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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." MARTINSBURG, W. VA., SATURDAY, MAY 4. 1912. VOL. 31. ESTABISHED 1882. How The Negro Can Get Justice Dear Editor—Please accept my humble thanks for 10 copies of your journal and the great publication which you gave me in same dated March 9th 1912. I truly hope that your paper has not been degraded or hurt on this account, and I am sorry that I did not say, as I truly believe, that Mr. John Mitchell is a man of my heart, and has done better leading than any Negro yet. He has gone to the doors of the highest in the land as citizen and civilian. He went as a man of business, not as a beggar or particular race champion; neither as a Negro, but as a man who appears to believe that merit alone should justly qualify a man in society, or, rather regulate his honor. He knocked and the door was opened unto him, and may I say here, that he has done more than all the rest put together. We know that others have been elected and appointed to public places, but this man went not as a candidate upon a popular vote to fill a public position and draw a salary. He went as a man who had been, and was doing something for the benefit of his country and general society, and wished to join forces with those worthy citizens who were engaged in the same work. And he was accepted; not as an inferior, not as a race leader, not as a Negro; but as a man. Now such is the duty of all men. And when men in the rear say that they don't want social equality they are only throwing bricks at the heads of such men as Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond, Va., U. S. A., and it is your duty as an editor to stand by him in all such undertakings. We should defend the high position gained by your brother editor and race fellow. Journalism has made this possible for him, and can do greater things for you when you have done your duty in snowing your enemies and the enemies of social progress under. Now may I give just a few of my reasons for contesting for social equality. I truly believe that in the system of government such as that of the U. S. A., men should be sent to represent the people who populate their districts, and they should be chosen from the people and by the people. And neither color, creed nor previous condition of servitude should have any bearing upon the subject so long as in every other way the man is a worthy subject according to the laws of the land. But without social equality this can never more be done in America. There are certain rules which qualify a man's candidacy, and others to say what qualifies a voter, and when these rules are adhered to I do not think that color should be brought in as a question. If Negroes, are the popular inhabitants of a Congress or a Senatorial district, and they nominate and can by popular vote elect their man he should have just the same right to represent them as some other man from some other district, and with the same dignity. But this can never be done without social equality. And this was what Abraham Lincoln stood for. It is that which Booker Traitor Washington, Benjamin Tillman, Thos. Hill, Vardaman and the rest have been fighting against, and all men who say that they do not want social equality in America, are voicing the sentiments of Ben Tullman, expressed in the Senate just a few years ago. They further agree that Negroes should be disfranchised; they agree that Negroes should again be made slaves. Abraham Lincoln believed in social equality, because I think that I remember reading where Steven A. Douglas, in order to make him renege, asked him if he would allow his daughter to get married to a Negro? And the reply was, that "if they liked each other well enough and she was of age, it would be their business," whereupon at another or the same time, Douglas, in order to emphasize his views upon the subject said in part, "If I saw a Negro boy, and an alligator fighting, why I would help the Negro boy against the alligator whether he was right or wrong;" but if I saw a white boy and a Negro boy fighting; then I would certainly help the white boy under the same conditions as I had helped the Negro against the alligator." Now I think that these two men in their day marked the differences between social equality and disequality. Their views also marked the difference between social progress and non progress. This was social equality discussed in its rankest form. And we found Abe Lincoln man enough for it to be said of him "he confessed, and denied not"—that he truly believed in social equality. Now how a Negro of any intelligence in our day can stand any where under the American flag and say that he does not believe in social equality is to me a great question. But I have a compliment to make to them, and that is; they are either ignorant of what they say, or else they are wilful traitors as I claim that Booker T. Washington certainly is to his race. This only proves to you what kind of men you have at the head of your class. I shall not express my full opinion of such men here, I will give them time to reflect and repent. But I tell you that I am going to later on, and I shall prove everything I say too when I speak. I don't write all I know about these things because I know what danger it would be to both you and to me. I will say though, that the social crises are coming, whether or not I live to see them. I believe that all men should be subject to exactly the same trials under exactly the same conditions, and they should be given exactly the same reward for their services, and this is what I understand as Christianity, and as a christian I am going to hold on and fight for social equality as long as I live and am able to kick. I know that this is the only hope for you, me; all other honest men both in this world and the world to come. They say that they are fighting against the lazy ignorant Negroes. I ask then what about the lazy ignorant white man? And here is another point I will give you now. It is the educated Negro and professional one which is really termed the lazy man. And you will find that you troublesome editors are the eyesores of the whole mob. Therefore believe nothing they tell you about social division, but beware of their unleavened bread. I fear not to call them hypocrites, for they are. I pray for all, and always. Now one man you The Men-And Religion Movement If all the Negro ministers throughout the country would sit down on this movement as heavily as has Dr. F. J. Grimke, of Washington, D. C., its rank hypocrisy and its sniveling cant would receive a greater shock than the Titanic did when it struck the iceberg. Dr. Grimke in a well written article—(he doesn't write any other kind), by the way has pointed out in strong, simple and polite English the humbuggery of the wave of all god religious enthusiasm, which has overtaken the conscience struck a white folk who seem to imagine that God has ceased to search the hearts of men, and that they can deceive Negroes who love and serve God, by calling themselves christian followers of the Christ and these Negroes brothers. There isn't a Negro with an ounce of sense who would give a dollar and a half for all the "religion" possessed by the average white man from the Gulf of Mexico to the borders of Canada. A religious creed that teaches men to hate each other, to wink at injustice; to despise a race because it is black, to exclude it from participating with white people in the sacrament of the Lrte supper, is not and never was born of the spirit of God, but of the Devil. And black folk clergymen who compromise with it, who willingly accept the unfortunate and persuasive professions of brotherly love, preffered by artful and artistic clerical prevaricators of the white race haven't any better religion than their masters. If God is no respecter of persons (and I believe him) and white Christians are, (as every Negro knows), then their religion is a farce, a sham, a pretence, a lie. For the Scriptures say: "If any man say he loves God, whom he hath not seen, and hateth his brother whom he hath seen, the same is a liar or words to this effect. There is no middle ground in the religion of Jesus Christ; its platform is broad enough for every human being, the wide world over to stand on, and it is meant for every human being who embraces it, to stand on. The true disciples of the meek and lowly Nazaree are all one in faith, and hope and doctrine and unity. They are not white men, Red men, black men, not Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, BUT CHRISTIANS, followers of Him who said: "Ye are the temple of God." "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that ye might have eternal life." This was not said to white men exclusively who make a caste of religion, but to mankind everywhere, on this planet. But white American "Christians" seem to think that it refers particu- have in the Negro race today, with the exception of Menelik, King of Abyssinia, is in any proper condition to begin a decent leadership against this host directly. Otherwise it must be done as I and some others are doing it until the time is ripe, and until the common people of the whole world are awakened. Your humble servant, I. S. Moore. 26 Rua dos Capitaos, Bahia, Brazil. Department of Archives, Luton, W. Va. Y INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY MAY 4. 1912. VOI early to them, and they act as tho they are the vice gerents of the Almighty on earth with plenary power to act in His name, place and aead, and to mark out the boundary and habitation of all races differing from their own in color, who have been touched by his spirit, and "who would see Jesus." They have established missions and churches for all the darker races in America and they carry their infamous and hateful caste spirit into foreign lands. They would have all other races believe, if they will believe that they (the white race) are super men—Gods in exile if you please—that civilization and religion did not begin with the darker races, but with them. The supreme audacity of the white christians in America who entertain these foolish notions, give us pause and we smile. The historical fact is that both the great religions now professed by the dominant race in this country and Europe, had their birth in Africa, and there is substantial proof that civilization was born there, also, and that the white men absorbed it and adopted it the moment that he came into contact with the darker races. Dr. Grimke's pamphlet is a stinging rebuke to the promoters of this Forward Movement, or men and religion movement, and I hope every reader of this paper will get a copy of it and read it, and then stop IMITATING these white religious brokers who take off their hats every time they look at them selves in a mirror, and who seem to feel the burden—the self imposed which they are carrying with much humility, feeling that God the father of us all is like them a member of the "unconquered and unconquerable Anglo-Saxon race," and that if He were now on earth he would countenance their hypocritical and demagogical performances. Be it said to the credit of the native Africans that they have no respect for the WHITE MAN's RELIGION. They worship and reverence God without the restraining and guiding influence of the precious white man. They have their native churches; write their own discipline, Hymn books, creeds, &c., and get as far away from the white christian as is possible. Here we see them wearing gowns, adopting their forms of worship, singing hymns like, "There is Sunshine in my Soul Today" "Wash Me and I Shall be Whiter than Snow," "Greenland's Ice Mountain," etc., which don't mean a thing to us. The latter is especially an insult to all darker race, and glorifies the race that invented the line, "Shall we Whose Souls are lighted with Wisdom from on High," etc. The best that can be said of this hymn is that it is sublimated rot. Yonkere, N. Y. Bruce Grit. THE REV. IRL R. HICKS 1919 ALMANAC. The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1912, that guardian Angel in a hundred thousand homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to ce without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, WORD AND WORKS. The two are only ONE DOLLAR a year. The Almanac is 35c postpaid. No home or office should fail to send for them, to WORD AND WORKS PUB LISHING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saint Louis, Mo. NO. 9 Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature MARK TWAIN'S SMOKING. In his speech on his seventieth anniversary, Mark said: "I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes thrice. I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is old and dear and precious to me; though I grant that I have stopped now and then for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, but only to show off, and to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. Te-day it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke to a limit. I have cover bought cigars with life belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me. I have always bought cheap cigars—reasonably cheap. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, and now I pay six or seven but that includes the barrel. I often have smoking parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is?" FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. A teacher, after spending forty five strenuous moments explaining the mysteries of Physiology to the class, sounded them in urgent attention by asking the definition of "vertebrae." A small and anxious boy on the back sent arose and delivered the following: "The vertebrae is a long wavy bone. My need sits on one end of it, and I sit on the other. INNOCENT FUN. James Rursel Lowell is said to have been of a very fun loving disposition. One day, when walking with a friend, they passed a large building, over the door of which was written, 'Home for Incurable Children.' "Aa," said Lowell," that is where I shall have to go some day." Everybody knows of the great labors of Livingston in Africa and of his devotion of his noble wife, and withal in the midst of their lonely life, they were often as jolly as a poor of school boys off on a holiday. Then Livingston would sometimes say to his wife, "Really my dear, we ought not to indulge in so many jokes; we are getting too old. We must be more staid." Mark Twain was first introduced to Mr. Whistler in his studies in London. Mark bad heard that the artist was a great joker. He put on a hopelessly stupid air and drew near the canyas, that Whistler was completing. "That aint bad" drawled Mark,—it ain't bad. Only here in the corner, I'd do away with that cloud if I was you," and made a motion as if to do it himself. Whistler cried out nervously, "Gad, Sir, be careful there. Don't you see the paint is not dry yet." (Continued on Third Page) The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- ITY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year $1.50. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. B. Chifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 4th., 1912 For the first time, possibly, in the history of Ohio County, West Virginia, a jury composed of six colored men tried a case in Justice Muegge's Court in that city on Tuesday night. One month from today, June 4th, the state wide primaries will occur when every candidate from governor to constable, will seek to be nominated at the hands of his fellows. In the going down of the Titanic, one of the greatest men on earth, in the person of William T. Stead, went down with it. He was "In the union of all who Love, For the service of all who Suffer." What a pity that Shelby M. Cullom, who has been in Congress for 50 years, as a Republican, and in his hoary age advocating the annulment of the Amendments to please a certain section of the-South, should be made to go to his grave in disgrace, but it's the fate of justice against all wrong doers. Attention is called to the announcement of Hon. E. Howard Harper, of Keystone, W. Va, for Committeeman at Large. Mr. Harper is a man of intelligence, knows the political game, and can be depended upon to look after the interests of his colored and white constituents if he is successful in his aspirations. The Pioneer Press presents to its many readers this week two excellent articles. One emanates from the pen of that well known South American correspondent, Prof, I. S. S. Moore, of Bahia, Brazil, and the other is a masterly written production from Bruce Grit, of Yonkers, New York, a man famed on both sides of the Atlantic, as a historian and literary expert. They both merit careful perusal, and all who are fortunate enough to read them, will be amply repaid for their trouble. You must discriminate. To invite a fellow like John Newman into a pulpit is a shame on society and a blot on the alleged respect for religion. While preaching in Hagerstown, he ruined a young girl; sent her to Washington, D. C., where she became a mother. He was arrested, tried and convicted for it and is now supporting the child by a decree of law. His license has been revoked and the whole affair is publicly known, and in the face of it he had the impudence to go on the pulpit and stay there during the funeral service of Mr. James Willis last Thursday, batting his eyes like a toad in ashes. Rev. Mr. Beane, an apology to the public and an atonement to God are up to you for giving the invitation. --- As President of The National Independent Political League, the public is informed that S. L. Corrothers was elected to no position, nor was appointed to any, and holds none in our organization. And if he had, when he joined an out and out democratic organization, certainly he could no longer be one of us. J. R. Clifford, Pres. T. N. I. P. L. The Negroes in Chicago have set an example to their kind all over the country. They got together prior to the primaries in Chicago and Cook County, and as a result of their vigilance and race loyalty, they have something to show for their labors. When their fellows elsewhere do as they did, the emoluments of office and the power that big politicians get will be our share, along with all other American citizens. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, held its Fourth Annual Meeting in Handel Hall, Chicago, Ill., during the past week, and much good was accomplished. It is the most powerful organization on earth for the good of the American Negro. It really seems to us that it is God's approved order of things, and that its work is to take up that which those old abolition saints left undone. If this be true, great will be the end. For fear some one may think this end of the state has been honored by appointments of colored men, the following may be apropos. To appoint any one as a delegate to a National Educational Association means no more than for whoever is appointed to pay every penny of the car fare and everything else. The editor is aware of the correctness of his position with regard to those honorary bestowals, because, when he was selected to attend the National Negro Educational Association in Saint Louis, Missouri, he failed to go, owing to the fact that he didn't care to fork down in his pocket and go on a junket which would be of no material advantage to him nor anybody else. It is with sincere regret that we chronicle the very sad death of Hon. James M. Hazlewood, who fell down stairs and broke his neck at his home in Charleston on Sunday night last. The deceased gentleman was well known as one of the Capital city's foremost colored men, and his uniquely end will cause an aching void to be felt in that community for many years to come. He was prominent in the business, social and civic affairs of his home town, and likewise well known as a Pythian of both State and Nation wide renown and a former member of the Board of Regents of West Virginia Colored Institute. In all of his dealings with his fellow men he bore the reputation of being a devotee of the "square deal", and all who know him cheerfully admit that the life he lived and the example he set to his people in Charleston was productive of much good to the race there. May the soul of our dead friend rest in peace. To us it is nothing less than folly to read after today's philosophers of their facts anent the high cost of living. The more they write to simplify, the more puzzling becomes their subject. It is simple and the unlettered can easily understand it and especially if they lived in those days when every home, rich and poor, produced the wants, in clothes, food and luxuries. It is for the lack of those good old times that the world is suffering. Then every community had its shoe maker, and everybody could patch and half sole his shoes. Now when you put on a factory made shoe, you wear the workmanship of twenty men. In those days every house had its loom and weaver; the farm or a few acre, horses, cows, sheep, hogs and poultry; geese and ducks for food and feathers. That good old father and mother day has gone, and this generation knows nothing about them, hence hard times. T. H. ATTORNEY E. HOWARD HAR PER, OF KEYSTONE, W. VA. Candidate for State Committceeman at Large on the State Central Committee to be voted for at Primary, June 4th. Hon. E. Howard Harper, the subject of this sketch is McDowell's choice for the nomination of State Committeeman at Large on the State Central Committee. Mr. Harper has lived and worked in McDowell County for twenty-five years and during the entire time he has been a regular Republican and supported the regular nominee of that Party even during the Dawson campaign, when all of the Coal Operators in the southern end of the state were fighting him and every man of any importance in McDowell County politics, except Dr. H. D. Hatfield and Mr. Harper, were knifing the Republican candidate for Governor and supporting the Democratic nominee, Hon. J. J. Cornwell, when the election officers had orders to vote all persons who could not read and write for the Democratic candidate, when it took much courage to go upon the works of the Coal men who were opposed to Mr. Dawson, then it was that E. Howard Harper fought the battles of the Grand Old Party and carried her message into places where none but a fearless man would go in those days of danger and cowardice. Not only did he speak in the interest of the Party but he carried on a campaign of education such as has never been equaled in the southern part of the state. In order to beat the election officers and prevent them taking the advantage of the ignorance of many of the voters he established the plan of sending into the voting booth one man who could read and write with every two who could not and as a result of Dr. Hatfield and Mr. Harper's work, Hon. Wm. M. O. Dawson received 2500 majority from McDowell County. Gov. A. B. White appointed Mr. Harper on the Board of Regents for the W. Va. Colored Institute in 1904 and Gov. W. M. O. Dawson reappointed him in 1905 and he served until 1909 His record is an open book; how he stood on questions affecting the school, and what he did for the uplift of that Institute are things which can easily be learned by writing to the present Principal of that institution. In politics and business Mr. Harper has always been straight, he has never been a grafter nor has the party paid him anything for his services but on the other band he has spent his own and his brother's money to insure the success of the Republican party. His entire fight in this county has been one long and continuous struggle to better the political and economic condition of the Colored people in county and state. It was because of his Party regularity, his fight against those who would sell the best interests of his people, his efforts to put out the boodlers and his known loyalty to the colored peo ple caused the 500 or more colored men from McDowell and seven other counties to unanimously endorse him for the nomination of Committeeman at Large. These are facts and can be verified and corroborated by scores of the leading white and colored men both in politics and business in the Southern end of the state and many from all sections of W. Va. The colored voters of this state will make no mistake in supporting E. Howard Harper for the nomination. He will look after their interests and will serve the Republican party honestly and faithfully and the white voes will find in him a good, honest and fearless Republican. He is a lawyer of ability and a man of known courage. Vote for him and you will vote for straight political dealing, fair play and the real square "deal." ROOSEVELT WAVE COUNTRY WIDE States Regarded as Conservative Strongholds Have Plainly Demonstrated That They Are Against the Candidates of Big Business-Staggering Blows to Standpatism. Washington, April 18.—New England, so confidently claimed as Taft territory, has shown conclusively that it wants Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate for the presidency. Up to date twenty delegates have been elected from this section. Of these fourteen are instructed for Colonel Roosevelt and six are uninstructed. There remain sixty-eight delegates to be elected from New England. Of these New Hampshire will contribute eight, Rhode Island ten, Connecticut fourteen and Massachusetts thirty-six, Governor Bass of New Hampshire signed the call to Colonel Roosevelt to accept the presidential nomination if offered and is confident that his state will instruct solidly for Colonel Roosevelt. Massachusetts realized that if it failed to have a presidential preference primary its delegates would be named by the Taft machine politicians and the Republican voters would have absolutely nothing to say about it. Public sentiment was aroused, with the result that the primary law has passed, in spite of the opposition of the Taft leaders, backed by the president himself. Mr. Taft was urged to support the movement for a popular test, but refused to do so. After the law was on the statute books he gave it liployal approval. Lining Up For T. R. In view of the fact that the law was passed as the result of the insistence of the Roosevelt forces it is easy to realize that the movement for the colonel has tremendous strength. There is every reason to believe that Massachusetts will give him the same rousing majority that Illinois gave him a few days ago. In spite of the machines in operation in Rhode Island and Connecticut and the fact that no fight whatever has been made in either of these states for the colonel's candidacy there is a great deal of Roosevelt sentiment. The New England situation is highly satisfactory from the Roosevelt point of view and equally unsatisfactory from the Taft standpoint. The six great states of the northeast with the exception of New Hampshire were believed to be the stronghold of conservatism, and Senator Gallinger, the ally and supporter of Senators Penrose, Crane and Lorimer, was confident that New Hampshire could be brought into line for Mr. Taft. Senator Dillingham, who also belongs to the senate ring and who for the second time has vindicated Lorimer, assured the president that Vermont would cast its vote solidly for him. Yet Mr. Taft has obtained not a single instructed delegate from Vermont. If it had been suggested several weeks ago that Colonel Roosevelt would carry Maine and that the president would not get a single instructed vote from that state nor the state of Vermont the man responsible for the suggestion, if living in Washington, would have been conveyed at once to an insane asylum. Yet Maine and Vermont have refused to place a single delegate in the Taft column. Strength With Voters. The strength of the Roosevelt wave will be realized when attention is ca. ed to the evidence furnished by action taken in different parts of the country. Oklahoma would have gone solidly for the colonel had not the Taft forces called a convention before it was definitely known that Mr. Roosevelt would accept the nomination if it were tendered to him. As it was, he has got all but two of the delegates from that state. Illinois, in which a presidential preference primary occurred, gave the colonel fifty-six out of its fifty-eight delegates, with a tremendous majority in the state at large of 130,000 over Taft. To prevent Colonel Roosevelt from getting delegates frauds have been perpetrated in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and other states, especially in the south. The Illinois vote may properly be taken as an indication of Colonel Roosevelt's strength with the voters. It is local in so far as the number of delegates elected is concerned, but it is country wide in its proof of what the people will do if they can express themselves. It is, of course, impossible to wall up sentiment within the boundary lines of a state. The American people are a unit, swayed by the same impulses and moved by the same judgment. It is axiomatic in politics that when there is a pronounced movement in one part of the country it is bound to show in other sections. The extremes of Maine and Illinois are in point. It may be safely predicted therefore that New Hampshire and Massachusetts will instruct their delegates for Colonel Roosevelt and that some results will be obtained in Rhode Island and Connecticut. In this event the territory which was believed to be absolutely stand pat and upon which the president and his supporters depended will be represented in the Republican convention by Roosevelt delegates. Thompson & Thompson have the largest stock, the best material and sell under the best guarantee of any clothing house in Martinsburg, test it by trying it. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. WILBUR P, THIRKIELD, D. D. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. 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For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Walker Mackey has gone to Berkeley Springe, where he will be employed in a hotel. Dr. George W. Baylis spent two or three days of this week in Washington, in which city he attended to considerable business. Rev. John T. Runner, the well known local Methodist minister, preached at Hedgesville on Sunday night. Mrs. George P. Brown, of Pittsburgh, Pa., passed through our city on Tuesday last en route South, to which section she goes in search of health. Miss Matilda Green, who attends school at Storer College, Harper's Ferry, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Green, of this city, on Sunday last. Mrs. Luther Jenkins, formerly of Loray, Va., shot and killed her husband, and herself in Hagerstown on Tuesday night last. Jealousy is said to have been the cause for the commission of this raeb deed. Mr. George Woodfork, a well known citizen of Kearneysville, dropped dead after eating his supper on Wednesday evening. He had been working all day, and his death came as a great shock to his relatives and friends. His funeral will be held at Kearneysville today. The Doyess Grove Charge will hold its first Quarterly Meeting on Saturday, May 4 A grand reception will be tendered the new District Superintendent, Rev. C. E. Hodges, and the new pastor, Rev. George S. Lawrence. The program will be a fine one—worth going miles to see. The First Quarterly Conference of the new conference year, Rev. C. E. Hodges the new District Superintendent, presiding, was held at the M. E. Church 3rd inst. After conference, a grand reception was tendered Rev. Beane and Superintendent Hodges in the Sons and Daughters of Enoch Hall. Mr. James Willis, a well known and highly respected citizen of this town, and for years a member of the trustee board of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, died last Monday afternoon, following a sickness of a month or two. Mr. Willie is survived by his wife and other relatives. Funeral services over his remains were held from Mt. Zion Church on Sunday, the pastor, Rev Samuel M. Beane, officiating. Interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Josephine Seibert Craven, wife of Rev. William Craven, of Charles Town, departed this life on Wednesday. She had been ailing for a month or more, having experienced a general break down. Mrs. Seibert was a lady of whom everybody speaks well, as she was a genuine favorite with all who knew her, and had come in close contact with her. To the beloved husband, who has suffered a great loss as a result of her death, we extend our sincere sympathy. Mrs. Craven's funeral was held today. WHAT IS IT? 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"If you take for a text the speech delivered in Philadelphia not long ago by President Taft, in which he declared himself a progressive along with the rejoinder thereto delivered by Colonel Roosevelt at Louisville and attach to these speeches the reasonable knowledge of known facts and events, you cannot escape the conclusion at which I have arrived," said Senator Bristow in a talk on what might be called "the case against the Taft administration." "Said Colonel Roosevelt: Taft's "Progressivism." "Four years ago the progressives supported Mr. Taft for president, and he was opposed by such representatives of special privileges as Mr. Penrose of Pennsylvania, Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island and Mr. Callinger of New Hampshire, as Meers, Leutner, Cannon and McKinley of Illinois, and he was opposed by practically all of the men of the stamp of Messrs. Cuggenheimer and Evans of Colorado and Mr. Patrick Calhoun of San Francisco. These men were not progressives then, and they are not progressives now; but, unlike the president, they know who is a progressive and who is not. Their judgment in the matter is good. After three and a half years of association with and knowledge of the president these and their fellows are now the president's chief supporters, and they and the men who feel and act as they do in business and in politics give him the great bulk of his strength. The president says he is a progressive. These men know him well and have studded his actions for three years, and they regard him as being precisely the kind of progressive they approve. "Study that extract from Colonel Roosevelt's speech, if you please. Get at its meaning. Why does the criminal on trial for his liberty or his ill gotten property seek to select a judge by asking a change of venue? Why does he discriminate so closely in the selection of the jury which is to try him? The law provides these expedients for him that he may get justice; but, being guilty, he does not resort to these expedients to secure justice, but to avoid it. When the great combinations which have piled up enormous aggregations of money by illegal and criminal means select and stand for a candidate for president they have a motive, a motive that it seems to me ought to be plain to all men. John D. Was Informed. "Let me next call your attention to the interview which John D. Rockefeller gave out at the Standard Oil offices in New York, Oct. 30, 1908, a few days before the election in which Mr. Taft first ran for the presidency. Mr. Rockefeller had not been near his offices for several years, and when he appeared there for the express purpose of making public in the most effective and farreaching way this interview. Colonel Roosevelt and all the other progressives were of the opinion that it was done for the purpose of hurting Mr. Taft. But I have changed my mind about that since that time. I have become convinced that Mr. Rockefeller then had information about the complacence of Mr. Taft regarding 'Big Business' that the progressives did not have. "As one indication of this, I have been advised that not so very long before the Rockefeller interview the sugar trust approached Mr. Taft through Mr. Charles B. Warren of Michigan, the personal representative of the sugar trust in the beet sugar industry in Michigan, on matters vital to that iniquitous combination. That the conference was eminently satisfactory to the sugar trust was immediately shown by the fact that Mr. Warren and his associates were for Taft and have been for him ever since. Indeed, on this point I have only to recall to you that Mr. Warren was accredited in the press reports of a few days ago with being the person who at midnight placed fifty huskies from the Michigan beet sugar factories in the hall where the Michigan Republican state convention was to be held in order that the ball might be controlled in the order of Mr. Taft and against Colonel Robbelt the next day. Oil Octopus In Touch. "Now, if such a conference could make the sugar interests the devoted supporter of Mr. Taft the question naturally arises why something of the same kind might not have influenced Mr. Rockefeller. There are not the accurate data in regard to the Standard Oil company that there are relative to the meeting with the sugar trust, but there is some interesting collateral evidence tending to show that somewhere and somehow the oil octopus got in touch with the influences that controlled the then candidate for president. You will remember that after his election, but before his inauguration, Mr. Taft spent some little time at the Virginia Hot Springs. From that resort we received the first intimation ever emanating from any president of a purpose to establish the commerce court. "I remember I was greatly surprised. When President Roosevelt forced the rate bill through congress, restoring the interstate commerce commission to power in the enforcement of its rulings, tremendous efforts were made by Messrs. Aldrich, Gallinger and the rest of the reactionaries to include in the law a provision for a court review of the commission's decisions. The progressive tendency of the time was distinctly against any court review, for it was the courts which had emasculated the commission of its power under the old law. The people generally feared a repetition of this. They wanted to control the railroads. They wanted to obviate forever the possibility of a continuance of the processes by which such concerns as the Standard Oil company had used the common carriers to collect rebates on their own business and on that of their competitors at the same time. The reactionaries succeeded in getting a form of court review into the law, but not as free a one as they desired. Trust and Commerce Court "Now, you will remember that W. R. Hearst during the campaign of 1908 read from the platform in different portions of the country letters that had been procured by some means from the files of the Standard Oil company. It was charged that the letters were stolen, but their authenticity was acknowledged. They were genuine letters, however procured. In reading them as they appeared in the papers I was one day not much surprised to learn that the idea of a separate court of review for interstate commerce commission decisions had emanated from the Standard Oil company. They were the first people to invent the idea of a commerce court. The proof of it was found in a letter written by Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania, member of the house and confessed congressional lobbyist for the Standard Oil company. He was not the only lobbyist employed by that company we may believe, but he was one. "In this letter, written by Mr. Sibley, at Washington, on Feb. 26, 1905, to Mr. John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil company and read from the platform by Mr. Hearst at Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 10, 1908, is found the following paragraph relative to a certain 'Senator B.' who is described as 'wholly and unalterably opposed' to President Roosevelt's policy regarding corporations: "In re power to fix railroad rates Mr. B is for giving power to make rates, but will fight the idea of a separate court. I WAS SORRY NOT TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE HIS VIEWS ON THAT TOPIC" Lobbying In the Senate. "Here is documentary proof that the Standard Oil company had conceived the idea of a commerce court as long ago as before February, 1905, and that its lobbyists were engaged at that time in trying to gain support in the United States senate for the establishment of such a court. On Oct. 30, 1908, only a week before the election that was to decide the fate of Mr. Taft, John D. Rockefeller takes most unusual pains to serve public notice upon all friends of his kind of business throughout the country that Mr. Taft was the man to support for president. Now, what information did Mr. Rockefeller have that caused him to take this very unusual means to place his attitude on the presidential election before the business world? What could it have been? I myself do not know, but I do know that very shortly after his election Mr. Taft gave notice that he had the commerce court idea in his mind; I do know that before Mr. Taft had been long in the White House he caused a bill to be drawn providing for such a court, and he used the power of his administration to enact that bill into law. Mr. Rockefeller evidently wanted a commerce court. Mr. Taft hastened to give him one as soon as he was safely elected. The plain inference must be that the sugar trust was not the only one of the great combinations that found a way to get at Mr. Taft. I can only believe that the Standard Oil company had its friend who could slip into Mr. Taft's presence and get what it wanted. A "Working Arrangement." "But, more than that, the secretary of Mr. Taft's cabinet and the general attitude of the Taft administration in the tariff session and later convinced me that the administration had some sort of a working arrangement with 'Big Business.' I am certain 'Big Business' thought it had such a relationship. The president's complete change of front in regard to the tariff, the commerce court legislation, the speech giving a clean bill of health to Senator Aldrich, the administration's conduct of the Ballinger case, the Winona speech extolling the Payne-Aldrich law and many other things convinced me that such an understanding existed. The country had honored Colonel Rocsevelt for the enemies he made, yet those enemies became Mr. Taft's most ardent supporters from the very first. Figure it out for yourself." 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