The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

has heen Often stated that ThomaS
Jefferson got his idea OF repuoilcaii
fo.m of cover lmeIIt from a little bapt1st
Church near Monticello. DR.. l.. .. Al
de. son tells the story in this week re
igious Herald. He says:
The Albemarle Baptist Church was Or
ganized on January 8, 1913, with forty
eight members Though holding many
meetings and transactitg much important
business they were; w1tnou1 pastor III
tue first Sunday in June, 1i7f, when Andre"
TriDbie,e OF Louisa, was chosen pastor,
and ordained by Lewis Craig and others.
Andrew rribble served this church until
July l, 1850, when he and benjamin Bur
CHER ordained William Woods, VINO was
installed as their pastor, and served tnls
church, With "a brief interresnnn, I'll the
first Sunday in September, $50, when he
orescned his farewell sermon and got a.
letter of dis,:ission for himself and wife,
and moved to kentucky. whittier Andrew
Tribblo had preceded him.
William Woods = or BAPTIST Billy
Woods as he was familiarly Known
was an intelligent, wealthy, and public
spirited man, and enjoyed the warm TREND
ship of Mr.. Jefferson, whom ne frequently
visited at Monticello, and MIR. Jefferson
often went to Lewis Westinghouse to
that from observing the business transac-
tons of this little band of Baptists, Mr..
Jefferson received his conceptions Of.
republican form of government. The Hon.
Nicajah Woods, now Of Charlottesville,
great-grandson of Rev. William Woods
states that he has repeatedly heard his
father-Dr. John r. Woods, grandson OF
Rev. William Woods, and an earnest Bap-
tist-declare that jefferson often said that
~.
n1irable model for a republic Mrs.
Madison. widow Of President Madison. said
she had distinct remembrance ''of Mr..
jefferson declaring that it was Baptist
Church from which his views of a repub-
lean government We're gathered When
a boy. there was a venerable old gentle
man George Tribtle). a member of County
Line Church, in Caroline county VINO told
Dr. T. E. Anderson. the father of the
writer, that Ne had heard from Andrew
Tribbe, the first pastor of Alhemarle
CErrch and a near relative of the said
George Tr.bble, the same facts in regard
to Mr.. Jefferson.
A New. York correspondent says:
"In spite OF William J. Bryan's emphatic
statement at Ann Arbor. a night or two
ago, that the Democratic party stood for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver ait
16 TO. /, vii hout waiting for the concur
renee of other nations, the Republicans
profess - believe that on his visit to this
city next week, Mr. Bryan, as a last des-
perate effort to get the votes of the Gold
Democrats now arrayed against him, Will
execute a Flop on the money question.
Joseph II. Maney is responsible for a
statement to that effect given out at Re
publican headquarters to-day
What a stupid campaign yarn If Mr..
Bryan ever had any idea of "fopping,"
it is certainly too late to do so now.
President James ]. Hills plan to sell
stock in his road to ITS employees, and
thus make them part owners of the prop
erty, seems to have great advantages, to
the men as an investment for their savings
and to the road in securing faithful SER
vice. but the same scheme has been tried
before and failed. The late Franklin B.
Gcwen urged it upon the employees of the
Reading Railroad without success, and it
is open, Of course, to the employees of all
roads, If they choose to go into the mar
ket and buy the stock; but they seldom
or never do SO. although in other lines Of
business the profit sharing plan has been
found to work well in many instances.
Never mind past failures Cooperation
is the logical solution of the corpora ton
problem