The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-17
GOV. CLARKE
Will Cooperate Wkh Local Author.
tiles at Hot Springs
The President OF the Florida Club Notified
By the Governor Of His Determine.
ti0n to Prevent the Mill-He Also
Notifies Corbett and Fitxsim mons.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 14.-Gov.
Clarke, who has been examining the
laws closely touching the guberna-
torial power to prevent prize fighting,
has outlined his intentions in com.
munications addressed to the officers at
Hot Springs and the principals in the
proposed fight Upon the mooted ques.
tion Of the proper mode of proceeding
the governor has counseled with
lawyers and his pronunciamento was
in favor Of preventive measures and is
regarded as final The governor will
hold himself ready to cooperate with
Judge Duffie, of the Hot Springs dis
trict, to prevent the fight, should it ap-
pear that the local authorities fail to
impress upon the fighters and their
hackers with sufficient force the pro-
priety of declaring the fight off. In
his letter to Judge Dufie, Gov. Clarke
says:
II beg to assure you that you shall have my
prompt and cheerful cooperation in any effort
you may make to suppress the proposed prize
fight at Hot Springs Any order that you may
make in this connection shall not prove in-
effective for want Of power to enforce II.
I say this with confidence. because hold in
the highest respect the fidelity and courage
of Sheriff Houpt I will feel sure that his
active assistance can be relied upon. but 1t Is
known that even Jupiter sometimes mods. II it
shall, contrary to my expectations, become
necessary to proceed without the valuable aid
Of the sheriff stand ready to supply all that
may be necessary agree with you that pre-
ventive proceedings will In this instance meet
the demands Of law and justice. The feature
Of this threatened prize fight which has
aroused, and will continue to arouse, the in
dignation of our people is its character as an
invasion of the state by class Of persons and
for o purpose that will not be tolerated else
where Under the circumstances 1t is prac-
tical assertion Of belief that our people do
not possess tastes and sentiments that har.
monize with standards which prevail in en-
lightened communities. Regarded as such an
invasion the proposed event assumes a magni-
tude that would not attach to a similar affair
locally organized 1t becomes more than an
infraction of u statute, aad in it's suppression
calls for the exercise Of more prompt and sum-
mary measures will treat your letter to me
as an application to support your efforts to
deal with the matter in this aspect, and not
until shall have exhausted the very compre-
| henslve powers conferred on the governor by
| section Z, S1 of Sandel and Hills digest will
| admit that have made the effort in vain.
II will notify the parties personally inter-
| ested in this affair of my determination to CO.
| operate with the local authorities in their eff
| forts to prevent its occurrence at Hot Springs
ana request tnem TO QeSlSt from lurtner pre-.
| parations in this direction.
In his letter to Sheriff Houpt, Gov
Clarke expresses desire to confer
with him personally in order to reach
an understanding as to what steps are
necessary to carry out his purpose. In
addition to notifying President Dan
Stuart of the Florida athletic club by
mail of his determination to prevent
the fight, Gov. Clarke has telegrsphed
to Corbett and Fitzsimmons as follows:
"I am advised by press dispatches that it is
the purpose at an early date to engage in a
| Prize hight in this state Tho purpose OF this
| is to inform you that such an act Is In VIOLA
| tion of our law and an affront to the senti-
ment Of state pride entertained by our peo-
| pie.
1T will, therefore, not be possible for you to
acc omplish any such purpose, and any attempt
upon your part to do SO will subject you to
| penalties and to treatment that l am sure
will be highly distasteful to you do not at
| this time know in detail all the complications
in which you may be involved by any such at
| tempt, but I am we'll enough advised of the
nature and extent Of the power and authority
with which you will find yourself confronted
to say that 1t will prove sufficient to deter you
| from engaging in prize fight in Arkansas.
This is enough for you to know
1.-The question SO far as it relates to you does
not now call for the citation Of construction Of
statutes or other rules Of law In the present
state of public opinion, which at last is the
force that inflcts penalties, prize fighters have
no rights which those in authority are bound
to respect, but there is no lack of law to make
1t now my duty to do all that is here indicated
AS this is the only communication that shall
address to you have been somewhat more
emphatic than would be the case If the matter
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