The broad ax., 1915-10-16
Charles E. Stump, the
Kansas Farmer News
paper Writer, Will Soon
LeavetheL Land of Grass
hoppers for a Long.
Tour of the Southern
States, Where He Will
Travel In Jim Grow Cars
CONVINCED; SAMPSON
LOUIS MISSOURI CONSTRUCTED
BECOME BISHOP A. CHURCH

dress. He was interrupted with out
bursts of amen and many other express
sions from the ministers. What his
position and the position of the minis
tiers on the National Baptist convention
there can be no question. Kansas to
man is with the Old Convention
and declared that they are not going
to be hoodwinked off any other way.
This is considered good thing.
eve are going to follow DR.. Nor
ris," said President Bowren "because
he is safe leader. He has never split
anything, and 1 wish that 1 could say
that about other people," He fayed
DR.. E. P. Jones, handling him without
gloves from start to finish. 1 am not
prepared to tell you all the things he
said about this man the stealer of the
National Convention. But then when
he was through, Rev. E. Arlington Will
son, of Muskogee, one of the secretar-
les came along and had his say, and
when he got through there was moth
| ing left to be said.
1 had the pleasure of visiting our
University. 1t is great thing to be
citizen of Kansas, although you may
only be a farmer like me. That will
not make any change in the affairs.
Kansas is a peculiar state. In some
places we have mixed schools and in
some other places we have separate
schools. They all go together in Law
renee and there is no difference made
L am told this it is in Chicago.
They paid off the mortgage of the
Old Folks Home which has been pur-
chased and is now supported by the
Baptists of Kansas and then they took
on just a few more things for the
people. 1 am so glad that L had the
pleasure of being there to see it and
to crown it Lord of all.
Getting through with the city of Law
renee, and bidding the convention good
by after speaking to the students, 1
thought 1 would Just step out of the
state for a little bit. 1 made my way
back to Kansas City, Mo-, then over to
Kansas. L had the pleasure of meeting
one of the stars of Kansas City, Kans. |
A young woman of thought and ability,
Miss Ruth Bradley, the daughter of the
leading lawyer of our race in Kansas
City, Kans. She is literary star in |
this section of the country. Her work |
stands for itself. L had the pleasure |
of talking with her.
Last Saturday night L left in COM
pany with Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom,
in a bed car for st. Louis. / have
been hearing about these bed ears for
years, and at last 1 have been in one
of them. They turn the seats into
beds, and put up big curtain. You
have a light right in your bed. You
undress and go to bed just like you
do in the house, and you can do some
sleeping. They have a place there for
you to wash your face and hands, even
a place to eat.
L slept and Dr. Ransom slept, until
we reached this city of st. Louis, and
found our way to the parsonage of st.
Paul A. M. E. church. In this is to
be found DR.. w. Sampson Brooks, and
his wife. DR.. Brooks is at present pas
tor of the church, and will entertain
the conference which is now in session.
He will be followed by others if he is
elevated to the episcopacy. I have
met him for the first time, although
1 have heard much about him. He is
a refined polished christian gentleman
and his church would do well to make
him a bishop. He is just the kind of
man that would make a good bishop
am sure.
We are all getting along well. I
have few things to say to you about
st. Louis in my next letter. am
going right into the south next. Look
but for me. I will tell you my impress
'ion Of the South and the Jim Crow
business.