New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-12
sFoUrtS or THE PRIZE FIGHT

Having ialleu 10 pItNcHu iic pii"V-HShu
Governor Lowry did the next best thing in
causing Sullivan and one of his companions
to be arrested in Nashville. Whether, as
ut first seemed probable, the Governor neg
lccted to follow up his proclamation with
the sort Of zeal which makes defiance Of
Executive orders a very serious business, OF
whether he was badly served by his Subordi-
mates. without fault Of his own, he is now dis
PLAYING a gim determination which is Of the
utmost credit to himself and value to the COM
munity.
Sullivan has indeed been promptly released
ON a writ Of habeaS corpus, and there is little
substantial reason to hope that any Of the
PARTICIPANTS i'm the late diSgmceful cOnSpr-
acy will meet with their deserts. Still
Governor Lowry has an unusual opportunity
to win the admiration and respect Of everybody
whose good opinion is worth having. If he is
able to redeem his promise 10 the letter and
hold all who were conSpicuouSly concerned in
The fight. principals and accessories, TO strict
accountability. he will find that the way of
duty is the path to glory" All that is neces-
sary, surprising that legal technicalitles do not
interfere, is eameSnesS Of the sort that the
Governor is now displaying. and that the officer
who arrested Sullivan eyinced when that in
dividual looked into the muzzle Of a revolver
and decided TO submit.
Governor Lowry has declared his intention
to bring TO justice not only the professional
opponents of pugilism. but also the highly le-
spectacle gentlemen who in various ways con
spiled to thwart the law and make the fight
possible The most conspicuous and service
able of these offenders are the railroad officials
who gave TO the managers of the fight special
facilities, without which they could not have
succeeded in accomplishing their purpose. The
officers If the athletic associations which enter
tanned the pugists and furtheIed their prepa-
lations mi ght also with prOpriety be called ON
to justify themselves There are various other
persons to whom legal advances ought to be
made. 1t is reported that Muldoon, without
whose services Sullivan could never have been
brought into condition to hold his own against
a eve lamb was not arrested in Nashville.
though he sat Leside Sullivan III the train.
Muldcon's home is in New-York. If he gets
safely back to this State it is possible that Gov
ernOr Hill might listen to an argument for his
return to Mississippi though just what the law
would say in his case is uncertain. Governor
Hill has occasionally shown very conservative
spirit in the matter of requSitonS-once, at
least, within few weeks his conservatism was
entirely creditable-but desire to be on good
terms with the Southern delegates to the next
Democratic National Convention might lead
him to listen attentiyely to whatever Governor
Lowry thought fit TO say in this emergency.
In frankly acknowledging, on the morning
after the prze-fght that a very general though
unworthy interest had existed in the result Of
the combat THE TRIBUNE remarked that an
immediate reaction would have followed %
successful effort to prevent it, and that the
authorities had missed q chance to serve the
whole county. Another opportunity to render
a service perhaps still more valuable is now
presented and we are grateful to Governor
Lowry for his apparent determination to make
an impressive use If il. If he shall find means
To land in jail for a few months a score of the
principals hackers, trainers rail-
road officials, officers of the peace and private
gentlemen who have made an unlawful eXhi-
bition Of their athletic procliyities-he will have
done more than any other one man in the his
tory Of the country to make prize-fghtng n
lost ant