The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-03-14
q MEXICANS KILL
ED IN SKIRMISH
WOMEN SUFFRAGETS IN THE DE-
BATE AS The MAJESTIC NEXT
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

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of the city have become interested in
the debate to be held at the Majestic
Theatre next Wednesday night under
the auspices of the Nashville Teachers
Library and Benefit Association, and
record attendance is expected.
The entertainment itself is some
thing entirely new to Nashville peo-
pie. The subject to be discussed is
one of the most prominent and in
teresting topics now before the Ameri-
can people for adjustment. The prin-
cipals in the debate are among the
strongest of Nashville's intellectuals
The Fisk orchestra is the latest new
departure in music at Fisk, from which
place the best is always sent. The
Meharry Quartet is the peer of any
male musical organization appearing
in Nashville. The Teachers Library
and Benefit Association represents are
city's most powerful force in the max
ing of citizens. The Majestic Theatre
is owned and controlled by Negro.
All these facts are good evidence in
favor of a large and representative
audience at the debate.
Strangely enough there are large
number of intelligent men and women
of the race here in Nashville who have
no sympathy with the countrywide
movement for woman suffrage The
suffragettes say these are women op-
pressors and the slaves of men and
challenge them all to show the rea-
sons for their lack of sympathy with
the movement.
The suffragettes movement will have
two able champions next Wednes-
day night, Mrs. George E.
e. Haynes .and Miss Sophia Jackson.
Mrs. Haynes is former international
secretary of the Y. w. G. A. and has
had large experience in dealing with
the problems of young and old women.
She is a brilliant and interesting
speaker and will very likely cover her
ground thoroughly. Miss Sophia A.
Jackson is one of the ablest women
speakers among the city school teach
ers and one of Nashville's best think
ing young women. She is strong in
argument and will very likely make a
strong showing in the rebuttal.
1t is an entirley new and unusual
thing for Nashville women to meet
the men in public argument, but it has
come to that point. Women are press
ing men on every side now and the
men of Nashville have something more
at stake at this debate than is usually
the case. If Hon. A. N. Johnson and
Editor j. D. Crenshaw display any in
tellectual weakness in comparison with
their women opponents next Wednes-
day night, it may mean the starting
of "gridiron" club among Nashville's
colored men, 1t will certainly be an
other point in favor of the woman's
cause and her boasted intellectual su-
periority over men.
Everything connected with this de
bate has been placed on the highest
possible plane of intelligence and the
entertainment itself will serve as a
stimulus to our people to catch hold
of every opportunity offered for cul-
tivating interest in the live issues be-
fore the people.
An entertainment of this kind win
prove attractive to all of the intelli-
gent Negroes TO the city, and by that
is not meant the graduates of schools
and colleges alone, but rather all of
that great body of citizenship that has
enough of common sense, common
knowledge and common ambition to
grasp the simplest truths of life and
who understand the meaning of the
simplest questions affecting the public
welfare enough TO interest a self con-
trolling and self-supporting citizen
ship.
The debate will begin promptly at
8 o'clock. Each speaker of the af-
firmative or women's side will have
Is minutes for the opening presenta-
tion of the question and each negative
speaker Is minutes each to deliver his
opening argument. Each side will
have 5 minutes in rebuttal for each
speaker. There are to be three
judges and one of these will be a
woman.