The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-09-20
COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REC
OLAR TRAPPING CORRESPOND
ENT FOR THE BROAD AK At
TENDED THE NATIONAL. BAPTIST
CONVENTION AT NASHVT1F|
TENN, WHERE He HAD TIME OF
HIS LIFE

am glad to report to you that the
Baptists are moving with it. The Ma
tional Baptist convention has lust
passed into history and it was the
greatest session have ever witnessed
since have been colored, and that has
been long time
| think I was in and about Wash
ingtOn when ! wrote you that last
letter and you will see right where /
am today, and will be in another
part of the world before you can get
through reading this letter, and | am
glad to 50 report to you.
In company with, don't know how
many people, we left Washington.
headed for Nashville. They had three
bed cars, and | am not saying anything
about anything else, but it is sufh-
Gent for the time being to say we
had three bed cars, and / had the
parlor in one Of them known and
called drawing room. Honey that is
some riding I met many people, and
in this number were DR.. w. H. Jer-
nagin, president Of the National Race
Congress, and man whose life IS
spent for his people; DR.. w. H. Win
ston, Of Baltimer, president Of col
lege; DR.. NJ. w. d. Norman, pastor
Of the Metropolitan Baptist church;
DR.. ]. E. Willis, Of Washington, d.
O.. Dr. R. g. Woods, president Of the
Virginia Theological Seminary and
College; DR.. T. J. King, second presi-
dent Of the Virginia Baptist State
Convention; Walter H. Brooks, ID. d.,
that great preacher from Washington,
and I could just name them all day.
Miss Mamie H. Burroughs, Mrs. A.
c. Williams, Miss Corde1ia Voolfolk,
Mrs. W. Fl. Jernagin, Mrs. Winston,
Mrs. Moreno Davis, and host of
other women helped to make up the
party, and / must inform you that
Miss Della Harris, returned mission
airy from Africa was also in line, and
I saw her and the little boy direct
from Africa, Spencer. He is over here.
to be educated and then return TO his
native home for education.
We pulled out from Washington
las Monday, and it was indeed
happy crowd. All had lunches, and Of
course l had one too. / had a full
basket prepared BY Mrs. Moreno
Davis, and Mrs. Lillian johnson. 1t
looked ike to me that some Of them
people were going to eat their fool
brains out, but am not going to say
word about myself. For when we
got to the place called Charlottesville,
Va, the reporter on one Of them bed
cars came in looking for me. He had
brought big box of lunch from Mrs
L. c. Brown, and Mrs. LeGrande
from Richmond. They knew that
was going to be on the bed car and
they brought along something for me
to enjoy, and you put it down that
did find much enjoyment out Of this
box.
We reached the city called Louis
vile, in. Kentucky about 1880 Tues
day, and there we found some preach
ers, and Others there to see the Baptist
host 60 through Not only to see
them 60 through, but as we were to
Be there until 3 O'Clock in the after
noon, the citizens Of Louisville turned
out in their automobiles to tote the
people around. The Louisville people
Of my race have some automobile
car carriages, and you may tell the
world told you 50.
The first place was to the Green
Street Baptist Church, and honey you
should have seen that great lunch
which had been prepared BY Or. w.
H. Jones, and his good people.
Chickens, to the extent that every fel-
low had about half chicken, and you
may know that some few chickens
heads had fallen off. and they had
been singing "And am l born to die,
to lay these feathers down2 And
must my body go into some frying
pan7e But most of the chickens there
entered the ministry. I got mine
After the eats were all over then
we took a ride down the town, look
ing at some Of the churches, some Of
the schools, especially the State Uni-
versity, where we noted that they
wre working on a new building. This
institution was called State University,
but now they have new name for It,