The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-05-21

! lnlSHL consent TO SIT at the cabinet
table Of President Taft as premier.
! He would make an ideal secretary of
| state, or minister to England Can
non Is to be made speaker of the
| house again; La Toilette and Knox
! are to remain In the senate, where
Foraker will keep them company and
parry the thrusts of the Baileys and
Culbersons and try to keep jeff Da-
Wis somewhere near the blunds Of de-
! cency; Hughes will run again for
governor of New York; and there is
a revival Of the rumor that # nothing
particularly strenuous" happens at
Chicago, to divert his attention.
President Roosevelt will on the 4th
of next M arch succeed Thomas Col
| l1er Platt as senator from New York.
II this combination fails to work out
as scheduled, some, mighty shrewd
politicians will miss their guess.
| AS far as we have been able to
( learn, the sensible leaders in the
general conferences at Norfolk and
Philadelphia have been able to keep
the radicals from flying off at tan
gent and "butting into politics. "
When the episcopal address had been
| read by Bishop Clinton at 'Philadel-
phia-and splendid paper it was,
ltoo-somebOdy tried to get the floor
to raise an issue touching a patriotic
reference to President Roosevelt and
his administration, but Recorder
John G.. Dancy, sitting In the confer
| nGi
Review, OWNED what was coming,
and rising as quick as "Aash, moved
that. the paper be referred to the
| committee on the state ofEthe coun-
try, OF which he had been named as
4 chairman. :. Despits attempts to make
oih4s Motion to- re-
fer could not be debated, and the
matter went to, q. sane committee. for
| proper handling, and the delegates
were held down by Bishops Hood,
Harris; Clinton, ct al, to the bust
ness which carried them to the Qua
ker City. The report which came
from Mr. Dancy's committee was a
model Of clear statement of the is
sues now In the public eye, devoid of
passion and giving information of
genuine value of the Zion people. At
Norfolk, the political tendency was
choked off early by an appropriate
resolution, at the instigation Of sa-
gaclous leaders like Bishops Gaines
Grant, and Drs. Vernon, y. Hampton
and Parks! The two churches have
sustained themselves we'll. They
have admirably served the masses
who sent them to execute their COM
mands, and pat to rout the hot
headed reactionaries who cannot dis
tinguish the difference between an &C.
clesiastical council and a ward meet
ing.
President Roosevelt is fond OF do
ing the unusual: While on their way
to Norfolk, to attend the A. Nj. E. gen
eral conference, a delegation Of col
ored ministers from Kansas stopped
over In this city. They were escort
ed to the White House by Register
w. T. Vernon, but found the .Dresi-
! dent engaged in a cabinet meeting
Contrary to his almost jnvariable
rule, the president left his confreres
at the long table and came out to re,
ce1Ye the worthy gentleman from the
west. The party to whom this un.
usual courtesy was extended and
who gave undisguised evidence OF
their pleasure thereat, was composed
Of Revs. J. r. Ransom and H. w
King, of Topeka; Thomas Glover, ot
Wichita, and Prof. Shelton French
acting president Of the Western Uni
versity at Quindaro.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has been
reappointed member Of the boart
OF education. This Is fitting recog
milton Of her splendid services in be-
half of the education Of the children
Of the district. BY reason Of her su
pertor experience and natural bent
for executive duties, Mrs. Terrell is
easily the most influential factor or
the board, and her fidelity to dut,
and far-seeing wisdom in champion
ing many needed reforms have plac.
ed the district under deep obligations
to her. She richly merited reappoint
ment and under her continued ad
ministration the school system /,
bound to become more and more
what it should be.
TWO well-known editors were ir
town this week. One Of them was
Mr.. j. G. Gilmer, who Writes the "h0t
stun" that so happily edifies the goot
people who pay for the Advocate
published at Charleston, w. Va. Ht
came on business connected with tht
knights Of Pytihas. For severa
years ME-, Gilmer was the persona
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