Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-03 | Page 16 | Praying for Johnson

PRAYING G FOR Theres some Bome class to the tho Negro Holiness church at Hutchinson Kan where the Ute congregation 1200 strong will assemble n emble Monday afternoon In a abig abig big trig tent sing songs Bongs and pray for tho the of Jack Johnson in his tight with Jim TIm Jeffries As an extra inducement to insure full the tho dispatches state that arrangements have boon boen made mads to have the result rull of at the fight bulletined by rounds at tho the meeting That ought to oaten catch the tho colored portion of the population of or son Hn Unfortunately however It Is go gong goIng going Ing ng to be difficult for the Holiness church to secure tho the bulletins since all the tho news news of the tho big bl light fight will come through the tho prose press pr IIII associations the telegraph companies being out of or the field And this applies to Salt SnIt Lake Lako and other cities cUI aa WI well as WI Kan The Tho dusky brothers and sisters terA terAe can e n meet though and pray for the success II of Johnson to their hearts content C but if Ir they have ave no bettor batter success a than their white brothers and of or the tho Sunflower state who once onee upon n a time prayed for Cor rain the effort will hardly bo worth while In view of or the great Interest taken in the Reno Hone affair It may be stated that Rev Solomon a Seattle Hindu has baa had a n vision in the th course of or I which he saw Johnson on lamming the daylights daylight out of his whito antagonist t This vision may not bo be worth woh any anymore anymore more than an election straw which does doe not always Indicate the tho direction of or tho the political l wind but the colored folks will accept it with faith ralth believing ing lag and place their bets accordingly Ono One more moro day d of anxiety prayer debato debate and gossip go P and the agony will willbo willbo willbe bo be over I o 0