The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-02-05
5 Now in The Leading Class
OF Such Institutions In
The United States.

pastor OF the ut. Zion Bap-
tist church, has again returned TO
his post and the regular monthly
Cuisines meeting Of the church vas
held last evening, and much bust.
tRsss Of importance transacted. The
work Of the church Is in excellent
shape and the systanatie methods
Of tFansacting the business OF the
church, g meeting with much sue
cess among the congregation, which
has now decided upon "a permanent
building fund the details, Of which
viii be announced IN tie near tn
ture Rev. Pryor. has been to the
southern part Of the state holding i
series OF revival meetings, for tie
Rev. Or. @. n, Harris, moderator
of the New River Valley Baptist AZ
ISOLATION at his church at Wioaa.
Fayette county. The meetings were
very successful and great host of
persons were converted and re-
claimed. These people presented
Reys Pryor with a purse of 5000
in gold and ali his expenses. While
in that section he visited the West
Virginia colored Institute, where he
1eft his son, Raymond, as a student.
In speaking Of the Institute Rev.
Pryor says:
West Virginia Is to be congratuu-
lated for having the finest educa-
ttoaal plant Of this kind. for the de-
yelopment of the intellect and the
technical training of the Negro youth
In the Industrial arts and sciences
TO be found anywhere in the United
States. with the possible exception
Of Hampton and Tuskegee, and these
only excel by reason of longer ,ex-
istence which has enabled tiems TO
become more generally known, and
as a natural consequence, more
largely patronlzed among our PEOPLE
throughout the country. But our
institute is crowdlng them hard and
fast, and notwithstanding all that
has been misehieviously said. we
have no more practical man in the
state to be- at the head of this great
work, than is Prof. j. McHenry
Jones. A. N. He is learned, affable,
unassuming, and intensely earnest
about his work. a Christian gentle
man and has a personal interest in
the. success of each student OF his
school. As a man, he is in the
true sense a manly man, absolute
" void of Interior motives, and
while disgruntled Negroes have at
times said much to vlllify and Sian
der. and is the case With all truly
great men, he has gohe about his
work with good will toward all, and
malice toward none. The state has
given US a great institution for
which we should be thankful. ana
they have placed able men and wo-
men in charge OF 1t. We should he
thankful and show our. appreciation
of 1t and not be led to underrate the
greatness Of the work by that. ele-
.ment OF self-appointed Negro poIit-
ical moguls, who represent nothing
in particular, except themselves, and
become disgruntied because the
president of the Institute cant give
them ard their friends ,obs,
whether they have positions open or
not. and therefore say mean things
about the school and its faculty.
! wish 1t was possible for every Ne
gro in this state to visit the insti-
tute. and sec what the State OF West
Virginia Is doing for our people.
Then again, we cannot stoD without
saying word about how grateful
our people feel to the great Repub-
lican party of this state for standing
by the promises they made our peo-
pie during the last election, and they
-LSA'S ouVhH III NJ uumlSLdkaDie
terms that they do not propose to
have any class legislation In this
state. Monday before last at high
noon when the legislature took the
proposed Jim Grow law bin ana rip
ped 1t and pounded it into dust and
ashes, it means to say 10 the pee
pie of this state that we are here
to look after the Interest OF all .peo-
pie; The only sad feature OF the
whole affair was that learned that
there was a certain class OF Negro
preachers in certain portions OF tina.
part, who. for some reasons best
known to themselves. went about
preaching to their people that since
we must have Jim Grow cars soon
er or later, we might as well have
the Republican party to give them
to us. These men seem to forget
that the Republican party is not
in this class OF business. They also
circulated a report that Mr.. Ellis,
the only colored member OF the