The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-11-11

BOARD TO DECIDE AGAINST
THEM - DAVIDSON cDUNTYs
ONLY HOPE LIES IN WORDING
OF RILL-MATTER WILL BE SET
TIED SOON.
There Is no doubt but that the citi-
Gems Of Nashville demonstrated be-
yond any question that they were not
favorable to the location of the Nor
NAL school for Negroes in this city
as they made full expression Of their
choice last Tuesday. AS the situation
now stands, it appears that the county
alone is making a strong bid for the
location of the school. 1t cannot,
however, be construed by the verdict
rendered Tuesday at the polls that
the Nashville people would not en-
courage and lend their support to the
school, but it rather takes the attitude
that the city would not further in
crease its Indebtedness by issuing
bonds to the amount Of $4,000, as
special donation for the school
which when located, regardless of the
city, remains state institution. The
state would support it, pay it's teach
ers and keep up every department, yet
the only results to be obtained from a
financial standpoint would come di-
rectly to the city in whose close prox-
unity the school would be located.
Much speculation has been INDUCED
in since Tuesday as to what steps
Davidson County would take toward
pressing its claim. The city and coun-
ty claim the central location, and thus
had pressed their claim for the school.
Chattanooga is Nashville's closest
rival, and it is rumored on the streets
and throughout the city that the Look
out Mountain people, through their
City Council, had authorized a $685.
900 bond issue which would augment
the amount allowed by the County
Court of Hamilton County, making
the total $S5,000; while some argue
that it was unfortunate to have
thrown the proposition in with the
general election, as many people
looked upon the issue as a strong
campaign measure.
At the polls and throughout the
city the Black Bottom Proposition,
like that of the Negro Normal School,
was looked upon as strictly Demo-
cratic measure, proposed and fostered
by the administration leaders, hence
/ early in the day it was admitted that
both measures would meet defeat. 1t
lis probable, said well-informed busi-
ness man, that the overwhelming de-
feat met by the Normal School is at
tributed to the voters In voting the
proposition marking their ballots so
they were not counted. 1t Is true
that some election judges instructed
the voters wrong. In one case 1t Is
pointed out that instead of instruct
ing a voter to vote with the "X' OPP
nosite the yes or no. the voter was
instructed to write the word Eyes" or
mo" Wherever this happened the
votes were not counted in the election
returns. as intentions are never taken
for deeds. Hardly any one now ex-
poets favorable action on the part
of the State Educational Board with
regard to Davidson County and the
Normal School, unless the bill as 1t
passed the House and Senate is ad
hered to.
The provisions said to have been
contained in the bill at its passing
were to the effect that there would
be three Normal Schools for the
whites, one located in each of the
grand divisions of the state and one
Normal, Agricultural and Mechanical
School for Negroes to be located in
the middle or central portion of the
state This is the only hope that Da-
wilson County now holds for the lc'
cation Of the first state school ever
authorized in Tennessee. The fact
that the school has been so much
talked of, and that it would fill such
long-felt want aside from the fact
that its location in Nashville would
mean much to the future success OF