Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-20
"KNOCKING ours SULLIVAN.
How Peck's {" Suns VANS the
Champion ThUmped ana Dis
posed of.

Those who have watched the course q
public events for the past year or tw,
cannot but have seen that the glory j,
fast departing from the exploits of ,johr
L. sullivan, the eminent Boston scientist
lie flashed across the sporting sky like :
mighty Irish meteor, and his wonderful
deeds have amazed fifty million people
de hrst caught poor Paddy Ryan, with
his breach, or breeches, as the case NAV
be, down in Louisiana, and knocked
Paddy silly, and since then he has
walked over the whole country and ali
her people. He has become rich, and Il
not respected in Boston, he is at least
feared, and in all that great city, where
the descendants of revolutionary sires
live, there seems to be no one man or no
dozen or hundred men that care TO arrest
Sullivan. He can go into saloon and
knock anybody down, and the police get
there in time to pick up things and per-
haps take the man home who is Knocked
down. When the injured man gets ont
ana around he is at once an object of in
terest, as "the man Sullivan knocked
down." Sullivan goes into a restaurant
Wnere there are girl walters, and the one
that waits on him does not give satisfac-
would a combatant in prize ring. and
as she lays upon the floor moaning. he
eats his chops and goes out and kicks his
horses, which have been standing in the
cold waiting for him to get drink. Then
he drives his team up and down the
streets on a run, on that beautiful Sun
day, until the truly good people of Bos-
ton rush into their houses and lock the
on Il lool i Il
circus. Sullivan has taken the town. AS
he runs his foaming horses through the
streets, mounted policeman follows,
but mot to arrest him, or interfere with
him." the dispatches are careful to say.
The policeman follows, probably, to bury
the dead, or to protect Sullivan from in
jury.
When Sullivan is whipped, which will
be in the not distant future, there ought
to be an understanding that he shall be
thoroughly whipped, fairly mauled, pull
Yerized. He must have all the fight
knocked out of him. If the whipping
can be done by a small man, so much the
better, because after he is once whipped
thoroughly, anybody can do it. There
are hundreds whom he has abused and
insulted who will be entitled to whip him
after he has been once punished. The
waiter girl should be armed with mop
and allowed to maui him, and drive him
under a table, and make him beg for
mercy on his Bonded knees, and Boston
citizens, who have been frightened up
trees and down coal holes, should shove
him off the sidewalk into the gutter, and
make it unpleasant for him after he has
once been whipped. The police of Bos-
ton should make it hot for him, after he
has once been whipped and they are not
afraid of him, and he should be told to
move on, whenever found, and he should
spend the most of his time in the lock-
up. By that time he will have lost his
money, and will be so poor that nobody
will have any respect for him, and he
will frequent back streets, and be sober
at times because he can't get money to
buy liquor That is the fate of all such
champions, who attempt to knock out
whisky. They become dock loafers,
bummers and tramps, and that will be
the fate of Sullivan, but the people of
this country want to see him whipped q
hundred times before he becomes a
tramp, whipped by small men, women,
negroes, Cinnamon, and all classes,
kicked by horses, and made to feel how
low he has fallen, from the big-headed
Sullivan of 1884.