The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-28
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ing contingent do not seem to be much.
alarmed by the action taken by the gov
ernor of Texas. They say it is one thing
to call the legislature together and an
hibiting fighting.
Dan Stuart last night telegraphed F. E.
Kennedy, who with Paddy Carroll" eX-
poets to run q load into Dallas for the
tight, that the fight would be brought off
IN the Indian territory if a law was pas
Sed forbiddinS il in Texas. What action
Uncle Sam would take if the two pu-
gilists attempt to meet on his domain is
problematical.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27-The Tribune
will tomorrow publish interviews with
hundred or more devotees of sport in
various parts of the country regarding
the fitness and propriety of having
John L. Sullivan referee the fight be-
tween COrbett and Fitzsimmons. In
all the answers there is not one word
against the ex-chanpion' fitness for
the position. However. with very few
exceptions the interviewed are enthu-
siastic on the subject of having him
for referee.
DALLAS. Texas, Sept 27.-While the
governors call for q, special session of
the legislature, requesting that body to
pass law prohibiting prize fighting was
not entirely a surprise, yet il had the
! erect OF starting fresh public discus
sion. The governors supporters were iu-
bilant, and regard a law to take imme-
date effect as a certainty
President Stuart of the Florida. Athletic
club maintains his usual business atti-
tude and rests as he has always done on
the legal advice of his attorneys. that
he is proceeding under the law.
prize fight, let them have IS l say" said
Mrs. Charles A. Culberson 3efore leaving
chicago today for Texas" Mrs Culber-
son is the wife of Governor Culberson,
OF Texas, and with her mother, Mrs
Harris, has been north for the summer
What IS the use in poor Charles work
ing himself to death to prevent something
the whole state wants?" continued Mrs
CuFberson. "At least nine men out of
every ten in Texas want the prize fight
and after all he was elected to carry out
the will of the people, and the people
want the fight. l do not care what they
say, they want, they every one want It.
! Then think of the money it is going to
cost to convene. the legislature. l do not
see, anyway, why one man should have
the power TO decide what the rest should
do One mans judgment is no better than
another. and do not see why one
Judges OPINION is better than those of
Think of his conscience and his re-
spons.bility in the matter" said Mrs
Harris. "A man must do what is right
when he holds in trust an Office for the
That's just it,, said Mrs. CuIberson.
HE does hold it for the people, and the
people want the fight, and say let them
have. it. There is no use in his staying
up nights and worrying himself to death
trying to keep up public dignity
And Mrs. Culberson looked as if she
meant what she said and was far more
concerned about the hard work and
worry her husband had been obliged to
undergo in order to keep his threat and
convene the legislature, than about the
a e
Il have met a number of prominent
business men from Texas this summer"
Mrs. Culberson went on, land every one
of them believes in allowing the fight
to go on, and here the governor is try
ing to stop something that the public
is in favor of having. It's all foolishness
expected to carry out the will of the peo-
pie, and you are not doing it when you
oppose what they want"
AUSTIN. Texas, Sept. Ex-Governor
Culbersons proclamation issued late
last night convening the legislature
next Tuesday to enact an anti-prize
fight law was a, great surprise. There
is some talk this morning that Popu-
list and other opponents of the gov
ernor may defeat the object by max
ing a law to go into effect in ninety
days. 1t requires a two-thirds vote to
give lmmedlate erect. Representative
Ham Ward, leading member of the
house, said today that the legislature
undoubtedly would pass a law to go
into effect at once, and that it would
make prize fighting felony. He Thinks
that the law will be passed within "a
week after the legislature meets.
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