Show AN APPEAL TO THE AlffiEEICAN PEOPLE I ask the American public to secure for me another chance says exCham j pion Corbett I sincerely believe I can defeat Mr Fitzsimmons and bring the championship of the world back to I America An appeal to the American people when there is a question of genuine I patriotism involved is never without effect For their country they are ever ready to sacrifice their property and their lives and men can do no more than this But this appeal of the ex champions to them is scarcely such a one as will stir the American people as did the call for 75000 volunteers at the outbreak of the war Then how is the American public to secure this chance for the exchampion Mr Fitzsimmons cannot be made to give it to him In truth Nevada is about the only state in the Union where he could give him this chance without breaking the law and subjecting himself to punishment pun-ishment This being the case only the people of Nevada should be appealed to to compel Mr Fitzsimmons to give I Mr Corbett the chance he covets The exchampion says he wants to bring the championship of the world back to America A most noble aspiration as-piration but impossible of accomplishment i accomplish-ment for the single but powerful reason rea-son that it is already here being held by Robert Fitzsimmons Esq who has I made this country his home and who in this our own beloved city testified before a large and enthusiastic audience audi-ence that he loved the heagle The championship must be the thing and not the holder of it It being here and the holder of it saying he will not fight any more why worry about it And even if it were not here the Ameri J I can people are not so proud of pugilism that they are going to take any mans I appeal in behalf of it and make it a national question Their sentiments are against it and they would prefer to have the pugilistic championship and all who are striving for it no matter in what class go to some other country coun-try The highest aim of the American people is not to possess the pugilistic I championship ATTACKING CIVIL SERVICE BB FORr General Grosvenor and other Republican Repub-lican members of the house have held J a caucus to discuss the question of civil service reform What transpired in the caucus is not known but it is known that the leaders of it arc hostile hos-tile to civil service reform and are determined to destroy it if they can They do not complain that the public is not as well or better served asunder I I as-under the old system they simply f want the offices and the civil service I reform law stands in the way of satis j I I i fying their wants The law has not I done all that its friends anticipated and no doubt it has been prostituted to political purposes in many instances Ii I in-stances There is also no question that I i often those who are protected by it use I I their it as a shield for insolence to I superiors an insolence that it would I be almost impossible to formulate into I charges and which if it were so formulated I for-mulated it would be a very difficult I matter to prove But these are not I the defects that Grosvenor and his I friends wish to remedy they want I spoils and nothing else The manner I in which they attack the law is far I more to be commended than making I executive orders extending the classified I I classi-fied service and then undermining the I orders in a roundabout way If there is to be civil service reform it should 1 be genuine or nothing I |