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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Apportionment of Archives, G Cotton, W. Vs. ESTABISHED 1882. President Taft And The Negro President Taft And The Negro It looks like Taft may be a winner, and it is little wonder. With 150,000 office holders actively engaged in his behalf, to say nothing of Wall Street and the monied power generally, it is not at all surprising. Well let the man who has the most votes have the job if he can get it. But it is amusing to see just how easy it is to keep the colored brother in line. At each recurring national election the same old trick in one form or another is successfully worked off. It is handled so neatly that the very elecot is deceived. This time it is the Wickersham Lewis and the National Bar Association affair. I believe it to be nothing else but a political trick to hold the colored vote in line for Taft. If we will let our minds run back to past elections we will recall that the race issue either in or out of Congress has been brought out in one form or another at national election time. This time it is the Wickersham-Lewis controversy. I will venture the prediction that after the election is over, it will go to sleep never to waken again. The wise sores among us, who profess to know the ine and outs of these matters, are now throwing up their hats in laudation of Taft and his Attorney General, and these two worthies are chuckling in their sleeves at the apparent success of their schemes. Yes sir, it is the same old snake and as the late Frederick Douglass was wont to say; he is in a new skin. That is all. President Taft has lately delivered a speech at Howard University in which he is reported to have denounced lynching, peonage and the other crimes that are committed against the Negro in various parts of the country, but has any one ever been able to discover in any one of his state papers any real reference to these violations of law? If so let him come forward and produce the evidence. This unlawful taking of life, and destroying of property has grown to such proportions as to become nation-wide. Foreign countries have stood agast at the apparent unconcern of the American government, which has stood still in the face of these crimes against humanity. If this matter is not of sufficient importance to claim a place in the annual messages of the president, then I fail to understand the nature of a government of the people. Prof. Kelly Miller was very profuse in his praise of the President for the appointments of a few colored men to important Federal offices. There is just where the trouble is, and shows that there is a weak place in the minds of most of our leading men. They exhibit the fact that they can be easily satisfied as long as we are thus recognized. I do not believe that these meagre official appointments represent in their truest sense the desires and wishes of our people. I fancy they would be far better satisfied were they the subjects of equal and exact justice, free from the humiliating condition of "jum crow cars" which are regulated both by local and na- tional statutes. With lynching,peonage, separate care, refusal of hotel and restaurant accommodations, denial of theatre privileges and segregation, we have a case worthy of the attention of a just and liberty loving president or state executive. It is all very well in a way to speak in denunciation of these evils before a Negro assembly, but we want an executive with grit and back bone enough to hurl his denunciations right into the camps of the perpetrators of these wrongs. Has Taft done it? Will he do it? Let Tyler, Napier and the other prominent Negro office holders come upon the platform and answer. Taft wants the Negro votes and he is playing everything that is likely to attract them. Now I do not claim that Roosevelt will meet these conditions in a manner wholly satisfactory to us, but he has proven in many ways that every honest and upright man should have an equal showing in the race of life, or in other words: "A square deal." He stood by Dr. Crum and did not remove the Negro office holders of the South. He went further. He was the first President to appoint a Northern Negro to office excepting Cleveland's appointment of Matthews of New York and Trotter of Boston. True, he discharged the Negro troops and the same thing would have happened had they been white. Perhaps had they been brought to trial there might have been another and a more serious story to tell. A circular, entitled "What Taft has done for the Negro" has just come into my hands. After carefully reading it, I am forced to say: To my mind it is just about the weakest, lamest and most nonsenical effort that has as yet been put forth to deceive my brethren. It is sent out by the National Bureau, Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C. It consists largely of praise of the President for the appointment of a few colored men to lucrative and responsible positions under the government. And why all this praise? Are we not citizens of this country? And as citizens, voters and taxpayers are we not entitled to this consideration? Why, pray, should we be singled out at each recurring election and held up as striking examples of this and man's friendship for the race? Do we still regard ourselves as special wards of the Nation? And when a Negro is appointed to office is it necessary that the whole race go down upon its knees and give special thanks to the appointing power? Character and fitness are the two most important passports to these positions, and color should cut no figure at all. The fact that President Taft has appointed a few Negroes to office and retained some of McKinley and Roosevelt's appointees does not make it binding upon the race to vote for him. If these men are fitted by character and mental qualifications, they have the same right to serve the government as any other citizens of these United States. But let us see: Did Vernon resign of his own free will? I answer no. Who will contradict it? Dr. Crum was forced out and then sent out of the country. Who turned down the colored office holders in the South, Taft or Roosevelt? Who? And now, here comes Henry Lincoln Johnson with what he doubtless believes to be an undisputed reason as to why Evidences Of Negro Heroism Two striking cases of Negro heroism come to our attention this month. A dispatch from Greenville, Miss., that a human dike composed of several hundred colored men kept the levee from being destroyed for an hour and a half until the sand bags arrived. One of the men killed in the Jed mine, near Bluefield, W. Va., was Ted Swaley. A local daily paper says: "This name may not mean much to some people, but to the miners who recall the explosion at Farm on the first of last August it will mean a great deal. Ted Swaley was the hero of that explosion. Alone he worked his way through the confined workings of that new mine, and, crawling on his hands and knees, crept to where six unconscious men lay dying for need of help. One by one he rolled them on his back and dragged them to the bucket at the foot of the shaft, and then went to the surface with them. Assisted by John Moore, also colored, who carried a safety lamp, Swaley went back four times into the depths of the mine, and it was due to his courage and bravery that six men were taken out, five of whom came out alive. Swaley continued at mining, because it was the only trade he knew—Crisis. we should support Taft. Well, we do not find fault with Johnson for standing by his chief, but, when he uses the name and fao-simile copy of the seal of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and signs himself as Deputy Grand Master, he has certainly assumed a very awkward position—an act which ought to cause his immediate expulsion from the order. I know that this is contrary to law and the most sacred traditions of the noble order. Taft's supporters must be very hard pressed indeed when they are forced to knock at the portals of secret organizations and ask them to violate the law and debauch the great principles and teaching of these orders. For this act Johnson should be deposed from his position as Deputy Grand Master, and expelled from the order. In the days of Redmond Faucett, Joseph C. Bustill, D. B. Bowser, W. C. H. Curtis and Wm. M. T., Forrester, no general officer of the order would have dared to do such a thing. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows should lose no time in ridding itself of the men of the Johnson stripe. If Edward H. Morris, that Prince of Odd Fellows, will allow this matter to go unnoticed then he is not just the man we believe him to be. The man who will use the name and seal of the Sub Committee of Management for political purposes is a very dangerous proposition. Kick him out and cleanse the order of this foul stain. J. W. Jackson. Frostburg, Md. In Hutchinson, Kansas, a jury composed entirely of colored men has been trying a case. Charles Fulton deputy probate judge, remarked that he never saw a finer set of men on a jury than those six col- red men, one of them a doctor, another a minister and a third a law student, and all of them men who have good education and character. It attracted a lot of attention, being a very unusual occurrence in Kansas legal circles.—The Crisie. T. R. LEADS TAFT BY 154. "Standpatters" Swamped in the Drift Towards ColoneL OF 644 Delegates Roosevelt Has 239, Taft 83 and 118 Are Uninstructed. Contested, 160, Including 88 From New York—Senator Dixon's Figures Show Nation Wide Trend. Washington, D. C.—Senator Dixon at the Roosevelt headquarters today said: "Six hundred and forty-four delegates to the Republican national convention have been elected up to date. Of these 239 are for Colonel Roosevelt, 85 for Mr. Taft, 0 for Senator Cummins, 96 for Senator La Follette, 118 are un- instructed, including 88 from New York state, and contests are pending in the cases of the remaining 160." State Alabama ..... 3 Alaska ..... 3 Colorado ..... 10 Connecticut ..... 12 Idaho Col. ..... 8 Delaware ..... 8 Florida ..... 8 Georgia ..... 2 Hawaii ..... 2 Illinois ..... 2 Indiana ..... 2 Iowa ..... 2 Kansas ..... 2 Kentucky ..... 2 Louisiana ..... 2 Maine ..... 2 Michigan ..... 2 Mississippi ..... 2 Missouri ..... 2 Nebraska ..... 2 New Mexico ..... 2 New York ..... 2 North Dakota ..... 2 Oklahoma ..... 2 Oregon ..... 2 Pennsylvania ..... 2 Philippines Is. ..... 2 South Carolina ..... 2 Tennessee ..... 2 Vermont ..... 2 Virginia ..... 2 Wisconsin ..... 2 Total ..... 29 Total 113 160 *Lorimer's district. 8UMMER 8CHOOL PERSONAL8 Dr. James E. Hodgson, formerly of Davis Elkins College, and previous to that an instructor in the Preparatory School of Keyser, will teach Mathematics at Morgantown during the Summer School. He is a Ph.D. of John Hopkins and is now a member of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Hodgson has many warm personal friends and admirers in West Virginia who will be glad to welcome him back to the state. He has made himself a reputation as a great teacher of Mathematics. Alonzo B. Brooks, State Forester of West Virginia will give instruction in Nature Study and Botany in the University Summer School. Perhaps no man in the state is better acquainted with the material with which good Nature Study instruction can be done than Mr. Brooks. Dr. Charles DeGarmo, the distinguished head of the College of Education, Cornell University will be a member of the faculty of the University Summer School at Morgantown. Marlon Lawrence of Chicago, Secretary of the International Sunday School Association, will spend several days at Morgantown this summer during the session of the School of Methods for Sunday School workers. Dr. William C. Rudiger, Professor of Education of Psychology in George Washington University and author of well known text books on education, will give instruction in the University Summer School. NO.10 Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. METHOD OF WORK. Mark Twain, being asked as to his method of work, replied; "I work very regularly when I work at all. I work every day and all day, from after breakfast till late in the night. I sit at it till they pull me away from the table to dress for dinner at seven at night. They make me stop then for a while, as they think I might overwork myself, but I don't think there is any fear of that. The mere physical work would not hurt me or any one else. You can sleep that off. The mental part of it is nothing but amusement; it's not work with me." FCOTCH. Andrew Carnegie on the occasion of his 74th birthday told a group of New York reporters a Scotoh story. The story, which arose out of an inquiry about Mr. Carnegie's health ran thus: A Scottish recruit stood on guard before a colonel's tent. The colonel put out his head, and said sternly to the new soldier. "Who are you?" The recruit grinned and answered: "Final. How's yourself." SWEAKERS OFF 1 Upton Sinclair, at a banquet In Wilmington, said; "You'd hardly believe it to look at our American millicnaires that they are the greatest swearers—upon earth." "Is that so?" said a vegetarian suffragist, "what do they swear off?" "Taxes," said Mr. Sinclair. No Come In. A California woman, in training a new Chinese servant to wait at the door, had her daughter ring the bell and present her card to the Colestial, who pulled out of his sleeve the card a visitor had presented the day before and carefully compared the two: "Tickee no matchee," he exclaimed, handing back the card "No can come in." FRNCING "Uncle Joe—"Well, Jephtha, when air you'a goin to fix that fence along the creek?" Jephtha—"Why I am waitin' till Clarence comes home from college. Y'see be'a takin' fencing lessons there, and probably he kin put me enter a new wrinkle or two." FUTILM WORRY. J. D. Rookefeller, at a recent dinner in New York, said of success: "Success depends a good deal on the recognition of values. The successful man knows what is important and what is unimportant. He wastes no time over trifles. He knows that would be as silly as the Tarrytown girl, who, after reading a letter from her fiance, said, pettishly, "I do wish Joe would learn to write more clearly. I can't tell from the postscript, whether he is sending me 10,000 or 100,000 kisses." It is and has been possible to make soundings where the Titanic went down. The Pioneer Press The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ENVOID TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ZIX. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,50. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by early contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Staeding 1 inch 50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Soil Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 11th., 1912 Mothers' Day will be observed throughout the states next Sunday, when white carnations, the symbol of remembrance to the mothers will be worn. The city election will be held on Monday next, when a mayor and five new councilmen will be elected. Lines are tightly drawn, and whether or not the town remains "dry" or goes "wet" for the next two years, all parties who have taken part in the great struggle for supremacy can feel that they have done their duty. The Pioneer Press is favorably impressed with the suggested idea to organize a Republican Press Association at the meeting of the Congressional Convention, at Keyser, on May 15. Such an organization would fill a long felt want and a go a long way toward unifying the newspaper clean in this section of the State. If the Niagara Movement's conduct and talks to the world through the press caused its absorption by that unique organization composed of the best white women and men in the world, known as "The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, it was deeply skin as a divine forerunner for the salvation of the brotherhood of man, as was the Son of God, for the saving of souls. As President of The National Independent Political League, the public is informed that S. L. Cotrothers 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. Why so much talk about the Bible not being used as it used to be? Whenever we hear church people so talking it recalls the Venetian Dodge's condemnatory remarks, for they are the very ones who caused it. Had Sunday Schools kept the money making "lesson leaves" out of the church, the Bible would be in and read as of old. If we had our way, the "lesson leaf" plant would be destroyed today and a decree made to forever stand against it. The Pioneer Press in its long contention for better homes and home influences is gaining ground. As we have so often said: the church, school and community are never a whit better than the homes. If our people would try as hard to have nice homes as they do churches, what bright prospects there would be for a future growth of better men and women. The son of God built no churches, for costly display, but used the hilltops, the valleys and mountain tops to enlighten, convince, convict and convert souls. What better places could have been selected—where God's beauty could be seen, and his birds join in with man in song service to their maker? Back to those good old godly times, and save the world. It's a pity that a man, a community, a nation, can become so deep and dyed in sin as to be able to do the meanest of things to mankind. What a blessing in work and devotion the Negroes have been to the whites of this country and especially to the South, and what a curse, in the lowest degree they get for it all. Since declared freed, every imaginable imposition has been piled on them, and today a worse state of slavery actually exists. Have the persecutors grown hardened to crime and defy God's punishment? Seems so. To illustrate: A portion of the South is being flooded, and right in the midst of death, they are forcing Negroes at the point of guns to work on broken levees. Why not force their lynching and worthless whites to do it? How people, if they believe in a just God and that He is the creator of all, could live close to a smoking and spitting volcano, and be mean to others of the one blood family because of their climatic color, and also because they had been deprived of opportunities that the oppressors had had and profited thereby, and not fear the earthly and hereafter penalties, is so strange to our way of looking at it. And no less strange is the fact, that the people of the South can live below the levees of the father of waters, which in spite of all man's efforts must and will flood and destroy that section, and its tens of thousands of souls, and be as mean as they are to the colored people—fully eight-ninths of whom are of their own blood—seemingly unmindful of the hereafter and its sure punishment for sin. We call the attention of our readers to an article appearing elsewhere in these columns from the pen of that peerless Western Maryland writer and gentleman, Mr. J. W. Jackson, of Frostburg, Md. As to the security of our friend's premise regarding the matters he mentions, we leave that to those who read after him to decide. Aside from this, though, we can say in all condor, that Mr. Jackson makes some mighty weighty statements, and they deserve to be read and digested by every Negro everywhere who comes into possession of them. It is men of the Jackson stripe who are real assets to the Negro race, and the pity of it is that the woods are not full of them. His article is an apt illustration of the fact that some Negroes, like some white men, can see things just as they are. As it looks to us, before the adjournment of the quadrennial conference of the M. E. Church, the split made because of slavery, will have been welded. Don't believe the reunion will please the father of the one blood family, from the fact, that if slavery caused the split, and a bloody war freed the slave, and he is treated worse now than before the war, will it not be a complete surrender of their religious manhood? If not, why not? If they then believed in a war to kill slavery, is not another war as necessary that he enjoy the rights of a free man? What kind of a religious union could it be other than a throwing of the Negro into the depths of an anery sea. Murdered as he is, all over the South, disfranchised, jim crowed &c., where on earth is a better field for white Christians to unite in his protection instead of his destruction? We would rather die a heathen and go before God, than to go before Him a reunited white preacher if the thing be done. Three red headed daughters, all in one consignment, arrived to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Viller, living on Sam Crawford's farm near Prectorville, this state. All three of the auburn baird are living. ATTORNEY E. HOWARD HARPER, OF KEYSTONE W. VA. A. H. Candidate for State Committeeman at Large on the State Central Committee to be voted for at Prim'sry, 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. Haffield 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 hand 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 hoodlers and his known loyalty to the colored people 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 bones ly and faithfully and the white voters 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 "desi." LOW COST OF LIVING LOW COST OF LIVING FOR STUDENTS AT THE WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. Many Students Live for Lees Than $300 Annually—Careful Investigation to be Made. West Virginia University has long been known as one of the schools where the cost of living is very low—for many of its students live on less than three hundred dollars a year. During the spring term there will be made a very careful investigation as to the living expenses of the young men and women at the University in order that definite information may be given as to the actual expenses of a year's work at Morgantown. W. V. U. Self-Helping Opportunities. Every University doubtless offers opportunities to students whereby they may be entirely or partly self-supporting while completing their college course. West Virginia University offers unusual opportunities in this respect. All work which can be done by students is held open for them. Work such as stenography, caring for the college heating plant, printing done at home, makes many students entirely self-supporting, while addressing letters, mailing circulars, writing University news for papers and advertising sheets, serving at parties, caring for children in the evenings, are constant sources of "pin money." But one of the best opportunities for cheap living for young women comes through the offer made by many of the wives of the faculty members and other residents of the town, by which offer room and board are given free to a young college women in return for her companionship. At the present time there are several students who are living in the most pleasant conditions at practically no expense. SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. The Announcement of the School of Agriculture and Home Economics at West Virginia University for 1912-13 has just been issued, and is being distributed. This school was established in 1911 for giving practical training in agriculture and home economics to young men and women of high school age. It is an effort on the part of the University to give a thorough and practical high school course in these subjects to young men and women who are unable to secure such education near home. Any one who has completed a common school education may enter the course, which lasts but two terms each year, commencing September 18, 1912, and closing March 21, 1918; so that the young men may return to the farm in time for spring work. Copies of the Announcement may be secured by addressing the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Morgantown. THE DRAMATIC CLUB. The Dramatic Club of the University has just completed a most successful season, having staged one of the very modern plays, "The Man From Home." The club was in the very best condition, since nearly every member had played in it for three years. Prof. C. Edmund Neil played in the title role. The following is the cast of players: Pearl Scott, Mary Hoiroyd, Pearl Hedges, Harry King, Boyd Smith, Ciyde Kinsey, Charles Hodges, Alex. Miller, Marsh. Watkins, Frank Llewlyn, C. Edmund Neil. PHYSICAL TRAINING REQUIRED. By a recent decision of the Faculty of West Virginia University, all Freshmen and Sophomore girls will be required, beginning with 1912-13 to register for Physical Training for three hours per week, one of which shall be theoretical, for which shall be given one hour credit for each semester. Mrs. Chez, the Director of the Women's Gymnasium, has worked for this result for several years and is anticipating a year profitable to a large number of girls. BALTIMORE & OI RAILROAD. Corrected to December 1, 1811. No 55 Daily at 11.21 a m for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Rmney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 55 Daily at 11.21 a m for Grafton, Pittsburgh and Chicago. No 5 Zazily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.10 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39.5.37 p.m. No.9 Daily at 11.28 p.m; for Pittsburg No.15 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a.m or Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 10 Daily except Sund y at 12,15 p.m. for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6,30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent, Baltimore Mid. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Va. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. PRESIDENT. 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. 1832 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. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 10 professors. Kelly Miller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology. Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furishes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co. es. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D.D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polytechnic. Edward A. Bailoch, M. D., Dean, 6th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. McNeill, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Deighton, LL B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Sunday excuseous on the B. & O. are in full blast. Mr. John W. Corsey is improving his houses generally. Martinsburg seems to be in the midst of an epidemic of measles, children in every section of the city having them. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bustlers of bustiere in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Rev. Samuel M. Beane leaves on No.8 Monday morning for New York, to which place he goes to attend the wedding of a friend. Miss Julia Morgan, who taught the Bunker Hill School the past season, passed through town en route to her home in Charles Town the other day. Mother's day will be observed at the Raleigh Street Dudley Baptist Church Sunday evening at 8 p. m. Rev. R R. 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VA BIOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00 Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. THE CLERGY ON DR.H.D.HATFIELD What the Ministry Thinks Of Him As A Candidate For Governor HIS STANDING IS EXCELLENT Expressions Obtained Upon Inquiry Made By Rev. F. G. W. Ford, of Grafton, and Reproduced Here- with By Permission. Rev. F. G. W. Ford, of Grafton, has some very interesting letters from West Virginia ministers touching upon the standing of Dr. Hatfield. We use them with his permission. Rev. W. F. Hampton, Pastor M. E. Church. Crumplor, McDowell County, W. Va. April 15, 1912. Rev. F. G. W. Ford, Grafton, W. Va. Dear Brother Ford: In reply to your inquiry in reference to the candidacy of Dr. H. D. Hatfield of this county for the office of governor of this state, I am pleased to give you the reasons why I think the good people of the state should nominate and elect him. I have taken paths to make an investigation as to his character, qualification and fitness for the office before making up my mind or committing myself, and the result of my investigation is such that I feel it is my duty as a Christian minister to give him my hearty support, and I feel that his candidacy should appeal favorably to the best citizenship of the state. Dr. Hatfield has for many years been recognized as a very strong and worthy leader in this section of the state; he is clean, honest, upright and absolutely reliable. He always takes a determined stand for whatever he considers right, and he never wavers in the discharge of what he conceived to be his duty. He is a thoroughly honorable man and has the respect and confidence of the people in all this section of the state in the highest degree. Dr. Hatfield has done probably more for suffering humanity in this vicinity than any other man, he having for the past several years devoted a great portion of his time, absolutely without charge, to the relief of unfortunate miners, railroad men and others injured in the mines, on the railroad and in lumber camps in this community. The record of his work along this line at the Miners' Hospital, at Welch, is well known, and for this work, as well as his many other good qualities, he is very much beloved by the people in all this section. I understand that reports are being circulated in some sections of the estate by opponents of Dr. Hatfield to the effect that he is an undesirable citizen and not a law-abiding man, but I wish to say that it is only necessary to investigate his standing in this community to verify the fact that such reports are false and slanderous. I can not understand why any one would knowingly circulate a report detrimental to the character, reputation or good name of a man of Dr. Hatfield's standing, and an indeed sorry that his opponents should resort to such, if it is true that they have done so. I want to assure you that in my opinion the affairs of this state could not be entrusted to a safer man than Dr. Hatfield, and I feel sure that the moral standing of the people will be elevated by his influence as governor of the state. He is temperate and soer in habits and his pleasing personality is most attractive. He is kind and courteous and never misses an opportunity to do a good deed and to serve his fellow-man. I can freely lend my support to any man with a life and character like Dr. Hatfield, stamped with honesty, uprightness and devotion to the interest of the people, and I can, as a Christian citizen, commend him to my brethren, with the utmost confidence that he will carry out to the letter every promise made to the electorate. Cordially yours, W. F. HAMPTON, Pastor Crumple Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Isaac Wright, Pastor Christian Church. Bluefield, W. Va., April 15, 1912. Rev. F. G. W. Ford, Grafton, W. Va. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your inquiry of recent date concerning the reputation and character of Dr. H. D. Hatfield, and his standing in the Southern counties. Dr. Hatfield's character as a man is unimpeachable and his integrity is unquestioned. He has been practicing medicine in McDowell and adjoining counties for many years, and thousands of people know him as a kind-hearted friend of the sick room. He will answer the call of the sick room be the night ever so dark, the distance great, the roads rough or the pay uncertain. He is clean of all vicious or bad habits, as clean and upright a man as the State of West Virginia holds and his broad and virile statesmanship, together with a great bodily endurance under the strain of hard work will make him an ideal governor. I am. Very sincerely yours, ISAAC WRIGHT, Minister Christian Church. Rev. W. H. H. Cook, Pastor Missionary Baptist Church. Windom, W. Va., April 4, 1912. Rov. F. G. W. Ford, Grafton, W. Va. My Dear Sir: Yours of the 2d inst. duly came to hand and glad to hear from you. In regard to Dr. Hatfield as a candidate for governor of West Virginia, will say: He is a splendid man, a true Republican, and if elected to the high honors to which he aspires, will make a noble governor. He is a man of strong executive ability, firm, upright and true, and coming from the strongest Republican county in the state, we, in this section, think his claims have great merit in them. We truly hope the party will be guided aright in her selection of a man to fill the office of so grave responsibilities. Dr. Hatfield can do this with dignity, and, if nominated, will add strength to the ticket. Whatever the outcome, however, Dr. Hatfield, with his great force, will always be found active and energetic, fighting for the right. Hoping to hear from you again, Respectfully, W. H. H. Cook, Pastor Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. H. B. Brown, Pastor M. E. Church South. Eckman, W. Va., April 12, 1912. Rev. F. G. W. Ford, Grafton, V. Va. Dear Sir and Brother: In replying to your inquiry of April 3d, I will say that I have been pastor of the M. E. Church, South, at Eckman, W. Va., the home town of Dr. Hatfield, for the past three years. I find him a true, high-toned gentleman in every respect, strictly moral in character, favorably disposed toward the churches, a liberal contributor to their institutions and an attendant of the services whenever opportunity presents itself. He is strictly temperate in every respect, standing high among the people, not only in his home town and county, but also wherever he is known. As a minister of the gospel, I have never taken any part in politics, because of the strong sentiment against ministers mixing in political affairs; yet I believe we have neglected our duty along this line, to some extent. The time has come when every citizen should take a stand for civic righteousness and help to put in office men panoplied in the armor of independence. Men of such striking individuality and personality that they will stand as mile-posts along the great highway of politics and statesmanship, and in their signal supremacy turn about the tide of human affairs, inspiring and kindling patriotic devotion in every human breast. Men who are capable of independent action, not bound by hordes of tyrants or ruthless demagogues, not ruled by the money kings, but who have a conscience and a will; who act honestly and uprightly in spite of all the corrupt influence that might be brought to bear upon them. Men who are not fed and ruled by idle clamor, but who sock the right and follow it conscientiously. Men who mould public opinion and shape the destinies of our people. Dr. Hatfield is the embodiment of all the above qualities. He is not only a learned and intellectual man himself, but he believes that education is the hope of our country, and that morality should be incubated into the very fiber of our being. He believes that intelligence is the pillar and bulwark of our institutions and that education and Christianization should go hand in hand. Dr. Hatfield is a man who does not find his highest glory in the shameful magnificence of unscrupulous political success; but he is a citizen who is endowed with vigor, broad, mental training, and armed with patriotism and ready to sacrifice his highest hopes and ambitions for the welfare of his country. I am glad to have this opportunity to express my opinion of Dr. Hatfield. thoughtful. To the Welch hospital, moreover, Dr. Hatfield has given a large part of his time, the best of his talent, ability and energy, and he has given all, I understand, without requereration. Dr. Hatfield is a man with a splendid physique and presents an appearance that would lend grace to any social or intellectual function. Evidently he is both physically and mentally a strong man; that is to say, he is a man capable of great physical and mental exertion. And doubtless it is to his strong mind in his sound body that he is largely indebted for being able to stand the strain required not only in caring for a large practice here, but also for being able to reach a high mark in the medical profession. As a physician, his counsel and advice as well as his services are in constant demand. As a surgeon, he ranks among the best, and is noted for exceptional ability and remarkable skill. To the least, in this section where I know a number, of excellent physicians—men who are thoroughly equipped in the science of medicine and the art of surgery—Dr. Hatfield is considered a most capable man. It is doubtless a matter of common knowledge that proficiency in any branch of science or art does not mean merely a certain amount of physical or mental activity. Neither does it mean a mere natural aptitude. Natural aptitude taken alone may count for much. Likewise neither physical or mental activity alone may also accomplish much. But no one of them taken alone will ever reach the mark of proficiency. Proficiency is a mark of excellence, the attainment of which is only reached by a combination of all those qualities in the most intense form. In a word, it means natural aptitude, intelligent discipline and self-denying toll. When therefore a man has reached the mark where his proficiency is an acknowledged fact, certainly it must afford a reasonably good evidence of his daily manner of life. It emphasizes his temperate habits. It exhibits the exercise of a steadfast will in resisting temptation to worthless pleasures. In a word, it exhibits a man with strong convictions, a self-restraint spirit, and good daily habits of life. At any rate, during my ministry here, I have never seen Dr. Hatfield under circumstances where he could be said to be a man possessing bad habits; neither do I remember of ever hearing his name being used in such connection. To sum up, therefore, what is here in stated, Dr. Hatfield, like a great many men who are engaged in professions which require a constant exertion of the thinking faculties, may sometimes give the impression of a more or less preoccupied manner. Better acquaintance with him discloses a genial disposition which attracts and makes friends. In this section, he has many friends, warmhearted and of long-standing friendship. His family life is a most happy one. His professional life commands the confidence of a large practice and many patrons. His associates in the medical profession recognize him as a most capable man. Finally, his proficiency in the science of medicine and the art of surgery not only suggests constant mental and physical self-denying toll; it also exhibits the characteristics of a steadfast will, strong convictions, a self-reliant disposition, and good daily habits of life. Believe me, Rector the charge of the P. E. Church Missions on the N. & W. Railroad. Brann cell, W. 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You might get in so bad you would find it hard to get out. Better take Cardui while there is time, while you are still in moderately good health, just to conserve your strength and keep you in tip top condition. In this way your troubles, whatever they are, will gradually grow smaller instead of larger--you will be on the up-grade instead of the down—and by and bye you will arrive at the north pole of perfect health. Get a bottle at your druggists' today. --- --- and if you should like any further information I will always take pleasure in giving you same. Yours fraternally. H. B. BROWN, Pastor M. E. Church, South. Rev. J. T. Crowe, Pastor Episcopal Church. Revd. F. G. W. Ford, Grafton, W. Va. Revd. and Dear Sir: Your letter of the 4th reached me when I was arranging to leave town in order to fill two appointments for Sunday. From those Sunday services I have just been able to get back and take it up for consideration. You ask me for my personal impression of Dr. Hatfield, and to give you some idea of the esteem in which he is generally held by his neighbors. So far from seeing any reason why I should not accede to your request, I beg to say that I take a very great pleasure in complying with it. With Dr. Hatfield I have had a very cordial and friendly acquaintance for something over the past three years. On first acquaintance one is apt to get the impression that he is a man of a somewhat distant manner. That is to say, his manor is suggestive of something like a very reticent, very reserved, or very much preoccupied character. Better acquaintance not only dispels any such first impression; it does more. It supplants it with a totally different impression because it discloses him as a man not merely of a genial disposition, but also as possessing those admirable human qualities which attract and bind men with the strong cords of profound and sincere friendship. Throughout this section of the state Dr. Hatfield has many friends, people who are attached to him with a very warm and lovingly fond friendship. Dr. Hatfield's family, moreover, is a most happy one. And while neither the Doctor nor any member of his family happens to be an adherent of my own communion, yet, in the course of my ministry here, both my wife and myself have been delightfully entertained in his home. All those tender sentiments, in fact, constitute the essence of real contentment and true happiness, unquestionably surround and interpenetrate Dr. Hatfield's home-life. In a professional way, two or three instances that have come under my immediate notice will be suggestive of something of the value attached to his opinion as well as something of the confidence he has inspired in his many patrons. About two years ago the superintendent of one of our mine operations here, on account of business interests, was compelled to move to the city of Philadelphia, and last summer while inspecting some ore-beds near Roanoke, Va., he met with a serious accident. As soon as possible he was taken to the Gale hospital, at Roanoke, with the beat medical skill at his service. When, however, his wife arrived from Philadelphia nothing would satisfy them but that Dr. Hatfield should be immediately sent for. Another instance of a similar demand occurred last fall, when a relative of some of the prominent people here was about to undergo a serious operation in Chicago. Dr. Hatfield's advice was not moreely sought, but his personal attendance was required at the time of the operation. Again, I have often met Dr. Hatfield on the train going to different places in the course of his daily duties, and especially on his way to and from the Welch hospital. His demeanor has always been that of a polite man, quiet and earnest and J. T. CROWE Official Ballot City Election to be held Monday, May 13, 1912, in the various wards of the city of Martinsburg for the election of Mayor and five councilmen, (one from each ward) to serve for a term of two years from June 1, 1912. FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET MARK WITHIN THIS CIRCLE OCRATIC TICKET FIRST WARD For Mayor P. R. HARRISON For Councilman W. J. POND DEMOCRATIC TICKET SECOND WARD For Mayor P. R. HARRISON For Councilman FRANK J. ZILL. DEMOCRATIC TICKET THIRD WARD For Mayor P. R. HARRISON For Councilman DANIEL J. HEISTON DEMOCRATIC TICKET FOURTH WARD For Mayor P. R. HARRISON For Councilman WALTER SHOAFSTALL DEMOCRATIC TICKET FIFTH WARD For Mayor P. R. HARRISON For Councilman ROBERT KERFOOT EEL ROOSEVELT MAY WIN IN OHIO ens Are That He Will Car Taft's Own State. COLONEL ROOSEVELT MAY WIN IN OHIO Indications Are That He Will Carry Taft's Own State. Cleveland, O.—In the present contest for the nomination for president the indications are that in Ohio, President Taft's own state, Colonel Roosevelt will receive forty-four out of forty-six delegates to the national convention. This will be a bitter pill for Mr. Taft's managers to swallow. The progressive movement has not only stirred the voters of Ohio, but of the whole country—the plain people—to assert their rights of enfranchisement as guaranteed them under the constitution, and the wholesale breaking away from the rule of the bosses in this state and elsewhere is like a tidal wave sweeping over the land. Never in the political history of this country have the voters given so much thought to the right of the people to rule as is manifested in this campaign, and when the Ohio state convention takes place on May 21 the policies of P. W. LEITER, Recorder FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET BACK WITHIN THIS CIRCLE SOCIALIST TICKET FIRST WARD For Mayor T. G. SMITH For Councilman DANIEL C. 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"The right of the people" to re- and the desire to break away from the rule of the bosses" are just as strong in this state as in any throughout the country, and as Illinois, Pennsylvan- aine, Nebraska, Oregon and other states have set the example of indo- cing the progressive movement as en- situated by Colonel Roosevelt, show- ing that this is a country "of the people for the people and by the people." NEW JERSEY JOINS THE MOVEMENT TO STOP BOSSES. Indications That Roosevelt Will Secure Every One of the Delegates. Trenton, N. J.—Interest in the campaign for the Republican nominee for president is growing hotter and hotter in this state as the day for the New Jersey state convention, May 28, approaches, and the indications are that Colonel Roosevelt will secure the whole number of state delegates, twenty-four, to the national convention. 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