The Daily soliphone., 1902-05-10
blue BelIied Massachusetts
a "Yanks" Roast the Gov
II ernor Of Arkansas.
conditional Pardon of Negro That
i He iie-Awayto the "old Bay
State Arouses Their Ire.

u Gov. Davis is now the cynosure OF
the eyes of the nation, and its all
about the pardon sof that coon.
a A day or two ago the writer was
Gin the governors office and he was
lin high glee. He was getting
4 letters, telegrams and postal cards
from al ever the country and hardly
10 aeJ OF them failed to elicit a smile
from the chief executive and a roar
5of laughter from visitors who had
gathered in to hear the news.
4 The pardon of a negro on condition
shat he leave Arkansas and become
q resident of the state of Massachu-
setts within thirty days was the
cause Of the uproar. & ~
Said the governor to bis visitors:
"On my recent trip north l was
stopping at ose of the big hotels in
/ New York and CHANGED to fall into
the company of party from Massa-
chusetts. They eyed me with some
curisosity and suspicion when one OF
the women of the party with. a gen
uine New England Yankee brawl,
said: "One of the serious problems
that we have to deal with in Massa-
chusetts is the admission of colored
ladies to our clubs. Some of these
colored ladies are so refined and well
educated and are such valuable
members of society that we cannot
afford to reject them, doncher
know?'
s'Down in Arkansas we call them
nggers,' replied the governor.
This seemed to overwhelm the New
Englander and she calculated: "And
il is really true that you feed them
on cotton seed and it is not fact
that Uncle Tom S Cabin is correct
reproduction of southern treatment
of the negro? = q 8
The governor said he made no re-
sponse but left the room. He said
he had been laying awake at night to
devise some scheme by which he
could play even on such fool 1 ira
ducers of the south and that he had
decided to make Massachusetts, a.
present of few Arkansas negroes.
Yesterday an attorney at Pine
Bluff applied for q pardon for a ne
gro and the governor notified the ap-
plicant that if to the application was
attached transportation, to Boston
and money to buy meals enroute he
would grant it. 81 am going to give
them some of their own medicine, =
said the governor, "and while l
don propose to pardon every Mig
ger in the penitentiary, ! propose,
where there is cause for pardon. to
issue pardons to negroes on the con-
dition that they leave the state OF
Arkansas and become citizens OF the
state of Massachusetts,, but farther
condition will be imposed that the
petitioners must also guarantee a
free ticket to Boston,"
The governor is having all sorts
of fun out of this unique and unex.
pected departure in the pardon role.
The following criticisms Of the
governor by his Massachusetts
friends have been sent out by the
associated press:
y When the article was shown to
Gov. Crane he declined to express
any opinion regarding it.
Gen. W. w. Blackmar, depart
ment commander of the G. A. r. Of,
this state, said: II consider the
action of Gov. Jefferson Davis as ua-
worthy of notice--it is beneath our
contempt. He has only succeeded
in showing himself worthy OF his
namesake.
Henry B. Blackwell, editor OF the
Woman's Journal, said: "My only
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