Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1906 — OLD GLOET [?] DENOUNCED [ARTICLE]

OLD GLOET [?] DENOUNCED

Bishop Turner Declares It a "Dirty and Contemptible Hag”—V. S. Worse Than Hades. Mason, Ga., Feb. 16. dress before the 500 delegates attending the convention of negroes to discuss racial problems Bishop H. M. Turner declared the United States flag to be a “dirty and contemptible Atg.” He further said that hell was rfn improvement on the United States as fat as the negro was concerned. In concluding he said: “If a little, Ignorant and stupid white man, who was never heard of and never w’ould be heard of until 10.000 years after the resurrection trumpet, wishes a little notoriety he begins to belie and slander the n(>gro and bounds into popularity. And I challenge any one and all of them to meet me in public discussion, and I will show that the negro is a far letter man than they are.”