The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-13
The HERALD.
AFTER. HIM /. 1 ! |.
Says Bassctt Is Unfit to Hold
Position in Trinity
College. 354s5
THE METHODIST ITIN [: !;
Comments Of the Papers Upon
This and Other Subjects.
Advocate Blooms Swanson.

trhe action Of the Board OF Trustees
Of Trinity College. North Carolina. in re-
tanning Professor Bassett In the faculty,
despite his published declaration that
Booker Il. Washington Is the greatest
man the South ever produced, next TO
Lee, is food for comment by some OF
the religious papers of Richmond this
week.
The Religious Herald declares that 1t
has no desire to curtail the liberties OF
Professor Bassett or any one else But
1t rather thinks that q man who Is foolish
enough to utter such an absurdity ~
unfit to hold position in a reputable
college, rho Herald says it believes III
academic freedom. and pleads for larger
liberty, but II has little patience with mel,
IN representative positions who make eS-
travagnnt and unreasonable delivernnces
and when censurcd pose rs martyrs 10
the sacred cause OF liberty.
The Central Presbyterian ts glad that
the Board saw its way clear to retain
Professor Bassett 1t declares the Pro-
lessons position to b.a absurd and mis-
taken, but thinks that @ man may be
q good man and a very useful one, not
withstanding his CROCHET. The Central
is not the least bit troubled by Mr.. i3as-
setts optimism, about the negro: 1t wishes
there was more kindly effort to protect
and elevate the colored people. 4
Tho Religious Herald utters {; few edi-
toral remarks on the Methodist itlnerant
system. 1t rallies DR.. Lafferty on the
way he has taken the congregational
churches to task for their method OF
getting pastors, and dellcataly suggests
that the machinery of the itineracy does
not itself always work smoothly and
nolselessly. 1t cites the recent confer-
encc and tho attitude of the big Epworth
Church as an example. Meanwhile, II
any weak-kneed and half-informed Bap-
list should be inclined to look upon tho
itineracy as the perfection OF human
wisdom mo ons, so far as we know.
claims divine paternity for IT., let him
Dide his time.
The Christian Advocate returns to the
charge this week and mas more than
two columns In connection with Its bitter
editorial against the negro race. 1t re-
cedes from none of Its positions. and
declares that separation Of the blacks
and whites appears the safest paths. "A
clientage system may aid In the so1u-
ton. One thing is of imperial concern. "A
race degenerating will soon force upon
their nelghbors-the dominant Anglo
Saxon-to settle this question roughly. 1t
behooves US to know the facts, and not
wait to be aroused when the whirlwind
1 Is aloose.''
The Religious Herald takes Issue with
the Advocate on every point, and ex-
presses establishment at the tone and
spirit of the editorial In the other paper
which Is dcnominated as Savage" In the
denunciation Of the negro It urges pity
and patience, and a constant and sympa-
thetic effort to uplift tho inferior race.
The Advocate discusses Dowie again
and predicts that the end OF 'the sacri-
ligious fraud" Is near at hand. 1t calls
Dowie himself Cunning impostcr.''
The same paper also contains what
looks like an editorial boom Of the Hon.
Claude A. Swanson for the gubernatorial
chair Of Virginia.