The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21

~ AfidSS.. lDt pastor
made a few remarks and prayed beau
tIuly for success in the matter Of ra-
clai uphft- And he wasn't prayine at
the southern people, he was talking
70 throne or grace, making no stump
speeches.. All of this ~extraneols civ
cuIlstance Is to show that
Governor Glenn could not have mag
lned himself pleasing the North when
everything about him was friendly to
the section from which he came. And
that after all isn't the question hat
Is involved. 1T is whether Mr. Glenn
reflected upon the South or not in
what has been termed "GIenn's Latest
OUTBREAK He haSn't done it and
everybody knows it.
Author of the False Reports
The cleveland correspondent is I'M
Q~uestionably a man with nose for news
and If reliable, would make a news
paper bristle. He had probably heard
that Governor Glenn upon all matters
sectional, was strictly with the State
and the South. If an utterance like
that could come from him, the cor
respondent knew its value to the coun-
try at large.
There was another thing that made
the stage setting on these occasions en-
t1reiy u~nadapted to any sort of break.
to say nothing of an 'outbreak.' Dr..
Shepard, understanding the racial, the
many-sided racial. problem of the
A<oA II ooiN SSSfS IlIiiS hC o. L
upon to speak, you of the North may
not understand it now, but the shift
less, the criminal negro Who has hurt
us SO much in the Southland, is headed
your way. He has an eXa gGarated idea
of your hospitality here, believes this
Is his haven. While We are doing the
best that we can to uplift the race, he
naturally migrates to that section
which he believes furnishes him the
best field for Incidence. He believes,
in his Incomplete education, that yours
is that place. Now unless we have
help to make our schools what they
ought to be, reaching this very class,
you are going to have them unloaded
upon you and you Will have a worse
race problem than We ever dreamed
Of in the Southland Now imagine
that coming from a Southern negro,
every word of which has been preach
ed here over and over. Then one sees
why Mr. Glenn could not have said
was attributed TO him.
The Authors Information at Fault.
I happen TO know now how this
story got out. A member Of our
Northern party. native NOrtherner as
h was. gave this story out as being
substantially what Governor Glenn
was saying. 1t was SEN out in ad-
vance and found a sort of basis III
Governor Glenn's declaration every
where that the people of the United
States have not done enough for the
negro and that it is their duty to make
the best possib-- citizen OF him. II
was a very easy work Of the
ton, and was only the kind of un-
truth that marked rough treatment
given Ananias and Sapphira, a halt
truth that draws the color line on all
other lies, to say that Glenn roasted
body much but spoke Of a general
dereliction in which the South was
much less to he blamed than the
North.
Had the y. =. Man Spotted
Aside from the fact that Governor
Glenn made the South a mlghty good
| man at court, it was pleasing to note
| that in Gotham and Yankeedom every
where. there is a Southern man who
has made an impression upon the
country. In those d~istractedlE sin
fully busy and money-maklng places
about New York, there was a condu
tor on one Of the trains He saw ne
Hiking to the governor. Who is that
fellow he asked. i have heard hin
| speak somewhere IN Washington.
think" He was right. When / told
| him it was Mr.. Glenn, he knew him.
the man who bucked the railway.
Neither Of these recommended itself
to the conductor, but he had the North
Carolina man spotted.
This incident was put down on the
way home from Rockville Centre,
Long Island, where the governor spoke
to the big, rich club. In a clash OF
interests between the Lord and that
club, the club has a way of taking care
of itself. They did not come to scott
nor exactly remain TO pray. They
came to dance and the collection
on the heels of the benedic-
ton. hadn't been started we'll when
the youngsters We're kicking over
chairs preparatory TO kicking up then
heels.
The best attended meeting was II
RoseyiIIe Methodist church, where Or
| CHAPMAN presided. Roseyille church
Is in Newark and judging by the
weather. Newark must have been in
New England that night, Sunday, June
5th. All Of the varieties or Weather
that Mark Twain found in New Eng
land were located there that day, but
there must nave been 1000 people