Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-11
THE PRESS PEOPLE.
NUMEROUS NEW ENGLAND EDITORS
COMING TO RICHMOND.
Their Visit to be Made In Three Parties In
the Months OF May and
June.

Mass, is in the city, making arrangements
tor the visit of the New England editors TO
Virginia.
The tour is largely the result Of the en-
terprise of the Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company. but by the desire of all in
terested Richmond has been included in
the route.
May 17th-lsth the Massachusetts, Press
Association will be here; May 29th and
30th the New England Suburban Press As
soclation will come, and June the l4th.
/ 10th the Womans Press Association OF
New England will be our guests. They
| come from Boston TO Norfolk by steaii-
ship. Thence they 90 over the Norfolk
and Western railroad, and as they journey
| homeward will stop in Richmond. and
Washington, ID. c., Norfolk, Petersburg.
Lvnchburg, aud Roanoke will entertain
them. So will Richmond. The capital OF
the Old Dominion will give them hospi;;
| table reception and kindly welcome. and
will show them city as rich In industrial
| development as in historical association.
THE ORIGIN OF IT.
The visit is primarily the result of q
short stay in our midst last summer OF
Mr.. Haywood. who though but twenty
SIX years old. has undergone trimming IN a
catholicity of sympathy, and who long ago
came TO the conclusion that 1t was n
striking peculiarity of northern newspa-
pers and northern people. in their ignO-
rance. TO misrepresent the South and lts
various questions.
"One falls readily into the ways OF the
| Virginian as he is, and finds them not ut oil
ahin 20 the Nirginian Of the northern I'M
! aginatiOn,n said MIR. Haywood Yesterday.
"They are frank in speech and courteousin
manner. They are not given to rapaclty
| in their dealings with others. and in ciyil-
| ty and honesty they certainly differ very
pleasantly from some of their detractors.
| Only the aspirations of ignorance or the
ambition of politicians Will associate the
| South as she is with what she Is represent
ed to be-"
LETTERS.
| The project has met with general favor,
| and the inauguratOr receives an average OF
| fifty letters daily endorsing the matter.
| The one which he states has pleased HIM
most is from Governor Mckinney, who
writes:
~ am glad TO know that the New
| England Press Associations propose 10 pay
q visit to Virginia i'll the early spring. |
/ will be plea .ed 20 see them and you, and |
| am sure that they will receive cordial
J welcome. IL the two sections knew each
/ other better ! am sure they would love
each other more. and would be more tolc
/ rant OF each Others irailtieS and more
! disposed 90 cultivate the love and friend
| ship which existed before our late un-
! pleasantness. We repeat, We are pleased
/ to know that your associations are coming
| to Us, and n cordial welcome Will be eX-
/ tended 70 them wherever they may go III
this or any other part of the south.
"P. W. NcKINNEY."
VIEWS At A BANQUET.
Following are extracts from remarks bv
| Mr. Haywood made Mt the recent banquet
! of the New England Press Association:
"The citizens of Virginla's capital city
will prove 10 you that the citizen OF Boston
is as welcome in the city of Richmond as
he u IN the sister cities OF his own Common
wealth. The greatest sufferers by the late
war Will prove 10 you that the cItl-
zens of the Old Dominion are as much
interested in good government, the adj
ministratiOn OF Justice, and the securement
of material prosperity as the cltzens Oh
the old Bay State. Thousands OF the
survivors of that unhappy strife Will
prove TO you that while Virginia honorS
the memories of those who fought ana
died for the COnfederacy, and respects
the memories of her dead heroes for the
| sincerity Of their convictions, her cltlzens
have their faces toward the future, ana
fhev desire y tullV-reNtofeu tuiOH- ihO
/ South has been the victim of mlsrepre-
sentation and injustice. Unintentlonaily y
or otherwise there has been presented IN
correct pictures of the condition of affairs
in the South. The visit of the greatest IN
tplect of New England will remedy
this-vou gentlemen who mould and
guide the public opinion OF New Eng
land will see that Virginia Is az much
interested in the administration OF justice
and the securement of the prosperity or
the nation rs Massachusetts. and while
they weep over the graves OF their departed
heroes. and while they honor the memories
of those who wore the gray, the Virginia
heart is full Of kindly feelings for those
who wore the blue, and that the. glorious
Stars and Stripes is not alone the hag OF
Massachusetts,. but is the banner OF Massa-
chusets, Virginia, and United Nation"
THE GOVERNOR WILL BE GLAD TO SEE THEM.
Mr.. Hevwood called on Governor Me
Kinney Yesterday. The Governor relte;;
rated the expressions of his letter and SAID
that he most heartily endorsed the plan.
He thought that such excursions would re-
suit in a better understanding OF the two
sections.