The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-05
FOR CITY OFFICES GIVES NE.
GItOES A CHANCE TO ELECT
COUNCILMAN.
Schools Enter Race
For Good Government by Issuing
Circular for Improvement in Lo-
cal Conditions Which Are Said to
BE Ininical to Good Morals.
(Regular Correspondent }

(Regular Correspondent
Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 2.-The Ne
groes of Nashville are just now in the
thick of hot city political campaign
They have the best chance they have
had recently, to elect Negro council
man. They are in a fine way to win
the everlasting gratitude Of Mayor
Hillary F.. Howse who seeks re-elec-
tion. II the Nashville Mayor loses
the Negroes will have to bear the
stamp of disapproval that will un-
doubtedly be put upon them by an ele-
= ment Of the white citizens.
If DR.. Gillispie who is opposing
House for Mayor wins the contest
without the support Of the Negroes, the
coored people will be in poor shape
for a long time to come because the
majority Of Nashville Negroes are
against "the doctor candidate" for
Mayor
The heads Of all the large institu-
tions of learning in Nashville have
registered themselves against the pres
ent city administration. These in
clude the Negro as we'll as the white
institutions of learning. Last Satur-
day the following address was issued
to the citizens Of Nashville by the
heads of seventeen schools and col
leges:.
THE undersigned represent schools
OF this city which draw to Nashville
thousands of students-young men and
young women-from all parts of our
country. These students while resi-
dents Of Nashville are committed. to
our care and we assume responsibility
not only for their education, but also
for their general welfare. This well
fare Is peculiarly affected by the en-
virCnment in which they live and work;
therefore, the moral conditions of our
city are as important to us in our
work as the educational facilities Of
our institutions. For this reason we
cannot be Indifferent to the public
welfare Of Nashville nor to the public
interests which are at this time under
discussion.
THE present conditions Of laWless-
ness and vice are unparalleled in the
history of Nashville This fact has
already rendered it more difficult than
ever before for us to maintain the pat
ronage Of our institutions Of learning.
This difficulty promises to increase
if the conditions which have created
the difficulty continue. Unless the
civic life of this city be improved
our educational life must surely de-
cline. 1t is not the publication, but
the prevalence Of vice that menaces us.
We plead for correction, not conceal
ment.
I'VE earnestly appeal to all the peo-
pie of Nashville to cooperate with us
in fulfilling to our patrons promises Of
improvement in local conditions,
against which many patrons have
complained and on account Of which
some have hesitated. We do not feel
that it is too much to expect that the
mercantile, financial and labor inter-
ests Of the city that gain large legiti-
mate profit from the presence OF these
schools should be neither antagonists
nor Indifferent, but friendly to the
cause Of good order, public morals and
civic righteousness.
J. II. KIRKLAND,
Chancellor Of Vanderbilt University
IRA LANDRITH,
President Belmont College
J. y. BLANTON,
President Ward Seminary
e. G. BUFORD,
Regent Buford College
GEORGE A. GATES,
President Fisk University
MRS. J. o. RUST,
President Boscobel College
G. B. WALLACE,
Principal University School
G.. w. HUBBARD,
Dean Of Meharry Medical College oj
Walden University.
w. F. QUItLIAN,
President Methodist Training School
JNO. F.DRAUGHON,
President Draughton's Business Col
lege
ALEXANDER FALL
President Of Falls Business COLLEGE
and Superintendent of Watkins