The Washington bee., 1909-07-10

in the history of Suffolk.
On the same night in the city of
Norfolk, an audience which taxed the
capacity of the CRANKY Theatre 70
the utmost, assembled to hear him.
His emphatic demand for the educa-
ton of every child, black even as
white, for good school houses and
for good teachers, for longer school
terms and for equal protection under
the laws in the rural districts as well
as in the cities for his people, was
we'll received and applauded by the
entire audience half or more OF
which was made up of the leading
business and social people of Nor
folk. At the conclusion of his ad-
dress he was warmly congratulated
by many of his hearers and his party
entertained at the White City Expo
sition Park by the Negro citizens of
Norfolk.
The trip now carried the party into
an entirely new country, where peo-
pie gathered at the railroad stations,
coming in many instances several
miles. The first day out, stops were
made at Burdett, Sebrell, Jarratt and
Purdv, where crowds varying from
four to six hundred had gathered at
the railroad station to hear the dis
tinguished leader who spoke from
the observation platform of his pri-
vate car.
AT Dolphin the entire party LETT
the train and drove across country
six miles to the Lawrencevllle In
dustrial School, where more than a
thousand people had gathered. The
people of this section are largely en-
| gagged in farming and the address
was particularly applied to their
needs and the needs of their locali-
ties. This school was founded by
Archdeacon James S. Russell, OF the
| Protestant Episcopal Church, and re-
fleets its influence in the well order
ed and well cultivated farms Tor
miles around. 1t stands, said DIR.
Washington, as an example of the
lifting up influence of broad educa-
ton education that has a market
! value.
Rear platform addresses were made
at Alberta, Kenbridge, Victoria, Me
herrin. Ward, Phoenix, Brookneal
and Altivista. A nine mile drive
across country to Charlotte Court
House where one of the largest meet
ings of the trip was held, was made
and a night meeting in school house
grove at Salem brought large crowd
not only from the surrounding coun-
try but from the city OF Roanoke
seven miles distant.
AT Shelby. Pembroke, Slab Fork,
Lester and Pearisburg, enthusiastic
crowds of several hundred assembled
at the stations and gave the party an
enthusiastic reception, DIR. Wash
ington speaking from fifteen to TWEEN
tv minutes at each place.
From Yellow Sulphur Springs the
party, accompanied by mounted eS-
cort of fifty citizens drove e1ght
miles TO the towns of Cambria and
/ Cbristiansburg, near which is located
the Christiansburg Industrial lnsh-
tute. whose principal, John H. Long,
Is = graduate of Tuskegee. A crowd
numbering several thousands had
gathered around the platform erected
in the orchard and had waited for
! the party for three hours. DIR. Wash
, ington was introduced by Captain
Tohn H. Tohnstone, former Con
, federate officer, and seated at his
, side on the platform was Ex-Governor
), Hoge Tyler of Virginia, who hao
driven fifteen miles from his home
{ in Radford to be present and to say
a word" as he put it. 1t was at thl;
meeting that the incident occurred
which gave the speaker an opportun
itv to answer emphatically an unJuS
criticism made by some who opPoS'
: his doctrine, that he makes entirely
dierent speeches to different races
= and to the people of dierent sections
? He had just concluded statemen
/ that the southern white man was no
wholly to blame for the institution o
= slavery because his northern brothe
first brought the slave from HI
t African captor and then sold him L
S his brother in the south. A wfiu
\ man whose dress, department an'
r general appearance indicated intel