Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-06-12
Mr.. PACE REPLIES
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which he has held as he is And in
any iraternal organization when any
man or group of men .trru.ate =,
thrmseVes the divine right to- q l,fe
tsnure in Office and Co.: larr ): a
Chine for any other mea,Yer OF that
: order TO dare to oppose them, then
that organization is getting onto
dangerous ground.
Brother Carter says he has never
been candidate for the office. And
that's a lot of hunk He has been
an active candidate every year, but
like every other willy politician he
processes that he is letting the Of
flee seek him. Well / know that the
greatest effort was made at Rich
mond by his local friends Ito save
Carter" and the fear was enter
tanned that If they started changing
officers, that they would change all
down the line.
Brother Carter asserts that / have
assumed to be a sort of historian of
the Order i have never entertained
such an assumption but / do assert
that L know as much about the real
inside history of the Order as any
man alive, and If Brother Carter de-
sires to exchange some more state
ments with me, 1 can tel the Broth
erhood some of that history which
may be little less pleasant to read
than what l am writing now. /
know, for instance, what any good
historian ought to know who keeps
an accurate record, about certain
midnight deal in Brother Carter
office in Richmond last August,
which caused the Virginia delega-
tion to switch it's support overnight
from Steele to Wilson, and / know
the reason for that change and j
know the amount of money that was
involved. 1 know that the rank and
file of the Virginia delegates didn't
know why they were suddenly or
dered to vote differently from what
they had been told to vote previous
ly. and that back of it was the OBJ
ject ''to save Carter and, to keep the
money in Richmond
Brother Carter asserts Nthat he has
never put any money in a bank that
did not pay at least three per cent.
interest. Maybe the figures are
wrong and l may be mistaken, but
or page 46 of the Richmond Min
utes appears statement of the
banks In the case of the Virginia
Trust Company, there was a balance
of $3S, 4947S at the close Of the
Pittsburgh session. Additional de-
posits amounting to $35,377 SO Were
made during the year, making q
total of balance and deposits of
$74,4SS.61 during the year. There
was withdrawn during the year
S3",SO4S5. leaving balance o.
34,683 76 ut the time the report
was made. Now multiply the lowest
ba. ance in that bank by three per
cent. and the interest earned is
$1,04G 81. But the report on this
same page says that the interest
credited to the account is $4,000
A nice little difference. But Brother
Garter says that the Bank paid at
least three per cent interest" Well
maybe they did, but it just doesn't
look like three per cent. interest
was credited 10 the account
Now may / ask Brother Carter just
Why he made those two particular
white banks the favorites that he
do when he might have put some
more money under proper safeguards
in the other three colored banks in
Richmond. Why did he feel that
he had, to concentrate all the Elk
money in Richmond. or even in Vir-
ginia? He asserts that / opposed
him at Newark in 1922 because Of
the failure Of two banks in which
, the Grand Lodge had funds. He did
not state that both of these banks
that fai ed were in Virginia also. |
assert that it is not business-like to
concentrate the funds in any one
bank or any one set Of banks or in
any one locality Why didn't Broth
ell Carter place some more o. the
money in the bank of which he is
President under proper safeguards?
1t would have been a perfectly nat
ural and proper thing to do. Didn't
he have confidence in himself and
his own bank? Did he have more
confidence in the white banks about
whose management he could only
surmise? No, the reason is very diff
ferent, and / know the reason. But
I shall await his answer and later
1 will. tell the brotherhood the truth
of why he didn't,
Brother Carter asserts that when
the two Virginia banks failed in
1922, that he ma6e good the loss
with his personal check Brother
Carter did make nice gesture of
doing so, and, maybe he fooled some
o! the folkS then and maybe he Is
fooling some of them now. But he
is telling only half of the truth. He
neg ected to say that his check which
he sent the Grand Secretary was
never deposited by Bates, and that
Bates told him in so many words
30 forget it," and that check never
found its way into the Grand Lodge
funds and the Grand Lodge itself
sustained the loss AS the "histor-
ian" which he calls me 1 know that
he knows he is lying when he says
he paid the loss"
Here are the ba'ances in the va
rious banks, and their locations as
reported in the Minutes:
WHITE BANKS
Virginia Trust Company,
Richmond, Va. S34,683 rs