Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-13


of government and not the ~congrega-
tional. The parson is not called, but
appointed at the conference by the
bishop, who has the only appointing
power. AS for the meeting they say
they held, no meeting is legal in the
Episcopal church unless it is called by
the parson and presided over by him.
SO you car see what 1t amounted to.
THE board of trustees is composed
of seven men, four of them white men.
Not one of these white men was pres
ent at the meeting; nor had they any
knowledge that it was going to take
place.
'Out of the t~wenty-nine officials of
the church who attend these meetings
only twelve attended. and these are
the ringleaders In the movement to get
me out of here. :
Ex-Pastor's wife Here.
Right now Jolley's wife and mother
are In Newark, where they came at
the close of the conference in Phila.
delphia to engineer this movement to
Gust me from the position as pastor.
II it is not for hat what are they here
TOR? You can tell them from me that
they have exceeded their authority.
and I am going to attend the services
tonight whether they like it or not"
Yesterday evening police h~eadquar-
ters was notified that there was likely
to be trouble and a patrolman was de-
tailed to see that there was no breach
of the peace.
From 7:3O till about 10 o'clock negroes
in couples and singly would pass the
church, look around, and seeing the
officer, walk away The Rev. Palmer
came to the church about $3.50 and met
with no opposition when he walked in.
Here there We're at no time more than
ten persons. AT 9:35 he opened the
services to four women closed them
in fifteen minutes so as to be in time
for an appointment with the president
white men who did not want his name
mentioned In this controversy.
Just before the services, while speak,
ing about the men who were at the
meeting when it was decided to keep
him out, Bell. the sexton, who nailed
up the door, of which the pastor had
a key, and locked all the other doors,
interrupted and said that twelve was
an average number for one of those
meetings. Then after some heated
words he left, saying that he would
not be there any more and telling the
parson to get another man to do the
work.
The president of the board of trus-
tees c~orroborated everything the par
son said relating to the connection of
this affair with the old Jolley scontro-
versy.
sit is deplorable that such matters
should come up in a church, but dis
cipline must be maintained, and one
congregation n n change the whole
system of the ~Episcopalian church.
"This man." pointing to Palmer. was
here twenty years 6 and made the
church self-supporting after he found
a debt of $4,000. which he more than
any other person. helped pay. off,
About five years ago he was sent away,
after which we had that Jolley affair
Two years g DR.. Palmer returned
and has had trouble with the Jolley
partisans ever since"
The whole matter will be thrashed
out at a meeting of the board of trus-
tees, which will be called as soon as
CONVENIENT. 1T fauher lnteHus TO coH-
duct the services as though nothing
happened v if he will not have one
person in the church. =
Up to midnight those who are dis
satisfied with DR.. Palmer persisted in
saying that there would be no peace
till he was gone. at the same time
scouting the idea that this trouble
had anything to do with Jolley. The
presence of Jolley's mother and wife
could not be confirmed.