New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-26
REBUKES GOV. DAVIS.
PRESIDENT ON LYNCHING.
Makes Tro addresses IN Little Rock
Starts for Ne1c-Ortedns.
TBy Telegraph TO The Trinune.l

u.,,nbis Tenn Oct 25-President Roosevelt
launched new crusade to-day at Little Rock.
,sked Governor Jefferson Davis over the Goals
for his defence of lynch law and started South
from Memphis TO New-Orleans. where tomorrow
he will end his wonderfully successful tour Of
Dixie Almost the entire day was spent In
Arkansas. State never before visited by the
President and the events that marked the Pres1-
dents reception there were enacted in Little
Rock where he remained from o'clock in the
morning until p. n.
The new idea advanced by the President
which. after all, is not entirely one, for he
has frequently touched upon it in his messages
and papers, was expounded Defore his hosts at g.
luncheon in the beautiful Masonic Consistory,
and was in brief appeal for more justice TO
the State Criminals receive more than justice
nowadays he said The laws which now afford
them mere than their share OF protection were
framed three or four centuries ago, when human
life was cheaper than It is now, and when one
child in every twenty that was born grew up
only to be hanged. BY the expenditure Of money
and The employment of eminent legal talent the
criminals of to-day often escape punishment al
together for their rnisdeeds, or just retribution
Is years in overtaking them.
The Presidents rebuke to Governor Davis was
delivered before an audience of upward or
thirty thousand persons who were banked for
hundreds of Yards around the stand upon which
he spoke The Governors manner, even more
than his words, gave offence to his hearers and
when the President had concluded his vigorous
eastsgatfon the enormous crowd eheered itself
hoarse in approval. Even the stanchest sup
porter of the erratic Governor could not have
mistaken the temper of that gathering During
his long rambling speech. which he read from
manuscript. the Governor frequently made use
Of the word negro, pronouncing it almost al
WAYS 'nieger" and during the course of his re-
marks he often drew comparisons between Ar
kansas and the other States of the Union. which
plainly indicated that Arkansas was the only
State fl for white man to live in, and that
the rest Of the population OF the country. es-
pecially the women. much inferior to those
who dwell within the boundaries of the COM
ronYealth which has elevated him to high
Office
Just as the President concluded his speech at
the park the stand fell to the ground, but
luckily no one was hurt, for the drop was not
more than three feet at the most, and no one
caught beneath the tinbers.
After the exercises at the park. the PRESIDENT
escorted to the Consistory by the Gov
ernor and the local committee There the Gov
ernor left him. riding away in solitary grandeur
because he refused 10 break bread with Cen
eral Powell Clayton. former Ambassador 70
Mexico VINO another one Of the invited
guests
I'd like you to know, said one of the gentle
men in the committee TO the President. that we
don't stand for Governor Davis here Sew
eral others in the party echoed the same senti-
ment-
President Roosevelt and his party arrived mere
tonight $50 o'clock from Little ROCK Inc
Presidents itinerary did not include stop here
longer than was necessary to switch his car TO
the Illinois Central tracks, the original pro
gramme being that he would proceed at once to
New-Orleans. These plans were somewhat mou-
fled when large crowd of citizens appeared
The President Secretary Loeb, Surgeon Geherai
the President and called upon him for speech
The President acknowledged these greetings
and proceeded to a hastily improvised stand.
from which he made Il short address, dwelling
upon what constitutes good citizenship.
Several members of the Presidents party lett
The train here and departed for Washington
1he President. Secretary Loeb, Surgeon eGnefal
Rixey and John H. McIIhenny started for New
Orleans over the Illinois Central Railroad at
e:.'D this evening.
An unexpected greeting to the President was
the firing Of a Presidential salute by General
Peter Tracey. who the Presidents FORMER
visit to Memphis received him at the station
With salute of twenty-one guns
The trip from Little Rock 10 memphis was
uneventful. The President entertained the de-
parting newspaper men at dinner In his private
car. and bade them a cordial gOodby.