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Show ill hLuUltLl 1 j Negro Prize Fighter j Whipped a Wornout, Dissipated Fighter Jefferson City. Mo., July 7 .Gov. j nadley offered a reward of 300 today for the arrest and conviction of every person who engaged In the lynching J of the two negroes at Charleston, : last Sunday. He Raid there wns no j excuse for the lynching, as he had wA commuted a sentence of any per- I son convicted of a capital crime. j In an Interview, the goernor I warned negroes that they must not start race riots on account of the Jeffries-Johnson fight. "Negroes have no occasion to feel any satisfaction over the result of the fight," said Governor Hadley., "It's only significance Is that a negro ne-gro prize fighter whipped a worn-out j white prize lighter, who had Impaired j his constitution by Idleness and dissipation. dis-sipation. "Jeffries no more represented tbe white race than does Johnson repre-! repre-! sent such men as Booker T. Wash-I Wash-I ington or Prof. Dubois. While I prom-I prom-I Ise to do all 'hat I can to protect the negroes In their rights, and to prevent and punish acts of violence against them, tbe nog-oca nv.'st understand un-derstand that only by their own conduct con-duct can they secure the respect of the people." |