| Show CALIFORNIA'S COCK It appears that Governor Gillette of California does not have a stable but he waits for public opinion to tell him how to His silence on the Jeffries-Johnson bout and on allowing other exhibitions to take place weekly in his state was prima facie evidence that he would not interfere with the Jeffries-Johnson So he waited while thousands of dollars was being special trains hotel accommodations lumber purchased and an arena being and all to his knowledge and until at last he got a dispatch from an eastern a few women and football promoters called upon him and informed him that the wind of public opinion was stronger against the fight than it was for it and then the gubernatorial weathercock turned the other If Governor Gillette had a mind of his own or a thimbleful of sand he would have notified all prize fight promoters that no could be pulled off in his before so much money and such elaborate preparations had been thrown From the very fact that he allowed the Johnson-Ketchel fight and other of lesser importance to take place in his it shows conclusively that the governor is swayed by public opinion rather than by his own will in stopping the Jeffries-Johnson How About From the fact that football games are where more and brighter young men are killed or maimed in one game than there is in a century of prize and knowing that contests are almost weekly pulled off at and the club rooms and the M. C. we cannot understand why the governor of Utah would object to the Jeffries-Johnson contest taking place in A contest is of short duration and all betting and gambling over it and the sporting fraternity following it return to their homes and all is But in our six weeks' season of horse racing to be renewed for another six weeks at a little later it gives Salt Lake and Utah a continuous performance of boy sure-thing thieves and hold ups that would make a Jeffries-Johnson look like a Sunday school by If UtaH will cut out the Jeffries-Johnson she should be well enough balanced and-consistent to stop the prize fights of less but just as the football murdering and maiming and the horse race Let us not at a gate and then swallow a whole |
