of the Republican platform and of every speech Mr. Taft had made in support of that platform. It was fair notice to the whole country that from that day forward no faith or credence could be given, by the country to any declaration of any Republican platform upon which Mr. Taft might be running for office. But now, in the face of this incontrovertible fact, and of scores more of exactly similar purport and effect, Mr. Taft has the effrontery to stand before a public audience and denounce Theodore Roosevelt and present himself in the attitude of the one who has the right to feel aggrieved. It is an astounding exhibition of willingness to deceive the people of the country in the effort to secure office. THE ADVOCATE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE LOST BY PHARISEES THE LORD'S BLESSINGS HIDDEN As the Jewish Expounders of the Law Refused to Instruct the Common People, So Do Our Modern Doctors of Divinity—Failure of the Scribes and Pharisees to Endorse Jesus Barred His Message to the Multitude, Wha Trusted the Scriptures. Brooklyn, N. X. May 5.—The Academy of Music was crowded today to hear Pastor Russell's discourse on "The Lost Key of Knowledge." Taking his text from Luke xl, 52, he said: PASTOR RUSSELL In the New Testament the word lawyer has a very different meaning from our general usage. It applied to those religious teachers of the Jews who made special professions of sanctity of heart and earnest desire to know God's will, as expressed in the Mosaic Law, and to teach the same to the people. The corresponding class of today are designated Doctors of Divinity. Our text, therefore, with this correction reads, "Woe unto you, Doctors of Divinity, for ye have taken away the Key of Knowledge; you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering ye hindered." "The Common People Heard Jesus Gladly." It was the custom amongst the Jewa that lessons from the Law and the Prophets should be read every day in their synagogues. The people were thus familiar with the letter of the Divine Law and promises. The majority of them, of course, were illiterate, for educational facilities were not what they are now. As a result only a few claimed to have an understanding of the spiritual part of the Law and the Prophets. These were chiefly of the literary and wealthy classes. To these the common people looked for guidance respecting the Divine will and plan. As an illustration. When the common people heard Jesus gladly they were willing to trust their own judgments, but inquired, "Have any of the Scribes and Pharisees believed on Him?" Have the Doctors of the Law, the Doctors of Divinity, endorsed Him? They have made a study of these things and we would rely more upon their judgment than upon our own. But none of the Scribes and Pharisees endorsed Him, and hence comparatively few of the people believed Him and became His disciples. The common people were hungry for the Message which Jesus brought. It is recorded that they said of Jesus' teachings, "Never man spake like this Man." The nation would have gone over promptly to Jesus had the Scribes and Pharisees, the Doctors of the Law, set the example and given the word. Moreover, the teachings of Jesus harmonized the message of the Law and the Prophets over which the Scribes and the Pharisees and the Sadducees had long wrangled and disputed. Had the Doctors of the Law been as hungry for the Truth as were the people, undoubtedly all of their differences of interpretation of the Old Testament Scriptures would have speedily been solved in the light of the then present Truth and knowledge of God, which was shining upon the Bible through the Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Apostles being Jehovah's mouthpieces. The Key of Knowledge Buried. But Is Knowledge Necessary? In our day the Lord's day the Jewish Doctors of Divinity, or Rabbs, contented themselves with telling the people what they should do and what they should not do, but they did not teach the people—they did not help them to any understanding of the deep meaning of the Law and the Prophets. In our next Jesus said to the "D. D.S." "You bind heavy burdens on the people, grievous to be borne," but you do not attempt to carry those burdens yourselves. It is so to this day with the Jewish tabbis, as well as with other Ministers; for instance, a minister stands as a representative and mouthpiece of the church creed, which in round about terms declares that wherever does not live a saintly life will suffer the eternity of torment. Is not this a guller ous burden to put upon any conscientious soul? Has it not caused untellable anguish to many of God's true people? And has it not repulsed and driven many from God and the Bible, thousands of the most intelligent minds in the world? As the Jewish Doctors of Divinity carried no such burdens, neither do the Doctors of Divinity of Christendom. In private they acknowledge that they carry no such burdens. In public they give the inference that they do—not so much by positive terms as by implication, tone and inflection of voice, and by the general fact that they stand for and as representatives of the creeds which so teach. It does not excuse these influential teachers for them to claim that in their official capacity they lose their personal responsibility and shift it upon those who made the creeds and those who adopted them. The people are no longer trusting the creeds. They realize that the creeds contain many inconsistencies, and that greater light is today shining from one page of the Bible upon another, than shone in the days when those creeds were formulated. The common people trust the Bible—Jesus, the Apostles and the Prophets. They know that all of the creeds of Christendom claim to be built upon the inspired Record. They understand the Scribes and Pharisees of today, the Doctors of Divinity of Christendom, to give assurances that those creeds properly present the teachings of the Bible. The creeald chains would become ropes of sand if all the prominent Doctors of Divinity of Christendom came forward and publicly renounced them, as they nearly all do in private conversation. It is this matter of misleading the people, deceiving them, that constituted the basis of Jesus' charge against the Doctors of Divinity of old, and we believe that His judgment is very similar today respecting the Doctors of Divinity of Christendom—"Ye have taken away [ye have hidden] the Key of Knowledge. Ye have not entered in yourselves, and them that were entering ye hindered." Christian people today are so disgusted with the creeds which have separated them and their forefathers into six hundred different denominations that they are quite ready to discard them all, and to come together as one Church of the Living God to study the Bible in its own light. Systematic Key-hiding. The Scribes and Pharisees of our day are proving themselves to be the anttypes of those addressed by Jesus in our text, and have a substitute for knowledge. Taking away the Key of Knowledge, they say to the common people. Do not bother your head about doctrines; leave doctrines to the clergy; let the clergy endorse all the creeds, however conflicting they be. We do this in order to hull you to sleep. There is nothing so calculated to disturb the Christian's rest as the discussion of the doctrines of Christ. If there be in any congregation those who cannot feel satisfied without some kind of Bible study, let them have it, but get them rather to discussing the geography of Palestine and the habits and customs of the people, etc., rather than the prophecies of old or the interpretations of them, as given by Jesus and the Apostles. We ministers will keep aloof from such Bible study; we will not let on but that we understand these prophecies thoroughly, but we will keep a watch upon the Bible classes, and interfere only if we find some brother therein who is inclined to delive after the doctrines of Christ and the Apostles. One minister, voicing this opposition to Bible study, especially along the lines of differences where it would be of special value, said, "The Church is like a great Hospital. Everything like doctrinal discussion must be banished and excluded, just as in a hospital all noise is forbidden, that the patients may sleep, or just as in a nursery noise is excluded that children may sleep." Alas! it is too true that the nominal church of Christ is like a Hospital, many of whose patients are blind and deaf and asleep and mentally confused. But the trouble is: These got into this condition because of a lack of healthful exercise; and keeping them quiet will but turn the present hospital into a Cemetery. What the churches of all the denominations need is the Word of God—as presented in the words of Jesus and the Apostles: "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." The sln-sick and lame, the blind and deaf and mentally perplexed need to hear the voice of Truth—"Wonderful Words of Life"—otherwise they will become more sick and will perish as Christians, but to become alive perhaps as "lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." An Episcopal minister in our hearing urged his congregation to simply rest, not to bother themselves about their own future or that of others. The Holy Catholic Church, he said, resembled a ship, in which the members should come as passengers to be carried to the heavenly destination. They need not examine the compass, nor the chart, nor the machinery. All they need to do is to sit down and enjoy the journey, trusting that their baptism and the Holy Spirit have given them a free ticket to a proper destination. Necessity For Knowledge Knowledge of God, the Bible declares, is indispensable for the attainment of the Great Prize of the High Calling. Thus Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they may know Thee, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom hast sent." (John xvii. 3). We are not to understand this to signify that anyone who has merely been made acquainted with the fact that there is one Creator, and that Jesus is His Son, is on account of this knowledge to be granted everlasting life. Some think to be able to make void the various Scriptures which tell us of the necessity of making our "calling and election sure." by so running as to obtain the prize. (I Corinthians 1x, 24.) Our Lord's words do not refer to a knowledge about God, but to a knowledge of or personal acquaintance with God and His Son. And such an intimate acquaintance is, not obtained merely by an introduction, but by companionship; it signifies an intimacy of acquaintanceship, a familiarity. Everything in the Divine Word encourages those who accept the Divine invitation to draw near to God, to come into fellowship with Him. But this knowledge of God which will bring a saintly few to salvation on the highest plane stands related to God's Word—the teachings of the Bible—for thus God'exalted His Word, by making it the channel for spiritual refreshment and personal acquaintance with Himself. Thus Jesus prayed for us, His followers, "Sanctify them through Thy Truth, Thy Word is Truth." Any who neglect the Divine Word will fall of the sanctifying power and thus fall of the 'ultimate acquaintance with God which alone will guarantee everlasting life. The reason why the Lord has thus arranged the matter and made 'knowledge of the Scriptures essential, doubtless is that thus His, faithful people may be benefitted; and they alone receive the instruction which will profit them alone, but would more or less injure others. Thus it is written, "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." To this class our Lord says today, as He said to His Jewish followers eighty二十 centuries ago. "To you it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to all outside these things are spoken in parables and dark sayings, that hearing they might not understand and seeing they might not perceive." To the outsiders—the Doctors of Divinity—is not permitted the Key of Knowledge. "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight."—Matthew xl, 25, 26. What Constitutes the Key? The Key of Knowledge consists of the faithful study of God's Word, with an honest purpose to know the things that are freely given unto us of God. This implies a consecration of heart, for none others would really desire that they might do the Divine will. And this implies also a faith in our Lord's promise that He that doeth "the will of My Father shall know of the doctrine." (John vil, 17). It is this consecrated, conscientious Bible study that is lacking today—that is being discouraged today by the great teachers and Doctors of Divinity. Everything calculated to help Bible study, to get rid of the darkness of the creeds and superstitions of the past, is opposed—but not openly. The Doctors of Divinity of our day, like those of Jesus' day, are wise and act as though they do know. But they do not know; they oppose real Bible study—not openly, but secretly, "for fear of the people." (Mark xi. 32; xii. 12.) The great religious leaders of the Jews were marked by our Lord as being less conscientious, less honest, than the masses of the people. Concerning the people we read that "Jesus was moved with compassion when He beheld the multitude, that they were like sheep without a shepherd." And is it not so today also? Are not many of God's people hungering and thirsting for the Truth, and greatly perplexed and discouraged because, going time after time to the religious leaders, they have received instead of bread "a stone," instead of a fish "a sceptre"—a false doctrine, a devilish misrepresentation of the Almighty's character and Plan in respect to humanity? These devilish doctrines of the Dark Ages St. Paul calls "doctrines of demons," because the demons, the fallen angels, evidently have propagated them. They are to be found amongst all of the heathens, but nowhere in any worse form nor as bad as amongst Christians of all denominations. Is there not therefore a great responsibility resting upon every conscientious minister of the Gospel, that he should step out from amongst the mass of the Doctors of Divinity, who are hiding the Key of Knowledge and misleading the Lord's trusting sheep of nominal Christendom? "Impossible to Deceive the Very Elect." "Iimpossible to Deceive the Very Elect." As we have already shown they cannot keep penned, nor keep asleep, nor keep the knowledge from the saintly ones who constitute "the very elect." Our Lord, speaking of this time, said that the deceptions would be such that they would deceive, if possible, "the very elect," but in their case deception will not be possible, for the True Shepherd Himself will help them. But, oh, what weeping of disappointment, and what a chagrin and grashing of teeth will come shortly to the "false shepherds," to the Key-binding Doctors of Divinity, when they find that with all their endeavors to bolster shams and superstitions in which they themselves do not believe, the entire fabric of Churchianity will collapse, as the Scriptures predict! It is quite unnecessary that I press the lesson of this text; I leave the matter before you—not merely before this congregation of Brooklyn, but before the twelve millions of readers whom the Newspaper Syndicate assure us come in contact with my weekly discourses. 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The sky under which colored men live is often so dark and lowering, and the rewards of merit are so" men ser, that many of the race have come to believe that justice to them from members of another race is not to be expected, As an antidote to ris frame of mind, it is pleasant to re late the record of Hon, Fred Dennett commissioner of the General Lana OMice, in Washington, There are sev- entecn classified employees of the col- ered race in the Land Office. and dur- ing the four years of <r, Dennett's incumbeney of office, fon of thes> have received promotion Commissioner Dennets “Koll of Honor. Charles E. Cheatham, of North Car- olina, an expert stenoziapher, who en- tered the service in Tyas, has besa promoted through al! vie grades from $400 10 $1600, and is now in the of- fice of the Secretary of the Interior at a salary of $1830 per annum: L, M Hershaw, of Georgia, who had been a file clerk for a number of years at $1409, has been promoted to $1600 aad assigned to examine desert land claims. Other notable promotions are: W. W. Cochran, of Mississippt. $luo0 to $120: James A, Davis. ef Tennessee, $100 to $1200: David W. Viz, of Alabama, $800 fo $1000; Charles L. Webb, of Tiinois, $100 9 $1000: Samuel H. Webb, of Virginia $720 to $900; Charles N. Barker. ci Kansas, $720 10 $900: Benjamin 8. Stewart, of the District of Columbia $720 to $844: and Gabriel Pletcher, of Maryland, $609 10 $720 In addition to these promotions, Edward H. Hunter, of North Caroline, who resixved io enter the ministry, and is a candidate for one of the gea- tral offices of the AL ME. Church, was given ihe position of law exam- iner at $1600, the first colored man who ever held stch a position in the classified service: and Sampson H. Brent way classified as a skilled la- borer at $660. While Usis is nov a pro- motion in salary. it is a promorion in wrade and tenur. A “Merit System" ‘Phat Means What Term Linplies. Commi-sioner Deanet! makes the merit sysicm of promotions mean what the term impries, namely: chatt tnose who show capacity for and per formance of assigned tasks are re: warded: according 10 ability and per formance, ‘The pigmentation of the skin and ethnological alignment 1 not factors which «nter into bis es mate of qualifications for advancemen’, He has a fixed, nnvarsing standard ot Justice, and applies i to ath havin: no thought as 16 crace, position oF smbstanee. He is calm ated und: mon strative, indulging in neither profes: sions nor Matt ries nor patronizines when dealing with members of ih colored race A colored clerk whe had heen pro- moted 10 a high grade went ao Mr Dennett to thank hin for vis promo- tion, “The commissioner's ieply 0 the clerk's expression of gpariinds was: “Yon owe me ony thanks, | had you assigned 10 a fine of work thar would show what you could do; you made good, and that’s all there oF it He is well that the race shomld iano and keep track oF the white people in pliers oF aatherity who are daces of the work of justice, and not sayers only. OF this mamber, staading high Jn the galtay of “Nature's: noblemen do othe Hon. Fred Dennen, Commis sioner of the General Land Office, Methodist Churchmen at Work. The Atlantic seaboard is depoputa- ted these days of high Methodist churchmen. Bishops, pastors, — dele- gates and visitors of every type are divided among the three general con- ferences of the fairh of John Wesley The Zionites are at Charlotte, No the ALM. Bos are at Kansas Ciiy, and the M. E's are at Minneapoli: No fmall degree of local interest wedge about the Minneapolis: gathering. where Dr W. P. Thirkield, presiden: of Howard University, is a leading contender for Bishopric honors. ff he is elected, as it now seems he will he there will be a vacaney at Howard. There will be no dearth of candidat » For this very desirable $5,000 berth, t¢ peitehsmumeroucautHGonnt perquisites are attached, aside from the distine- [rion wad dignity. Ly is believed that che trustees are in a mood to decide Ithat the next president of the race's sssatest institution for the higher e4- Hrcaion shall be a colored man, Wisk chis view in mind rumor is musity connecting. che mame of many wetl- jaalitied educators wish the place, Some of those mentioned are: Kelly Miller, George William Cook and Lew- is B, Moore, of the University facult:: Roscoe Conklin Bruce, W. E, B. Du- ois and Judge Robert H. Terrell, the Flatter a Ioecurer on special Inw toples in the law department. If the honor should fll to Prof, Cook, wno out- ranks all of his contemporaries in ecutirly of connection with — the school, it is said that Andrew F. Hil- yer, an expert accountant of the In- te rior Department, ix slated to succeed him as seeretary of the institution. Other changes are also talked about, dredicced pon the result at Minne- polis, a poiat on the map that every Howard man is watching just now with feverish interest The possibili- ty of the election of Editor Robert E. Jones as a bishop for tlie colored con- Ierene’s, is also a topic for general digcussion ‘The election of five bishops at Kansas City and two at Charlotte will proba- bly be a part of history when these lines reaeh the reader's eyes. Drs. John Hurst and J. M. Conner are ~- pected io land two of the places at Kansas City, with Drs. D. P. Roberts, T. MON. Smith and W. W. Beckett strong in she field, and Dr. I. N. Ross a “dark horse” who will surprise everybody, Dr. J. S. Jackson will win at Charlotte, with the second place Ly- ing between Drs, G. C. Clement, S. L. Corrothers, W. L. Lee. J. B. Colbert and R.A, Morrissey. At Kansas City, Dr. C. V. Roman, author of “Racial Solidarity.” gud othe: able works, and who has been giving such an excellent accoun; of himself for the past year as editor of the AL ME Church Review, will be elected to suc- ceed Prof. Kealing. The problem as to whether the twelve-year provision for th, Atvican Bishops is binding ot not. will be one of the big questions *o be chreshed owt, Morally, it ought to be, and the Aftican bishops accepted office with the understanding that they Would be required to stay in that field for twelve years, The election of Dr. EO H. Muater as financial secretary would please verybody in this neck- othe-woods. None of the sessions will lack for interesting features Mrs. Shaw Aetive im Educational Work. Mis. Jia K. Shaw, directress uf Gomestic secones in the Armstroag Manual Training School, is one of the Distrier's mest active educational forces, She is a firm believer in the Hifieaey of domestic science in Uxe pre- mation of inman happiness wad takes a Nvely int rest in all matters that fend “G pres at its virtues 10 the peo- fie of every kind and condision, She Si Teen ont an excelent class am June, and ler pupils are all loud in Mel praise oo her, because of the svinpatherie atention she has given them tarenghont the long and exact: he fons Mis: Shaw has been in- id te take charge of the domes: Selene work Chis summer at the In stnwion fo) Colored Youths at Chey- nee. Pit andomay aeeepr. A more thorouzh instructor could not be J Pre Henry ML Higgins a Benediet, Cas have een received here froin Mr and Mrs, George Woods, of Chi- ago, Wino tie marriage ot their qansves, Fannie Consuela, t Di. Hensy Macon Higgins, dr. Sain day. March 2 ist. The happy com: ple have been a home to their friends since April ovat 635 Forest: Avenue Chieszo. De Hiseins is a popula Cineinnats bey. at wi be remem Wered as the betas: son of My, and Mrs. 1M. Higeins, of thar ety, Me is twenty-one pears of ae and im mediaely after taking his degree a the Ohio State Universicy, qnatifein In veterinasy snegery, We was appoint fd te a position as veterinary inspce tor in Chieaue, Miss Woods (tha Joos is a beantiful and accomplishe: FEOUME Ty, a socery belle of Chiraxo | iLiceeAC UR TIASSATRLS ial ]} Harvard Caiversity has contre the deere: of Doctor ot Piritosaph [pon eG, Woodson, a reacer in th M Storer High Sehool, tate of tant ington, W.Va. an hoor whieh ont Jone other colored man, Prot WOE. F ‘Dultois, tas received trom char inst Irusion. Mr, Woodson lateiy pane [Ws special examination, this comple Jing all the requirements tor ie de renee, His wark lay in the Doparimes his thesis was “The Disruption — of Virginia, Mr, Woodson, who has tray- eled around the world, studied at the University of Paris. While at the Sorbonne, he worked under Prots. At hud, Lemonnier, Diehl and Bouche. Leclera. Judge Terrell and Asst. Attorney: General Lewis Eulogize Grant, | Judge Robert H. Terrell, who is an annual guest of honor at the Loew Club's celebration of the birthday of General Grant at Pittsburgh, and As- sistant Attorney-General W. HL Lew is, delivered thrilling addresses Moa- day evening of last week in the ~Smoky City in ettlogy of the na- tion's greatest mibiiary genius. Both were fhae examples of forensic ubility and the tributes tothe race's: sturdy frisnd struck a responsive chord in the breast of all who heard them, ‘The father of Judge Terrell, the late Hay- hison ‘Terrell, was intimately. associa- ted for years with General Grant, and was with the latter when the spark of his great life died out, ‘The News in Brief. President Tatt ended last week with 450 delegates te his credit, leaving him but 80 short of the 540 necessary to make a majority at the Chicago convention. ‘This does sot include the vote of Maryland or any of the res- ults of the present week, The banquet in honor of — Prof. George William Cook, secretary ot Howard University, was a brilliant affair—one of the largest and finest functions of the kind ever given here. The Washingt Bee is to celebrate its thirty-third anniversary in June by getting out a monster special edi- tion The conclave of the Knights Tem- plar is scheduled for Angus: 19-24 in this city. Assistant Attorney-General W.H. Lewis is to deliver the address to the literary societies at The National Religious Training School on the 22d te is to be at the Alabama State Pair at Birmingham on the 20th FP. D.. Henry, formerly of the Post- Office Devartmen:, has been appoint- ed chisf clerk at Freedmen’s Hospit- al, succetding Henry Cardozo, resign- ed, Dr. D. Webster Davis. gospel preach- ot, philosopher. educator, author ant humorist, lectured Friday evening at the Metropolitan Baptist chureh, tak- ing for his theme, “Down and Out.” ater, he was the special guest of the ‘amous Mu-So-Lit Club and delivered 1 telling address on “Some Observa- sons by the Way.” Bishop Walters aanounces thar the innual conference of the Washing on and Philadelphia Conference will be held at Salisbury, Md., beginning June 12. Secretary MacVeagh. with character- iste Mberality. this week promuted Mr. James S. Brooks, and transferred the efficient’ young man to a snug berth in the Bureau of Engraving and ‘vrinting. Register J. C. Napier gocs to Nash- vill. Tenn., next week to attend the state convention, which meets on the 1th, ~ Quite a sensation was created iat werk when Ferro! Le Duc, white forty- six years of age, said to be a Freneh- man, secured a license at the city hall to marty Miss Julia Wormley. colored, thirty-five years of age. The cesome- hy was performed by Rev. Aquila Sayls, who seems to have a mon- opoly of handling the “mixed mar- An examination to be held in New York for woman teachers of the ele mentary ungraded: schools has been aamounced ihroug a cireular Ietter sent out by Assistant Superintenden Re-coe Conkling Bruce, for the benetii of the graduates of Normol School No. 2. who have not yet secured employ- ment, ‘This examination is to be held May 29 and 21, Examinations for ocher poritions will be held at otter dates at present unannounced. Mr, Bruce keeps an eye open for the benefit of tho graduates who finish in our schools. The Robert T. Proeman Dental As- sociation was entertained Tast wok The meeting was highly profitable ant the formation of a tri-state dente Jasson jation. embracing the deatists of jWashington, Baltimore aud Virginia, TRY AN AD IN THE ADVOCATE LETS HIS PAST TALK FOR HIM Shares W. Swisher Thinks Plat- form Unnecessary. HAS FAITH IN THE PEOPLE Candidate For Gubernatorial Nomina tion Tells What He Has Already Done For Great State of West_Vir ginia and What He Hopes to Ac: complish In the Future For “The Glory of My State and Her People.” Rose From the Ranks, “I see-that the gentlemen who are contesting with you have put forward platforms,” said a newspaper writer to Hon. Charles Wesley Swisher, lead- ing Republican candidate for the gov- ernorship nomination, “are you in. tending to do something of the kind?” “Ne. I don't think it necessary, I have been in public life long enough for the people to know how I view questions which develop from time to time, in which they have a vital interest. The majority sentiment of the people is always right, and I have found that it is invariably compati- ble with my views to align myself with that sentiment. In all my offi- cial record it will not be found that in any single instance I was in an attitude of opposing the popular will. On the contrary, it will be found that T have ever been actively enlisted in trying to get for the people what they wanted z “I believe I ean say with both mod- esty and truth, that I am a man of action more “than | am a man of words. Fulfillment is of greater worth tothe public xellare: than - promise. Actions speak-douder than words and count for a great deal more. When I was driving a mule ir a mine, driving a ‘heading’ opening up a new coal mine or sticking in a dynamite or Powder charge, I learned to act, to Repeats: Maeno. cam Heese res iM Cx ae st ales Ge ease Cates ie eee EG (cents Pe Mee SCG | [es Sea paver ea Presta veew oy ae ee reese § A ER Si cetera es| NRE ees ta ef CHAS. W. SWISHER, Republican Candidate for Governor of West Virginia: summon my own resources and to talk little. I had the lesson instilled in me by hard work that the chief thing to do was to go at the partion: Jar thing to be done and get it over with-—That has been one of my rules of action in political and business lite since. Do the thing and talk about it afterward. “That is the way it seems to me to be in this matter of the governor- ship. My official fecord, extending through a long period of years, is, 1 am proud to say, fuller of achieve- ments than it is of promises and wise dissertations on divers and sundry questions, reformatory, academic and otherwise. . “That record shows my tempera ment and manner of thought on the progressive and evolutionary issues of ‘the hour. I was the { st man to write a bill and press it 1 our legislature to secure for the people of West Vir. ginia protection against impure and | adulterated foods. I fought for it in the house and in the senate, when I Was a member of those branches, but the public hadn't been educated up to the necessity of it. My efforts ante- dated the more successful endeavors in the national congress by a good Many years. I regret to say that West Virginia has no effective pure food . Jaw yot. 1 meution this as an indica. fight for a primary election’ law, which others are now so vigorously urging, Tam glad to say. In all tho Progressive legislation and reform measures which have been enacted since the Republican party came into power in West Virginia, I have had a direct part in helpin, as the public well knows. The platform on which T was nominated and on which Mr. Glasscock was elected, and upon | which the party won its lust victory | in the state, was a platform written for me, and in part by me, and had my approval. That platform shows ,how I stand on many public ques- _ tions, how T stood four years ago, as well as how I stand now, more clear- ly than anything else T might say at | this time. “As to platforms, no provision has been made for the party having one this year, but it ought to have one, pand will, T think, Tam in favog of | calling all the legislative nominess jtogether after the primary and let them, in convention, promulgate a | platform of party principles which will apply to the coming campaign. | This would be as representative a body as could be gotten, for ‘upon | these men rest the fulfillment of what: -ever promises the platform of the |Party makes. At the same time, 1 would invite all other Republicans wha: 6iGd tocsaltend! to join in the convention and help formulate the document and ratity it. | “My idea js that a governor should | Administer the executive department and not try to dictate to the legisla: tive department, further than making recommendations and urging them within the limits of the authority con- ferred on him by the constitution, Tt is not his duty to make laws, but to enforce them, and if I become gover- nor my chief mission will be to rig- idly and impartially enforce the laws that we have. | “I want to say, too, that in such an event, I want to do all T can to help [the good roads movement, not by just [talking, but by doing things. 1 want to see good roads built, not_ merely setinea cow budewai@, “1 sa atrive to have the convicts in the peniten- tiary work on the roads, It will be better for them and better for the state. I will aim to give an adminis. tration that will accomplish things for the workingmen, the fellows who compose what Lincoln called ‘the common people.’ The time is long past when officials should act wholly for the interests of the fortunate and favored classes, those who have wealth and special privileges. T.came from the common people and my sym- pathies are with them, and it is my determined purpose to do things that will accrue to their especial benefit. If this be partiality or discrimination, make the best of it. T want to do things for those people. who need things done for them the most. 1 hope to be the instrument that will accomplish definite results in a prac tical and businesslike way to promte the growth of agriculture in West Virginia. ‘There is too much theory j and not enough action in this matter. It is no hard problem when something I: actually done; it only seems hard when theorists and academicians with or without highly colored. stere optican pictures, lecture about it. | fe to advertise and exploit my state to the outside world and be the means of bringing in outside capital j to develop our vast resources. In that {respect I have already done a great deal in both a private and public capacity. The very nature of my bust {ness hag brought me in close touch with capitalists who live in other states, and I have been the means di rectly of causing large sums of money | to flow into West Virginia for tts de “THURSDAY, MAY 09, 1912. |. 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