The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-03-01

Volney James, Cranberry Jackson, ]. |
f. Stuart, Dan W. Cunningham, W.
B. Reese, C. H. Hollowell, Eugene F.
Turner, Harry Murray, w. D. Dale,
E. 7, Kirkpatrick, John Leiper, R. A.
HALEY, Fielding Yost, DR., w E. Hill
bett, r. 7. Creighton, George ii.
Price, DR.. David PicEens, John NJ
Gaut, Jordan Stokes, JEFF McCarn,
Nathan Cohn, Thomas ]. Tyne, P. D.
Maddin, Dan McGugin, e. T. Seay.
John B. Keeble, Louis Leftwich, p.
NJ. Estes, Byrd Murray, o. ]. Tim.
othy, Adolph Meyer, w. r. Hale, Jr,
Arch Trawick L. Jonas, John Early,
j. " Crockett.
T. J. Tyne moved the appointment
OF a committee of five to report a
plan of organization to carry out the
purposes outlined in the report This
motion was discussed briefly by M.
B. Morton and other speakers. all
of whom expressed the sentiment
! that the time had come to stop the
burning and torturing of persons ac-
| cused of crime. They had as much
| adherence of the crimes for which
the lynching was done as anyone,
but believed that in a civilized soci-
ETY. the laws had full power to nun
ish the guilty.
Mr.. Tyne's motion prevailed. and
the committee was appointed consist
ing of Percy d. Maddin, chairman;
7. ]. Tyne, John r. Aust, c. A. Craig
and c. B. Wallace.
While the committee was out DR.
Weatherford addressed the meeting
by request. He said that the report
was not only a protest against moi
violence, but it was an active steI
toward preventing it. The repUr
was not wholesale condemnation y
the courts, but was an attempt t.
set forth the duty of proceeding
according to the law and in order
the foundation stone of all civiliAa
tion. Mob violence was always
slap at the courts, and a declaration
that a mob could deal out justice bet
ter than the constituted courts. LA "
should be respected and pcopl
should be made to respect them
Even if the courts were sometime
slow, no body of men could be just
1 fed in hurrying proceedings b
means that were unlawful. A mo
was elemental savagery that over
throws the law Mob violence di
not prevent crime, for there wa
! never yet lynching, however, hol
, rible, that was not followed by othe
crimes similar to the crimes of th
, man summarily executed. 1t wa
not a deterrent, but a creator o
: crime Mob law had been robbinl
us of our high ideals, back of wnicl
j. lay all chivalry. 1t was to the credi
[. of the people of Nashville, boil
| white and colored, that there hat
, been no lynching here for twenty
, five years.
: The report shows us, said tn
; speaker, that there are remedies
l The custer law can be invoked, ant
: must be invoked against every of
ficer who connives at or without re
? sistance, even at the risk of his life
t permits the mob to have the criminal
7 He cited some commendable in
stances of successful resistance t,
: mobs by officials,
: Chairman Maddin then read his re
: port recommending taking out
= charter, and suggesting the frs
. board of directors for it. These ii
: rectors were as follows: DR.. Edwil
j. Minis, j. H. Allison, Bruce R. Payne
y E. B. Stahlman, DR.. ]. H. Kirk
land, G. n. TTillman, DR.. |. Lewintha
= Byrd Murray DR.. Carey Morgan, lie
y Loventhal, DR.. w. B. Taylor, j.
: Blanton, DR.. James I. Vance. Alber
y e. Hill. DR.. Stritch, ]. H. Dewitt
T. John Howe Peyton. 10 B. Morgan, {
+ ]. Timothy, T. N. Ivie, W. H. Lam
l. beth, T. j. Tyne, John r. Aust, C.
l. Craig, C. B. Wallace, P. d. MaddiI
+ w. r. Cole, r. T. Creighton, H. {
J. HILL Patrick H. Cain, Jeff McCarn.
: The bylaws provided that any r.
T. putable citizen could become men
r Der if favoring the objects of the o
s. ganization and that there be no due
T. The board of directors will selei
l. the officers, which consist of a pres
F. dent, vice president, secretary an
- treasurer.