Show DAVIS DATES DA VIS REFUSES TO REMAIN IN M CABINET Washington April 2 Webster Davis Davisa assistant a secretary of the interior resigned re resigned resigned signed this evening He will go on the lecture re platform in the interest of or the Boers Boors In an authorized statement Mr Da Davis Davis Davis vis says that as a result of his visit to the Transvaal he feels feds impelled to tender his resignation as assistant sec see secretary secretary rotary of the interior He will at an early date deliver a lecture in this city in the Interests of the SOuth Af African African African rican republics Mr Davis feels that this is the best way to arouse the enthusiasm of the American people in m behalf of those re republics r republics publics Mr Davis said today It is 13 purely a matter of sympathy s on my part I went wont to South Africa unprejudiced visited both armies saw I much of the British soldiers and people I and also much of the Boers Beers After see 1 ing what I did I made up my mind I that the cause of the Boers Beers was just that the two smallest small t republics In the world were struggling against the Ute greatest empire In the world for home justice and independence The struggle seemed to me very un unequal unequal Unequal equal The Whole number of Boers Beers including men women and children is not greater than the population of the city of Washington and yet these brave people have the courage to put up the greatest fight in history against an empire of I concluded at once that my mr thies were with those thos struggling for liberty and I feel fel that the American people should sympathize with wh theta them the in their fight for justice and ther an independence independence independence dence dence Mr Davis Dvis wa was asked what course he would have the people of tills this thi country pursue In order to assist the te Boers Beers Boes He replied Do anything and everything within their power and a d Jet et Great Grot Britain Brian and the world know that the sympathy of the American people Is not with wih Great Gr at Britain but with wih the Boers Beers Bor and in the interest t of humanity and an civilization We let le the world know that such an unholy war should stop and stop at once Mr Davis formal foral resignation was I sent to the White House Hope Hop trough his private secretary seret At the te White House no statement was obtainable concern ing lag the resignation other than tan the fact that it 1 had been received and the of be accepted declined to say sy whether it i would |