The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-02

| | ought to persist in declining the honor. He, as well as pr. Patterson, however, | in the same breath in which they con scented to the compromise, declared l they would not yield one iota of the principles for which they had declared
 throughout the meeting and the ses- | sions of the board last year. That was | to be distinctly understood.
 The net result of the turbulent de- bate was. among other things, an ad- mission of all Christian churches into | tho management of the Board of pi- rectors. This was construed by many l as sort of victory for the opponents of the old administration. The mem- bership of the board was increased l from fifteen 10 twenty Even at last nights meeting four members each were elected to represent the Baptist ] and the Episcopal denominations. I These heretofore have not co-operated as churches bodily in the support of l the society. They have had members
 of the societyA but no one on the board. The whole election resulted as fol- | lows: B. M. Washburn, President; Rev. 1 c. W. Patterson, D. D., Vice President;
 J. R. Kelley, Treasurer, and Era Cham pion, Secretary.
 Board of Directors---AIethodist Epis- copal Church, Rev. J. A. Rice. D. D.. and Rev. w. M. Cox. pastor of the Dex.
 ter Avenue Methodist Church. (The | other two members of the denomina.
 tion. MT. Washburn and Mr. Kelley. are ex-officio members and complete the | four from this denoimnation).
 Methodist Protestant Church--Rev. l.. ". Holland, pastor of the Bibb Street Church. c. A. McDaniel and H.
 B; Brooks. who. with Mir. Champion, ex-
 offfcio member, complete this four. l Presbyterian Church--Judge c. ". Buckley, Rev. Neal l.. Anderson, D. D..
 and J. W. Terry, who, with Dr. Patter- | son, the Vice President and ex4officio
 member, make the four. Baptist Church. Rev. C. A. Stakely. ?. D., pastor of the First Baptist | Church; Michael Cody, L. D. Dix and
 George W. Fills.
 Episcopal church--E c. Andrew, II. | Ruth. Rev. E. E. Cobbs. rector of St. | Johns church; and Rev. Stewart Mo- l Queen, rector of the Church of the Holy | Comforter.
 l This Board of Directors will hold it's
 first meeting Thursday. Jahuary H. in
 the Bible house on Dexter Avenue. The meeting was called to order at | 7:30 o'clock by President washburn with the room filled by members sit- | ting and standing. There had been | intangible rumors all day that some
 thing of peppery sort would rise in | the coming together of the members. | The membership is composed of the |
 nominations supporting the Society, as 1 Is well known, and there were many
 stoutly opposed to inharmony or anil
 mostly of any kind but every one had l his ears open.
 | On the election If officers being call
 ed for, MT. Washburn was put in nom | nation and to oppose him. Rev. W. Nj.
 Cox was nominated by F. P Glass. The
 vote resulted 34 to %. The vote for | Secretary resulted in Mir. Champions election by 29 to 27. In one or two l instances members refrajned from vot-
 ing. There was no opposition to the other officers who were elected. | When Mir. washburn charged indet-
 initely that his enemies had tried to
 injure him. MT. Glass. who had nofnina | ted the opponent of the president, arose
 and explained that he felt he was call
 ed upon to make 8 statement in view
 of the insinuation that efforts that had | been made by enemies to injure the | chairman. He emphatioally denied that | the nominating of anyone to oppose
 the chairman for the presidency or any other office was the act of an enemy.
 It was the occasion of the annual eIec- tion of officers he said. and he thought
 1t was given to all to express their
 views peaceably without criticism. The first revelation of the inside di- | rectorate work for the past year. how ever, was made by Dr. Anderson. He took the claim of personal privilege to do so. It was when he was nomI-
 mated and wished to explain the req sons for declining tho offer of direc-
 torship He began by saying there was | unquestionable need of an investiga- | tion by the Society into the policy of the administration. When he concIud- cd he was seconded in almost equally
 ss strong terms by his colleague on
 the Board, Rev. Dr. Patterson, of the First Presbyterian church. and one or two other members of that church. While pr. Anderson did not specify any details of tyranny or narrowed | policy he at length set forth how ths | Presbyterian inembtrship of the Board had been overridden at past meetings On one occasion he and one or two other members of the Board, he said were absent from a meeting and asked beforehand that the meeting be post | poned In order that they might have | a chance to engage in the deliberations
 which were to be important. In spite of this respectful communication" and | the earnest protest" of the colleagues
 present, the Board proceeded with the
 meeting Actions were taken to which
 the absent members were opposed stri- ously. He and the others were una
 voidably absent On another occasion cited by Dr. An
 derson, the chairman. he said, ignored
 the constitution of the Society and would not listen to the speaker as he
 time and again sought to appeal to the
 Board after being overruled. This policy of the administration he ar-
 rainged in severe terms
 The finances of the Society have
 not been handled in acordance with the | constitution, and the general policy of
 the organization has been narrowed"
 added Dr. Anderson. 'On one occasion
 the Presbyterian members of the Board
 made an effort to get some room in the
 Bible hoAse for prayer meetings of the
 Young Mems Christian Association, to
 get desk room for the Superintendent
 of the Sunday School work of the So-