The Advocate

HON. CHAS. W. SWISHER M. B. THE ADVOCATE. WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME XII. HON. CHAS. Hon. M. F. Matheney, formerly a member of the house of delegates from Raleigh county, passed through Parkersburg yesterday on his way to Clarkburg to speak at the Swisher rally there. Mr. Matheney was one of William Seymour Edwards' chief lieutenants in the Roosevelt fight and while Mr. Matheney would not speak for Col. Edwards, his course at this time is strongly indicative of the national committeeman-elect's attitude and it will not be surprising if Mr. Swisher's candidacy soon receives the impetus of the forceful Kanawha county organizer. Mr. Matheney authorized the following interview for the Dispatch-News: "Several weeks ago I became convinced that Hon. G. W. Swisher was the logical candidate for the Republicans of this state to nominate in the primary of this state to be held June 4. "It is coming to him' if the party is to be guided by a spirit of justice and fair play. "It is known that organized labor throughout the state is lined up hard against the candidacy of Mr. Dillon, and as this is a day of independent voting, the party ought not to be put on the defensive in the very beginning of the campaign. In my judgment, he is the third man in the race and will still be third man when the primary ballots are counted. Voting for Mr. Dillon is indirect support Built in Philadelphia Said to be a Losing Venture and Removal Talk is Engaged in by Members. Washington, May 22.—Talk has again started about the probable removal of the headquarters of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows to this city or Atlanta. William L. Houston, of this city, past grand master of the order, is being groomed by the administration forces to succeed James F. Needham as grand secretary of the order. This and the fact that the $100,000 headquarters of the order at 12th and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, is not considered a paying investment by many are taken as the indications that the headquarters may come here, where the office of the Odd Fellows' Journal has been located for the past eighteen months. Mr. Needham, it is said, has been promised another comfortable berth should he retire in favor of Mr. Houston, who is now an associate justice on the Odd Fellows' Supreme Court. Male Pedagogues of Norfolk, are Facing an Investigation Into Their Alleged Visits to Drum Shops. Norfolk, Va., May 22.—What may lead to a general investigation of the morals of the teachers in the colored schools is indicated by the school board's determination to investigate charges against Prof. R. A. Bruce, principal of the largest colored school in the city, who is charged by prominent colored citizens with signing the application for the renewal of a license of a certain saloon that is alleged to have been obnoxious to the better element of colored people in this city. Rev. Charles S. Morris, pastor of the Bank Street Baptist Church, says he was forced to withdraw two of his children from Prof. Tucker's school in order that they would be in a THE ADVOCATE. The real contest lies between Swisher and Hatfield, with Swisher strong in the lead. I find the support of Mr. Swisher general throughout the state, while that of Hatfield is confined to certain classes in particular localities. It is very apparent that those who are most active in behalf of Hatfield are now trying to hitch his candidacy to the tail of the Roosevelt kite. Men foremost in the Roosevelt movement in this state know what they had to go up against in the early part of the fight when the state looked doubtful. They further know that the machine backed by Hatfield and Isaac T. Mann in the Fifth congressional district was the last to surrender in the final contest. This talk of being for Roosevelt now ought not to have much weight among Roosevelt supporters; neither should it help among the friends of President Taff, as band wagon candidates are not usually strong before the people. bring before the people. "With Swisher at the head of the ticket the Republicans can win this state in the coming contest. With Hatfield at the nominee, the result will be very doubtful; in fact I am of opinion that he would be defeated unless carried over by the popularity of Roosevelt, the man whose candidacy the McDowell county machine has opposed to the very beginning." better moral atmosphere, and additional charges of "booze hitting" have been laid against the professor. Other charges, including frequent saloons will probably be laid against other male teachers here. According to the Report of the Association to the Board of Governors of the Virginia Institution. Hanover, Va.. May 22.—According to the annual report of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, just submitted to the board of governors of the institution, the institution is in excellent condition and more good work has been accomplished during the past year than in any similar period of the institution's history. The state makes annual appropriations for the maintenance of the reformatory, which has now enrolled 182 boys. The institution was founded in 1897 by the late John H. Smythe, minister to Liberia during the first administration of President Cleveland, and is situated on a farm of 1,300 acres. Concrete walks connect the several buildings, a blacksmith's shop has been erected and a chapel—the gift of friends—has been built. The administration building has been remodeled and a school building is nearing completion. The late Collis P. Huntington was one of the benefactors of the school. Mrs. E. G. Shippen is the present superintendent. Petersburg, Va., May 22.—Hon. William H. Lewis, assistant Attorney General of the United States, will be the speaker at the commencement exercises of the Peabody High School which will take place here on May 31. J. C. Gilmer was a business visitor to Vanetta, Monday. Brutal was the Assault COMMITTED UPON HIM BY CANDIDATE FOR GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION. Is Penn's Statement Charleston Man Claims The Attack of Dr. Hatfield upon him was Unprovoked and Occurred a Half Hour After he Had Last Talk With Him. Charleston, W. Va., May 20, 1912. Editor The Advocate: Within the past week or two so many false accounts of the controversy between Dr. Hatfield and myself in the State House, the last night of the regular session of the Legislature, have been circulated here by his emissaries that in justice to myself I feel that the public should be acquainted with the facts in the case. During the previous session of the Legislature I had done some cleaning and pressing for a Senator Hatfield for which no payment had been made, being under the impression that Dr. H. D. Hatfield and the Senator Hatfield for whom the work was done were one and the same person, I approached him some days previous to the night in question and informed him that I had a bill against him. With the simple denial of any indebtedness to me and before I had had an opportunity to clear the matter up, Dr. Hatfield parted from me. Meeting him again on the night he so brutally assaulted me, I again attempted to secure a settlement when he again curtly informed me that he owed me nothing, adding something that I did not hear distinctly. I told him that the small amount of the bill would neither make nor break me, and the incident was closed, so far as I was concerned. The Senate was at that time in recess and I took a seat near the entrance to the chamber with the purpose of witnessing its deliberations when it reconvened. During the half hour or more I sat there I greeted a number of white friends passing in and out, and Dr. Hatfield I saw once or twice standing in the rear of the chamber on the Lee street side. Growing tired of waiting longer for the Senate to reconvene, I left the room at about the same time that Felts, a Baldwin detecting, came out. As we went down the corridor some one seized me in the collar from behind, jerked me around and asked if I had called him a ....... ....... It was Dr. Hatfield, who, despite my protestation of innocence, struck at me with his fist. I warded off the blow, but was struck by Felts with the butt of his revolver. I broke away from the two and started to run, but just as I reached the head of the stairs, Dr. Hatfield, Felts and others crying, "Stop him! Stop him!" in the meantime I slipped and Dr. Hatfield struck me, knocking me down to the landing. On arising he again struck me, knocking me down the stairs to the foot, where, with a black jack or some other weapon he again struck me twice. Some one demonstrated with him, but he said he would "kill the damn nigger," or words to that effect, and as I fell exhausted from his brutal attack through the revolving doors, he kicked me under the eye causing it to protrude from the socket. As soon as I was able I secured medical attention for the wounds from which I have not yet fully recovered. The scars I shall bear to the grave. These are the facts stated briefly. The report that I was intoxicated or that I used blasphemous, obscene or insulting language to or about Dr. Hatfield is absolutely false and those who say I did do so without any foundation of fact. Knowing as I did the reputation of Dr. Hatfield and of others bearing the same name, it would have been the extreme of imprudence for me, especially while he was surrounded by sympathizers, to have deliberately aroused his passion by word or deed. Just as I did not make the remarks, accredited to me by his henchmen, neither did I make any motion to draw a revolver—as I had none—nor did I make any other hostile move until he struck at me. (Signed) RUFUS S. PENN. Mr. George Copeland and Miss Hatty Smithers, of Wake Forest, were married at Hotel Brown by Rev. J. S. Carroll, Saturday. evening. Huntington Convention SELECT NEGRO ALTERNATES TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Two From Districts J. H. Taylor, of Charleston, and Dr. C. C. Barnett, Huntington, Unanimously Selected by The State Convention to Represent The Race at Chicago. West Virginia Negroes will have four representatives at the Chicago National Convention of the Republican party when Theodore Roosevelt is nominated for the presidency. At Huntington in the state convention Thursday of last week, J. H. Taylor of this city, was elected alternate to delegate at large, Gov. Wm. E. Glass cock and Dr. Barnett, of Huntington, alternate to Senator Smith, of the same city. On the preceding day in the district conventions held for the third and fifth districts, at Charleston and Huntington, respectively Dr. S. F. Clay, of Lewisburg, was elected alternate in the first and M. T. Whittico, editor of the McDowell Times, alternate in the second named city. All these elections were unanimous. An unusual honor came to the race at the state convention when Phil Waters, deputy clerk of the state supreme court, and Chas. E. Mitchell, business manager of the W. Va. Colored Institute, were made assistant secretaries. Mr. Waters acted as reading secretary and pgrformed his duties so satisfactorily as to win the applause on more than one occasion of the thousand or more delegates and spectators. An earnest effort was made by a few members of the race present at the State convention to bring about the election of a Negro delegate-at-large, but to no effect. Five candidates, one from each congressional district, had been agreed upon by the delegates from these districts and the leaders of the Roosevelt movement some days prior to the meeting of the convention. When they arrived at Huntington they brought irresistable pressure to bear upon Governor Glasscock to accept the sixth place, advancing the argument that the honor rightly belonged to him as leader of the fight to place West Virginia in the Roosevelt column. Governor Glasscock yielded after he saw resistance was futile and accepted the honor, so justly due him, under protest. The movement for a Negro delegate had no more staunch supporter than the Governor and it can be said authoritatively that the regret of no one in the failure of the movement was keener than his. Much cheap talk on the streets was engaged in by a small number of Negro peanut politicians about carrying the fight for a Negro delegate to the floor of the convention, but, when the opportunity arrived, they had yielded to either a realization of the futility of such an attempt or cowardice. Jr was noticeable that the fight-on-the-floor aggregation did not have in its line-up a single person who had contributed in any way to the preliminary effort to secure the selection of a Negro as delegate. As was anticipated by the few who had taken an active part in the movement, those who did nothing to advance it were the first and loudest in complaining of its failure. It was also noticeable that these same persons who were so solicitous at Huntington of the welfare of the race in general when they saw that their alignment with the Taft forces handicapped them, have not been conspicuous in their endeavors to advance the cause of other Negroes, if by any hook or crook they could advance their own. With the few objections noted above, it was very generally conceded that, considering the apathy of those who pride themselves upon being race-leaders, a forward step in the Negro's political status in West Virginia was taken at Huntington. Phil Waters is in the northern part of the State this week on political business. Mr. Samuel Guy, of this city, and Miss Lizzie Jeffries, of Quinnimont, were married at Hotel Brown, Tuesday, Rev. E. Fort officiating. The Ladies Art Club met Tuesday evening with Mrs. Rhoda Muse, Piedmont, St., Tuesday evening. Uprising of Negroes DENIED PART IN THE GOVERNMENT, SERIOUSLY MENACES CURAN REPUBLIC Situation Grave Feeling Against Government Was Intensified by The Passage of a Law Denying Negroes Right to Organize as a Political Party. Hayana, May 20.—There is no room for doubt tonight of the existence of a Negro conspiracy extending to all the provinces of the island, with the apparent intention of taking up arms against the Government today, which was the tenth anniversary of Cuban independence. The Negroes appear to have been aroused to rebellion by the denial of what seems to them their just political rewards for services rendered in the war of independence, in which they constituted a great majority of the Cuban forces. The feeling against the government has been intensified by a law denying the Negroes the right to organize a political party. The principal trouble is in the vicinity of Sagua La Grande, in Santa Clara Province, and Cruces, where two armed parties are operating, and in Oriente province, where several bands are converging in Guantanamo city with the apparent purpose of making a display of force at that place. The rural guards succeeded in dispersing one small party and capturing two others. The situation is considered sufficiently grave for the Government to dispatch a column of 1,200 men from Camp Columbia, composed of cavalry and infantry, with field and machine guns, bound for Santa Clara and Oriente provinces. Near Sagua La Grande a squad of rurales had an engagement with an armed band of Negroes. One of the guards was killed and the Negroes made their escape. From Cruces comes the report that residents of the surrounding country are fleeing to the city for shelter. The insurgents are reported to have held up a locomotive and stolen many horses. At Mariano, eight miles from Havana, the rural guard exchanged shots with a party of Negroes, capturing one of them and also nine rifles. The Secretary of the Interior, Senor Bru, said tonight that there was no doubt about the widespread racial conspiracy, which the government is determined to deal with drastically, but that up to the present the only danger points are Santa Clara and Oriente. The situation resembles that preceding the last revolution, when the Negroes in February, 1906, conspired to make a simultaneous attack on all the rural guard posts, but only attacked that at Guanabacoa, the guard of which was massacred. This was a prelude to the general revolution in August of that year. A late dispatch received by the government from Lejes, Santa Clara, says that a Negro band headed by Simon Armenteros destroyed the telegraph station at the Santisima plantation at Trinidad, in Santa Clara, and also burned a bridge of the railway from Sagua La Grande to Cienfuegos. Armenteros declares that it is his intention to do his utmost to destroy foreign property. iana Will Try To Answer. Baton Rouge, La., May 18.—Whether to be lynched is the same thing as falling victim of an accident, is an interesting question which the Courts of Louisiana have been called upon to tussle with. The point came up here today when the widow of Frank Miles, a Negro who was hanged by a mob in Shreveport for writing an insulting note to a white woman, filed preliminary proceedings against an insurance company. The petition does not specify that Miles was victim of an accident, but recites that he was found "hanging from the limb of a tree in the rear of the baseball park, with a rope tied about his neck." W. S. Gilmer is ill at his home on State street. RESOLUTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY DISTRICT CONVENTION, C MAY 150 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE SECOND CONGRESSION DISTRICT CONVENTION, COMPRISED OF 14 COUNTIES MAY 15th, 1912. Be it further resolved, that whereas: It has been a time-honored custom at least one candidate on its State Sites and whereas the Hon. M. H. King, of the office of Secretary of State, is the only State office from the Second Congress, it endorses the candidacy of Mr. King, of the Republican voters of the State discharge of the duties of the office to tion is convinced that his nomination by reason both of the eminent fitness of the claims of the Second Distri It has been a time-honored custom for the Republican party to select at least one candidate on its State ticket from each Congressional District, and whereas the Hon. M. H. King, of Randolph county, candidate for the office of Secretary of State, is the only candidate for nomination to any State office from the Second Congressional District, this convention heartily endorses the candidacy of Mr. King and recommends him to the support of the Republican voters of the State. He is admirably fitted for the discharge of the duties of the office to which he aspires, and this Convention is convinced that his nomination would add strength to the State ticket by reason both of the eminent fitness of the candidate af. of the recognition of the claims of the Second District to a place on the ticket. Dept. of Architecture M. H. KING The above is made from the latest photograph of Honorable M. H. Kinga, of Randolph county, candidate for Secretary of State and the only candidate for a State office from the Second Congressional District. "Mike" as his legion of friends throughout the state know him, is making an aggressive campaign for this nomination and his candidacy is meeting with much encouragement from every section of the state. Besides being a staunch Republican, always active in the interest and success of his party, Mr. King is a most able campaigner; a speech maker of recognized ability; a scholarly gentleman of honor and integrity; possessed of good common sense; deserving in every sense of the word and amply able to perform the duties of the office to which he aspires in an efficient manner. If Mike gets the nomination, and he is certainly making things hum in that direction, we predict that his name will add scores of votes to the ticket this fall.—Charleston Mail. The Hon. 'Mike King is not posing LINCOLN HALL Just Dedicated, Marks the Extraordinary Growth of a Negro Institute Claremont, Va., May 20.—Lincoln Memorial Hall, the latest addition to the buildings of the Temperance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute here, was dedicated today with elaborate exercises, presided over by Governor Mann. The institute, which now has a plant ltworth $750,000 and is attended by Nego students from all over the country, was founded 20 years ago by John J. Smallwood, a Negro educator, with 10 pupils and less than $50 in cash. Mrs. John Hay was the chief contributor to the $50,000 fund for Lincoln Hall. NEGRO PREACHER Preaches the Gospel of Cleanliness To the African Methodists. Kansas City, Mo., May 20.—"It is the duty of all Negro citizens to improve the health of the state, but it is peculiarly obligatory on the educated Negroes to save the less fortunate of BY THE SECOND CONGRESSION- COMPRISED OF 14 COUNTIES 15th, 1912. tom for the Republican party to select ticket from each Congressional District, of Randolph county, candidate for the only candidate for nomination to any congressional District, this convention heartening and recommends him to the sup-State. He is admirably fitted for the to which he aspires, and this Conven- would add strength to the State ticket of the candidate as of the recogni- strict to a place on the ticket. as a philosopher in his candidacy for secretary of state, neither is he holding his shaking hand on the level of his head. Mike is going to get up close to the people as the circumstances will permit, wherein he exhibits commendable wisdom. — Fayette Journal. Says the Parkersburg Dispatch-News: Hon. M. H. King, of Randolph county, one of the big men politically in the Republican party in his part of the State, and all around good fellow, is in the city. He is an orator and campaigner of unusual ability, a good fellow and an altogether likeable man. Hon. M. H. King, of Randolph county, is in the city and has announced his intention of being a candidate for secretary of state at the June primary. He is a stumper, mixer and vote getter of unusual ability and would cut a wide swath in any race he might enter. He states that he has received assurance of extensive support.—State Journal. the race from dirt, disease, and death," said Dr. C. V. Roman, a delegate to the African Methodist Episcopal Conference, which was resumed here today, addressing an educational mass meeting. Rev. R. D. Stinson, principal of the Atlanta (Ga.) Normal School, called attention to the necessity of Negroes learning manual labor, or "honest work," as he characterized it. LARGE SUMS Are Raised by the Freedmen's Aid Society to Aid Negro Education Minneapolis, Minn., May 20.—According to a report presented tonight the Freedmen's Aid Society, which has for its purpose aiding the education of Negroes in the South, has 22 schools, and during the quadrennium $148,677 has been expended in building and equipment. It also announced that Andrew Carnegie had given $10,000 during this time to the society, and that the indebtedness of the society had been reduced from $104,203 to $36,466. CORRESP CORRESPONDENCE H. P. Day spent Wednesday and Thursday in Huntington attending the Republican State Convention. J. L. Wiseman, James Waller, J. D. Wiseman spent a few days out of town this week. Aaron Ross, of Paint Creek, is spending the week here visiting his parents. Kennert Brook spent a few days out of town last week. P. H. Napper left for Plymouth where he has employment. Misses Virginia, Ella and Sadie Smith entertained at dinner Sunday Miss M. L. Walker and Lee Johnson. H. E. Harris was a business visitor to Charleston last week. Rev. F. E. Smith preached his farewell sermon Sunday. His resignation had been offered some time ago to be effective the 3rd Sunday in May. CHARLESTON St. Paul Church Notices.—Miss Nina Clinton will sing at the morning service at St. Paul A. M. E. church Sunday. The Ladies Aid Society met Friday and elected officers as follows: Mrs. Nelson president; Miss Green, Vice president; Mr. Clark, secretary; Mrs. Taylor, assistant secretary; Mrs. Clark, treasurer. Mrs. Downs, chorister. The meeting this week will be held with Mrs. J. E. Clark, Donnally St. A rally for the purpose of raising $500,00 will be held by the church. Sunday, June 2nd. Rev. E. Fort, the pastor, is joined by the church members in request that those interested in the work they are attempting to accomplish will assist them at this time. Hotel Brown Arrivals.—J. D. White, Harvey; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Jones, Montgomery; George Ellis, Kimberly; J. H. King, Riverside; Miss E. J. Patterson, Winona; Mr. and Mrs. Hogue, Richmond, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Copeland, Wake Forest; Charles Ross, Winifrede; J. C. Clark, Boomer; A. Brewer, Sistersville; Thomas Wilson, Decota; E. Jones, Page; Rev. C. E. Hodge, Staunton, Va.; Miss Maggie Williams, Cabin Creek; Mr. and Mrs. George Smith B. ENGL HEADQUARTER Dry Goods, M and R Economical Buyer advantage to i The best Merch FOR THE LO THIS WEEK WE DRES B. ENGLE & CO. Economical Buyers will find it to their advantage to inspect our Stocks. 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He works in a coal mine for $1.50 a day, supporting his widowed mother and three sisters. By the money earned in his clever boxing exhibitions he has been able to pay his way through a fern at school The Kid is a little man. He never saw a city before he arrived in Charleston on Friday, and he was amazed, stunned and "made giddy," he says, at what he saw. The trolley cars, automobiles, auto cars store windows, electric light advertising signs and the crowds of people in the streets—were all a revelation to the little colored lad. A Prominent Visitor—Jas, H. Hayes, editor of the St. Luke Herald and a prominent attorney of Richmond, Va., spent a few hours here Saturday returning to his home after two weeks of strenuous campaigning in Ohio for Roosevelt. Mr. Hayes' predictions as to the outcome of the primary in that State were more than realized. Tuesday, and the hope was freely expressed by the host of Roosevelt admirers he met here that the efforts of himself and those of his chief in New Jersey, where they now are, will bear even better fruit. Convention Visitors Among those who attended the Republican state convention at Huntington Thursday, of last week, were Allen A. DeHonney, Sr., Marshall Jones and Phil Waters, delegates; J. W. Chappelle, T. G. Nutter, J. H. Taylor, Joseph Jackson, J. W. Campbell, W. H. Wright and J. C. Gilmer, Numerically Charleston did not have as strong representation as some other cities but none were more active as is evidenced by the fact that two of its representatives were signally honored-Phil Waters as reading secretary LE & CO. 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As inning after inning was ended and the score remained tied, the rooters for the home team excelled their former efforts in the attempt to "rattle" the opposition and bolster the waning courage of the Clippers. The agony was ended by Cuzzens crossing the plate with the winning run. The feature of the game was the twirling of the Wilberforce pitcher and the heavy hitting of one of the players who made two doubles and a home run. Young Voters Meet.—The Young Voters' Club of Charleston held an enthusiastic meeting at their club rooms Tuesday, this was the fifth meeting of the club since their organization and while not such a large crowd was in attendance owing to other attractions the meeting was a success in every particular. The principal speaker of the evening was attorney E. R. Carter who set forth the principles of the grand old party clearly and forcibly and who gave the members some pleasing and helpful talks. The club heartily endorsed the candidacy of Attorney Carter for Justice of Peace of Charleston district. The Club was organized in January with ten members; since then it has steadily grown until it now has 100 members enrolled, the officers are H. E. Waynesboro, Pres., and Edward C. Lewis, Secy. Treasurer. Locals and Personals. Miss Ethel Bryant, of Bidwell, O., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bryant, Donnally St., Saturday. Moses Ray, of Sun, and J. W. White, of Red Star, were business visitors here this week. Dr. T. L. Bryant, of Raymond City, was here on professional business, Tuesday. Rev. E. J. Woodard preached at the First Baptist church at Winifrede Sunday. Mrs. J. B. McIver, of MacDonald, was in the city last week on business for the Gallilean Fisherman. D. E. V. Jordan and Miss Lillian Shelton, of Quinnimont, were married Saturday evening at the home of the bride by Rev. R. B. Reed, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are home to their friends at the Brown Hotel. Miss Maggie Gilmore, of Malden, was shopping in town Tuesday. Mrs. Alice Whittaker continues ill with neuralgia of the heart at her home on Sentz street. Miss Amanda Gamble spent the latter part of the week in the city. Jas. Bell died Sunday morning of his home on Truslow ave., after a short illness. The funeral services were held at the First Baptist church Wednesday afternoon. He is survived by his wife. Miss Lewellyn Spriggs spent Sunday in the city the guest of Miss Esther E. Fulks. Mrs. Mary Hazelwood visited friends at Institute Sunday. Atheneum Club Debates. "Resolved: That President Taft is entitled to renomination" was debated Monday evening at the First Baptist church under the auspices of the Atheneum club. The affirmative speakers were J. A. Jefferson and J. A. Franklin; negative, L. C. Farrar and R. C. Meiver. After each speaker had been allowed ten minutes, the judges decided in favor of the negative May Fair Closes.—The May fair closed at the First Baptist church Friday evening a complete success. The Sunday school room was beautifully decorated for the occasion and the program rendered each of the five evenings were excellent. In point of attendance the evening the Ladies Aid society was in charge excelled, they reporting door receipts amounting to $24.20. The entertainment given by the Tribe of Joseph, Friday evening, is said to have been the best of the series. Norman Dehaven represented the Atheneum club, Monday evening; Mrs. Georgia Taylor, Missionary Section No. 2. Tuesday evening; J. F. J. Clark, the Ladies Aid, Wednesday evening; Mrs. Booker, the Tribe of Joseph, Friday evening. The proceeds of the week's entertainment are expected to be a little less than $200.00. Insurgents Victorious BISHOP'S CLATE IS SHATTERED AND RESULTS ARE DECLARED AMID UPROAR. Joyous Disorder Prevails at the African Methodist Episcopal Conference When Hurst Chappelle, Conner and Jones are Elected to Responsible Positions. Kansas City, Mo., May 22.—Under police protection, the African M. E. conference elected four bishops yesterday afternoon and last night, amid scenes of joyful disorder and outbursts of emotion typical of the camp meeting or the old fashioned revival. Incidentally the "bishops' slates" were smashed in three of the four results. The session lasted from early yesterday morning until 9 o'clock last night. The police were sent for early in the afternoon. The new bishops are: Mr. Hurt alone was on the slate. The three leading candidates defeated were: W. W. Becket of New York. i). P. Roberts of Chicago and I. N. Ross of Washington, D. C. Bishop Joseph S. Flipper was the leader in the revolt against the slate prepared by several of his brother bishops. Scene of Wild Enthusiasm. Though long the arena of great political gatherings, Covington Hall never held such a scene of wild enthusiasm as that which attended the final ralloting on bishops last night. It was with difficulty that the announcement of the vote was made. The bishops hammered the tables with their gavels and sent men through the crowd constantly attempting to keep order, but the emotions of the viotorious were not to be restrained. Two hours before adjournment it was apparent that the slave had been broken, and the enthusiasm knew no bounds. When the tally sheets showed the election of a favorite, his friends and supporters would rush to his side and carry him bodily on their shoulders to the platform. This was attended by cheering that could be heard blocks away. Churchmen fell on each other's necks and cried for joy. Others climbed on chairs and threw their hats into the air. Many sang, others jumped up and down and shouted. "Praise God," "Glory," and "Amen." Couldn't Stop The Noise. Throughout the bishops on the platform would clamor for order. One with an especially good voice shouted: "Stop that noise—stop it at once." Back from the crowd came the reply: "We can't stop—we can't stop." And the noise grew louder than ever. There were two policemen present, but they did not interfere. Political lobbying and wire pulling leading up to yesterday's election has been in progress day and night since the conference opened two weeks ago. Both factions had open headquarters. Seventeenth names were proposed for election yesterday, but during the day the list simmered down to eight—four on the bishops' slate and four backed by the insurgents. Mr. Hurst of the slate was elected on the first ballot and it looked gloomy for the insurgents, but a rally call went forth, and there began a program of strategy and buttonholing that would put to shame the best of politicians. State Makers Are Routed. On the grand finale last night the slate backers were completely routed. After the smoke of the battle cleared and the noise subsided the delegates were hushed to stillness by the singing of "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow," and the session adjourned with a prayer. "There is no ill feeling now that it's all over," said the Rev. J. G. Robinson of Ohio, who is the press representative of the conference, in commenting on the election. "The fight has never once been really bitter and we have but little to forget. The great work we have to do goes on uninterrupted." Winners Have Good Records. The four new bishops have long been leaders in the affairs of the church. They are of middle age and well educated. Bishop Jones is a graduate of five colleges and universities and was distinguished a few years ago by being elected to the school board of Columbus, Ohio, a position he held for four terms. He was the first Negro to have such a posi- tion in the United States. He is a former president of the Wilberforce University, a Negro school in Ohio. Bishop Hurst has been financial secretary of the conference for several years. Bishop Chappelle is president of the Allen University at Columbia, S. C. Bishop Conner is presiding elder of the district of Little Rock, Ark. All but one of the new bishops was born of slave parents. Bishops in the A. M. E. Church receive a salary of $2,600 a year and traveling expenses. They are also provided with a home by the conference. There are now fourteen active and two retired bishops. Prof. John R. Hawkins was elected financial secretary; Rev. J. W. Rankin, of Texas, missionary secretary to succeed Rev. W. Beckett; Ira T. Bryant re-elected secretary of the Sunday School Union; Rev. J. C. Caldwell, re-elected secretary of the Allen Christian Endeavor League, and B. F. Watson elected to succeed himself as secretary of church extension. Dr. R. R. Wright defeated the Rev. A. L. Gaines, of Baltimore, for the position of editor of the Christian Recorder, the chief organ of the denomination, though he is one of the strongest men of the church. Dr. Wright made an admirable report of his dual work as editor and manager, which covered a critical period in the history of the Book Concern, and many of the delegates became his supporters. Rev. J. I. Lowe, presiding elder of the Pine Bluff (Ark.) District, was elected business manager of the Book Concern, a position which has been vacant since the death of the Rev. John H. Collett. Among those defeated for the bishopric were the Revs. W. W. Beckett, M. M. Ponton, R. H. W. Beake, F. Jesse Peck, R. H. W. Leake, James Dean, R. R. Downs, J. A. Jones, president of Turner Normal School; T. N. M. Smith, I. N. Ross and R. R. Downs. The report of the commissioner of education, Col. John R. Hawkins, showed that nearly $60,000 had been received from the general treasury of the church toward the support of the 16 schools, and colleges maintained by the denomination during the past four years. This does not take in account the money paid in tuition by the thousands of young men and women who have been enrolled in these schools, the money contributed by churches, conferences and individuals. The Rev. Dr. Reverdy C. Ransom, of New York, delivered an address before large audience last Thursday night, this theme being "The Mission of the Religious Press." The services of the conference Sunday were held in Convention Hall. Bishop J. Albert Johnson preached in the morning and Elisp Evans Tree at night. A musical was given at Allen Church last (Tuesday) night. The next session will probably be held at Philadelphia. JUNE 5TH A DAY OF PRAYER FOR PROHIBITION Immediate action in the observance of a day of prayer for the ratification of the Prohibition Amendment is the urgent call that comes to every friend of temperance who carefully considers the following: 1. The financial strength, the unscrupulousness, the flendish trickery, and the political influence of the saloon. 2. The unaroused condition of many, to a sense of personal responsibility; the inactivity of some, due to their confidence in the temperance forces; our own human limitations, and our inclination to rely too much on human instrumentalities, forgetting that this is God's own work and that success is assured only as we follow his plan. 3. The strength of our God—"The same yesterday, today and forever." "He shall not fall nor be discouraged till He have set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall wait for His law." "Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass." There hath not failed one word of all his good promises." "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good His word is rich in promises to all who call upon Him in faith. Therefore all churches, Sunday schools, christian associations, and temperance organizations, urge their people to gather in their respective meeting places, or to unite in some central place in each community, for the observance of Wednesday, June 5th, as a day of fasting and prayer to Almighty God for the wisdom, inspiration, strength and financial help necessary for the success of prohibition—that success which comes "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." Many are already planning to do this. Suggestive program may be had without cost by applying to 107 South Kanawah street, Buckhannon, W, Va. All Has Root In Wisdom. Our highest hopes are often destroyed to prepare us for better things.—William George Jordon. DRY CLEANING NO WAY SHOE REPAIRING 115 Summers St. Phone 790 Charleston, W. Va. You should have the benefit of it if you do. We sell for cash only and give 10 per cent. off on all sales. J. A. RUSK GRO. CO. C. A. GATES GRO. CO. Superior Quality of Groceries. Chase & Sanborn's Coffee. Dr. Pierce's Flavoring Extracts 110 CAPITOL ST State Summer School for Colored Teachers. Third Session, June 17th, to July 26th, 1912, Institute, W. Va. Two Distinct departments will be maintained: 1. The Academic, which will be devoted to thorough work on the branches of the school course, for which credit may be had in the various institutions. Also in this connection thorough drill classes for persons expecting to pass the examinations will be maintained. 2. The Professional, which is designed for principals, high school teachers, and other advanced students. Some of the best talent in the country has been secured for this school. Three of the most distinguished educators, in this country have accepted places on the Summer School Faculty, viz: KELLY MILLER, A. M., W. E. B. Du BOIS, Ph. D., BOOKER WASHINGTON, 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. Dr. JAMES B. BROWN Dental Surgeon Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. Home Phone 429 HENRY T. M'DONALD, President. N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. 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 TRY AN AD IN THE ADVOCATE Founded in 1867 The Presiden --- THE LIFE OF THE WREATHER Come to the Store that will Furnish YOUR Home Just as you have thought and planned it together ```markdown ``` With very heavy, massive, pedestal base— claw feet—45-inch round top—extends 6 feet— solid oak, rich golden finish. 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A number of our missionary societies did commendable work in the October Rally, but we call upon you once more to observe the 5th Sunday in June as a special Rally Day for our educational work. Let every society do its best. Our annual meeting will be held in St. Albans, August 14-16. It is our most earnest desire, our duty, and I hope pleasure, to raise for that meet- Come to the store that has the goods--that names the prices--that has the plan to make your home easily possible. A. GUARANTEE FAVORITE AND RANGES FREEST IN THE WORLD Favorite FAVORITE STOVE & RANGE CO. PAGUA D. Your home demands stove and range satisfaction. BOONE KITCHEN CABINETS Because they save cooking materials, economize on space, prevent loss of silverware, crockery, etc. (by providing a handy, permanent place), save labor and cut kitchen work in half. Twelve Special Features make the Boone always the best! We have a number of these fine cabinets A Out of rum H CASH ing $20.00. Dear sisters, do not withdraw your interest or support. It is your work; we cannot do without you. If we all work together and faithfully, we know there will be no lack of means, and our school will be what we desire it, and what God would have it be. Much has been done, but more remains to be accomplished. For five years the work has been broadening and developing. It has unlimited possibilities of interest and usefulness to every one concerned. Its success depends mainly upon the assistance and cooperation received from each missionary society. Let us work and pray, and give and lay aside everything that will hinder us from making our next annual meeting the greatest spiritually, the greatest financially, in the history of our convention. The societies that have pledged and raised money for plastering rooms in Now on Special Sale! the new building are requested to keep it separate from other monies and bring to the convention in Augu- gust. Yours for the success of the Woman's Baptist State, Convention, MRS. M. A. W. THOMPSON, Hill Top, W. Va. Baltimore Branch Pledges Rescif to Raise a Thousand Dollars to Better Physical Culture Facilities of Alma Matr. Baltimore, May 22.—The first annual banquet of the Local Alumni Association of Howard University was held at Young's Auditorium last Thursday night. Among the features of the gathering was the endorsement of the project to build a gymnasium for the university, as well as a decision. ```markdown ``` Furnish YOUR planned it t names the prices--that easily possible. YOUR Home ed it together es--that Buy a Gibson or an Automatic Refrigerator ```markdown ``` With their EIGHT WALLS of ice saving insulation. The advent of one into the home marks the decline in cost and the rise in the standard of living. We have them as low as $5.75. ting Co. District Outfitting EDIT ion to raise $1,000 toward the fund. Dr. Thomas S. Hawkins, president of the local association, was toastmaster. D. O. W. Holmes, president of the General Alumni Association, made a plea for the gymnasium fund. George L. Dent, who is prominent in local Odd Fellows circles, is a member of the grand jury for the May term. Hugh E. Macbeth, editor of the Baltimore Times, was in Ohio last week, campaigning with Roosevelt. The annual closing exercises of the Maryland School for Colored Blind and Deaf, was held at the Lyceum Theater last Friday night. --- --- ty Joseph P. Evans, grand master of Masons in Maryland, has been elected a delegate from the Fourth district to the Republican National Convention. H. M. St. Clair, of Cambridge, will be an alternate delegate from the First district and Remus Save Your Stamps They Are Valuable Dorset county will be an alternate from the Fifth district. WILL DISCUSS QUESTIONS CONCERNING HOME AND RACIAL DEVELOPMENT AT HILL TOP MEETING MAY 31ST AND JUNE 1ST. Club women throughout the State are interested in the coming meeting at Hill Top. This promises to be a great meeting with many vital questions concerning the home and racial development of the Negro. One of the principal features of the program will be a recital Saturday evening by Mrs. Ottie Brooks-Jones. Mrs. Jones is a talented eloquentist and often renders service to Charleston Club Women in their literary efforts. She was formerly a teacher in the Washington public schools, is a daughter of the distinguished Dr. Walter Brooks, of the 19th Street Baptist church of Washington. This program will unquestionably be the most pleasing the Federation has had. Most of the clubs have elected their representatives and are sending some money to be used for the purchase of the lots at Institute. Elect your delegates now. The meeting will be held May 31st and June 1st. FANNIE COBB-CARTER, State Organizer W. Va. Federation Roosevelt Movement MET NO RESISTANCE FROM TAFT FOLLOWERS IN THE STATE CONVENTION. Edwards in Control Has The Assistance of Governor Glasscock, Former Governor Dawson and Wm. P. Hubbard in Putting the Old Organization on the Toboggan. If any doubt ever existed, since the success of the Roosevelt movement in West Virginia was assured, that Colonel William Seymour Edwards had not finally arrived, it was completely dispelled at the Huntington pow-wow last week when the Pan-handle Republicans gathered in convention to render unto Theodore that which belonged to Theodore. Your Uncle William Seymour, as Abe Lilly says, demonstrated to a verity that he had arrived, and at the same time he placed on exhibition a punch which proved that he had been in training for some weeks. To the effect of said punch the leaders of the organization which was can truthfully testify. It required years for the Kanawha oil magnate to show that he belonged at the head of the class, but the man-handling, steam-rollering and shanghaing William Seymour had received along the political highways of the Third Congressional District for the past dozen years, had fitted him for the fray, and he took charge of the Grand Old Party at Huntington like a seasoned veteran, and with one healthy wallop put the old organization down for the count. "We must make the Republican party representative of the people of West Virginia; we must show them we are progressive and move forward instead of backward, if we are to succeed," said Colonel Edwards just before entering the hall where the Republican State Convention was held. And a few hours later he had proved that he was not afraid to start something. Three other Bills are associated with Edwards in the new regime. It will be known hereafter as the reign of the Four Williams, for Governor William E. Glasscock, former Governor William M. O. Dawson and William Pallister Hubbard are closely allied with William Seymour, and share with him the mantle of leadership with which he was clothed when the Republican warriors unanimously indorsed him for National Committeeman to succeed Senator Nathan Bay Scott. The four Williams were conspicuous in the new deal at Huntington. Dawson was chairman of the convention, and he wielded the gavel with accuracy and precision. Glasscock, against his personal wish, was placed at the head of the West Virginia delegation to the national convention and told to take his place among the seven who had made their words good. Hubbard, restored to strength, recalled the days of 1904, when he led the battle on the floor for the reorganization of the State Central Committee, and Edwards, besides being honored with election as a delegate at large and indorsed for National Committeeman, carried the message of reorganization to the convention as chairman of the new Committee on Party Rules and Regulations. The members of the State Central Committee, who had been supporting President Taft in the earlier days, made no resistance whatever to the Roosevelt leaders putting across their entire slate of delegates, alternates and Presidential Electors. From the first they conceded the right of the Roosevelt adherents to dominate the convention, but when the effort at reorganization was placed squarely before the delegates spirited opposition arose, only to quell a few moments later into feeble resistance when the Rooseveltites sounded the toesln among the majority delegates. Captain M. G. Sperry, of Clarksburg, was the only one to offer battle to the program of the Roosevelt leaders. The Captain has been close to the inner works of the party organization. He construed the enlargement of the State Committee by the appointment of 16 additional committeeteen as a usurp- aation of authority by the convention, and on the floor he renewed his family to the old party organization with the declaration that the committee itself would have provided for an increase of membership if the request had been made. Owing to the many attacks on the State Committee none of the Committeemen objected to the proposition to increase their membership. Had this proposal been combatted it would have offered an opportunity for the Roosevelt leaders to declare that the committee did not care to share its responsibility. Instead, those who opposed the proposition criticised the method of appointing the new committee. Immediately after the convention adjourned the committee met and adopted a resolution providing for the election of 16 additional committeemen at the June primary and re-opened the call for the primary until May 24 to give the candidates for membership on the committee sufficient time to make their entries into the primary. Whether or not the resolution of the committee will be compiled with remains to be seen. The re-organization resolution, adopted at the convention, provided for the election of the additional committeemen by the convention, one from each senatorial district and a Negro member-at-large, and the new committeemen were so elected. Besides, the old committee was completely shown of its power and emasculated by the convention in passing the resolution, which also provided that the party call should not be re-opened. This latter clause was aimed a* Former Senator Davis Elkins, who has been insisting for several weeks that the primary be thrown open to the candidates for the office of United States. The committee had not been disposed to meet and consider the request of Senator Elkins until the day of the State Convention, when the proposition was discussed and several members of the committee expressed themselves favorably toward the Elkins proposal. Prior to the convention the committee refused to take any definite action upon the request of Senator Elkins for a senatorial primary, but it was agreed that immediately after the adjournment of the convention another meeting would be held and a conclusion reached. In the meantime the Roosevelt leaders sprang their proposal to re-organize the committee, and that body was shorn of power with the insertion of the provision that the primary call should not be re-opened. After the passage of the resolution in the convention Senator Elkins made no further effort to have the committee place the office of United States Senator in the June primary. Instead, he stated that he had asked for the primary and had been willing, as a candidate, for the United States Senate to submit his cause to the voters when the state ticket was chosen, and he asked those on the committee who were favorably inclined toward the senatorial primary to desist. The committee, however was unwilling to be bound by the action of the convention and adopted the resolution providing for the election of the 16 additional members of the body in the primary. Several of the members of the committee objected to the procedure and S. P. Smith, of Kanawha, and W. W. Whyte, of McDowell, did not favor the action taken. The appointment of the additional members of the committee by the cou- (Continued on Page Six.) 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SHIFTING THE RESPONSIBILITY If it is granted, and that seems the proper thing to do, that The Mountain Leader is sincere in its belief that "If there had been a strong Roosevelt leader to make the fight on the floor of the convention, the race would have secured a delegate," it is very apparent that its rantings upon that subject arise wholly from ignorance of the facts. It will be recalled by readers of The Advocate that this paper inaugurated the fight for a Negro delegate-at-large and carried it on without any encouragement from an influential Negro source, till the meeting of the convention. It is no violation of confidence to say that Governor Glasscock, former Governor Dawson, and Mr. William Seymour Edwards, the acknowledged leaders of the Rosevelt movement, were favorable to the election of a Negro delegate but they were over-ruled, as will appear later. After it was conceded that the state convention would be overwhelming for Roosevelt, the daily newspapers of the state began to publish the names of the probable delegates. In each the same list appeared showing that the five congressional districts, from each of which one was to come, had made their choice. The only doubt was as to the sixth delegate, who, the universal demand was, should be the Governor. Until an hour before its assemblying Gov. Glasscock resolutely refused to allow his name to be placed before the convention, and he yielded then only after he was assured that whether he was willing or not he would be elected. With the delegates from the several congressional districts lined up behind their respective candidates, and all unanimous for the selection of the Governor as the sixth man, it would have been the height of folly to have attempted a fight on the floor of the convention. This would have been especially true with Mr. Railey, who would have been elected if there had been a chance for any Negro. Under the district arrangement, it would have been necessary to put him up against either Gov. Glasscock or Col. Edwards, who comes from the same district as Mr. Railey. Any man who has political knowledge of the weight of a mustard seed knows that against either of these gentlemen Mr. Railey would have stood as much show as a snowball in a bassenger converter Talk about any Negro from another district is veritable rot, for no district, except the third, had a Roosevelt Negro delegate of any prominence—one who could have commanded creditable support in the convention. The lamentable truth is that the majority of the Negro delegates present at Huntington were instructed for Taft or known to be mere pawns in the hands of Taft sympathizers. But returning to the question of "a strong Roosevelt leader to make the fight on the floor of the convention," one is constrained to ask "where was the Mountain Leader representative?" He gladly accepted the privilege to nominate one of the alternates. He was one of the few Negroes who addressed the convention. Why did he not make the fight on the floor? Was it his own timidity of which he so bitterly complains? And just so much as it was with in his power to make a fight on the floor of the convention for a Negro delegate, just so much was it his prerogative and privilege to call a conference of the Negro delegates to discuss the feasibility of such an undertaking. But, instead of doing these things himself, which he was privileged to do, as one who addressed the convention and the leader par excellence he never loses an opportunity to intimate he he is, he idiotically rushes into print with the charge that some other, through timidity, refused to attempt what only a person afflicted with exaggerated ego would have thought possible. In all charity. The Advocate regrets that the representative of The Mountain Leader has allowed his fond desire to be crowned "the leader of his people" to run away with whatever judgment he may have had. Let us hope that that wisdom will soon come to him which goes along normally with his years. FACING A CRISIS Some weeks ago The Advocate attempted to point out to the Negro Knights of Pythias of this state the danger which threatened them through the injection of the name of the order into politics by their Grand Chancellor to further his selfish ambitions. At the same time it predicted that no good would come to the Order through such tactics. At the time the editorial was written it was not thought that the prediction would be fulfilled so soon, that the Negro Knights would be called upon so early to pay the price. But the evil day has arrived and the machinery has been set in motion to encompass their undoing. In his address to the Grand Lodge in session at Bluefield, last summer, Mr. Wilson, characteristically, "slopped over" in praising Dr. Hatfield for doing no more than was done by every other member of the "Faithful Fifteen" and the State administration in preventing the passage of the Carr Fraternal Society bill. To further his candidacy, Dr. Hatfield has scattered that portion of Grand Chancellor Wilson's address referring to himself broadcast among the Negro voters of the State. The opponents of Dr. Hatfield have sent the same excerpts to the individual members and secretaries of every white Knights of Pythias lodge they could reach. The merest tyro can readily see what the possible effects of such a movement will be. It will array the white Knights against the gentleman from McDowell county, probably but most certainly against the Negro organization. Now that the Negro organization has entered politics through its chief officer and has allowed him to use it to further his own and the political ambitions of another, there will be many who will gladliy seize the first opportunity to put the Negroes out of business. Should Mr. Wilson be elected a member of the Republican State committee and the Democrats carry the State, as an organization which, through its chief official, a declaration of political preference has been made, the Negro Knights of Pythias can expect no favors at the hands of those they have opposed. The Negro Pythians as a body, are facing a crisis. They can either endorse the candidacy of their Grand Chancellor at the polls on June 4th and take chances on the future good will of the white Pythians and the Democratic party, or repudiate him and thus, incur the enmity of neither. Which road will they choose! PENN'S STATEMENT. Elsewhere in these columns will be found a statement submitted for publication by Rufus A. Penn giving his side of the passage at arms between himself and Dr. H. D. Hattfield, candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Penn, it might be stated in passing, is a member of one of the oldest colored families in the Kanawha valley, his father having been a pioneer coal dealer here and the owner of much valuable real estate. His son is also a tax payer, the proprietor of a paying business and a substantial citizen. In his recital of the deplorable affair, Penn's sincerity is so apparent as to impress his hearers with the truth. He has carefully avoided excess of language and confines himself to what he says are the facts in the case. Whether he tells "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," The Advocate, not having had a representative present, is not prepared to say, but it can say that his account of the manner in which he was kicked and otherwise maltreated differs from that of eyewitnesses only as to the degree of brutality; others being inclined to characterize it much more harshly than he. But be that as it may, the courts to which the matter has been submitted will decide as to the amount of the damages, if any, to which Mr. Penn is entitled. In the meantime what he says is worthy of the same consideration given to his detractors and those to whose interest it is to distort the facts. Justice Hughes should at least comb his whiskers and otherwise prepare himself for an emergency call. President Taft's complaint that Col. Roosevelt his hit below the belt naturally recalls the man who spoke disrespectfully of the equator. You have a right to your religious and political belief and the other fellow has just as much right to his. Recently we had a Mother's day but thank goodness the nights still belong to father. Whereat the sergeant-at-arms dragged several members of the House from a base ball game. Serves 'em right for holding a session in the base ball season. Now we know why 'Mr. Bryan disapproves of Gov. Harmon. He thinks the latter tried to flirt with some of his choice delegates, vintage 1908. In addition to having President Taft, Cincinnati is now famous for Hank O'Day. "The man should be above the dollar" is the candidate's aphorism. Some men are. They demand as much as $2.50 and $3.00. Wasn't it a shame the way Teddy knocked Taft through the ropes in Ohio? Have you heard from Ohio? What's the matter with T. R.? Announcements FOR GOVERNOR. Editor The Advocate 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. CHAS. W. SWISHER, Charleston, W. Va. 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 ALDITOR To the Republicans of West Virginia: I hereby declare my candidacy for re-nomination and election to the office of State Auditor, subject to the decision of State-wide primary election to be held June 4th, 1912. Respectfully, J. S. DARST. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 12, 1912. FOR STATE TREASURER: I hereby announce my candidacy to the office of State Treasurer, subject 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 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 16th. 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. WILLIES New Martinsville. To the Republican Voters of West Virginia: I hereby nannounce my candidacy for Committee-man-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. Respectfully submitted, J. S. Noel. For reasons why "WHIT" should receive the support of readers of the ADVOCATE see the editorial in last week's paper. 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 Kaua-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 Republicans of Kanawna 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. McLEAN NASH, Charleston, W. Va., March 26, 1912. COMMISSIONER COUNTY COURT I hereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Commissioner of the Kanawha County Court, subject to the decision of the voters in primary election or by such other method as may be decided upon I hereby announce my candidacy for nomination of Justice of the Peace of Charleston Magisterial District, subject to the Republican Primary when held. Your support is earnestly solicited. E. R. CARTER. 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 solicited the support of my friends. 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 II. 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, 1913. Charleston, Feb. 18, 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 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. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first door is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. For Goodness Sake Vote for "WHIT" For Member House of Delegates should receive the support of ATE see the editorial in last efficient manner. Your support will be appreciated. POP SHERIFF OF FAYETTE COL. 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. Montgomery, W. Va., March 7, 1912. 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, E. T. ENGLAND. Logan, W. Va. 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, Summers, Monongahela, 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 pri- ARE YOU OR IS YOUR M Your support solicited. Respectfully submitted. JAS. P. D. GARDNER 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 that position, I guarant 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. 5-9-4t FOR FIFTH DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN. Announcement is hereby made of the candidacy of Wells Goodykoontz for the Republican nomination for Congressman from the Fifth Congressional district to be determined by the primary to be held June 4th. FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE To the Republican Voters of West Virginia; I respectfully solicit your vote and influence in behalf of my candidacy for Congressman-at-Large. I have never been identified with any faction and I appeal to the party as a whole for support. I have always been a Republican. I am proud of our grand old party, its achievements, and principles, and am full of faith in its future. My best efforts will continue to be spent in its service, believing that it can best serve our state and nation. I appreciate the importance of the office I seek and if nominated and elected I will serve the whole people of the state I have no affiliations that will embarrass or control me to the THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1912 detriment of the public interest. My record, both public and private is the best guarantee that I will do what I say. Very respectfully. FOR STATE SENATOR FOR STATE SENATOR I hereby announce myself a candidate for Senator from the Elgthth Senatorial district subject to the Republican primary election to be held June 4, 1902. FOR COUNTY COMMITTEEMAN I hereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Committeeman for Charleston District subject to the primary election June 4th. I will appreciate your support. C. H. GEBHART 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. Hurlbut 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 charges 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. Amusers and Amused. One half of the world is employed amusing the other half. R MONEY? ING FOR YOU? where you get no interest, keeping it for Money. away, where it will be working day and interest—Your Money is Working give us an opoprtunity to put the picture of our building on the Capitol clock 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 FOR YOU INVESTMENT WESTON, W. VA WHAT'S YOURS? I'LL TAKE BOOST HOME PRODUCTS CREAM FOGRAIN FOR SALE EVERYWHERE That GOOD Beer Praised For Its Purity and Age KANAWHA BREWING COMPANY CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA AT THE BURLEW EVERY NIGHT LATEST MOVING PICTURES BALCONY RESERVED FOR COLORED PEOPLE 5c. ALL SEATS 5c. 7-11 P. M. He has served faithfully eight years without pay and is willing to serve four years more. PRIMARY ELECTION JUNE 4. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1912. AT THE B LATEST BALCONY RES 5c. "Sounder" Put Out REGARDING RUNNING THIRD TICKET IN CASE ROOSE- VELT IS NOMINATED Taltites Scared Have Now Abandoned all Hope on Naming Their Man and are Floundering About Trying to Secure Teddy's Defeat at the Polls. New York, May 22.—A Washington dispatch to the New York Times says: Senator Root today visited several of his colleagues on the conservative side of the Senate and sounded them about the prospects of running a third ticket, in case Colonel Roosevelt is nominated for President at Chicago. Those whom he saw regarded the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt as inevitable. Nothing definite was arrived at in these conferences, and Mr. Root himself did not seem certain whether the nomination of a third ticket would be advisable or not. Mr. Root and those with whom he talked seemed to regard it as certain that the delegation would split in half; that Roosevelt would carry New Jersey, and that a number of the states now nominally for Taft, such as Michigan and Indiana, would swing loose and vote for Roosevelt. In the apparently certain event of the Colonel's nomination the question of running a third ticket has come decidedly to the front. There has been some talk about nominating a sort of Palmer and Buckner ticket, with a Republican at the head and a Democrat at the foot, but the prevailing sentiment has been in favor of running a straight Republican ticket. Should this, be done there is a possibility of three Republican tickets in the field, or friends of Senator La Follette tonight said that he would carry his fight against Roosevelt beyond the convention and up to the VOTE John S. Noel, For Committee Whether he does or not, the bolt by the conservatives seems imminently probable. No Taft man could be found today who seriously questioned the certainty of Roosevelt's nomination, and the talk was all about what should be done after the convention. The President himself was the only Taft man who kept up his spirits. He seemed to be as buoyant as ever and talked about going into New Jersey in as cheerful a way as if he had never heard of Obito. People close to him said they had not seen him so jovial and optimistic, and this in spite of the fact that all his friends were telling everybody they knew that the thing was all over. Of the 1,080 delegates only 58 now remain to be nominated. Roosevelt will get practically all of them. They are as follows: Arizona, 6; New Jersey, 28; South Dakota, 10; Texas at large, 3; Ohio at large, 6; total, 58. The Michigan delegation, which is counted in the Taft column, already has courted the Roosevelt headquarters to find out whether it would be welcome if it came into camp. Practically the whole South has made similar overtures. Senator Crane, following the example of Senator Penrose, let his friends know today that he would not go to Chicago. Most of the old guard on the National Committee will send proxies, wash their hands of what has happened, and let the committee seat the Roosevelt contestants. Mr. Editor: Permit me to call attention, of the voters of Fayette county and all the other counties, in the state to an article that appeared in the Fayette-Tribune of May 12th, written by T. L. Sweeney in which he undertakes to deceive the people by misstating the facts. When any one undertakes to advise the voting public as to how they should vote he should state the facts as they are. This Mr. Sweeney has failed to do. He said that "Three fourths of the representative colored voters, of Fayette county, were opposing the nomination of Noel for committeeman-at-large. That is not so. There is not a representative man in the county opposing Noel. He said that "We want men well qualified from an educational and a business standpoint." The positions to be filled are political and the men who should fill them should have some political training, and know the needs of their people from a political standpoint, and be willing-to fight for them. Mr. Sweeney and those of his ilk are pleased to find fault with Mr. Noel's education. Book learning does not always mean that a man is educated, neither does education always prepare some men to fill positions of honor and trust. I have seen men who have had years of schooling who have not as much political sense as a man who has never attended any school at all. Is that educated fool the kind of a man that we would like to have on the State Committee? I think not. So far as the business is concerned Noel is conducting his business, making some money and investing it wisely. He has educated his children and bought property. I have met clubs and have spoken to them, have been all over the county and have met men from all over the county, have talked to every representative Republican in the county and they are all for Noel. I do not see where Mr. Sweeney gets his three-fourths unless he counts himself as the three-fourths. He says that "Noel is trying to force himself on the voters of Fayette county? there is not another candidate, for that position in Fayette. I am sure that any colored man in the county had a right to aspire to the position, had he so desired; but every one was willing to let Noel run and give him his support. Mr. Sweeney either tries to fool the voters of this county, or he does not know what he is talking about, when he says that John Neal got on the committee by mere accident or an oversight. John Neel was nominated and elected the first time in the Wheeling convention. There were three other candidates in the race. S.W. Starks, Lawyer Gordon, of Huntington, and Lawyer Norris, of Wheeling. Gordon and Norris dropped on: on first ballot, leaving the contest; between Noel and Starks; before the balloting was half over J. McHenry Jones seeing that Noel was running far ahead of Starks, withdrew the name of Starks and moved that the nomination of Noel be made unanimous. In those days a man did not beat Starks and Jones by mere accident on an oversight; yet Mr. Sweeney would you believe that Noel got on the committee by mere accident. John Noel has made good on the committee, and it is the desire of the representative Republican voters not only of Fayette county, but of the state, that he be continued. Again Mr. Sweeney either tries to deceive the voters of this county or he does not know the facts when he says that Noel has not been endorsed by any county. Noel was unanimously endorsed by McDowell county on the 16th of March. He has been endorsed by Cabell county. Kanawha county, by Fayette County League, by Berkeley county, Jefferson, Hardy and Ohio; yet in spite of all that Mr. Sweeney rushes in print and says that Noel has not been endorsed by any county. The fight that is being made by Mr. Sweeney is purely a selfish one. Sometimes ago he tried to get on the senatorial committee and Noel opposed him. Twice he has tried for the Legislature and Noel has been for the other fellow. John Noel is a big-hearted race-loving man and no one should know that better than Mr. Sweeney. He should know that Noel will protect an enemy when he sees some hope for him or when he is assailed and helpless. He has done it and will do it again. I have not written the above wholly for the purpose of defending Mr. Noel, for I feel that he needs no defense from such a selfish attack. Noel is able from an educational point of view (he that ever so limited) and more than able from a political standpoint to defend himself. This is written more to call the attention of the Republican voters of Fayette county and of the State to he fact that Mr. Sweeney is trying to carry out his selfish ends by misrepresenting the facts. 'three-fourths of the colored voters of Fayette county are not opposing the nomination of Noel. Noel has been endorsed by the counties named above. Noel did not get on the State Committee by mere accident or oversight. To all of which I am willing to make affidavit any day. Will you verify your statements Mr. Sweeney?' Nations Capitol Washington, D. C., May 22.—An immense concourse of people which extended a block in each direction from the structure witnessed the formal dedication last Sunday afternoon of the new $100,000 home of the colored branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, located at 1816 12th street northwest, in the heart of the most populous section of the Negroes of Washington. It had been planned to hold the exercises in the gymnasium, but the crowd swelling to unexpected proportions, it was decided to conduct them on the front port cochere of the building. Secretary of War Principal Speaker. On account of the unavoidable absence of President Taft in Ohio, the place which he was to have filled as principal speaker fell to the lot of the Hon. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War. Mr. Stimson dwelt at length upon the necessity for moral training, supplemented by intellectual and physical culture, and supported by a practical knowledge of the professional, industrial and gainful callings that give ability to do one's full duty as a part of the civic compact. Everything that went to make the well-rounded man of affairs could be given an impetus by active identification with the broad-gauged work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and he urged colored young men to take advantage of the golden opportunity that was here presented to them. A highly significant portion of his remarks was that in which he referred to the fact that it was through the intervention of President Taft that Mr. Julius Rosenwald was persuaded to donate $25,000 toward the cost of this magnificent structure, and outlined Mr. Taft's attitude on religious and racial questions. A Ray of Light on Views of President Taft. Said Secretary Stimson, in part: "You know how President Taft showed his interest in developing the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. in the District by contributing generously to the building fund. He was instrumental in having Mr. Rosenwald include the colored branch of this city in his sphere of $25,000 benefactions, which went far to hasten the completion of your beautiful and admirably-appointed Christian home. Mr. Taft has shown time and again his deep interest in the colored race and in the Y. M. C. A. and other uplifting movements. President Taft is more free from class feeling than any man I have ever known of, despite any reports to the contrary. He believes in equal opportunity for all, and especially for those who have not had the same advantages as others. Where it possible he would be here to tell you this himself, and he much regrets his inability to be present. Proud Achievement for the Negro Race "The erection of this building is something for the colored race to be proud of," continued Secretary Stimson: "designed as it was by a colored man, built largely by colored hands and with money contributed by colored people. It shows that the race is capable of accomplishing much, if given the opportunity. It is also significant that gifts of white men and of people not connected with the Christian religion, helped in a large way to make the completion of this building possible. Julius Rosenwald, a Hebrew, of Chicago, gave evidence of the broadest human charity in contributing $25,000 to the building fund. It is encouraging to note the widespread tendency to give the colored people a chance to show what they can do and to lead assistance in the way that will yield the most lasting results. "It is being recognized more and more that the problem of the colored race is a great national, one," declared the Secretary, with emphasis. "It belongs to no section and to no particular class of people. It can never be solved except by the co-operation of peoples of all religions and all races. We must face it as Americans, all fighting together under one flag for a common end." Mr. Stimpson's speech was frequently interrupted by hearty applause and glaculations of "Amen!" Other speakers were Dr. George Otis Smith, president of the Washington Y. M. C. A.; W. Knowles Cooper, secretary of the Washington Y. M. C. A. and Mr. R. C. Morse. References were made by each to Former President Roosevelt, who laid the cornerstone of the structure on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1907. Mr. E. J. Morton, president of the colored branch, conducted the exercises and happily introduced the speakers. Too much credit cannot be given to those indefatigable workers, International Secretary J. E. Moorland, and Local Secretary Lewis E. Johnson, who created the movement and whose unfiltering faith and unflagging industry pushed it on to its grand realization. One of the most gratifying gifts was $500, paid in by H W Chase, a colored man and a former slave. The other big donation, aside from that of Mr. Rosenwald, was $25,000 from Mr. John D. Rockefeller. More than $27,000 came from the colored people of Washington, representing the generosity of all classes from the humblest $4 per week laborer to the $4,000 per year government official, mingling together on a common platform of race pride and Christian co-operation. Building Admirably Adapted to Its Purpose. The building is admirably adapted to the purpose for which it is intended. It was designed by W. Sidney Pittman, a colored architect, and every brick was laid by a colored contractor. Thus it is a monument to Negro brain, brawn and financial strength. The building has four floors. In the basement are a barber shop, Turkish bath, social rooms, swimming pool, (50x20 feet, 4 to 6 feet deep), shower baths, lockers and furnace room. The pool contains 42,000 gallons of water. Entrance to the building is on the first floor. Four stalwart granite columns adorn the front. The spacious lobby is flanked by a reading room on the south side and a home parlor on the north side. On this floor will also be found the executive offices, lunch room, committee room and the gymnasium. The "gym" is one of the prettiest rooms of the kind in the country, having light on three sides and a 30-foot McFarland rland Ho and Holstein 243 CAPITOL STREET There is every reason why you ry reason why you should patronize us why you should patronize us, for every There is every reason why you should patronize us, for every GARMENT IS TAILORED AND GUARANTEED to stand the test of wear with lines, it is the rule wl h that each gar Character, Class and Lots and lots of pretty we Straw Hats $2 NEW AND SECOND WE CAN ALWAYS SAVE YOU WE EXCHANGE CLOXTON 601 Kanawha St. test of wear without losing any of the it is the rule wi h us and not the exce that each garment must be of r, Class and Thoroughly De d lots of pretty weaves from which to Hats $2.00 and AND SECOND-HAND FURNITURE ALWAYS SAVE YOU MONEY ON HOUSEHOUSE WE EXCHANGE NEW FOR OLD OXTON'S STO anawha St. - - Charleston, W Mutual Loan & Jewel H. 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The opportunity to make an offer on what you have to sell in Furniture and Household Goods. Pay Highest Cash Price e market. Never over-stocked as we make it move, either for Cash or Credit. KANAWHA FURNITURE CO opportunity to make an offer on what you to sell in Furniture and Household Goods. Highest Cash Price Never over-stocked as we make it either for Cash or Credit. WHA FURNITURE CO Wanted! The opportunity have to sell in Will Pay High Always in the market. Never move, either for THE KANAWHA Wanted! The opportunity to make an offer on what you have to sell in Furniture and Household Goods. Will Pay Highest Cash Price Always in the market. Never over-stocked as we make it move, either for Cash or Credit. THE KANAWHA FURNITURE CO. Phone 2185. 417-421-423 Kanawha St. A. B. ceiling. The running track, and al so the balcony, entirely surrounds and overhangs the gymnasium proper. The 'gym' is fully equipped with all the latest and modern gymnasium appar- tions. The second floor is taken up with the assembly hall, boys' depar- tment, classrooms and offices. The third and fourth floors are given over arti- tely to nurseries. There are nec- commodations in the 44 rooms for (Continued on next page.) ```markdown ``` FRIDAY, MAY 24 3:00 p. m.—Base Ball Game bet and Wilberforce. 8:00 p. m.—"In a Japanese Gare SATURDAY, MAY 2 3:30 p. m.—Base Ball Game bet and Wilberforce. Base Ball Game betv perforce. "In a Japanese Game ATURDAY, MAY 2 Base Ball Game betv perforce. 3:00 p. m.—Base Ball Game between Institute and Wilberforce. 3:00 p. m. in a lacrosse game. 3:30 p. m.—Base Ball Game between Institute and Wilberforce. SUNDAY, MAY 26 10:00 a. m.—Commencement Sermon, Rev. J. Edward Nash of Buffalo, N. Y. 7:30 p. m.—Union Meeting of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Sermon by Rev. A. D. Lewis of Hinton, W. Va. All former students are especially urged to SPECIAL TRAIN T On Wednesday, May 29, the Kanawha & Miel from Gaulley bridge to Institute in time for the Commencement Service Nash of Buffalo, N. Y. Union Meeting of Y. A. Sermon by Rev. W. Va. students are especial SPECL. tuesday, May 29, the Ka- bridge to Institute 10:00 a. m.—Commencement Sermon, Rev. J. Edward Nash of Buffalo, N. Y. 7:30 p. m.—Union Meeting of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Sermon by Rev. A. D. Lewis of Hinton, W. Va. Lit. D., of W. Va: University. Remain Members of the State Board of Re Presentation of Diplomas by Hon. Shawkey, State Stupt. Free Schools. 3:30 p. m.—Ball Game: Students vs. All All former students are especially urged to revisit their Alma Mater during these days. On Wednesday, May 29, the Kanawha & Michigan Railway will run a special train through from Ganaway bridge to Institute in time for the Commencement Exercises at 10 o'clock a.m. Roosevelt Movement (Continued from Page Three.)vention will not disturb the election of a new committee of 17 members at the June primary, but the appointed 16 will serve together with the elected 17 and the majority of the new committee will be friendly toward the new leadership of the party. The convention itself reversed the state committee in several instances in deciding contests which came before [that body]. Chairman A. L. Lohn of Harrison county, who was the The convention itself reversed the state committee in several instances before that body. Chairman A. L. Lohn of Harrison county, who was the head of the Credential Committee, threw out one Mingo delegate and the Dixon delegation from Fayette County and seated the Roosevelt contestants, while in Wetzel County the Highland and McCasky factions were seated and the convention asked to appoint a committee of three to appoint election officers for the holding of the June primary in Wetzel County. The Credentialts Committee was sustained by the convention. One of the surprises of the convention was the close and exciting contest for Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals between Judge George Poffebarger and Judge E. S. Doolittle, the former being renominated in a neck-and-neck finish. Judge Doolittle had been an ardent supporter of OU Cream OUR Ice Cream Parlor STRANGERS AND TRAVELING PERSONS BEST SODA WATER ONLY 5 CTS. OUR PLANS UP-TO-DATE SERVICE IS OUR WATCHWORD THE PEOPLES' GROCERY CO. WM. H. PARKER, Manager. PAGE SIX SPECIAL TRAIN TO COMMENCEMENT A RIVER SCENE AT INSTITUTE 7:30 p. m.—Declamatory Prize Contest. Garden, " TU 25 3:30 p. m.—Ba between Institute 7:30 p. m.—Al 26 10:00 a. m.—C dress to Grad Lit. D., of Members of Presentation Shawkey, S. 3:30 p. m.—B Sermon, Rev. J. N. Y. Y. M. C. A. and Rev. A. D. Lewis Specially urged to revisit their Alma SOCIAL TRAIN TO COMMENCEMENT Kanawha & Michigan Railway will date in time for the Commencement TUESDAY, MAY 28 3:30 p. m.—Ball Game; Students vs. Alumni. 7:30 p. m.—Alumni Reunion. 10:00 a. m.—Commencement Exercises. Address to Graduates by Prof. Waitman Barbe Lit. D., of W. Va: University. Remarks by Members of the State Board of Regents. Presentation of Diplomas by Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Supt. Free Schools. 3:30 p. m.—Ball Game: Students vs. Alumni. Visit their Alma Mater during these days. COMMENCEMENT An Railway will run a special train through Commencement Exercises at 10 o'clock a. m. 10:00 a. m.—Commencement Exercises. Address to Graduates by Prof. Waitman Barbe Lit. D., of W. Va. University. Remarks by Members of the State Board of Regents. Presentation of Diplomas by Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Stupt. Free Schools. 3:30 p. m.—Ball Game: Students vs. Alumni. Roosevelt and his friends used the rough-tider talk with considerable influence. Doolittle's managers failed to embrace several opportunities which might have placed the Cabell jurits over the wire a winner and many of his supporters claim bad management was responsible for his defeat. Judge Pollettbarger, who hails from Mason County, has served 12 years on the Supreme Bench and the lawyers of the State were almost unanimous in asking tor his renomination. Judge Charles W. Lynch, a dark horse, won the second place on the judicialOCK in a spirited affair, in which Howean N. Ogden, of Marion proved that he could sprint a fast mile. There were five entries, but the contest narrowed down to Lynch and Ogden, and the Harrison County jurist was pushed over the platy. Next to the reorganization of the State Committee by the convention, the adoption of the platform attracted considerable interest, and there is con- tolerable speculation as to whether the platform will be approved by the gubernatorial and legislative candidates. Two of the candidates for governor, Charles W. Dillon and Dr. H. D. Hatfield, have already announced their platforms, while Charles W. Swisher, declared in the convention before the platform had been considered that in MONDAY, MAY 27 WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 the event of his nomination he would bring the legislative candidates together and draft a platform. The Roosevelt leaders assert that the platform approved by the delegates to the State Convention is the work of the party itself and is what the party is committed to fulfill. One of his planks of the platform refers to the present state constitution as an "antiquated instrument and a patchwork thing to be deplored," and this has been construed as favoring a constitutional convention. Colonel Edwards, the new leader, favors such a convention. Republican candidates for the state offices, who will be chosen at the primary to be held June 4 next, swarmed around the convention. The three candidates for the governorship had their friends and supporters out in droves to impress the delegates with the importance of being with a winner. The convention being held at Huntington, in the Fifth District, and contiguous to the home of Dr. H. D. Hatfield, the McDowell senator led in the showing made before the convention. Several hundred of his supporters from down in the Norfolk and Western section, and they worked early and late, the galleries shouting his name continually during the convention. The friends of Senator Hatfield believe he want away from the convention stronger than he has been at any previous time in the gubernatorial handicap, and they assert that the campaign he is waging will result in his nomination. Aided by several competent organizers, led by Robert Bernheim, of McDowell, Senator Hatfield is devoting particular attention to the larger centers of population in the state and perfecting organizations which look formidable. At Wheeling, Clarksburg, Huntington and Parkersburg, the Hatfield organization is at work. Charles W. Swisher, with a band of indomitable workers, supplied with the real, genuine red pepper by Colonel Charley Smoot, of Parkersburg. Is not lagging in pressing his campaign toward a conclusion. Swisher has an organization in every county in the state. In some it may not be as formidable as in others, but he, too, has been at work in the larger cities and will make a strenuous fight at each voting place in the state. Ohio county, at present, seems to be a battle ground between the Hatfield and Swisher forces, and each is predicting victory in that locality. Dr. Hatfield has made little effort so far to encourage upon the Swisher organization in Swisher's home county of Kanawha, but the friends of the McDowell Senator asserted at Huntington they expected a large share of THE ADVOCATE If you believe in the "Square Deal" and in rewarding FORTY YEARS OF STRAIGHT REPUBLICANISM and endeavor for RACIAL UPLIFT VOTE FOR DR. B. H. STILLYARD OF WHEELING, FOR COMMITTEE MAN-AT-LARGE ON JUNE 4 the Kanawha vote During the week Dillon sprung a surprise on the voting population when he published a letter from Governor William M. O. Dawson, the Roosevelt State Chairman, who told the Fayetteville candidate in his terse epistle that he would vote for him because he knew him to be an honest and a clean man. And, of course, the Dawson letter brought a response. "Uncle Bill" Dawson has been tendered more jobs by his political enemies than any other living soul. In a few short months he has been sent as the Minister to China, elected a United States Senator, appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner and tendered numerous other sundry and divers jobs. When he indorsed Dillon it was remembered that he had appointed Dillon State Tax Commissioner and now it is asserted by a Clarksburg newspaper that Dillon will appoint Dawson as his State Tax Commissioner, notwithstanding that Fred O. Blue still has five years to serve in that capacity. The three candidates for Governor were given an opportunity to display their wares before the Huntington Convention. Dillon was given the first opportunity, and what he lacked in advertising at the convention, he made up in talk, and being an orator of pleasing ability, he made a splendid impression. Dr. Hatfield, too, was given a hearty reception by his big band of boosters, who were idle for a moment during the entire convention, while Swisher wound up the gubernatorial talkfest which closed with a demonstration for the Kanawha candidate whose supporters have been making the effective plea that it is coming to him. The candidates for the minor offices on the state ticket, also, were out in full force. Secretary of State Stuart F. Reed, with a strong band of cohorts, were engaged throughout the whole session, while Mike King, fresh from an indorsement by the district convention of the Second Congressional District—his home district—kept up his display of pyrotechnics. Senator Howard Sutherland and Charles F Teter, the candidates for Congressman at Large, and State Treasurer E. L. Long and his opponent, C. F. Rathbone, kept the wires busy, while auditor John Sherman Darst and Abraham A. Lilly, candidate for Attorney-General, and both without opposition, contented themselves by talking for each other. Superintendent of Schools M. P. Shawkey and George F. Murray, in training for the job, labored among the visitors. The Bahai Movement Gaining Ground Notwithstanding the spirited opposition to the Bahai Movement, manifested by conservative pulpiteers of this vicinity, there is said to be a steady increase in the membership. The colored contingent is growing in numbers, and some of our most influential citizens have enrolled under the banner of Abdul Baha. The meeting place, 1219 Connecticut Avenue, is in the heart of the fashionable society section of the capital, and color is lost sight of in the devotion of the body to the principle of universal brotherhood. The old lease, which limited the number of colored persons to the chapel, has been replaced by a new one, in which no such restriction appears. During the stay of the Abdul, he attended the meeting held at the home of Mrs. A. J. Dyer, colored, and there were also present the Persian minister and his wife, as well as white Americans of distinction. At a state dinner at the Persian Legation, at which both races sat at meat on terms of absolute equality, the Abdul waited on the table, to indicate the dignity of service. The development of this unique cult is being wached with absorbing interest among all classes, and there are colored people who declare that any religion that will bridge the exasperating American color-line is worthy of a hearing, if no more. APTLY OUTLINES HIS PLATFORM Howard Williams Fit for Office of Commissioner of Agriculture. IS CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION Expresses His Views on Questions Having to Do With Agriculture, Horticulture, Conservation of Natural Resources, Development of Lands and Other Matters of Vital Import to the People of West Virginia. I believe it is the duty and the privilege of every candidate for office, where the public interests are affected, to express his views on questions in which the people are interested, so that they may know his position and with reasonable certainty anticipate his action. It is therefore a matter of pleasure with me to express my views on public questions, as follows: The commissioner of agriculture, according to the bill creating the office, "must be a practical farmer, having made that his principal business for a period of 10 years immediately preceding his election to said office." His duties are to devise means of advancing the agricultural, horticultural and kindred interests of the state by the encouragement of such societies, associations and other organizations as may be necessary; the publication and distribution of such bulletins, handbooks and reports as may be of value and interest to the people, the inducement of capital and immigration by the dissemination of knowledge relating to the soil, climate, healthfulness and markets of the state and to the resources and industrial opportunities of the state. He shall investigate, and so far as possible, ascertain the value of the mineral and timber products of the state and report thereon from time to time. He shall have charge of the museum of the department of agri- PETER H. HOWARD E. WILLIAMS. Candidate for Nomination of Commissioner of Agriculture of West Virginia. culture, and may cause to be collected, preserved and exhibited therein specimens of agricultural, horticultural and kindred products, and forest products and minerals, flora and fauna of the state. He shall have control of the farmers' institutes of the state. He is a member of the board of public works. Quite a responsible and far-reaching position, limited by the appropriations from the state, and the man's ability and willingness to serve, and why should it not be so? I believe that agriculture is the fundamental, and perhaps the most important of any of the industrial pursuits. The consumption of food products in West Virginia is far greater than the supply. We have much waste and worthless land in West Virginia, which can be made to bring a good return. Much of the land now under cultivation is not sufficiently productive. We ought, therefore, to exert every effort to develop our lands, conserve our soils along practical lines and make them productive of the things most profitable, whether that be apples or blue grass or something else. I believe in the development of our natural resources, such as coal, oil and gas land, but under such a system as will prevent all unnecessary waste, and will conserve for future generations as much of that product as may be in keeping with our present needs. We ought to develop our timber lands, but under such conditions as will best protect from destruction that part of the forest not now of sufficient size to be of market value. The average timber owner or lumber man is helpless under our conditions in West Virginia. In my judgment the state should, in some way, encourage and help in the protection and conservation of our forests. I favor the best system of public schools possible under our conditions. The standards set for our teachers ADVERTISE IN THE ADVOCATE. STICK TO STARK FOR QUALITY HE Furnishes all Parties, Receptions and Big Dinners, he is the only one you can get quality of. Olives, Big and Fat, Only 30c Qt. F. C. STARK QUARRIER ST. should be the highest and their compensation in just proportion. I believe that the farmers should have legal protection from the importation of filthy and polluted agricultural seeds and that the feeders should be protected from the importation of mixed and "untrue to name" feeding stuffs. I favor the creation of a public utilities commission to assess values on public utilities and to so regulate their service that neither the corporation nor the public shall be imposed upon. A just compensation for services rendered is certainly the moral and legal right of both capital and labor. I favor a primary election law whereby all political parties may have nominations made at state expense on the same day, on the same ballot and in such manner that the choice of the people may be clearly ascertained. There are many things along this line which might be mentioned, such as a pure food law, properly enforced. The collection of agricultural statistics at such time and in such manner as may be of value to the state and the nation in estimating the quantity of the product, and thus being enabled to anticipate prices. I favor co-operation with the real estate agents of the state, to the end that our farms may be repopulated and that new people and new blood may be scattered throughout our state for the production of those things of which we are so sadly in need. Last, but by no means least, I favor the construction of a good system of public roads by national, state and local co-operation. The cost of food products will continue to be governed by the supply and demand. Under our conditions local competition is entirely removed for many months of the year on account of the condition of our roads. Our country churches and country schools cannot prosper as they should under such conditions. These questions I have been studying for years. I know the farm from the practical "hard work" side, and my work in school and in college has been of the same character. I do not offer a solution for all these problems, but whether elected or not I shall continue to work as best I may for the best solution, because they must be solved and solved right. Respectfully Nation's Capitol ( Continued from Page Five.) about 100 men. The building is fitted up throughout with electric lights and steam heat. At the conclusion of Secretary Stimson's address and the other features of the program, the building was thrown open for inspection and many complimentary expressions were heard, touching the beauty, utility and superb appointments visible on every side. The Amphion Glee Club, led by Prof. J. Henry Lewis, furnished music for the occasion. Every night during the week special exercises were held. It was a veritable "jubilee week," with military, athletics, fraternal organizations, ministers' associations, public schools and a ladies' night, included in the array of attractions offered. On Sunday the festival period closed with a monster men's rally, with Rev. M. W. Clair, of Asbury M. E. Church, as the orator of the day. A vigorous campaign is in progress for an increased membership. Washington aims to set the pace for all of the colored Y. M. C. A. organizations in the country. More About the Coming B. M. C. Interest in the Atlanta meeting of the B. M. C. is at a white heat, al- though the session does not open until early in September. Denial is made that "Mississippi Jones'" hat is in the ring for another try at the Gran- d Master's toga. It is said that he is satisfied with the honors the order has bestowed upon him, and is will- ing to have them passed around. It is likewise stated that he will not make any effort to swing his influence for J. F. Needham on an insur- gent ticket for Grand Secretary, but will support Former Grand Master W. L. Houston for this place, which as interpreted to mean that Needham may go to the Supreme Court, succeeding B. J. Davis or Mr. Houston. They say that the only thing Brother E. P. Jones wants is to see his friend and faithful lieutenant, E. H. McKissack, of Mississippi, landed safe and sound on the Sub-Committee of Management. It is not believed that Brother Jones will have any difficulty in having this favor bestowed upon him, in exchange for the solid support of Mississippi for the administration slate. J. G. Johnson, of Baltimore, will probably be returned as Grand Treasurer. Little is dear over this way about the western aspirants, but there is considerable sentiment in favor of G. L. Jones, of Indiana, for Grand Director, as the Hoosier State has had nothing since the passing of the late Benjamin T. Thornton, who was a shining light on the sub-committee. Anyhow, there will be politics from "a to izzard" at Atlanta in September and the District will be in it every minute. American Flag to Float Over Old Fellows' Temple at Atlanta. A large and beautiful American flag, twenty by ten feet, will float over the new $100,000 Odd Fellows' Temple at Atlanta on the day the building is opened for the session of the B. M. C., and it will continue thereafter to adorn the towering staff of that historic structure as a permanent decoration. The flag, which is made of the finest bunting, and manufactured expressly for the purpose mentioned, is to be the gift of General Henry Forrest, of Washington, D. C., a prominent member of the G. U. O. of O. F., and who enjoys a nation-wide reputation as a philanthropist and public-spirited man of affairs. The charming banner has been shipped by express to the officials of the Order at Atlanta, and will be in readiness for display in September, in connection with appropriate dedicatory ceremonies. Before sending away the precious trophy, Gen. Forrest conceived the idea of dedicating it here, and with characteristic generosity, Invited a number of congenial friends to assist him in the performance of this interesting function. The affair took place Friday evening, May 17, in the spacious headquarters of the Odd Fellows' Journal, and a more enjoyable evening has rarely been spent by any group of gentlemen on any similar occasion in the District. An elaborate luncheon was served by Caterer Emanuel Murray, and the welkin was made to ring with wit and eloquence during its discussion. Associate Justice W. L. Houston acted as toastmaster, and among those who spoke in eulogy of the whole-souled host and of the cause which he sought to honor, were Messrs. H. P. Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal; J. N. Gooins, manager of the Goolins Printing Company; R. W. Thompson, general correspondent; Emanual Murray, W. H. H. Terrell and others, to which General Forrest responded in felicitous vein. A handsome necktie was presented to Mr. Thompson by the host. A telegram was dispatched to Acting Grand Master Henry Lincoln Johnson, regretting his enforced absence on account of speaking engagements in Georgia. This is the first instance on record where a member of our race has made a present of a fine American flag to wave over a building owned by a fraternal organization, and the act is destined to become historic. The General is noted for his liberality in helping secret orders, churches and needy individuals, and one of his most notable benefactions is his annual dinner given to the nurses of Freedman's Hospital. General Forrest is a widower and lives in a handsomely-appointed flat in Carroltburg Place. For many years he has been connected in a responsible capacity with the Pennsylvania railroad. We Have Seen Him Many Times. There is a good bit of human nature in the dog that barks after the other dog has gone—Philadelphia Telegraph.