St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-12
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tere%t;nG Letter t. Gov, Mitchell.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 1.-THE
DLval Athletic club today made another
statement 10 the public. the first part of
watch is devoted to history of The
Dnval club and the proposed Coroett-
Mitchell glove contest. \ new and in
tercsting part Of the statement mbodies
il letter to the governor, which says:
jacksonville. Jan. IN, lS94.-To Gov.
Henry l.. MiIchell, Tallahasse, Fla
Dear Sir: | r0,icG from the new,pa-
perS that ynu are credited with having
sad that the plan of proceedings inSti-
tuteu against Coraett and Mitchell was
collusive one between those interested
III the contest and the officers OF this
county. You W II RENE. nber that | made
this suggestion To you durinr NV con-
ference in TaiiahaSSe, To which YOU de.
INJURED, bur that you afterwards told
me In 40 back to jacksonville, con-
suit my attorneys and bring any
legal proceedings that would convince
You that the contest we propose TO
have was not an Illegal one. You re-
member, you further told me that il was
not personal matter with YOU to stop
this proposed contest, but as the execu-
tive. it was your duly so to do as long
as you felt that 1t waS 4 violation of the
laws. Now, governor. | wish to say
that as far as the collision is concerned,
your officers here are just as innoccntas
you are yourself. Our object III bring
ing this test was to satisfy ourselves
as Well us you, that we were
not violating the law. There
IS 10 man in THIS state WHO would go
further In live within the law and who
would quicker assist you and your Off
GERS i'll maintaining law than myself,
aud assure You most positively that.
should Judge Call decide this habeas
corpus against us. shall take nv hands
OF and have nothing further to do with
the affair. In drawing up the warrant
upon which these Eitn were arrested, l
instructed our attorneys to make as
broad as possible, aud to cover all the
law under the tatu:e and otherwise il
order to fully test the caSy.
Governor, YOU also remember in our
conference as bringing The matter be-
tore the supreme court. l objected be-
cause we could not fully argue 10 the
supreme court our side OF the case, and
to ask The supreme court If prize fight
Ing was unlawful would be 10 simply
receive the answer Yes"
We do not propose to have prize
fight, or anything like Il fight, and my
efforts III drawing up contracts, etc,
have been with that one object 10 elm.
mate everything pertaining to fight,
and to only have scientific glove coz.
test, pure and simple.
Another reason that did not like TO
bring this matter before the supreme
court was that upon my arrival home
from Tallahassee. l WAS told by one of
yGur closest friends that in conYerSa-
ton with you upon this subject you had
waved yOur hands toward the supreme
court chambers and said that you
had all agreed it was against the
law. Further. Dexter Hunter, who
visited Tallahassee in opposition to
this affair, came back 10 Jackson
vile and said that one of The
Judges OF the supreme court had sent
his congratulations TO Mayer Fletcher
for the position he had taken in this
affair. You will agree with me that
should have gone before the supreme
court under the circumstances, without
an opportunity of laying our side of the
question fully before it, being con-
WINGED, as We were, that we mad been
prejudlced beforehand, it would simply
have been folly on our part. Yours
truly, j. Z. 4. BowDEN.
The statement continues: "While
thlS letter was IN transit and we await
ing reply from the governor. which
reply the governor was assured would
be confidential, the county solicitor took
advantage Of our iiberal;ty OF not push
ing the nabeas corpus proceedings and
noile pressed the case against CorDeft
and Mitchell, thus depriying lis Of the
adjudication Of the highest court open
to US.
'Thereupon we sent telegram 10
Gov. Mitchell, asking him 10 submit
the matter, as promised our representa-
tive, to the supreme court, which he
refused to do.
The club then made public the an
nouncement that the fight would come
OF, the governors assertion notwith-
standing.