The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-04-30
NEGROS HAVE
81 FILED PROTEST
STATE THEIR OBJECTIONS To
JIM CROW BILL BEFORE
THE STATE SENATE.

The following petition from the ne
groes Of Pensacola has been filed be-
fore the senate by Senator w. A.
Blount who the petitioners requested
/ 10 introduce it for them:
I'VE, your petitioners, representa-.
tives Of the colored citizens of the
city of Pensacola, Fla.,and by virtue
OF a resolution passed at a mass meet
ing at Tolbert Chapel. A. NJ E. church
Monday night, April "a, 1905, we, your
petitioners. were Gully elected and Sc
lected at said mass meeting to draft
and present to your honorable body
this, our petition, in protestation to
the passage of your honorable body
House bill No. II, commonly known
as 'Avery's Jim Crow car BILL
In pursuance of said resolution we
desire to show unto your honorable
body that for more than six years
last past your petitioners and the peo-
pie, whom they represent, have been
passengers upon the electric street
railway cars of this city; that in ali
things We have so demeaned ourselves
as such passengers that there has
been but few complaints. If any, com.
ing from the white passengers who
ride upon SAID cars; that the very
best of feeling has prevailed at al
times between the races upon said
cars; we have obeyed all the rules
and regulations of said company gov
erning the conduct of passengers upor
said cars, and although police power
Is given to each conductor and EN-
ploye of said street railway company
while in charge of such cars durinl
the time that they are in operation
yet, the police court records show thai
there have been but few arrests, anC
no serious difficulties have occurred
upon the cars in this city by our PEG
pie at any time.
Your petitioners would further
show unto your honorable body that i
is not the desire or wishes of the col
Ored people TO intermingle with the
white people upon the street cars o,
railway cars, but being taught by pas
experiences from the actual operation
and enforcement of the laws intended
! to separate the races upon public con
veyances have operated to the injury
of your petitioners, and Disseminated
unjustly against them, even though
the law may fair and impartial upor
its face.
The premises being considered
therefore, your petitioners for them
selves and in behalf of those whom we
represent, most respectfully pray you
honorable body not to enact into Law
the said bill above referred to, because
among the many reasons such a Law
will cause the street car company un
necessary expense and cause much in
convenience and annoyance to the pa
irons of said cars, regardless of rac'
OF color. Such a law will probabl,
cause much friction anG lawlessnes:
throughout the state
Therefore your petitioners ask I
fair and impartial consideration at the
hands of your honorable body. so tina
with good feeling which has no charec
terized this, our fair state, the garden
spot of the South. our lovely Florida
between the races therein residing
may ever remain untarnished.
May it please your honorable bod,
to grant unto your petitioners the re
lief herein prayed, and your petition
ers will ever pray, etc"
This petition is signed by Robert I
Thomas H. Clayton Allen, l L. Pul
| cell, Esq, John Register. Rev. G. E
Williams, Rev. Thomas Bellinger, I'd
ward wyer, Thomas s. Grice, c. Il
Aston, secretary; c. F. Cali chair
man and NJ. NJ. Lewey.