The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-11-01
Opened Wednesday Evening
at Payne Chapel.
ADDRESS BY MAYOR BROWN
IN BEHALF OF CITY.
OTHER INTERESTING SPEECHES
FIRST BUSINESS SESSION
THURSDAY MORNING-ELECTlON
OF OFFICERS - ADMlNlSTRA-
TION OF THE LORDS SUPPER
FRIDAY EVENING SET FOR
ELECTION OF DELEGATAES TO
GENERAL CONFERENCE.

ELECTION OF DELEGA TAGS TO
GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Welcoming the thirty-ninth annual
session of the Tennessee Annual Con-
ference of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church to Nashville, Mayor
James S. Brown, made a strong AMIGA
BILE address before large audience at
Payne Chapel A. M. E. Church. in East
Nashville, Wednesday night Mayor
Brown had been preceded by DR.. R. F,
Boyd, who referred to him as one OF
the best friends of the Negro in the
city. Mayor Brown said: "It gives
me more pleasure than | am able
to express to you tonight to say
to you that you are welcome to
Nashville You say that | am
friend to the colored people, | say
yes 1t could not be otherwise. Be
fore | became Mayor, said in every
speech | made on the stump, that II |
we're elected Mayor, / would be the
Mayor of every man, woman and child
in the city. My friend, DR.. Boyd, has
said that there is some trouble being
made about some of my appointments
| say to you that that grows out OF the
fact that those men who are after me,
know that | am going to be the Mayor
of the whole city.
''Now, my friends, as Mayor OF the
city of Nashville, it is my duty to see
that the laws are enforced. | want
YOU to help me. You can do more in
aiding me than | can do in aiding you.
Let us have an honest, clean, God-fear-
inc and law-abiding CitiZenry from the
lowest to the highest. | say TO you, as
said in the campaign, there shall be
but one law. One law for the white
man; the same for the black man.
That is the spirit in which | entered
upon the duties of my office, and so
help me God it shall be the spirit in
which shall conduct the affairs of my
office until the end of the term. The COL
ored people have had tremendous task.
You have had difficulties to surmount,
and you have had some dark days.
However, | am not the only friend you
have in Nashville. | know that the
great body of the best white people in
this town sympathize with you, and
pray for you. | believe with all my
heart that your race has more friends
South of the Mason and Dixon line
than you have North of it. | NEAR
real, true friends, who know your dlt
hculties and your needs and who are
willing to help you"
Dr.. r. F. Boyd, in welcoming thu
Conference, called attention to the re
lationship between the Negro physi
clan and the Negro minister, stating
that for the uplift of the masses o
the race their work was so closely al
lied that they must go hand in hand
He stated that the real leader of tn
race since freedom had been the minis
ter and that he would continue in tina
capacity for some time to come A(
dresses were made by Prof Frank {
Smith, DR.. Sutton e. Griggs and otl
ers.
Besides the reports of the presidin
elders, pastors, and the usual bushes
transacted by an Annual Conferenc
the election of delegates to the Generi
Conference to be held in Norfolk, nel
MAY. will claim the attention of II
Conference Friday Great interest
being manifested in this part of II
Conference work, as the General Co
ference promises to be one of the mo
important held in the history of Il
church. The Conference elects five &c
eral Conference delegates, and just
Drsent this matter is accorded more
tention than any other phase of Il
work.
Nashville being the seat of the pu
fishing concern of the church, al
adds interest to the Conference, it
ing generally understood that the pr'
ent Secretary of the Sunday-schc
Union, Dr. William d, Chappelle, W
he elected to the Bishopric, and Do
A. Hart, a prominent laymen in
church, is a candidate for the pla
now occupied by DR.. Chappelle.
Two of the present Bishops of
church were formerly Nashville men
Bishop Charles H. Smith being