Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-01
Bishop Haygood Replies to
Bishop Mallalieu.
Comment on Some Episodes
During Conference.
DR.. Stradley's Address and the Subse-
Quent Events.
Some Points about the South, It's Poo
pies and Customs Opportunity for
Missionary Work in Boston.
A Pointed Reply.

THE following paper explains itself.
1t will be found of interest to Methodists
particularly and church people gener-
ally.J
The Times's report, September goth,
OF the address of Rev. DR.. Stradley, fra
ternal delegate from the Los Angeles
conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, to the Southern Califor-
MIA conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, and of what follows, jum-
bles some things and invents others in
an extraordinary manner. For simple
truths sake the facts should be known.
Dean Mathew, the accomplished vice.
president ofthe university OF Southern
California, located in this city, was re-
ceived by the Los Angeles conference, at
it's recent session at Los Nietos, as fra
ternal delegate from the other confer
ence. His address was admirable, and
the response by the chair was courteous
to him and respectful to his church.
DR.. Stradley was appointed to convey
/
yesterday. After giving part OF Bishop
Mallalieu's remarkable response to q
| fraternal address, the Times's report,
! (which 1 do not at all hold the Times
responsible for), says: "Dr. Stradley
| tip toed out of the auditorium, and half
an hour later reappeared, accompanied
by Bishop Haygood, the resident bishop
OF the v ethodist church, South"
The facts are: l did not know that
DR.. Stradley had made his address when
| entered the building, nor did hear
of it till had left it. | had not seen
DR.. Stradley since Saturday, nor did
meet him again until Monday afternoon.
| Had | known what the response of
the chair was, I would not have entered
the building at all.
| Yet the report represents me as
"pouring oil on the troubled waters"
After being introduced to the confer
ence, listened for some time to the
discussions brought out by the report
| OF the committee ON conference rela-
! tions. number OF speakers, includ-
ing the chair, remarked upon the fact
| that the conference is overcrowded with
men. One speaker said: "We have
more men than places" The chair
said: Gan the living places are crowd
ed" In my brief talk to the confer
ence, without possible reference to ad-
dress or response-I had not heard of
either-I said playfully: "You have
more men than places; we have more
| places than men. Ii were on q prose-
! lyting tour, Icould provide for some OF
your unemployed men," This is far
from saying: "We would like few OF
your unemployed men to fill these va
cancies." We will find the men for our
places, but not these unemployed
men"
Bishop Mallalieu, responding, in Cali
fornia, to DIR. Srradley's fraternal ad
dress, took very wide and remarkable
range, commenting upon the south, its
people, its ways and its duty. The chair
told I'r. Stradley that Bishop Gilbert
Haven, while on his many tours
through the south, often wondered
that he was not shot," and that, SO to
speak, he was always expecting to be
shot.
The explanation of Bishop Haven's es.
cape from all his fears is that nobody
wanted to shoot him. lived in Georgia
during Bishop Haven's Episcopal resi-
dence there; he boarded at the Kimball
house, the finest hotel in Atlanta. He
W6HL WH6io klo PlSdecu ANU WHcA hO
pleased. There were thousand chances
to shoot the good bishop if any one de-
sired to perform that operation.
Bishop Mallaiieu, in response to DR..
Stradley's fraternal address, took occa-
sion to explain the custom on southern
railroads of providing separate cars for
blacks and whites-a grave injustice to
the colored passengers, the bishop
thinks. He exhorted the southern
church to do missionary work in this
railroad part of the vineyard. My own
opinion is that the railroads need a
good deal of missionary work, but as to
the trouble Bishop Mallalieu refers to,
suggest different and better plan.
Not leading southern railroad is con
trolled by southern men. They are run
from New York and Boston, in which
cultured town l first met the good
bishop. Ii it be true, in whole or in
! part (and it is only true in part, for L
have scores OF times on South Carolina
railroads been mixed up with both races
in both first and second-class caTs). that
negroes and whites are not allowed to
ride together, or that the black people
are not allowed in Pullman cars, it may
be asked whether the bishop, ''if he
means business" should not direct his
exhortations to another quarter. The
true missionary ground is in New York
and his own beloved Boston. He knows
the big men who own and control all
those railroads. Perhaps they will
listen to Bishop MallaIieu and his
church, so strong In New York and
Boston.
They would hardly hear DR.. Stradley,
or one of his church. If his great friends
who own these southern roads, will
only spend the money to furnish the
colored passengers all the conveniences,
no southern man will object. There is
work for the bishop and his church
among the railroad magnates. Let them
tackle the Goulds, the Vanderbits, and
even Huntington. will myself say
"amen" for him. DR.. Stradley, am
told, referred to the providence OF God
in the history of tue Negro race in
America. The bishop, am also told,