The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
No Color
Nor Greed
KNOWN 10 GOVERNOR GLASS
COCK IN. THE PERFORMANCE
.... iOT HIS DUTY. . -
Speaks to Negroes
Who call to express their thanks for
his firm stand against mob vio-
fence-'Ehey confer with legisIa-
tors OH Carr bill an.! orphans
home measure.

tors on Carr bill ana orphans
home measure.
"In my capacity as Governor of
I this State, / can know no color nor
creed. | am sworn to execute the
laws, and to see that all our citizens.
white and black, rich and poor, are
protected In all the rights guaran-
teed them by the constitution and
the Statutes" said Governor Glass
cock Thursday night in his reception
room to a delegation of representa-
tive colored men from various Sec
tlons Of the state, who called to pay
their respects and to express appre-
citation of his successful efforts to
check mob violence.
In the delegation were State Lii
brarian J. 9. Gilmer, who issued the
call and arranged for the Governors
reception and the conference with
the Senator's; J. r. Jefferson, princi-
pal Of the Parkersburg colored
school, J. NJ. Ellis, former member
.. j,
of the Republican State committee;
r. w. White, Of the Mcdowell
Times; C. E. McGhee, superintend-
ent Of the Eolored Orphans Home;
l.. 0. WilsoA, grand chancellor Of the
colored Knights of Pythias; II. B.,
Hundley, grand master of the COL
ored Masons; D. c.. Hunter, grand
sachem Of the Negro Red Men; Byrd
Prillerman and Charles E. Mitchell,
president and business manager, re-
spectively, Of the West Virginia Col
ored Institute; J. M. Hazlewood,
Grand Master Of Exchequer of the
Pythians; J. II. Taylor, Deputy
Grand Master Of the Masons, and DR..
R. L. Jones.
). M. Ellis acted as spokesman for
the delegation, expressing briefly the
high esteem in which the Governor
is held by the Negro citizens of the
State. He said his people do not
lcondone wrong doing; that they, the
great majority Of them, are doing
! all in their power to raise the mass
es to higher standards Of morality,
and to elevate them to loftier planes
in all those things which make for
| good citizenship. It was his refer
ence to the protection given by the
Governor to black men accused Of
crime, and the fair trials made possi-
bic by that protection, that evoked
from His EXcellency the remarks
quoted above and other Of similar
import. He expressed himself as be-
Ing especially pleased that the COL
ored- people had not flooded him
with petitions to temper the justice
OF the courts in q single instance
where members Of their race had
been convicted of criminal assault,
and he assured his hearerB that,
while they would get no special fav-
ors at his hands, he would exert all
the powers of his office to the end
that they and every other inhabitant
of the State gets a square deal.
| At the conclusion Of the audience
with the Governor, the Carr frater-
nal society bill and the measure en-
powering the State to purchase and
maintain the colored orphans home
was taken up, by appointment, with
President Hatfield, Senator'S Eng
land, Hearne, Flynn and others. l..
.. Wilson presented the case of the
Negro fraternities. He spoke at
some length Of what they are doing
along charitable, moral and finan-
cial lines, and prayed that no such
legislation as the Carr bill be enact
ed to put an end forever to their ef-
lforts at self help. The three story
building on the capitol square was
pointed out as an example Of what
one Negro fraternity has done in q
business way, and other business en-
lterprises elsewhere in the state were
mentioned.
The cause Of the coIored orphans
home was advocated by r. w. White.
Stress was laid on the business Drin-
Iciples involved in the offer of q
property valued at $4,000, to the
State for $4,000, and the saving
which would be effected by giving
proper training to the waits, who,
without it, might become criminals
and paupers, charges upon the com
monweaIth.
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Mrs. Nettie Elliott Courtney. who
lspent the past eighteen months in
Chicago, arrived in the city Tues