The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-12-23
E. STUMP, THE REGULAR
TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT
FOR THE BROAD AK, ATTENDED
HE NATIONAL BAPTIST CON-
VENI1ON AT ST. LOUIS, MO-,
WHERE HE HAD A HIGH UP TIME.

Kansas City, Kansas wish vou
could have been at the National Ban
inst Convention in St. Louis, for II was
one more big meeting. There were
some big doings there, and the things
was just as / told you, and there Is no
getting around it. L. K. Williams is
now the president of the National
Baptist convention, and Rev. w. H.
Moses will have to 60 back home and
dream some more. / told you that
Tod could not make such a mistake
and believe just what said, and you
see what has happened.
| was way down in Arkansas as Won
VIII remember-in fact I was in Texas
when wrote you that other letter.
and when left there l made nv way
to this place or to the other place, and
there / came in touch with some
friends and good friends at that. In
Iexarkana, | met Mrs. Duckie Ken
nedy. the woman who is making
a big business out of fixing up
other peoples hair and fixing I'D
their nails, and she is just growing
rich at that. / enjoyed being in her
company and seeing her as she was.
Then there was Miss Virginia Adams,
who is the housekeeper, but am told
that she is getting ready to jump over
the broomstick. ! hope it will be a
great big time, and a big jumping.
She is worthy young woman.
l was informed that there would be
special train out of the City of Tex
arkana, to ST. Louis, and l just rode a
train up to Hope, spoke to the little
children there and returned to Texark-
ana, in time to get bed for St. Louis.
/ was received by DR.. A. L. Boon,
chairman of the Texas delegation and
President of the Texas Missionary and
Educational convention. / want to
here thank him for that lower bed,
and just slept and slept after ] went
to bed, but did not go to bed until !
left Little Rock. / reached St. Louis
and we went over to the residence of
the Rev. w. B. NJ. Scott, field secre-
tary for the Home Mission Board OF
the National Baptist convention. He
had Revs L. K. Williams, A. L. Boon,
L. G. Jordan, Charles Stewart, and
one other man over to dinner, and l
was just there to keep company with
the rest. Miss Irene Bryant helped
to serve the dinner. She is the sweet
singer, and i enjoyed hearing her sing.
Now then over to the city of st.
Louis again, and there were several
meetings in which they had said 81.
K. Williams by all means and at all
costs" Williams had declared that
he should win, and his friends were in
it too. Then things moved on and on,
until the time came for the real work,
and we soon learned who it was that
was 10 DC uClCdlCu. 4hC SlSNhOh hos
came in the convention, and there
were nominating speeches, and believe
me honey they were some eloquent
speeches, and you could hear some real
oratory. All the speakers and NOM
inators declared that they had been
with the Holy Spirit, and the Holy
Spirit had revealed that this one and
that one should be the successor to
the lamented Elias Camp Morris. They
said that w. H. Moses was the choice
of God, and another said that w. q.
Parks was the choice of God, another
said that God had selected DR.. P.
James Bryant, and there were still
others who indicated that God had Sc
lected DR.. w. D. Norman, and there
was others who said that God had Sc
lected DR.. L. K. Williams, and from
the vote and all the result, those who
said God had spoken to them about
L. n, turned out to be right
DR.. Norman was the first nominated