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CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, JUNE 20, 1907
fFW?K|R
Will Tell the Whole
Story ;
Wijber force Will hear upon
what evidence the biacklbattal
; *' lion was discharged I
* ' Co]umbij|s,' Obi?, ..Tune 17. ? AJt
WilberTorce University next I Thurs
day Senator; Joseph Benson Foraker
will launch his third ' shaft of 'the
present- campaign at President
Roosevelt in the presence of the as
'semibled leaders of the colored race
in Ohio. /This gathering is to be a
memorable ? one in Republican poli
tics, because of the results that are
expected to flow from it. It Is con
ceded tha't the them>e of the Sena
tor's address will be. the dismissal of
the colored troops at Brownsville. In
lils speeches at Canton and Steubens
vi lie Senator Foraker made passing
; . S. W. 8TAHKS,
pj^;ujk vChjy^cellor and
Chivirniart T^irtme/'aiid Sanitarium
Commission.
. ?. ?; \V Virginia.
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references '.to/ this -affair, which of
themselves ayfer* -boldvenpugh. When
h * ape itief *$? WH^,
force be ?b gft into die tails
and. i.h.i tjtfrigfl
that iver? ^SxlfifmlWynhe investlga
to^ -wno on !>%faalfc>f> the
accused soiqiefa. indeed, it is ibeing
said that hw' siJe^ch' Wjll be an ap
peal to the/^oloiNpd voters of the na
tion as against . Presiden t Roosevelt
and Secretary? of A War William H,
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AV. J.I R&ED, t>
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Taft. Whatever his intention, it is
certainly true that the colored peo
ple of this'state Jtr^-worked up to a
high pitch over the coming address.
The announcement is made that rep
resentatives of fhe race from all
parts of the state are going to the
x university on a.- pilgrimage. Once
there it is said that meetings will be
held to . formulate ?plans of a politi
cal natuf$_ bearirig upon the Imme
diate future. The friends of Secre
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K. A. jbliOUNT,
Alabama.
tary Tift have been watching these
developments With an- anxioms eye,
( and have not as yet been able to ex
tract any comfort from them. Week
before last President Jones, of the
university, called upon Insurance
Commissioner ATthur I. Vorys and
discuss#*! /t he situation with him, it
is suspected, ky -Jttvitartlon. < A week
ago at Xenfe $>ve vent to bis
/eeiingS'At th$ time that 'former
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Lieutenant-Governor W. rayons'
emitted an Interview In Foraker'a In
terest. President Jones * showed
that he was in hearty sympathy with
the Senator and denounced ?moat fa
vorably those who were attempting
to eliminate him. From this it la
gathered that' the Senator willi be
permitted to "go as far as. he likes"
in tackling President Rooaevelt. As
previously announced, it is likely
that there will be a demonstration in
his, favor byUho veteran soldiers, up
on whom Captain Lyoii called to turn
out everywhere throughout Greene
County.
.Foraker'S Opportunity.
This county la popularly regarded
as (being one of those that will send
delegates opposed to the nomination
of Secretary Taft for President,
-which fact ,lends additional interest
to the expected demonstration of
Thursday. Wllbei force University al
which the meeting is/to be held, Is
a - short distance from Xenia, the
county *eat. It is a religious institu
tion, although it receives state aid.
This comes to it through the fact
that it maintains an agricultural de
partment. In the guise of sustaining
this end of the college the Republi
can leaders have caused the most
liberal kind of appropriations to be
given by the General Assembly, elec
tric light plants being established, an
auditorium erected and concrete
walks laid about the grounds. The
agricultural college has trustees who
are appointed by the Governor. The
church appoints a separate board to
direct the theological department.
For years the-late Governor John M.
Pattison was a memiber of the State
Board and devoted much time to the
lnatltutlon's lnteresta.
NOT PROVEN
Is Change Against
Soldiers
Says Foraker, by the testimony
presented to date before the
Senate Investigators.
Washington, June 17. ? Senator, j
Foraker, of Onto, tonight gave "out v
a written srtat^nent sa^ming .up Uie<
inlttee.on military aff ki rs; / in ttfi>
W&wnsviirr
!t fails to show that any' soldier
took part in the r ? The rttd'ie
ment, which the senator says' as ha
makes a plain duty to the South, as
well as to the accused soldiers and
because he is "more, familiar with
the testimony than anybody else,"
is an answer to a published state
ment that the testimony concluii'Vely
showed that the soldiers of the 25th
battalion did the shooting. l?'oruker
says:
"The testimony given by the"' sol
diers in their own behalf is not, hi
my opinion, shakeiyby the testimony
given by the citizens of Brownsville.
That tesflmony? in the first p'ae-3, is
but a repetition of what was first
taken by the citizens' committee iind
afterwards more elaborately retaken
by Mr. Purdy. No imoortant. item
of evidence has been brought for-*
ward against the soldiers !n this ex
amination. Ninety per cent of what
the citizens have testified about had
relation to matters over which there
was no controversy.
"For instance everybody coneed?1*
that the town was shot up; that
I somebody did it; that these peonle
who did it passed through the
streets and alleys where the shoot
ing was done, and that they had
guns or revolvers or firearms ,of
some sort and that one man was
killed and another wounded. The
only dispute is aq to whether the
j raiders were identified as soldiers
j of the garrisons.
I "There are two kinds of evidence
relied upon to show that the soldiers
I did it. One consists of the shells and
,bullets that were' secured from
j streets and houses of T3rownsville.
I The results of microscopic inspection,
interpreted in the light of other test
imony of the case completely dis
posed of this part of the case. The
only other testimony Is that of peo
ple who claim to have been eve wit
nesses to the shooting. This con
sists of various people who say that
when they heard the firing they
looked out of the windows and
houses and down dark alleys, where
there were no lights at distances
varying from 30 feet up to 150 feet
and recognized men who were doing
the firing as negroes wearing the
uniforms of the United States sol
diers. The officers of the battalion
have testified generally and specific
ally as to the darkness of the night.
Hy specifically, I mean have given
specific incidents coming within their
personal experiences that illustrated
how dark the night was. According
to Mi is testimony, in the language of
Major Penrose, the night was so
dark that he could N not distinguish
one of his officers who were all
white men from one of the enlisted
men. who were all colored, at a dis
tance of ten feet nor could he at
that distance t?ll anything about
how a man was dressed.
"AIM these officers have testified
that the claimf* of thV citizens who
testified that they saw the raiders
and recognized them as soldiers at
the distances and under circumstanc
es stated by them, are* utterly im
possible. These officers are intellig
ent, high minded, honorable men.
At one time when the case was only
partially investigated they were of
the opinion and frankly ptated .--ft
that these men were guilty but that *
fact only strengthens their testimony
M they now felve it thar, the testt
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Building o\Vne\l by the Supreme
Lodge, Knights of Py'tliias, of N. A.,
S. A., E., A.t A., & A., at ihe corner
of and State Sts., in the city of
Chicago^ Nlll.wrhis building is a
standing monument of what can l>e
done l>y united effort- The Order
paid $48,000 for it. This money was
raised by each member of the Lodges
paying the small' amount of 20 cents
and each member of the Court 10
-
? ? ? ^ i i^?^>3K n??<wt?i ? ?.
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<*(*11 tn per year. ' 'I'his property is
now bringing lifr*'*5PJUaJs of about
$550.00 yer month, Or 600.00 per
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year. *; ^
Thfc. splendid business judgment
and forethought of tin* Commission
whose Vuts appear flu this page, to
which this husin&te was intrusted
by the Supreme '$$d?c is evidenced
by the fact that "twtf,- .Order has beeu
ottered $r>8,OOO,O0 for litis proprty
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wii^cii is an increase oi' #10,000.00.
With the splendid modem business
methods for which this grt'at order
has becoriie noted and under the
leadership of practical business men
it will only ho a short time until the
order of things will bet reversed and
the Supreme Lodge will he |*aying
dividends to the (iiivnd and Sijbordl*
liate Lodges and Courts instead of
these bodies paying taxes to the Su
preme Lodge.
mony of citizens by which they claim
to identify their soldiers, is utterly
unreliable, untrustworthy and unbe
lievable.' . ?
"1/ do not know whether any
more testimony will be taken, and
of course I do not know ir any should
be taken just what it will be and T
cannot therefore, with propriety, pre-*
diet' the plt-tifoftte results, but 1 have
no hesitation <in saying that the test
imony ,ta^en ;down to this time ut
. opinion to show
thjitvM^B^<ilWR/:or any qf them had
"1 aiiall i&.ke Occasion when.. I
speitftte at^.^ilber force aiext Thurs
day -to deal with this subject at s>onie
iontrfii " * "
J. M. HAZLKWOOD,
West Virginia.
NAVAL OFFICER
Violated the "Jim ("row" Law and
Was Placed Under Arrest.
Ft. Monroe, Va.t June 17. ? Charg
ed with a breach of the "Jim Crow"!
street car law of Virginia, Captain
W. J. Pigman, paymaster of the bat-j
tleship /Iowa, wfis a prisoner in the
Hampton Police Court today. Cap-|
tain Pigman declined to take anoth-l
er seat when asked to do so by a con-|
ductor on the line of the' Newport]
News and. Old Point Railway and
Electric Company. He was arrested
but allowed to give 'bail. Acting!
Mayor Richardson dismissed the
case, but advised Captain Pigman to
heed' the requests of street car con
ductors ill the future.
JNO. S. HTKAUGHTKR,
MiHHiHflippi.
Mills. Co. Fails.
%, Philadelphia Juite \H.~ The Mill
Jx)tirrte Co., one of the oldest flour
Conoefrrtii . in the Eaat haw failed fop
BROTHERHOOD
s Wat
heme
Of Mail
tersoit
In an
Louisville, Ky., June 14.? Hon.
Herir.y Wiatterson tonight addressed
the Nesroes of the Eckstein Norton
Institution, at their commencement
exercises.. rt he keynotes of Watterson's
Widress were the brotherhood of man
and -the Christian religion,, -the chief
factors toward the solution of the race
problem. "I want nothing for myself
I -or for my children." he said, "which
I am not ready to give^you and your
children." , He began by briefly sketch
ing the origin and conflict of the rarces
and declaring that both sections. of the
u>)ion were Jn the beginning respon
C. HE. ROBINSON, J). K. of It. & s.
Missouri.
sible for slavery, which existed in the
North and South. ;
The African was brought here on
rorthern ships. When the North
.found slave labor unprofitable it. sold
its slaves to the Soutfi,' which mis
takenly thought it 1 rofltable, not fail
ing to put the mo; "y It got for Its
slaves into its pocket; It was slave
holding Virginia ihat, ceding empire
to the federal government, stipu
tcd that human slirery -should never
step foot theieon. At last when sla- j
very had precipitated the South into i
a ruinous war, It d/overed that slave :
lal>or had been no nore profitable In j
t lie South than in ;'.ie Jlorth. During
the century conten :<>n / among the
whites about the bl .rksi starting with
tlio suppression, of tho>Aft\<can slave
tn.de to culminate with the proclama
tion of emancipat'on. it was' the black
people not the whit*- people whoxbe
lioved themsolves like C^hristi an men
and women, and i Gabriel should
suddenly blow his h'?rn and the world
should come to an end this blessed
instant the white ni'-n might be found
hololng up black in' n to plead their
cases before the re "rding angel.
Watterson gave -<>me personal ex
perience as follows:
"I had passed many years of my
bojfliood days Upon a plantation in
Tennessee, where > lavery exiscted in
its complete^ bwt also Un^er its better
aspect and conditions. From the eat
, ' '.Wt: ?
ljeat -dawning of intelligence, which I
can remember the system" seethed to
r,?o mojistrous. 'If ' slavery is ' not
wrong* said Lincoln, "Nothing is
wrong.' " ? , ' . ; ? V
% "3o I thought, so I think. Thousands
o.' men fell on the confederate, side in
the war of sections, who believod. the
snme thing; as did Washington, Jef
ferson and the gentlemen of Virginia
v'ho made the flrat American revolu
ton, t ? -? ?
' ; 44 When jthe^seeond American
Uition came to pass llbiBrating^ 1
four million slaves from iwmrsg&rtfly** *
sentiment of freedom Was in exce**
C\ I). ORESWILL,
Georgia.
Or my sense of the magnitude and
complexities of event. I accepted Iho
situation. --y
The three last, amendments to the
constitution were .declared to be the
actual and final treaty of peace be
tween the North and the ?goutiv It
was my opinion, based on feeling, pot
knowledge or judgment, that given
perfected citizenship the newly libera
tfc; slave "would be able to work out
his own destiny. During the ten years
o" reconstruction that ensued .,i d?vo-f
ted my energies toward the habitation
of the blackman of the South a? es
sential to the pacification of the white
men of the North and South.
Watterson expresses great sympa
thy for the struggles of the black poo
people of the South.
! They have made many strides,
f 1 c in that day to this, and my heart
KI>\VAK1> I). (1HRKV,
Secretary Temple aim* ?SuiiitflHittn
Commission.
Illinois.
goe* out io the black man wherever
f see hini honestly struggling to raise
children to a condition better/ than
his.
N' I stand here tonight and clfsclare
that the world never witnessed suoh
mmmm
progress from darkness to light ate
that which we see In those districts
of the South WJvere the Negro has
had a dece'pt opportunity of ; self
development..
"Let the Negro, go to any Now
England community and try to get
;employmenti Barred on every hand;
.plenty of sentiment but no work.
"There are regions in the North
and West which never knell slavery
and which wore a unit for the" union
where a Negro is refused admittance,
he is told to move on, he is wh^t
/the President describe the othei\
<day as 'an -undesirable citizen.' ,.i
"Never can the white man of the 7
South forget what the black man did
during the war waged for his free
dom; and what he mlgHt have done.
Never should the black' man of the
South forget that he is weaker In the
race toward perfection an<jl for a,
long time must look to the white
man for help of many kinds. It is
through thepe reciprocal obligations
and interests that the two races will
reach an institutional system living
and doing entirely satisfactory to'
both "
SHOTS
Fired ih Brownsville
1. ^
Did not cioih* from soldiers, says
[investigators, who claims to
have good proof
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Little Rock, Ark., June 17. ? Oil
christ Stewart akd Napoleon B. Mar
shal^, respectively of New York an^
Washington, D. tj., Commissioners
of the Constitution League of the
United States and attorneys for the
ftegrcr, Holdiqrrs discharged because
of the BroW.nsviUe affray, passed
through thiB City,* today, en route to
"Washington from Brownsville and
Matam6ras, Mexico, where they ha-ve
been for two ?weeks working up new
evidence of thet "shooting up"- of
Brownsville. In, a long statement to
night in reference to the case of the
Negro solfllera. they said :
"We hq,'ve obtained evidence at the
rUk of our^livep, for we had to go
into BrownBvVHe- ia the guise of
brakemen* and^-wheji we were.dls
Mexico. ' 4 We Kaa crossed
i tftade
? against oar Hyae. We h&ve secated
indisputable evidence^ that the ahoot'
Vng-up of ^BroWnsville w?? not'tlone
by the Negro soldiers. We have five
new witnesses, one^ an. eye witness,
to the fact that the disturbers wejre
men dressed like soldiers. We know
some evidence that cannot be con
tradicted, also, that the shooting was
not done by the soldiers of the Twen
ty-fifth Infantry.
"A citizen of Brownsville came
over to the hotel In Matamoras and
warned us of a plot against us, which
compelled us to detour and return
via Monterey. The shooting up of
Brownsville originated in the con
ception of a conspiracy intended to
do a little shooting to scare the sol
diers and lay {he blame- upon them.
It finally degenerated Into paying off
some feuds and old scores, and if
you investigate the houses shot into
you will And them all of one fac
tion.
"Witnesses at Brownsville have
consented to tell the truth concern
ing the affair, which will convince
even the President that his action
was unwarranted."
SOUTHERN MAN
Should Not Head Denjocratic Ticket
Lest Negro Vote B? Lost.
Washington, nue 16. ? J. Hamil
ton Lewis, Corporation1 Counsel of
Chicago until the Republican victoy 1
in that city reentlyc made him once
more a private citizen, t8 In Wash
ing-ton on legal business before the
Supreme Court. Mr._ Lewis is an '
entertaining and Instructive talker,
and his speeches whl'le a member of
Congress are still remembered by
those who had the pleasure of listen
ing to him.
"No," ?aid he this evening, "the
time has not yet arrived when the
Democratic party should g<^ Into the 1
Southland for ifts candidate. Not
that it Is devoid of great, big men,
competent to fill the office admirably
but the fact cannot be denied that
such a candidate would inevitable
raise the race issue, which is forced
upon every Southern State. He
would drve away the Negro vote in
such States as Maryland, Ohio, Indi
ana and Illinois, where they are
prominent factors in the political j
fight and Presdental campagns can- ;
not be won wthout votes. The South
bhould be given the vice presidency. ;
and in that way the people would be j
educated ultimately to the accept
ance of a Southern man.
OA It DRIVKR
IJroke Own fcuit Case and Stole
Content*.
Harry Kemp, a colored cab driver,
whs arrested yesterday morning
charged with having robbed a suit
case belonging to A. J. Walker.
Kemp was sent by a transfer com
pany to convey Mr. and Mrs. Walker
and their baggage to the Chesapeake }
and Ohio depot, Monday, talker
charges that Kemp broke open the ~
suit case and took out a suit of <
clothes and several other articles. <
The trousers which were worn by
the driver when he wa? arrested <
were identified by the complainant 1
as part, of the stolen pT^perty. Kemp >
will be arraigned in iKftkte court this -
morning.
Addreta/Al
all since the
'^P* ? V rn
Students at Institute are
sound advice by the m
ucation on c om mencemeJfct <
Institute, W. Va.( June
der the moat unfavorable wea^ti*
conditions, all but isolated toy'. pac
v/ater, accessible only by ? detoW**?
of two miles oL >o&d '-which
nearly impassible o& account olf* c&tL+.-fr/jl
stant rains, the twelfth ahrihal.^oWfiffl^
mencement. exercises of the Weefc 1
Virginia Institute 'cainfe to"
yesterday, and they wer&/ iii\ Ut# '.%#&
:r.ztstil
the best. From the beginnlng|?Jj^fc*;^
Sunday with the annual serTnAji^
till "good night* had been
the last guest to President ajad. Mrs, |h
Jones at the graduates reception*; v(
, ? .^,,.,^'4^. ^5^
A. W. T/LOYI)
JMissouH.
last, night there was- not a hltchi*
A dash and finish seeqaedi
tend every event of the
gram that but increased
until the cur tain-,
.W finish.
In spile of >tne com^in
Jupiter Flavin
man, the atferi,
bers itjid (ti dly^rafty
from which ? it hfKl lt&
?record breaking, Had thd'r?
ideal weather ai^d no high
c. m. WApie.' ''W' Yk
ArkauwHft. &,x* -'Wg
i' ! ??:?? \mV-M
numbers that had pledged ?tthpn^;;^
selves to be p resell t could
have been accommodated/ . U: ; {.J/';,
The classes of 18$9 and t906 werdlv
present in toto, and re^e^ptatlv?^^
from every graduating class jajAce j
the institution ttrst issued a. diplomat
was present, at the Alumni meeting/ '
to answer his name. "
Much credit is due the AluraatffOtt %
the active Interest they hate man
fested in behalf of their AltoajM^er* ^
Locally and through the State ^tfereh
they are found a trend of favorable*
opinion is apparent that is
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(Continued 61
S. A. T. WA'
taprcim* Attorney and A\
Illinois.
coming much of the <*vH % h*t
>rly eitated.
"Te Deum Laudaittttlr^
:horus was the fc
ast of the week's wrriefc
V prayer,, anpther