The broad ax., 1916-07-29
Charles E. Stump, the
Newspaper Correspon-
dent, Has Again Re-
sumed. His Journey
Through the South
Land. He Is on His Way
to Waco, Texas and the
Mexican Border

Jackson, Miss.-With my fighting
record, 1 have decided to 60 to the
front, and 1 am now headed for Next
can borders. Have put to death a
snake, and 100000 bed bugs in one
battle 1 think can myself whip mil
lion Mexicans, and if 1 failed to do
this you will not hear from me again.
For when we get in the fight it will
mean death. We are both going to
shoot to kill.
Well 1 am not in Kansas City, or
even in Kansas, but 1 have left my
farm to come down here in the state
of Vardaman, but 1 will not talk about
him, but will tell you just few things
about how it happened. 1 do not need
to tell you anything about how it hap
pened last September in Chicago, be-
cause many of you were there and
those who were not have read about
it in the papers.
1 have met that same Dr. E. P. Jones
of Vicksburg, and this time he has
been trying to get things in his hands
in Mississippi and would it be surpris-
ing to you when 1 tell you that he fell
fiat so far as getting the state organ
ization in his hands, nor was he able
to even split the convention, and they
tell me that is an easy thing to do in
Baptist meeting, and the Mississip-
pi people will go to Savannah with al
most a solid front, and no one will be
there to question them.
When 1 heard that there was going
to be a convention down here, 1 Just
got myself together and rode down on
the Illinois Central. 1 will not tell
you about the change from frst-class
to Mr.. James Crow or any other kind
of crow, but 1 made the change Just
the same, and reached the city of
Jackson Tuesday morning, July Is, at
3 O'Clock in the morning. 1 found a
door open to receive me, and Mrs.
Georgia Hyram, assisted by Miss
Maude Richardson tried to see how
much they could cook for me to eat
that morning. 1 did get on the out
side of them good things, and was glad
when she told me toEbe at home during
the convention.
Now, then what happenedi 1 went
down the street, and the first one /
met was the "Shining Angel" of Mis-.
sissippi, Prof. V. L. Ruben, who tells
me that he is some orator, and ha,
given much time to organizing things
He thinks much of his own ability, and
would like to have all bow to him. AT.
ter telling him my name and where i
was from, he told he who he was and
what he was, and said that he was
going down to the convention to whip
things in line for DR.. R. H. Boyd, as
he was there, and wanted the Baptist
organization to fall in line for DR..
Jones.
The Baptist convention of Mississip-
pi is one of the biggest in the whole
country, and if you can get hold of it
then you are getting something. You
will not blame the man for doing what
1 am going to tell you about in a few
minutes. You will wait and see Just
what have to say.
Now Ruben has styled himself the
fxer of the state, and he says he is as
shrewd as men get to be, and when he
looks into a mans eye he can even
tell what he is thinking about. Now
this is the class of man 1 met.
But there was something wrong with
this angels ixer, because he did not
fix a thing. He was just put together,
and when he got through he found that
he himself was trying to get out. He
told me that he was through with them.
The men stopped around to see what
they could do in the fixing business
themselves. They were in for it, and
used all they could use, and talked all
they could. Then when these men met,
it was in a Board meeting to outline
the policy of the convention. Now DR..
Jones was on hand, and he heard them
all but preach his funeral. They said
some things about him that was not
in the Sunday school lesson for next
Sunday. He looked at the sayers as
they read his letter and talked about
him.
The convention opened. Then men
in the Board made him understand that
they were not going to stand for fool
ishness. They were not going to stand
| for any injunctions or anything like
it. He would have to flank up for his