Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-08-11
PORTER & CO.
The Exposure of the y. s.
Grant Monument As
SOciatiOn.
MEETING OF The gITIlEHB
Resolutions of Condemna-
tiOn Adopted.
WILL HE SUE?
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A Suit For S25, 900 Against
Pres. Browne Threatened.
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He Boldly Meets the Issue.
A STATEMENT OF THE CASE
The Ministers and Their Endorse
ment-Further Revelations.
A Suit For $25, 900 Against
Pres. Browne Threatened.
He Boldly Meets the Issue.
A ASTATEMENT OF THE CASE
The Ministers and Their Endorse
ment-Further Revelations.


Some of the colored ministers of this
city are not in the best of humOr They
endorsed the u. s. Grant Monument As
sociation and Old Folks Home, rePresen-
ted now by Mr.. I. w. Porter. and that
last named individual declares that he
has retained counsel and entered suit
against the True Reformers, Rev. w. w.
Browne and others for $25, 900.
1t seems that at the meeting OF the
Ministers Conference July End, Mr.
Stacy appeared before that body, solici-
ting their endorsement of the u. s.
Grant Monument Association and Old
| Folks Home, an institution which had
| for it's object the establishment of an
aged home for the decrepid of the race.
he read letters from prominent per-
SONS, who had endorsed tho scheme,
| among which were Rev. DIR. C.. III. Corey,
| Judge Lewis of the Supreme Court, Revs
| +. HI. Boiling of Butte st. Bapt. Church,
j. M. Young OF the Bank st. Baptist
Church, A. l.. Gaines of the st. Johns A.
| NJ. l.. Church, of Norfolk, Revs. j. Nj.
Armistead of Portsmouth and j. w. Kir
/ by OF the same city.
/ In his remarks Mr.. Stacy said: "I came
not to ask you for the money to build
this home. The money is not to be got
ten from your people but from the white
people north and south OF Mason and
Dixon's line. i came to ask only your
endorsement of the project, and the
| Home will be built by the northern and
southern philanthropy. We have nam
ed the Association to accomplish this
| end"
He emphasized the fact that it was
not the purpose of the Association to
get money from colored people although
hs,u
rendered. His hope was to secure con-
tributions from such man like Mr.. Ar
mour of Chicago, who had built the
Armour Institute.
The motion to endorse the Association
and pledge the ministers moral support
evoked heated discussion.
Rev. w. f. Graham was especially bit
ter in lis opposition to it and declared
he would not be willing TO vote for such
a resolution until he had seen the Consti
tuition and Bylaws, ind out who are
the officers and learn all about it
Rev. Payne said he was unwilling tC
endorse the scheme and pledge to it his
moral support without giving of his
money. 1t was time for the colored peo-
pie to do something for themselves Tn,
white people are tired of doing every
thing for us.
He had endorsed so many Old FoIkl
' Home projects and no home has beer
; built that he was in favor of waiting
while. He did not like the double mann
of the scheme before them, one to catcl
i the North and the other the South. H
declared however, he would go witt
{ the Conference.
o Incidentally in the remarks of Rev
James II. Holmes, he stated in his opin
ion that the True Reformers' Old Folk
Home was not national but for the Tru
ReforDIers.
= Rev. Graham corrected this, declarin
/ that the Home which that organizatio
was putting on foot was for all.
This elected further talk concerning
le the organization.
2 Rev z. ID. Lewis said, eff this inetitl
sr tion u. s. Grant Monument and o. I
(. Home] is to be national in its scope an
character; if 1t is to be built withOu
cost to the colored people, endorse i
= AS it has been said the True Reformerl
u Home is to be in the interest of that ol
= ganization, and we need more than or
% Home for all these old people scattere
through the South, millions of then
= Neither True Reformers, nor any 9th,
"a organization can build Home to hol
N ell these people. Let US endorse it.
m Rev. Graham continued to oppose I'll
to resolution, being OF the opinion ths
Ouc bCu0Au0 WdB not SUCH a one
should be endorsed.
an Moreover, the Conference had not Q
a dorsed any of the Colored Old Foil
of Homes and to do so in this case wou
ad place the ministry In an embarrassin
Of situation.
.. AN ELDER WITHDRAWN
He accordingly left the meeting.
on In letter to the PLANET OF the
ire inst he said:
on Il have no confidence in the proje
o1 and therefore stated in the Conferen
'lll that could not vote to give it n
sh- moral support.
~ Colored people should open their es
and not allow themselves to be hoe
winked into every trap that con
along to take from them their hs
~. " earnings. O, ye people, let not
Ds' names of Grant, Lincoln or Garfield
As- ceive you. Watch as well as prav.'
This letter was signed by Revs.
Wells, and Rev. S. c. Burrell.
,ov THE ORIGIN OF TIE TRoUBLE.
s;jv President Browne was absent from
t0 city. The matter was brought to
re- attention of the True Reformers. 9
they decided without being able to C
suit their chief to set the organizat
q right before the public and accordin
- under the caption OF 'sOld Folks HON
,hlo explained the workings of the plan
! IN adopted. They cited as follows from
+he minutes of the Grand Fountain for
oht session, September, 1898:
ad- We das;re at
session to lay q safe foundation for
d. ginning these homes to be establishe
the states and to be located adjacen
'ks, large cities within the jurisdiction OF
Grand Fountain, that is should you
, eide that the scheme is feasible
les. and right one, and that it is tin
/. Should you decide that we shall
Old Folks Home as indicated, then
sire to offer you the following plan,
HOW SHALL WE MAKE AND MAINTAIN n
Va. Let each member of fountain, (