The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-10-20


All we can say on the subject
is that the Globes constituency,
as was said of the colored troops
in the civil war, eft nobly" on
the Howse side. The returns
from Black Bottom and the Fourth
Ward leave small doubt as to
that conclusion.
The last sentence in the concluding
paragraph shows plainly the spirit of
the Banner, or rather the one man
for whom it speaks. No one is sur
prised, but the most ardent admirers
of our vacillating contemporary would
have been sorely disappointed if this
sentiment had not been expressed.
To show the real motive of the
| Stalhman organ it is only necessary
to recall some of its utterances dur
ing the last three years. The Fourth
Ward and Black Bottom are referred
to because they are what is common
ly styled RED Light Districts
in 1910, less than fifteen months
ago, bill was introduced in the city
council to issue bonds to convert
Black Bottom into a park. All who
are acquainted with conditions in
this city know what Black Bottom
is. Let us see now. Stalhman, be-
cause he had personal feeling
against Mayor Howse, passed an or
der down to the editors of the Ban
ner that redemption or no redemp-
tion the proposition Of the Mayor
must be defeated So the influence
of the Banner was thrown against
the elimination of the notorious
Black Bottom, and what might have
by this time been a garden of flowers
remains an eyesore to the people and
disgrace to our city, But Stalh-
man says he is for reform. A few
months ago the citizens who are pa
irons of one our public schools pro-
tested against certain individual
teaching their children. They had
just cause for doing so, and the best
people of the city were agreed that
it would be an outrage to have chill
dren under the tutelage of such a
character, but what did Stalhman do?
Did he stand up for the moral up
lift of the Negro children? No;
he fought to the last ditch to have
that individual retained in the pub
lie schools He lost out, of course;
his friends would not support him
in such a mean and unmanIy stand
What did the Banner (Stalhman)
do?, The proceedings of the Board of
Education we're twisted in a way to
make it appear that Major Stalhman
would eventually win out.
During the campaign just closed
the Banner at every turn, endeav-
ored to create prejudice between the
Negroes and the regular democrats.
1t was cited several times that Ne
groes were not allowed to participate
in the primary, but no mention was
made of the star chamber sessions
of the Stalhman Committee. These
are merely few of the mote" and
beam" tactics of the Banner, but
enough to show any one the insin-
certify of the man for whom it
speaks.
The Globe. is not at all daunted by
the slurs of the Banner. We can
prove that the majority OF the Ne,
groes voted the straight democratic
ticket in nearly every ward in the
city In the Third Ward, where
Stalhman spent all day and half of
the night on election day, Mayor
Howse beat Gillespie by an over
whelming majority. Stalhman had
banked on this ward, but now refers
to it as the home OF democracy"
1t is hard to die in a struggle, but
the Major must die some how. If he
decides to fold his arms and pass
into political oblivion quietly, so well
and good; if he must be strangled
it will be pitiful to behold, but die
he must; and the Banner may not
have long to mourn his loss
The Negroes of this city will go