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Famous Journalist Who Entered Many Fields

Intimate Study of the Late Major Orlando Jay Smith, Founder of the American Press Association—Thinker, Philosopher and Writer Whose Life Touched Great Men as Weil as Great Movements.

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By JAMES A. EDGERTON. . N his day Major Orlando Jay Smith the late president of the Amerl can Press Association, entered many fields. At twenty-two he

was a major of cavalry In the Union & army. At thirty-seven he was editor % of one of the leading greenback and { anti-monopoly papers of the country, the Chicago Express. Starting at the

. of forty, he built up in a quarter

of a century the largest newspaper syndicate In the United States. He

mond; the east Tennessee campaign, the Knoxville campaign and the Atlanta campaign. He commanded his regiment in the operations at the right of Kenesaw mountain. Ond of his most exciting war experiences was as a participant in Stoneman’s raid. He opposed Stoneman’s action in surrendering the brigade of which Major Smith’s regiment was a part and proved that it was unnecessary by leading hla regiment In cutting Its way out and escaping. He

was an advocate of life in the open, of was afterward severely wounded, how-

the preservation of our forests and was an authority on arboriculture. He was a believer In fundamental democracy and furthered It both by books and through the other avenues at his gi command. He wa? a keen Judge of iC character, quick to detect genius and ' ‘ started more young writers on the path to fame than perhaps any man of his day. Finally, his many works on science and religion attracted the attentjon of thinkers not pnly in his v own land, but In India and England

and throughout the world.

> His life touched not on^Lgfeat movements, but great men. In addition to those that he helped to find themselves and their work, many of whose g names are now household words, he was for many years a. friend and , neighbor of Robert G. Ingersoll, often \ entertained William KI. Bryan at his ' home and was a particular friend of 1 Dr, Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews. There was an especial sympathy between these two on religious and philosophical lines. At Major Smith's funeral Dr. Shaw referred feelingly to this bond and read from the books of his dead friend passages on his faith In life beyond the grave. , Touched Ifony Shores of Thought. Major Smith was born on an Indiana farm and lies burled at Sleepy

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ORLANDO JAY 'SMITH.

Hollow, N. ^., made famous by Wash- constantly engaged In the dangerous

Ington Irving. A< one time he was a Mississippi planter. The three extremes illustrate not only his career, but show his sympathy^ with all sections. The breadth of his views Is Indicated by the fact that he kept abreast of the advanced thought of his day and at the same time was familiar with all religions, ancient^ and modern. He was an intense admirer of characters as diverse as Charles Dickens and Napoleon Bonaparte. The English novelist he read over and over, and of Napoleon he had a death mask, statues and paintings, while his library was stocked with books concerning the first emperor. There could have been nothing narrow In a man who pouched so many shores of thought an<i who had Interests so wide and varied. He was a rare combination of the practical

man and the Idealist.

Pathetic Prison Experiences. Orlando Jay Smith was of New England ancestry and was the son of a pioneer. He was born near Terre erP Haute, Ind.. on June 14, 1842. He V graduated from Asbury college,, now De Panw university, which afterward conferred on him the degree of LL. D. Entering the Union army in April, 18C1, he served until September, 18G5.

work of scouting. One of his theories was that men to fight well must be well fed and cared for. He was therefore noted for his efforts for the comfort of his command. After the war Major Smith became a member of the

Loyal Legion.

Baffled Three Assassins.

His exciting days did not end with being mustered out of the service. Raising cotton on a Mississippi plantation may not sound like a “hazardous occupation,” but It all depends 4m the time In which It was done and by whom. For a northern officer to engage In the pursuit while the bitterness of the war was still fresh was not the most healthful of occupations, yet this Is exactly what Major Smith did and despite unpleasant occurrences persisted in It for three years. On one occasion he was followed by three men that he felt intended to assassinate him. Suddenly wheeling his horse, he confronted them With the question, “Well, gentlemen, what do you want?” This disconcerted them,

and they went their ways.

Even yet his, warlike experiences were'not over. In • 1809 he returned to Terre Haute and started a newspaper, the Mail. So vigorous were som6

enlisted ns n private and rose tol 0 f his editorials that one gentleman

be second sergeant the first year. lie was then mustered out With his regiment and helped to form a second regi- - 'merit, la which he was commissioned second lieutenant, then served two years as captain and early In 1804 was raised to the grade of major. He participate,1 in the Shenandoah valley campaign, the Kentucky campaign where Ir* fought vw 1 !*' ' ’

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thought himself aggrieved and thereupon began shooting at the major from behind a barrel, as a result of which the young editor carried a second bullet hole to the day of his death. Later Major Smith acquired the Terre Haute Express and launched It as a greenback organ. Six years or more were devoted to this cause, during which tlm6 Major gave his

whole soul to the work, wfitlfig and speaking constantly. The Express grew until in 1878 It was moved to Chicago, becoming one of the foremost papers in the movement. It was In 1882 that Major Smith startthe American Press Association. The plan on which he worked was untried and seemed to fall on the first attempt. He only changed its details and ■worked the harder.. At last his efforts and genius for organization began to tell, and today the institution, of which he was the head until the time of his death, is the largest newspaper syndicate in America and the foremost of its kind in the world.

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How Labor Leaders Regard Judge Wright’s Decision.

ever, and made a prisoner near Jug Tavern, Ga. His prison experiences were most pathetic. His wound was painful throughout the entire time, he had little to eat except parched corn and lived in open stockades where there was no shelter except holes the prisoners burrowed in the ground. Three experiences that he told one of his friends are characteristic. One was the finding of an old oven door, which he lugged with him from prison to prison and used for parching his corn or for cooking any morsel he might pick up. Another was of finding enough old rails and wood to build a shanty about six feet square. This seemed like a mansion to the men. and when the very day it was completed' word came that they were to be exchanged there was actual regret at leaving it. The third episode was in Charleston when the city was bombarded by the Union forces. Nortbem prisoners were placed where they were exposed to the fire of their own armies. Major Smith being in one of the most dangerous positions. After being exchanged in December, 1864, he was placed in command of the phroled prisoners at Camp Chase, Columbus, He was also assistant Inspector general of the Sixth division of Wilson’s cavalry corps. Being in the cavalry. Major Smith was almost

Brought Many Into Prominence* In this work Major Smith employed at various times most of the well known fiction writers and many of the

most brilliant newspaper men of the last quarter of a century. Some of these he picked as winners when they

were unknown and brought them into prominence. It is worthy of note that he bought from Ella Wheeler Wilcox the first poem she ever sold; that he suggested the bringing of Eugene Field to Chicago, the step that estab-

lished his fame; that he was a close

friend and advlse^r of John Clark Ridpath, the historian; that he first detected the genius of the Inimitable short story writer who goes under the pen name bf “O. Henry;” that before Peter Finley Dunne, with his “Dooley,” had jumped Into fame Major Smith predicted that he would be the humorist of the Spanish-American war, and that by syndicating their work he did much to spread the popularity of such men as Bill Nyc, M. Quad, Murat Halstead, T. De Witt Talmage, Champ Clark and numberless

others. Among the well known writers

who worked w'ith Major Smith before becoming prominent, many of w’hom owe their start to his encouragement and interest, may be mentioned Tom Masson, editor of Life; Sewell Ford, the short story writer; Frederick A. Ober, the historian; Jack London, Booth Tarkington, Dexter Marshall, the syndicate writer; John H. Beadle,

famous a generation ago; Howard

Fielding, the novelist; Joseph R. Buchanan, now labor editor of the New* York Journal: Eliza Archard Conner, the woman’s writer; H. Addington Bruce, now a recognized authority on psychology; F. A. Mltchel, novelist: Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary of the Lincoln Farm association, and hosts of others throughout the land. Major Smith w’as himself an author of more than national fame, both In economics and in the fields of philoso-

phy aad religion. Oh “EferriaHsm" he stances sfifflTaif

received a letter of thanks from a maharajah of India, and that and oth er works were reviewed by some of the best known critics and scientists of the day. Of a nature similar to “Eternalism” are “Balance,” “A Short View' of Great Questions” and “Agreement Between Science and Religion, while “The Coming Democracy” outlines a plan for a more perfect system of voting and popular government One of the greatest essays I ever read from the pen of Major Smith appeared in the Open Court only a few months

before his death.

MAY RESULT IN

San Francisco Man Bel ing of Gompers, Mitchell to Imprisonm*

IRY TRIAL •vea Sentenclorrison and it Will Arouse

the People—J. R. Buchanan Says,Me cisicn Will Tend to Solidify Labor.

■ i Miiiiii m ■ ■ mm if The sentence of impjrteonment for Loutenipt in disreg.irdl^g the injunc lion of the court in the '.boycott of the Buck’s Sjove and Kangi) company imposed by Judge Daniel Jff.. E. Wright of the supreme court of the District of Columbia on Samuel *lHompers, the president of the Americtin Federation of Labor; on Frank Morrison, secreta-

ry of thdt body, and ou John Mitchell,

former head of the Miners’ federation, ^ v ^°^ ^~"«i^ ’ rru" „ hno nrn»<vh<- <1 nnmlior nf Anltvlnfia ^llGy failed tO find pFOOf Of gUllt. The

Boston Morning Herald.

If it were true, as the President declares in his special message to Congress, that the “fact that the colored soldiers did the shooting (at Brownsville) has already been established beyond all possibility of doubt,” corroborative evidence on that point would now be unneccessary. But the proof has never been produced. Abundant testimony has been given under oath. Officers of the regim^pt, and individual soldiers, have been heard by four different tribunals, and no warrant for conviction or specific indictment has been found. The grand jury of Gamer on county, Texas, heard the evidence directed against suspected members of the negro companies, and was unable to report a bill against any of them. Two army courts-martial investigated the charges against the troops, and

has brought out a number of opinions by Tabor leaders. Here are a few; “The sentencing of Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison to terms of Imprison meat In the Buck’s Injunction case will, in my opinion, be Of benefit rather than harmful to the trades union movement in America,” says Joseph R. Buchanan, a well known labor lead er and writer on labor questions. “It will draw together and solidify the elements which have been antagonistic. These antagonisms have grown out of disagreements upon questions of policy, particularly with relation to trade and intertrade matters. These disagreements have defeated the complete solidarity of the trades unions. But attacks upon the men In high official positions by forces entirely outside of the movement Invariably obliterate the recollection of grievances on the inside, and all divisions of the army of organized labor rally to the

support of those attacked.

“A recent illustration of this truth was furnished at the Norfolk convention of the American Federation of Labor In November, 1907. Until that convention Mr. Gompers had i ver been elected president without opposition, and the Socialist element was sometimes bitter In its fijrht upon him. Because of the attacks made upon Mr. Gompers by the Natlon|r Association of Manufacturers the fgn la lists took

resulted in his unanimous at Norfolk. I ,QPPi4JE^M

to tuis one, all *of

which convince me that the trades union movement will not suffer because of the verdict of the supreme court.”

Charles H. Moyer of Denver, presi dent of the Western Federation of Miners. In speaking of the punishment

of Gompers and others said:

■ “The decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia against Gdmpgrs, Mitchell and Morrison further bears out what I have for a long time preached—that It is no use for tlie vvprklng class to legislate without

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Senate committee on military affairs summoned soldiers and civilians to testify before them under oath. But the committee was unable to identify any member of the three companies with the disturbance in Brownsville. Repeated accusation and assertion of the guilt of these soldiers by the President is not equivalent to proof/ The dismissal of the negro troops was an arbitrary act, for which the civil, military and congressional tribupals have

failed to find justification.

Apparently the President realizes the weakness of his position. In the last session of Congress, two bills were before the Senate, each assuming to be “for the relief of certain former members of the Twenty-fifth United States Infanty.” Senator Waner, of committee on military affairs, devoted several days to a defence of the administration’s policy, die assumed and asserted as ihe Pre ident had done, that tlie case against thd negro troops was complete. The possibility of doubt was not admitted. The case was said to h<‘ closed. Reinstatement in the federal service was to be permited only on the approval of the President, who had already pronounc-

the lead in a unity movement which ed wholesale condemnation on the

COLORED SISTERS

Oblate Sisters of Providence of Catholic Church

Over Two Hundred Negro Nuns Now

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Authority on Immortality. Without attempting to go into his philosophy at length, it attempts to prove immortality by scientific meth ods; to show that there Is absolute balance and adjustment In all things; that the individual Is ultimatey responsible for his every act, the law of balance in his case becoming justice thus requiring life after death for Its completion and fulfillment; that the basic principles of all religions are the same, and they thus support and prove each other, and that the Ideas of moral accountability, of a supreme intelligence and of some sort of communication between the living and the dead have been universally held In all times and climes, thus showing them to be Instinctive In the race and furnishing the strongest presumptive evidence of their truth. These themes will be more popular a generation hence than they are today, and it is my own deliberate opinion that Qrlando Jay Smith will be an authority upon them long after an army of present day writers

are forgotten.

In politics Major Smi.th was a radical In the sense that he thought for himself and followed the utter truth as he saw it. Yet he was ever optimistic and constructive. Trees Were His Friends. In personal appearance Major Smith was rather tall and compactly built. His face was strong and smooth shaveh, his eyes blue and direct, his hair abundant, but snow white. At home he had the same simplicity, sincerity and easy dignity that marked him everywhere. He leaves a widow, two daughters and a son, Courtland Smith, whom the father trained up to be his assistant and successor In business. Major Smith loved the open country, and the trees were his friends. He knew them well both scientifically and In a more human way. I cannot close this article w.ithout a personal word. I never knew a man whose Ideas ran more nearly parallel with my owm In almost every field than did those of Major Smith. Because of personal sympathy and friendship I have refrained from saying many things that are in my heart, fearing that my own bias might make, me overdraw the picture, n thing that no character sketch shoufd do. I trust my readers to see betw-een the lines and to discern not the mere words, but the spirit and feeling be-

hind the words.

This much I will say: Orlando Jay Smith raised the standard of American Journalism as did perhaps, no other man of his time, and he believed in and furthered movements of betterment in almost every field of human thought and endeavor.

ving the courts first reformed.”

Henry Abrahams, secretary of the Boston Central Labor union, said: “It seems as though the judges have gone mad. Slowly and insidiously our people have been deprived of their liberties. This sentence Is a blow at the

freedom of, the press.”

W. D. R3’an of Indianapolis, national secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, of which John Mitchell was president when the alleged boycott resolution was acted on at the miners’ convention a year ago, sent the following telegram to President Roosevelt: “As an official representative of the United Mine Workers of America I emphatically protest against the court decision sending Gompers, Mitchell and ' i MorrUon to jail. I know of no law that has been violated by Gompers or Morrison In connection with the case in question, and I am positive that Mitchell Is absolutely Innocent.”

George W. Perkins of Chicago, president of the Cigarmakers’ International union, Mr. Gompers’ owm organiza-

tion, said:

“I hold that the decision was unjust and uncalled for and not In keeping with the ethics of even handed justice. The judge appeared to be spiteful and bitter in imposing the sentence. I hold that Mr. Gompers and his companions committed no crime in the sense in which that term is applied and used. Mr. Gompers believed he had a constitutional inherent right as a citizen to do the things which he openly and in broad daylight had done.”

men. Tomorrow waa fixed as the date on which Senator Foraker should undertake the defence of the troops unjustly discharged. The extraordinary attempt at corroborative evidence which the President now makes, characterizes the case of thr^Executive. His investigation is not yet completed. He promises more affidavits,when all ills secret agents have been heard from. But with only two days before tiie shell of suspfeibn, assumption and assertion will be torn to pieces by the searching analysis of the Ohio lawyer who holds the brief for justice and for the negro, partial report of a new secret investigation is rushed before Congress in order to bolster up the de-

fence of executive policy.

For six months a private detective agencyJias been at work under the President’s orders. Over thirty states have been visited. Detectives, named or unnamed, have seen and cross-ques-tioned 130 of the discharged soldiers. The circumstances of the interviews, the method of procedure and the inducements offel’ed for evidence may be imagined. No formation on these points is offered. But, after all; the drag net has produced only one wit-’ ness and he now stands by the President’s side as the accuses of the colored troops. His named is Boyd Conyers. He was a soldier in Company B, „.the 25th. Under oath before the Senate committee, he swore that he knew nothing of the plot to shoot up Brownsville. He is not under oath at tLe present time. The President’s private d^ective does not hold a high opinion of his witness. He admits that his evidences contains many discrepancies. In fact, the testimony of former Private Conyers comes to the President’s private detective as a matter of hearsay. Wm. Lswson, character, occupation and present whereabouts unknown lo Congress, deposes that he secured the confidence of Conyers, who related to him a story of the Brownville plot, and, under the influence of “a drink or two,” revealed to him what the President’s private de-

New York Sun.

At the present day there are t Catholic orders, numbering almost 200 colored nuns, laboring on behalf of their own people In the United States. One of these two orders, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, has been in existence as a community since the year

1820.

It was founded by Father Joubert, a Frenchman who had emigrated to Hayti at the thne of the reign of terror in France. The early part of the nineteenth centuary was marked by the arrival in the United States of a great many refugees from Hayti and Santo Domingo. Joubert was among theses refugees. He landed at Baltimore, Studied there for the priesthood and was finally ordained. The chapel to which he was assigned says the Rosary Magazine, was frequented principally by French speaking Catholics, both white and colored. There was in this church a lower chap in which worshipped many colored people, mostly from Santo Doingo. Father Joubert had two friends to whom he confided his dream of forming a religious community of colored women who would devote *their lives to the educatfon and service of their own people. Both friends gave him warm encouragement and spoke of four young women, three of them from Santo Domingo and one a native of this country, kept a small private school, and led a retired life with the hope of some day consecrating themselves to God in religion. Without delay FatherJoubert sought out these women, told them of his plans and after much prayer and searching of hearts they humbly offered themselves' to him for the work. With the permission of his superior Father Joubert called on Archbishop Whitegeld of Baltimore, who warmly approved his plans and authorized him to form such a community. After the formal plan of a mle had been drawn up and the usual probation undergone, on July 2. 1829, the order was established. On that day the first four sisters made their vows. as> Oblate Sisters of Providence. They id once opened a small school, which soon became more crowded. Father Joubert governed the convent until his death in 1843, being attended in his fatal illness by Sister Mary Joseph, a most remarkable woman, and at her death, in 1904, the oldest nun in the world. She was known to have reached the great age of 113. Today the Oblate Sisters have about ninty members. They conduct orphanages and day schools in Baltimore, Normandy, Mo., St Louis, Leavenworth, Kan., a parochial school in Washington, D. G., and a day school in Havana, Cuba. Thep have more than 200 orphans under their care and 500 pupils in their schools. The Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family was the second order found d in 1842, for colored women. The mother house of the order is in what was formerly a notorious dance hall in New Orleans where now constant prayer to God and the practice of good works make it a hallowed

place.

Th 1 sisters number about eighty. They have an academy for girls inNew Orleans and teach in the schools of the Cathedral Parish, St. Maurich’s, and St. Bernard’s in the same city. They are also in charge of two asylums and teach in various parochial schools.

COLORED INSPECTORS. National Provisioner.

Every once in a while the newspapers report trouble in some locality over the presence of a colored meat inspector for the United States government. The latest complaint is from Nebraska City, Neb., where it is said the other inspectors threaten to resign unless the colored official is repioved. Their reasons Jare stated. In many plants they work side by side with colored packing house workmen and offer no

objection.

It is understood that there are three of these colored inspectors in the ser-, vice. They got there, through the medium of a competitive civil service examina ion, and from the fact that they have held their places all this time it is apparent that they must be as efficient as their white brethren. The Bureau of Animal Industry can hardly be expected to draw the color line here, and it is not likely that it

will do so. '

NEGRO PITMANS

A New Trial Refused by Georgia Sup reme Court in Suit to Bar Organization. Macon Ga., Telegraph. Judge John P. Ross has returned from Atlanta where he appeared before the judge of the superior court of Fulton county and argued against the right of a negro organization to use the name“Knights of Pythias.” He represented the Knights of Pythias of Georgia, of whom he is past grand chancellor. The court sustained fl5r the second time the contention of the white Pythians that the negroes could not legally adopt the name by overruling a mo ion for a new trial. The initial hearing on the injunction was had over a year ago, and at that time the negroes received an adverse decision. They applied for a new trial however, and have received another denial It is stated that they will appeal the case to the supreme court. It was at the annual convention ‘of the Knights of Pythias held in Macon two years ago that action was first taken on the matter of ;the use of the title by negroes for their organization The grand jury authorized the institution of injunction proceedings which have thus far been successful It will be several years before the case is finally decided, as it will be#arried to the highest court in the land, the defendantshaving subscribed a la'rge sum to carry on the legal fight

Contest Closes

P. H. Morrissey of Cleveland, O., until recently grand master of the Brotl> erhood of Railway Trainmen, discussing the decision of Judge Wright, said: “!ln the light of this decision and others that have been rendered against labor in Injunction cases it is not strange that labor organizations should demand the passage of laws guaranteeing trial by jury in contempt cases. This decision will surely emphasize the need of such a law and in that resj -f ., will serve a useful purpose.”

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Imperial Lodge No. 143. Elected the following officers for 1st term, 1909: J. Thurman, M. of W. Wm. Marshall, C..C. John Kiger, V. C. W. T. Smith, Prlate. Robt. D. Gilliam, M. of F. W. G. Smjth, M. of Ex. E. C. Hamilton, K. of R. and S. Thomas Taylor, Chr. Trustee Board J. S. Harris, Chn. Banking Com. W. G. Smith, Grand Rev, Appointed: J. A. Seah, M. at A. Emmitt Hill, I. G. Louis Ross, O. G. Dr. Clarence Lucas, M. Ex.

Walter MacArthur of Sau Francisco, editor of the Coast Seam&n’s Journal, said: “I regard that sentence as an epoch making event In the history not only of labor, but of civilization. " No sympathy need be expressed for those immediate victims of government by injunction, since the result cf their imprisonment is bound to be beneficial In the sense that It will arouse the people to a realization of the dangers to human liberty which are inherent in a system of government by Injunction”

THE MOST POPULAR MINISTER CONIES!

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The Indianapolis Recorder is conducting a voting contest to decide who is th most popular minister;of the race in Indiana. Ballots^will appear weekly and are good for one vote, if received at the Recorder Office before the first of next month. Special Ballots will be given with all subscriptions "as follows; 1 year, 100 votes 6 months, 50 votes; 3 months, 25 votes. A $50.00 suit of clothes will be presented to the successful minister by the Recorder. Watch the vote each week.

Popular Minister Voting Ends With This Issue of The Recorder With this issue of The Recorder the final regular ballot in the great Minister’s popularity contest that has held the attention of thousands of readers of this paper and friends of the various contestants, for three months, appears and the contest is closed. Subscribers to The Recorder are allowed until next Thursday noon Jan. 7th jto get their regular or special ballots into this office and afyer that hour no ballots will be recei vedYo the credit of any minister. The^rading of a second suit of clothes to be presented to the second highest minister, has won many hearty congratulations from the various persons who are working in the interest of their pastors. The final results will be announced in our next issue. The' standing of the ministers today is as follows: Rev G W. Ward, Mt. Zion Bap church 10,516 Rev. Lemuel Stokes, city 8530 Rev. Chas. Hunter, Presiding Elder...8450 Rev. R. D. Lenard, Union Tabernacle Baptist Church 5850 Rev. Noah W. Williams, Richmond A. M. E. church * !033 Rev. G. H. Shaffer, Bethel A. M. E. Church. 7 6 4 Rev. ,G. C. Sampson, Allen Chapel Church 604 Rev. H. J. Callis, Joifes Tabernacle... 501 Rev. Chas. Johnson, city....» 250 Rev. James Roberts, Antioch Baptist Church....^ 225 Rev. White, Witherspoon Presbyterian 206 Rev. G. A. Martin, Corinthian Baptist Rev. K. Warren, Olivet Baptist church 188 churchT. 177 Rev. H. L. Herod, 2d Christian church. 152 Rev. J. S. Bailey, Simpspn Chapel ch’rch 156 Rev, H. H. Hinton, M. E. Church, Con ville *. ,.... 125 Rev. J. C. Patton, ShilohBapti^h ch’rch 125 Rev. C. E. Hardmon, Franklin, Ind . . 100 Rev. Morris Lewis, Presiding Elder A. Rev. W, M. Winfield, Penick Chapel.. 107 Revt. Chas. Williams, Cavalry Baptist church . . . ^ . . .<0 . V. . \ . . . 75 M. E. Church 50 Rev. B. F. Farrell, Mt. Paron Baptist Church 50 Rev. Pj. Lewis, Noblesville 25 Rev. Mitchell, Metropolitan Baptist • church........ 50 Rev. J. Francis Robinson 50 Rev. J. C. Campbell, City 50 Rev. J. P. Wallace, Terre Haute, Ind . 50 Rev. N. A, Seymour, New Bethel Baptist church 50 Rev. Patterson New Hope Baptist 25 Rev. jonnson, Irvington Baptist church 25 Total Votes 3^559

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