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SEVERE ON COLORED BISHOP Editor of Colored Newspaper Columbia After Chappelle's Scalp. I The following is an editorial from "The Light" a newspaper edited and published by C. G. Garrett, a colored man of Columbia. Many of our readers will recall the incidents, no doubt, to which the article has reference. especially to the published speech of Bishop Chappelle, urging the negroes to register and vote. As The Countv Record has hundreds of good, honorable, law abiding colored men among its great list of subscribers we are reproducing the article in order to show how Chappelle and his political schemes and ambitions are regarded by the better, saner ?class of colored people in the State. The article from "The Light" follows verbatim: -UNFORTUNATE RUMOR" "It is related that from some unfortunate and foolish rumors an unpleasant episode occurred at the court house at Greenwood the first Monday in April, when it was thought or rumored that a lot of Negroes were coming to register. It is said that Kev. u. v>. vveou, who went to the court to get his wife's school claim cashed, was assaulted and beaten up severely about the head, and Mr. Marshall was also beaten at the same time, though neither was there to register, but on other business they claim. Of course other Negroes who may have intended to register did not show up. We guess and hope the proper parties will feri-et out the cause of the trouble and let the law mete out justice. All good citizens will agree on that We don't know what offense Rev. Webb and Marshall gave for the assault. We don't think either was embuedwith and led on by this fool talk of Bishop Chappelle's that Negroes must register and have their rights, to vote for Chappelle's new party, the Democratic splitters, or die. The latter is easy to do, and will bo done by innocent and unsuspecting Negroes who think they must do whatever a Negro bishop says, without any recourse to law, or method of defense. If Chappelle is in earnest about bursting1 the Democratic party and following the devil, we suggest that he make a start at the Greenwood court house or down in Shadow Field section and he will find his new leader very near. "We are informed by responsible men, white and colored, in the back woods, that Chappelle's remarks are hurled to the Negroes, and have already stirred up much needless strife. While the man is irresponsible and foolhardy, his position as a bishop over 100,000 Negroes, gives weight and color to his saying, and while his little pimpy 1?? Vaf 4*1%a Kvcfo/trh Ka<S prtttt'UCI UVilOb UlOb VUV W4U4.VM worked the Negro up to a high tension as never before as to his rights we are in a position to know that the host of honest, consecrated, God-fearing preachers of the state will not be misled and wrought up into racial Bolshevism by Chappelle and a few little unregenerated, under-strappings who is simply eeking out a ministerial existence for an appointment. "We beg our white citizens and friends not to be alarmed over this hot headed Negro bishop's pronunciamento, in his "state-wide conference" and eclat for a new party. He is following or planning to follow white men, too. His name is on file at Boodleville. While it is true that the rank and file of the self-respecting, tax paying negroes want to enjoy every right vouchsafed to him under he law, when his qualifications as a man and a citizen warrants his capacity to cope and do in common with other citizens the best for his state and country. Thousands of us are praying, working, struggling, and living for that end, and whether far or near, we know that we must build on those elements, and undergo those hardships common to mankind inal! ages, and to all races and nations who sought to better national life "T JUST want to t *- Caldwell's Syrup I use it for my baby, my and simply can't do wi the house." (From a letter to Dr. C Mr. John W. Christe East, Brighani Dr. Calc Syrup ; The Perfect Sold by Druggist 50 cts. (li* Quickly corrects disord \ tract, relieves the conges mal regularity. It is gei not gripe. A trial bott writing to Dr. W. B. Calc St, Monticello, Illinois. * i t - and racial uplift. We know that bis talk and ill-fed ambition amount to anught but strife and disappointment. We are going by God's help and our own industry and good conduct, obedience to law and order, and observance of the golden rule, as far as we can, with our steps forward and our faces to the front, and when we fall short oi the desired end, as other generations have, we leave our children, honest, trained and cultured, nearer on the way than their fathers were. "Pitifully true, we have been, like all other animals, bothered with an unwholesome pest, the carpet-bagger, the demagogue, the race traitor, the fool speaker, ambitious big talker and racial disturber, like this man Chappelle, who takes advantage of Episcopal authority and robe to stir up racial strife, to work Negroes up to a high tension, in order, we believe to hand them over wholesale to some white leaders for a new party. y / _ 11_-_ J "Be gentle wrtn us, wniie ioiks, don't boat and knock us up without cause, and even for cause. Arrest us and put us in jail and punish us under the law, if kindly warning and timely instruction fail to reach us. Our ambition, caught from contact. is ahead of our judgment Don't knock our brains out to open our eyes. Be merciful, or give us to the law. We hope the good white people of Greenwood will be considerate of our short comings, and especially the hard working, average Negro. Don't drive us from you. Let us come together and reason out our relations under God and the righteousness of our laws. If you don't want us, why don't stain your brave Saxon hands with the blood of a harmless, foolish, defenceles:Negro. Teach him better, or drive him to other climes. Don't assault him. The Negro will follow mosl any kindly disposed white man, even Chappelle, with the Negroes feeding him, is following white men. The Negroes, too. must act with good sense and not be wrought up by every fool big Negro, who has nothing to lose but an appointment. If Bishop Chappelle had tc work and get his bread, by his own honest labor, like the poor Negroes he is trying to ill advise, he would sine- another song than "fight till I you die," and following the devil tc split the white folks." "Don't Follow The New Party Anc The Devil" "We again advise our ministers not to be led off into the politca1 pit falls causing endless racial troubles by trying to follow Bishop Bull Bill Chappelle into politics. Chappelle is following others and hunting big money, not the help of the race. He started wrong by following the devil, as he said he would do. Preach the gospel, preach a never dying Christ, which standi for the golden rule, and let politics and Chappelle's new party go whew they may. Don't bring trouble or the poor country Negro, while Chappelle and his family will be here ir Columbia with plenty of money, gooc lawyers, and the big rich white friends that he so often boasts of ifar from danger and head knocks, and with his boasted 100,000 Negroes to support him in affluence and splendor the poor devils out ir the back woods going around stirring up strife and preaching politics according to 'Chappelle's ordei hrincr trouble uDon himself anc j communitv. ; "If Bishop Cnappelle has instructi ed his preachers and P. E.'s to turr i away from following Christ, anc give much of their sermons to politics, "reconstruction after the war," ! he calls it. But its wrong, impropei and foolish and we advise the preachers to follow Christ and staj out of politics of the Chappellc brand at least. He is not going tc , give a cent of money nor lose a drop of blood for any principles. H< wants others to do all the suffering Let him complete his boast and promise to make a political speech in every county in the state. If so ; we presume that Chairman Hayes will pay the expenses. This is no1 Chappelle's first political adventure behind strange gods and distingguished white men. He told us he i got monev for it too, when we abusi ed him about following the McLair faction to the national convention, and he then a big presiding elder Of course he was not seated. Buth< swore to us that he got the trip, ex Denses and the dough for his efforts There is something else behind this hank you for Dr. Pepsin. It is fine. ' husband and myself, thout a bottle of it in aid well written by\ nsen, 603 So. 2nd 1 City, Utah / Jwell's Pepsin Laxative :s Everywhere :) $i.oo lers of the intestinal tion and restores norltle in action and does le can be obtained by Iwell, 458 Washington v %* ) / . I StyleptusOol j ^ 25-130-jj | >mv* p--cr ** 01 | i Kings . | 0 ' Chappelle political movement, that ; we don't believe any decent, honest, self-respecting Negro can swallow. This man Chappelle should be kick! ed out of the church by the heels of [ the Christians and spurned from ! the state by the manly Negroes. ' How ridiculous for a Christian(?) | consecrated bishop to be messing in ! politics, forcing his preachers, where he can, to do likewise, ad vising' tne i\egroes iruuoiewanu, 1 whilst ho plavs safe, and declaring ; that he "will follow the devil to | split the Democratic party," lose [ his own sou! and disgrace his fam- j ; ily, harm his race, "to split the! [ Democratic party." Yet some Negro preachers say he is a god. a great man, a race leader. Shame on 1 us. ' "We know this is strong, but if | somebody does not warn the people * we will have race riots and trouble i all over the state from the vain and boastful assertions of this man who s claims to control all the Negroes. ? He may control the devil followers. "What on earth can the Negroes hope to gain by following a Negro like Chappelle who preaches amalgamation of the races and who asserts that, "I an sorry I am a black man, wish I was white, I wish my children were white. I am sorry I am back. Amalgamation will solve the problem." These are his words, and plenty of Negroes have heard him say so. Look up the files of The Atlanta Independent. He is a bad man." i Schedule Of Arrival And Departure Of Trains At Kingstrec South Bound I No. 83 11:07 a. m. No. 79 11:28 a. m. ! No. 47^ 6:57 p. m. i No. 89 9:20 p. m. North Bound .No. 80 7:16 a. m. * No. 46' 11:28 a. m. ; No. 7S 6:11 n. m. i I * Daily Except Sunday j : _ RINGS! REE j Lodge, No. 4E| meets the second Thursday night in each month. Visiting brethren are cordially j -nyited. B. E. Clakksgn, W. M. ! W. W. Holiday, Sec. 2-^7-1 v I , [ Bcs 733&S9& ra {BQffiw ay3wM9K?^^^^H^nirv ?0 ^ hts ^ Sold in H (COMf jtree Dr C/>e Store oj UNDERT AND Undertakers' Soppfies Coffins and With or Without t Prompt service rendered da; done on short notice. Teleph FLOWERS FU 1 represent two floral houses a and funeral designs on short not I P. S. CCH The People' H. A. Mille | Fresh Beef, Pork I LEAVE ORDI DRESSED C We are paying 222*cer Chickens in any quai ing cash for C THE PEOPLE'! H, A. MILLED, / A - Dressed fo on the Hon v-THE well-dress part of his advance. His clothes h< pearsonality across StvleDlus are by a unique meth( of great volume. Sty leplus Cloth men who know th< money and good a In fabrics, styli and durable qus Glothes are a most A wide range models fdr your se Snap for the ; Appropriate n ture men. 4- r?if? nit; rigiil oiz< physique. Make your d Visit this Styleplui ingstree by Y Goods f Quality AKING 11 re I Si of All Kinds. ? 01 -i-i - " I Caskets ? learse Service. St ? ca *1 y or night Embalming pi lone numbers fcl and 17. ^ RNISKED. I nd can furnish cut flowers : ,ice. [2-7-6m JRTNEY. | s Market :r, Prop. and Sausage. CRS FOR iir?vr\T / its per pound for ntity. Also pavovv Hides. L rMARKET " Proprietor. I Si r Action f 1 ne Front ipH man has I battle won in % i . .' > : j? ?lp to put his > manufactured )d?concentration ies are worn by 3 value of their , . ppearance. " j r\ r wi r> v\ v\ e, w uriuiicuidiiip j ility Styleplus I attractive buy. 4 in fabrics and lection. young fellows. * 7* lodels for ma<*1 ' e to fit every . 1 '! \ ollars produce! s Store today. } Co. f j c. ** i y 1 Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Reg? tration will be open on the lit Mow. 17 in etcb month for the pdrpooo of filtering inj person who is qnifi u M IVIIUWB Who shall have been a resident ol ie State for two /ears, and of tbs iQnty one /ear, and of the polling pro* net in which (he elector offers to >te four months before the da/ ot eetion, and shall hare paid, six ouths before, any poll tax then doe id pa/able, and who can both read id write any section of the aonstitnon of IBM submitted to him by the ipervisors of Registration, or who ,n show that he owns, and has paid 1 taxes collectible on daring the * esent year, pioperty in this Stale sessed at three hundred dollars or ore. BECLABS80M, nfert of Board. ?<* => . * "t:-' ^ V? *?4i -- ~?" > Jk J 1 Two-Manual Reed Organs have a sweetness and delicacy ot' tone that nnke them superior to all others. They have a great variety of registration and a volume sufficient for schools, chapels, lodges, etc. It is a well-known fact that Estey Reeil Organs are far better than any small, ck.vip pipe organ made. You will be convinced if you will call here and listen to an Estey. ^ 1 ^ P. A. Alsbrook, Agent j MEAT PRICES REDUCED From this date my prices on fresh ?ef will be reduced as follows: hoice steak 36c per pound oast beef 30c per pound tew beef 25c per pound sup meet 10c per pound H. A. MILLER.