The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-24
NEGROES PRAISE
 THE DEMOCRACY
LEADING PUBLISHER SAYS THEY WILL QUIT VOTING THE RE.
 PUBLICAN TICKET.
Believes Republicans Gave Them a "Double-Deal" and that Democrats
 VIII Be Square With them.

VI, E tHulCht ClOSeu tue IOuftn and
 last days business Saturday. The conference was marked by oratory
 and advice by the leaders of the
 church in the state
 The class that was admitted on
 trial was admonished by the bishop
 Rev. T. H. Robinson. who demanded an open examination was sent before
 a special committee consisting of Drs
 E. J. Lunnon, of Hot Springs; J. H. Claybour, of Stamps. and B. c. Daw- son, of Texarkana.
 The finance committee paid off the conference dependencies, and all of them received more than in previous years The Woman's missionary so ciety met ana elected Susan C. John son, president; Birdie DeLyles. sec retary, and Maggie Collins. treasur. CT Bishop Chappelle, ordered that SlO0O0 be kept in their treasury for
 the purpose of developing the work in their local field, and that the rest
 be turned over to the committee on finance to be divided between the home and foreign field.
 I Dr A. A. Williams, business man. ager of the Arkansas African Method | ist published at Argenta, in com menting on the report on state of
 the country. said: q believe the peo | pie have elected the most progress sive man in the country for presi-
 dent. 1 have never voted anything
 but the republican ticket in my life
 but l am convinced that the republi- can party, have been double dealing with the Negro. and now that M Wilson is president 1 believe he l will give us square deal, and win the Negro to that party. and the re-
 suit will be. we will never see an other republican president. Again | the Negro of Arkansas lined up with
 the liquor people, not on the licenses
 or local option question, but aaginst the state wide" movement. and sav-
 ed themselves from being dsfran.
 chissd, now they should make friends
 with the Wilson administration, and The future will not develop any more Grand Father clause efforts against usp
 Bishop ChappelIel made a state
 ment to the conference on the opera.
 ton of secret societies and the church that caused a sensation in the conference. He said: You men, and women. who attempt to carry
 things your way by bringing your signs and secret work in the church 1 are sinners, and must stop. If | find you doing any thing of the kind 1 I am going to put you out of my con | ference. If you are missionary work
 CTS. and have to resort to the signs
 and pass words of your secret lodges
 to elect officers, or to defeat any one sfho are not of you, none of you who
 are in the affair will be admitted to work in my district. If as ministers you bring the wrong thing on a man and back that up with evidence se- cured by the nse of the lodge, viii l take you down if you are a presiding elder and if you are a pastor you will get no appointment from my
 hands. The church of God must be
 run free from clicks and clans. Ev- erybody must have a fair break.
 Nothing more. and nothing less. The lodges are becoming a curse to the
 Negro. Negroes put them above ev
 erything. I want 1t understood, no
 rapist no murderer. no criminal nor any other person has a right to be l eHAtANEn AAOtA- tiiC DAhAoHAiAChA iAN him. And the man who will take an
 obligation in lodge, and find mem Der in that lodge guilty of crime and
 shield him, is worse than the one
 who committed the crime Society. whether secret or otherwise, should be for the protection of dscency. and
 the building up of purity in the home,
 the church and the nation
 The character of the ministers were
 passed. Bishop Chappelle said this
 was the smoothsst conference he has yet held There were no complaints against any of the preachers Al very remarkable thing for large
 conference like this This shows a great increase of morals among the | Negro people of the country" The report on temperance. was read by | Rev. E. ] Lunnon of South Hot 1 Springs The report was said to hs | the best ever read to the conference l Dr ! q. Robinson, of Fort Smith said The liquor question is a moral question So long as it is made political question. just that long will we fail to get the regulation wanted i by Christian people The An,tSaloon league is the most corrupt political organization in this country, and the sooner the ministry find that out the
 sooner will the church make peace with misguided people who misun derstand the purposes of Christian temperance, and get many who deal in liquor to accept the gospel. and join the church. But as long as we
 roll up our sleeves and froth and
 curse out every body, and every thing. and go into the Anti-Saloon league for poodle as do many. will we array thousands Of good people
 against us, and they will brand us az heing base hypocrits.
 Rsv Win. Winston. P E. of the Hot Springs district. gave Bishop W D. Chappelle 10 understand, that the Negroes of Arkansas will follow hl leadership, Also. told him and tlie conference that the best white peo
 nle were in sympathy and accord with all that has been said and done
 during the conference. Bishop Chap peHe admonished the conference fo take Hot Sprlngs Sentinel-Rscord, and the Arkansas Gazette because