The Washington bee., 1907-08-24

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between ten and elevn o'clock am.
HOWE AND KNOX ENDORSED.
The annual meeting of Odd Fellows
held at Selma, Ala, August 9th to 9th,
1907, will go down in history as one
of the greatest ever met IN Alabama.
The numerical showing was especially
superb. There were 435 bona 6de del
egates present, which was thirty-fve
more than two-thirds of the financial
representation of the State. A tenn
porary Executive Board was elected.
The personnel of the committee is as
follows: w. w. Patterson, of Decatur,
Ala; NJ. s. Sledge, of Selma, and Prof.
u S. Jones, of Demopolis, Ala Prof.
u. S. Jones, of Selma, Ala, was elected
auditor. The secretary-treasurer was re-
quired to make bond in the sum of SI6,-
600, which was readily given Mr.
Sledge, Who was elected secretary-treas-
urer, is well qualified for the position.
He numbers among his many friends
some Of the best people of Selma, white
and colored, who were elated over the
selection from their city Almost pc
feet harmony existed through the entire
session. Prof. u. S. Jones, of Demop-
Oils, Ala, and w. w. Patterson, of De
catur, Ala, the other two members of
the Board, stand equally as well in their
respective communities. The meeting
voiced the true sentiment of Odd Fellow
ism in this State. The delegates unani-
mously adopted a resolution of sympathy
/ for Howe and Knox. Some of our con
servative friends say we should drop the
contention OF both factions and get to-
gether. We wish to say to such people,
However much It would be our desire
to see perfect harmony exist we cannot
compromise truth and falsehood on equal
basis; one will have to give away for the
other. No institution can permanently
exist part right and part wrong; its basic
principle must BE either right or wrong;
if no ere long we who now live or the
| coming generation will be looking on
nothing more than a heap of ruined
structures, such as are furnished by the
ancient cities of Greece, Alexandra City
and Rome. It is almost impossible for
any great institution to run for more
than half a century without becoming
! corrupted, and in order TO be puTged of
such corruption it must pass through a
most severe and trying ordeal. Did not
| the Christian institution experience this
struggle IN the sixteenth century? When
Whitfield, Lattimer and others were i'm
prisoned, others burned at the stake and
beheaded. Sometimes to purge means
death. Il was the attempt to purge the
Wing party that caused its death. 1t
was the attempt to purge the great Dem
ocratic party. which had held powers for
years. that led up to that disastrous civil
war and rent it into three separate parts.
/ It was the same course of action that
caused the great Republican party to go
down in defeat on two different occa-
sions. The grand United Order OF Odd
Fellows has stood practically united six
ty-four years in the United States. With
in that time corruption has gathered at
the head of the fountain and the streams
have become polluted Our own s. c. OF
| NJ. has the ear mark Of political trickery'
and their decisions are made on the style
Of the Sanhedrin Court The last B. NJ
! c. was a political convention, and the
/ most questionable thing done at its last
session was the election of the present
/ s. c. of NJ.
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