Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-25
THE HERALD AND ADVOCATE
The UNCONVENTIONAL Organs Are
Having a Lively Tilt.

During the debate at the recent session
Of the Virginia Methodist Conference in
this city On the Richmond Christian Ad-
vocate question, Rev. B. T. Lipsconb re-
ferred to the great work done by the Re-
!igious Herald in behalf of Richmond
College and its endowment. Rev. H NJ.
Hope. in replying commented on the
financial aid that the Herald had re-
ceived, and his remarks have been made
the subject OF an editoria! In the Herald.
from which the following excerpt is
taken Referring to the debate. the Re
Iigious Herald says:
The air was surchaTged with electric
ity during the discussion. We regret
that in the heat Of debate the Advocat tie
was brought into comparison with the
Herald Our relations with the editors
and publishers of the Advocate have for
years been most cordial and fraternal
and we are sorry that any critic OF the
Methodist paper should have brought the
Religious Herald into the discussion, al
though it was done in manner thor
oughly com plimentary- to this paper. But
we regret far more that one of the Ad-
vocate's editors. Rev. II. NJ Hope, should
in his defense of the Advocate, have made
the statements attributed to him in the
report published in the Richmond Times
of 18th.
x.
the Religious Herald neds to be told that
these statements are without foundation
in fact. and we are az loss to know why
thew were made. The whole bill was
s134.66. If we had charged for space and
services the bill would not have been less
than $780,
With regard to this publication, Rev
Mr.. Hope had this 10 say yesterday:
/. Dr.. r. H. Pitt, junior editor of the
Herald whom you say is the author Oh
the article to be printed in that paper
eXaggerates the occasion to which he re-
fers. The last session of the Virginia
Conference may have been, as DR.. Pitt
says 1t was 1.-The most vivacious in Their
history''-wllich I Go not believe-but the
debate OF which he speaks was conduct
ed in a spirit of fairness and moderation
which is worthy of emulation even by
Baptist Association. The atmosphere
may have been surcharged with electri-
city," but the debate was not as heated
as he represents, surely not as heated
as the editorial utterance in which he
makes the cha~Ce.
. In proof of the propriety of that ce-
bate there was no mention by name OF
the paper which Is so fortunate as ~
have the service OF DR.. r. II. Pitt az
junior editor. Complimentary reference
was made TO it by one of the speakers II.
SCcn terms lildl possibly eNSiS oooitoi
inferred that the Herald was meant but
neither the speaker referred TO nor men
toned the paper by name.
Inferring that the complimentary
reference concerning the aid given by q
certain denominatiCnal paper to an edu-
cational enterprise was to the Religious
Herald. l stated in my speech that that
paper. in its advocacy OF the great edu-
cational enterprise of the denomination OF
bursed for any outlay made necessary
bv such service. In seeking to present
this information l may have USED the
exact language attributed to me by the
reporter that the college poured money
into the treasury of the paper. If |
die use this language, l only meant what
the reporter later on attributed to me,
that the paper was paid for the extra
expense" This is all that meant to say,
ana after Dr. Pitt published that the
paper. of which he IS the Junior editor,
received sIS4 SIS reimbursement in the OK
act amount Of expense incurred in aoHo-
at;ns the Rockefeller movement he con-
firms the statement I made before the
corferonce. He rightly SAYS that If srace
and service had been charged the Dill
would have been very much larger
4. Having made this statement which l
hope will be satisfactory to DR.. Pitt, l
cordial and fraternal relations which have
existed for years between the Herald ana
Advocate and for my part / desire these
kindly relations TO continue foreVeraore
But can6cr compels me to say that there
was another and 4 better way to have
secured this correction and explanation OF
A difference and misunderstanding be-
tween such Christian friends Growing
out of a newspaper report made N the
rush of business in n public assembly,
than by giving in advance TO the secular
press an editorial complaint and COM
mcnt. couched in language that to say
the least in some places is not Very po-
lite. Had DR. Pitt called to my attention
the words attributed to me which l never
saw III print un:il 1 saw them embodied
in his editorial ! would have promptly
and gladly corrected or explained them
In print That DIR. Pitt seems to believe
that knowingly would make statement
that has no foundation IN fact. or that
I would attribute to him mercenary mo-
tiyc In aiding any movement that was
for the npholding Of the work OF God is
most painful to NE.
q PORTRAIT OF JUDGE ATKINS.