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^=s=^sct^mmgsst THR ADVC \ I) VK KTISEMISNTS OUIt COLUMNS BS THY IT. THE ADVOCATE. :WjS OHKKHFUULY PUBLISH ORi$P NJ33W8 NOTES FROM, SECTIONS. ; VOLUME XII I JUtllB ATTTini CHARLESTON, WEST GINIA, THURSDAY, MAY 2H, 1912 HON. CHAS. W. SWISHER 'f. / '*> ' '?? s "? v-: ?? Hon. M. F. Matheney, formerly a member of the house of delegatea from Raleigh county, passed through Parkersburg yesterday on his way to Clarksburg to speark at the Swisher rally there. Mr. Matheney 'svas one of William Seymour Edwards' chl\?f lieutenants in the Roosevelt fight and while Mr. "Mathejiey would not speak for Col. Edwards, hiB course at this time is strongly indicative of the national committeeuian-elect 's attitude and it will not b'j surprising if Mr. Swish er's candidacy soon receives the im petus of the jfo reef ul Kanawha coun ty OBtfanizcr. Mr. Matheney author ized the following interview for the Dispatch-News: ? "SiTveral weeks ago l beeamr con vincecl tt\at Uoiy C. \V. Swisher waa the logical candidate, $or the Repub licans of this state-, to 'nominate in the primary of this state to be lu Id June 4, -'It is coming to him' if the party is to be guided by a spirit' of justice and fair play. "It is known that organized labor throughout the- state is lined up hard against the candidacy of Mr. Dillon, and as this is a day of independent voting, the party ought not to be put on the defensive in the very begin ning of the campaign. In my judg ment, lie is the third man in the race and- will still be third man when the primary, ballots are counted. Vot ing for Mr. Dillon Is indirect su'pport TALK OF MOVIXC ODD FKIil/OW H RADQl'A HTKRS Jiuilting hi PUHadelfHiia S?i<l <o In1 n Losing Venture and K.-moval Talk is Knjraged iu by Members. Washington, May 22. ? Talk has again started about the probable re moval . of the headquarters of the Grand .United Order of Odd Fellows to this city or Atlanta. William L. Houston, of 'this city, past grand master of the order, is being groom ed by the administration forces to succeed James F. Needham as grand * or ffig' order. This ana the .fact that th'e $100,000 headquarters of the order at 12th and Spruce streets,, Philadelphia, is not considered a pay ing investment by many are taken as the indications that the headquar ters may come here, where the office of the Odd Fellows' Journal has been located for the past eighteen months. Mr. Needham, it is said, has been promised another comfortable berth should he retire in favor of Mr. Ilous i 'ton, who is now an associate justice cii the Odd fellows' Supreme Court. TKACHKKS ACX VHK!> OF uli(X)/>K HOISTING" Male Pedagogues of Norfolk an* facing on Investigation Into Their Alleged Visits to Dram Shops. Norfolk, Va., May 22. ? 'What may lead to a general investigation of the morals ?of (he teachers in the colored schools is indicated by the school board's determination to investigate charges against Prof. U. A. Bruce, principal of the largest colored school in the city, who is charged by promi nent. coiored citizens with signing th ? application for tho renewal of a li cense of a certain saloon 'that is al leged to have been obnoxious 1o the better element of colored people in thlfc City. Rev. Charles S. Morris, pastor of the Bank Street Baptisi Church, says he was forced to withdraw two of his children from Prof. Tucker's school in order that they would be in a of the Hatfield candidacy. "The real contest lies between Swisher and Hatfield, with Swisher strong in the lead. I find the sup port of M;r. Swisher g:?nferal -through out the state, while that of Hatfield is confined to certain classes in par ticular localities. It is very appar ent. that those wtoo are most active in behalf of Hatfield are now trying I to hitch his candidacy to the tail of I tho Roosevelt, kite. Men foremost in the Roos:velt movement in this state know what they had to go up against in t'he early part of the fight when' the state looked doubtful. They further know that the machine hacIUid by Hatfield find Isaac T. Mann in the Fifth congressional dis trict was the last, to surrender in the final contest. This talk of be ing for Roosevelt now ought not to ?have muoh weight among Roosevelt supporters; neither should it help among thu friends of President Taft, as band wagon candidates are not usually strong before the people. "With Swisher at the head of the ticket the Republicans can win this state in t'he coming contest. With f-Iatfieild at thu nominee', the result will be very doubtful; in fact I am of opinion that he would be defeate.d unless carried over by the popularity of Roosevelt, the man whose candi dacy the. McDowell county machine lias oppose*! from the very begin ning." better moral atmosphere, and addi tional charges of "booze hitting" have been laid against the professor. Other charges, including frequenting saloons, will probably be laid against ' other male teachers here. ? . lUCFOHuMATORV IS IN OOOI> CONDITION According to the Krport of the As sociation to the Hoard of Gover nor's of the Virginia Institution. 4 Hanover, Va., May 22.? According to Lh_e annual report of t he Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, just submitted to the board of gov ernors of the institution, the institu tion is in excellent condition and more good work has been accomplish ed during the past year than in any sim ilar period of the institution's his tory. The state makes annual appro priations for the maintenance of the reformatory, which has now enrolled 182 boys. The institution was founded in 1807 by the laje John H. Smythe, min ister to Liberia during the first, ad ministration of President Cleveland, i and is situated on a farm of 1,300 I acres. Concrete walks connect the I several buildings, a blacksmith's shop has been erected and a chapel ? the gift of friends?has been built. The administration building has been re I modeled and a school building is near , ing completion. The late Collis V. I Huntington was one of the benefactors of the school. Mrs. E. G. Shippen *s the present superintendent. ? ? ? T J AY IS ( X?VMK\< 7EMKNT HPRAKKK I Petersburg, Va., May 22. ? Hon. Wfilllam H. I>ewis, assistant Attorney General of tho United States, will be the speaker at the commencement ex ercises of tho Peabody Hi*|h School, which will take place here on May 31. J. C. Gilmer was a business vis itor to Vanetta, Monday. " r ? " ? Brutal was the Assault COMMITTED UPON HIM HY CAN DIDATE VOH GITUEltNA TOiUAIi NOMINATION. % Is Penn's Statement Charleston Man Claims The Attack of I>r. Mat II rid Upon hlin was Un provoked flii'l Occurred a Half Hour Alter he Had Last Talk With llim. ] \ Charleston, W. Va., May 20, 1912. Kditor The Advocate: Within the past week or two so many false accounts of th<> contro versy between Dr. Ha Wield and myself in the . State House, the last night or the regular session of the Legislature have been circulated here by his emis saries that in justice to myself 1 feel <hat the public should be acquaints! with the facts in the case. During the previous session of the Legislature 1 had done some cleaning and pressing for a Senator Hatfield for which uo payment had been made, being under the impression that Dr. H. D_ Hatileld and the Senator Hat field for whom the work was done were one and the same person, I approached jilm .some days previous to the night iu question and informed him that I had a bill against him. With the simple denial of any indebtedness to me and before I had had an oppor tunity to clear 'the matter up, Dr. Hatfield parted from me. Meeting him again on the night he so brutally assaulted me, I again at tempted to secure a settlement when he again curtly informed me that he owed me nothing, addimg something that I did not hear distinctly. I told him that, the small amount of the bill would neither make nor break me, and the incident was closed, so far as 1 was concerned. The Senate was at that time in re cess and I took a >eeat near the en trance to the chamber with the pur pose of witnessing its deliberations' when it reconvened. During the half hour or more 1 sat there I greeted a number of white friends passing in and out, and Dr. Hatfield I saw once or 'twice standing in the rear of the chamber on the Lee street, side. Grow ing tired of waiting longer for the Senate to reconvene, I left the room at about the same -time that Felts, a Baldwin detecti% came out. As we went down the eorridor some one seized me in the collar from behind, jerked me around and asked if 1 had called him a jt was Dr. Hatfield, who, despite my piotesit?tion of innocence, struck at I me with his fist. I warded off the blow, but was struck by Felts with the butt of his revolver. I broke away from th$ two and started to run, but just as I reached f he head of the stairs, Dr. Hatfield, Felts and others crying. "Stop him! Stop him!" in the meantime I slip ped and Dr. Hatfield struck me, knocking me down to the landing. On arising he again struck me, knocking me down the stairs to the foot, where, with a black jack or some other wea pon he again struck me twice. Some, one remonstrated with him, but he said he would "kill the damn' nigger," | or words to that effect, and as I fell exhausted from his brutal attack through the revolving doors, he kicked , me under the eye causing it to pro tiude from the socket. As soon as I was able I secured medical attention f?i the wounds from which I have not yet fully recovered. The scars 1 shall) bear to the grave. These are the facts stated briefly. The report that I was intoxicated or J that 1 used blasphemous, obscene or insulting language to or about Dr. Hatfield is absolutely false and those who say I did do so without any j foundation of fact. Knowing as I dKl the reputation of Dr. Hatfield and of others bearing the same name, It. would have been the extreme of im prudence for me. especially while ho was surrounded by sympathizers, to have deliberately aroused his passion by word or deed. Just as 1 did not make the remarks, accredited to me by his henchmen, neither did 1 make any motion to draw a revolver ? as I had none nor did I make any other hostile move until he struck at me. (Signed) RUFPS s. PBNN. Mr. George Copeland and Miss Hatty Smithers, of Wake Forest, were married at. Hotel Brown by Rev. J. tt. Carroll, Saturday, evening. tftL- : a .j ? :? t SELECT NECiHO ALTERNATES TO THE JflEl'tBLlOAN NATION AL CONVENTION. ? x a Two From Districts ?' ? * I .1. H. Taylor, of Charleston, and Dr. C. C. BarnOtt, Huntington, Un aiimioiisly (jch'ded by Tlie State Convention t to Represent The Race ?t ChltnKo. West Virginia Negroes will have i'our repreBentati ves at the Chicago National Convention, of the Republi can party when Theodore Roosevelt is nominated for the pi esidency. At Huntington in: the stat<i convention Thursday of last week, J. H. Taylor i * ot this city, wjis elected alternate to delegate at large, Gov. Wni, E. Glass cock and Dr. rfarnftt, of Huntington, alternate to Senator Smith, of the same city. On the preceding day in the district conventions held for the third and filth districts, at Char leston and Huntingtdn, resi>ecti vely, Dr. S. F. Cla^, of Lewlsburg, was elected alternate in the first and M. T. Whittico,' editor of the McDowell Tlm?s, alternate in the second named city. All these elections were unani mous. ? -? An unusual honor came to the race at the state convention when Phil Waters, deputy clerk of the state su preme court,, and Chas. E. Mitchell, business manager of the W. Va. Col ored lnstitutfe. were made assistant secretaries. Mr. Waters acted as read- 1 ing secretary and performed his du ties so satisfactorily as to win the applause on more than onie occasion of the thousand or more delegates and spectators. An earnest effort was made by a few members of the race present at the State convention to bring; about* the election of a Negro delegate-at large, but to no effect. Five candi dates, one from each congressional district, had been agreed upon by the delegates from these districts and the leaders of the Roosevelt movement some days'- prior to the meeting of the convention. When they arrived at Huntington' they brought irresistable pressure to bear upon Governor Class cock to accept the sixth place, advanc ing the argument that the honor rightly belonged to him as leader of the fight, to place \Vest Virginia in the Roosevelt column. Governor Glasscock yielded after he saw resist- j ance was futile a*nd accepted the hon or, so justly due him, under protest. The movement for a Negro delegate had no more staunch supporter than the Governor and" it can be said au thoritatively that the regret of no one in the failure of the movement was keener than his. Much cheap talk on the streets was engaged in by a small number of Ne gro peanut politicians about carrying the fight for a Negro delegate to the floor of the convention, but, when the opportunity arrived, they had yielded to either a realization of the futility of such an attempt or cowardice. Jr was noticeable that the fight-on-the floor aggregation did not have in its line-up a single person who had con tributed in any way to the prelimi nary effort to secure the selection of a Negro as delegate. As was antici pated by the few who had .taken an active part in. ) the movement, those who did nothing to advance it were the first and loudest in complaining of pts fa/lure. It was also noticeable that these same (persons who were so solicitous at Huntington of the wel fare of the race in general whett th^y saw 'that their alignment with the Taft forces handicapped the'm, have not been conspicuous in their endeav / or8 to advance the cause of other Ne groes, if by any hook or crook they I could advance their own. With the few objections noted above, it was very generally conceded thai, considering the apathy of those who pride themselves upon being race leaders, a forward step in the Negro's political status in West Virginia was taken at Huntington. Phil Waters is in the northern part of the State this week on po litical business. Mr. Samuel Guy, of this city, and Miss Lizzie 'Jeffries, of Quin nimont, were married at Hotel Brown, Ttiesday, Rev. E. Port of ficiat intf. The Ladies Art Club met Tues day evening with Mrs. Rhoda Muse, Piedmont, St., Tuesday eve ning. - Uprising of Negroes ? ? ' ? DENIED I'AUT IN THE GOVERN MENT, SEIUOI SLV MENACES CUBAN KEPUBLIC. Situation (Jrave Feeling Against Government Was Intensified by The Passage of a Law Denying Negroes ltight to Organize as a Political Party. * i - Hayana, May 20. ? Thero is no room for doubt tonight of the existence of a Negro conspiracy extending to all the^ provinces of the island, with the apparent intention of taking up arms against the Government today, which was the tenth anniversary of Cuban independence. The Negroes appear to have been aroused to rebellion by the denial of what seems to them their just political rewards for services rendered in the war of independence, in which they constituted a great majority of the Cuban forces. The feeling against' the government has been intensified by a law denying the Negroes the right to organize a political party. The principal trouble is in the vicin ity of Sagua La Grande, in Santa Clara Province, and Cruces, where 1 two armed parties are operating, and in Oriente province, where several bands are converging in Guantanamo city with the apparent purpose of making a display of force at that place. - The rural guards succeeded in dis persing one small party and capturing two others. The situation is considered suffi ciently grave for the Government to dispatch a column of 1,200 men from Camp Columbia, composed of cavalry and infantry, with field and machine guns, bound tot4 Santa Clara anfl Oriente provinces.. Near Sagua La Grande a squad of ru rales had an engagement with an armed band of Negroes. One of the guards was killed and the Negroes made their escape. From Cruces comes the report that residents of the surrounding country are fleeing to the city for shelter. The insurgents are reported to have held up a locomotive and stolen many horses. At Mariano, eight miles from Hava na, the rural guard exchanged shots ( with a party of Negroes, capturing one of them and also nine rifles. The Secretary of the Interior, Senor Bru, said tonight that there was no doubt about the widespread racial} conspiracy, which the government is determined to deal with drastically, '( but that up to the present the only( danger points are Santa Clara and Oriente. The situation resembles that pre ceding the last revolution, when the I | Negroes in February, 190(5, conspired to make a simultaneous attack on all the rural guard posts, but only at tacked that at Guanabacoa, the guard of which was massacred. This was a prelude to the general resolution in August of that year. A late dispatch received by the gov ernment from Lejes, Santa Clara, says that a Negro band headed by Simon1 Armenteros destroyed the telegraph] station at the Santisima plantation at Trinidad, in Santa Clara, and also (burned a bridge of the railway from Sagua La Grande to Cienfuegos. Ar menteros declares that it is bis in tention to do his utmost to destroy foreign property. I " IS LYNCHING AN ACCIDENT? Interesting Question Courts of Louis iana Will Try To Answer. Baton Rouge, La., May 18. ? Wheth er (o be lynched is the same thing as falling victim of an accident, is an interesting question which the Courts of Ixmlslana have been called upon to tussle with. The point, came up here today when the widow of Frank Miles, a Negro who was hanged by a mob in Shreve port for writing an insulting note to a white woman, filed preliminary pro ceedings against an insurance com pany. The payment of a $400 accident pol icy carried by the mob's victim is de manded. The petition does not. specify that Miles was victim of an accident. bu; recites that he was found "hanging from the limb of a free in the rear of the baseball park, with a rope tied about his neck.*' \V. S. Gilmer is ill at his home on State street. * RESOLUTION XI Uiiuj^u IV mmSSSSSSSSS^iSmSSBOBS^ * ** 31?, '. v\ v.* 3 - n-^- 'T i *V r - ' sS k ? ; f ijij" \k,^ \ UNANIMOUSLY ADOPT E J) BY THE S ECO ND CONORESSIOlf. , DISTRICT CONVENTION, COMPRISED OF 14 COUNTIES MAY 15 th, 1012. ft' : ' Re it furtttier resolved, that whereas : J It has been a time-honored custom for ttte Republican party to select ? at least one candidate on its\ State ticket from each Congressional District, and whereas the Hon. M. II. King, of Randolph county, candidates for the * office of Secretary of state, is the only candidate for nomination to any State office from the Second Congressional District, this convention heart ily endorse-; the candidacy of Mr. King and recommends him to the sup l)07~t of Nie Republican voters of the State. He is admirably fitted for the'fa discharge of th r duties of the office to which he aspires , and this Con/ven- v- v tion is convinced that his nomination would add strength to the State ticket / ' ' ' ' by reason both of the eminent fitness of the candidate a/ of the recogni-?^ tion of the claims of the Second District to a place on/ ticket. ? "v -.v __ 7/^, ? -Mm :t'H? M. H. KING . Vn Candidate for The Republican Nomination for Secretary - of "-ffftilf < The above is made from the latest photograph of Honorable M. H. King, of Randolph county, candidate for Secretary of State and the only can didate for a State office from the Sec ond Congressional District. "Mike" as his legion of friends throughout the state know him, is making an ag gressive campaign for this nomination and his candidacy is meeting with much encouragement from every sec tion of the sitate. Besides being a staunch Republican, always active in the interest and suc cess of his party, Mr. King is a most 'able campaigner; a speech maker of recognized ability; a scholarly gentle | man of honor anid integrity; possess ed of good common sense; deserving in every sense of the word and amply able to perform the duties of the of fice to which he aspires in an efficient manner. If Mike gets the nomination, a*?d he is certainly making things hum in that direction, we predict that his name will add scores of votes to the ticket this fall. ? Charleston Mail. The Hon. 'Mike King is not posing ? ' r- J' as a philosopher in his candidacy w?4 ^v secretary of state, neither "is he hold* ing his shaking hand on the level his head. Mike is going ? to get lip close to the people as the clrcunl- K starnces will permit, wherein he^ ex hibits commendable wisdom.? Fayette ^ Journal. ' ? * * ; !V''*k Says the. Parkersburg Dispatck->||j News: Hon. M. H. King, of RandoJpliLLE county, one of the big men politically ? ? in the Republican party in his (parfc^ of the State, and all around good fel- *?$ low, is in the city* He is an orator f K, and campaigner of unusual ability, ft good fellow and ajn altogether likeable v ' V V W' 5ja man* v Xvvi m \ - v Hon. M. H. King, of Randolph coun*:.,.; ty, is in the city and has announced his intention of being a cantHdate for secretary of state at the June primary. H-e is a stumper,- mlxgr and vote get* ? ter of unusual ability aaid would cut a' wide swath in any race he might en- | ter. He states that he has received assurance of extensive support. ? State ^ Journal. " >"?* *? LINCOLN IIALI/ ?lust DpdicJKcd, Marks (ln? I vvtrn or dinary drouth of a Negro institute Claremont, Va., May 20. ? Lincoln Memorial Hall, the latest addition to the buildings of the Temperance, In dustrial and Collegiate -Institute here, was dedicated today with elaborate exorcises, presided over by Governor Mann. The institute, which now has a plant 1 worth $700,000 and is attended by Ne go students fioni all over the country, was founded 20 years a^o by John ,1. Smallwood, a Negro educator, with 10 pupils and loss than $r>0 in cash. | Mrs. .Folm Hay was the chief con Itributor to the $50,oon fund for Lin coln Hall. , | m;<;k<> phkaciikh . I't'eachcs the (Jospel of Cleanliness To the African MetlicxUals. i * J Kansas City. Mo., May 20. ? "It is jthc duty of all Negro citizens to im prove the health o? the state, but It is peculiarly obligatory on the educated j Negroes to save the less fortunate of the race from dirt, disease.and death,"/ , said Dr .C. V. Romaw, a delegate the African Methodist Episcopal Co& fcrence, which was resumed here day, addressing an educational masn meeting. Rev. R. D. Stinson, principal of the >':? Atlanta (Ga.) Normal School, called attention to the necessity of Negrog* learning manual labor, or "honeflt work," as he characterized it. LARGE SUM8 \ Aro Raised by tlbp Freemen's Abl Sorlcty to A Ul' Negro Education, Minneapolis, Mfrin., May 2<h ? Ac- ' cording to a report preeented tonight the Freedmen's Aid Society, which has for its purpose aiding the educa tion of Negroes in the Stoatfc, 22 schools, and during the quadrtttolum $148,077 has been expended lti build ing and equipment. It- also atgxounc- f/ ed that Andrew Carnegie had given $10,000 during tfils -Jo 0th ciety, and that the fftAftfct?dn<!?fr tt tfc* society bad been redufffl jfrow $104, 20?, to 136.466. f - j v m . ? Y-U?' % ? *- :AwM ? > 1 -.r&iki&jk