The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-06-19
COMMUNICATION.
Misrepresentation

To the Nashville Globe:
A daily paper in this city. The
Nashville Tennessean dropped to
pretty pass in its issue of Tuesday
June 16, in its attempt to make SEN
timent in its fight against Gov. Pat
terson. On the front page of that is
sue are the pictures of two men, one
white and the other colored Accom-
panying these pictures, in black-faced
type, is one of the most inAammatory
harangues that ever appeared ina pa
per; it would be q disgrace to the
worst yellow journal in all Christen-
dom. The Tennessean is a dangerous
paper and vicious menace to the
peace of this community. It is doing
tits best to "uproar the general peace
and pour the milk of concord into
hell" 1t is trying its level best to in
flame the minds of that class of men
whose passion for blood is easily ig-
| nited by such reckless and inhamma-
tory articles as it is feeding the pub
lie upon in its columns. If the bet
ter elements of the community do
not frown down this attempt on the
part of The Tennessean to stir up
racial strife, then the blood of limo
cent people must glut fat its ravenous
nav of vengeance to beat Gov. Pat
tersOn. The paper that will resort to
such heinous methods to defeat a
man who has made an excellent gov.
ernor is unfit to exist in any civil
lied community. The TennesseaR's
pitiable weakness and desperation to
meet the arguments of its opponents
are evinced by its methods of barking
back to some far-fetched crime COM
mitted in some distant state and for
which the accused and convicted cul-
| prit paid with his life to the satisfac-
ticn of the law, and that, too speed
! lily.
The machinery of the law in every
conceivable sense, real and implied,
is in the hands of the white man, yet
the actions OF The Tennessean show
that it is impatient of the orderly
workings of the law, which is all-pow-
erful and all-suficient, in dealing with
criminals. 1t, with unaccountable
deviltry and mercilessness, seems
bent on converting an otherwise
peaceable citizenry into demons,
such as characterized the mobs
of Atlanta a few months ago, to
slaughter and massacre an innocent
people-a people who have the best
interest of the community at heart,
people who are peaceable and law.
abiding, people who are wholly de-
fenseless, people who depend for
protection solely upon the sense of
chivalry and courage, the sense of
fairness and justice which they hope
have not become dormant in the
breast of the better element of the
South.
Now that this rabid sheet, The
Tennessean, which is disseminating
broadcast every morning its hideous
mental dynamite, the colored people
must begin in time and ask protection
of the better element of the white
ere the slaughter comes which The
Nashville Tennessean seems bent on
precipitating.
The sheet, known as The Tennes-
sean, argues, though miserably weak
and mediocre is its argument, that
prohibition will help only the colored
people. Who on earth, in heaven or
III the other place, would believe that,
il the teeth of its indammatory ar
ticles, it is making its fight for pro-
hibition to keep the bottle from his
his neighbours mouth-the colored
mans Such argument on its part is
perfectly transparent The white peo-
pie are fighting the liquor traffic to
save their own boys, and they always
find steady and loyal ally in the
colored people (the word people is
used, because the criminal class is
only the small fraction of the colored
people as it is the white race. The
bad liquor about which The Tonnes
sean discourses in such a maudlin
way is making as desperate a class
of criminals in the white race as it
is making in any other. This is pat.
ent upon the face of things, that is,
it is clearly shown by the relentless
war being waged against "Old King
Alcohol"
The fight being carried on between