The advance. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1899-19??, 1900-09-22
JOHN HUM NOMINEE
FOR GOVERNOR

Negro does not always have such .
splendid opportunity to vote for scion O
an old-time abolitionist as he will have
when he casts his vote, on the 9th o.
November. for John Hum for Governor
Of Delaware. In the days that tried
white mems souls and tested in the
furnace of social and political perse-
cution the true manhood of the man. the
father OF our candidate, John Hum. Sr.
was the Tommy" Garrett of lower Della
ware. He was the Chief Engineer of the
Southern Division of the Underground
railroad, and hundreds OF slaves. through
his personal aid and direction either
escaped directly to the North and to
Canada, or found for the time being a
safe hiding place in that half way house
Of freedom, Tommy" Garrstt's barn,
whence the guiding star of freedom,
Tommy" Garrett, pointed them to the
md where bloodhounds and slave
4stVctS were NOT knoWHs
The family records of John Hum will
show that at least 356 slaves were
harbored, and helped to escape by this
magnificent friend OF the Negro.
For his sclf-sacri6ce in this work he
was again and again arrested and again
and again fined under the infamous
fugitive slave law, until all of his worldly
means were taken from him and he was
left financially ruin, with nothing left
but conscience. which God approved,
and record which the liberty-loving
people everywhere must revere.
In 1901, John Hum, the father Of our
candidate was made the agent of the
Pennsylvania Frcedmen's Relief Associa. !.
tion and went South in the work OF re.
leiving the distress and looking after the
educational and moral needs of the
In the wake of the great
Union armies millions Of homeless,
shelterless and foodless slaves followed
and this relief was one of the erandest
moral movements of the war.
Out of this relief association sprang the
Bureau. with its many
millions of dollars, and out of that came
forth the greatest educational institutions
for the Negro in the Soash -Eisa Uai-
versity, Howard University, Hampton
Institute Straight University and even
our Howard School in Wilmington had,
in this manner. its beginning. So our
friend John Hum, the present candidate
for governor was reared in the home Of
an abolitionist and he spent the golden
days of his golden youth amidst sur
where the generous deeds of
his father, Thomas Garrett, the writings
Of Harriet Beecher Stowe and silver
tones of Wendell Phillips and Frederick
Douglass were constantly ringing in his
ears.
This was his political and moral edu-
cation; none could be better. In 1861
he accompanied his father South. who
was then in the government service in
with the Port Royal expedi-
lion. In 1875 he returned to Wyoming
with his father, who died five year ago
and was inferred in the burial ground at
Camden.
Mr.. Hum has always been plain, un-
man and his life and habits are
marked with that simplicity and candor
which characterizes the very reputable
people, the Friends, of which he is an
eminent descendant. He has never
sought Office, and, only now consents to
leave his hitherto quiet life 10 help unity
our great party and save the state from
lie clutches of the Negotiating ring of
moss-back Democrats.
Just when our liberties are at stake and
like besom of dis
truction, is sweeping over the South Mr..
HUM steps to the front in Delaware to
say to these mad waters of race-hate that,
thus far shalt thou go and no farther,
here. in Delaware, shalt thy proud waves
be staid."
Every colored man in Delaware should
support John Hum every colored man
IN Delaware will support John Hum.
barring few black political monstrosi-
les whose numbers are few and whose
moral sense and manhood must be an
utter wreck.