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Show ijjti llj ? ANOTHER BID FOR FAME. I III ! County Attorney Parley Perennial Christen- : I ; 1 j sen states that he is going to stop the prizefight. Coming from so august and bulky a source, the !j ' ! ukase is entitled to consideration. , ; ' f1 Mr. Christensen is one of the political jokes ' , ;' that have been perpetrated upon this community '"'hi- ' at frequent intervals during the past several de- j i" . cades. He has the remarkable record of having If ' served three years as county attorney without , M H j ) having personally conducted a single case which . it i ! came within the functions of the county attorney's ' . ',r office. He is one of the political eruptions whom ! ' !i misguided politics occasionally foists into a po- j f sition for which he has no more qualifications than a carpet cleaner possesses for triumphantly, completing the Panama canal. His chief intel- ; j I : lectual asset consists of a certain cunning, by j .. i which he is enabled to delude ward healers by a il i 1 1 lofty physique, a pseudo amiability, an artificial ;.!). 1 1 handshake and a printed smile. ' I ; j;j "1 His present ambition to bring himself before ' ,, j i: the public notice is due to the fact that his as- !, f I !; sistants have rightly received credit for anything ;. ; l. commendable that the county attorney's office jjhj may have achieved during the present regime. I' Besides this, a political campaign is pending, and j the big Swede probably thinks the time opportune 1 1 ! to emerge from affluent oblivion long enough ; M 1 to impress upon voters that he is the undefiled ! ,, Pericles of the county administration and the j! j ;i- champion of whatever was advocated by the 1 i U Ministerial association. : Mi i L Mr, Christensen's objections to the coming , Jij l i contest are quite the most ludicrous that have j!j'ii!t ! been contributed to current Jiterature for a long ji'i n period. He states that holding prizefights in the ijjj'Plj! H city leads to lawlessness. This seems to strike ' jijij Ijl the keynote to his present silly assumption as l ! : the advocate of sempiternal morality. Does it not appear that Mr. Christensen fears that if there is any further lawlessness in the county, his assistants will be kept so busy that he will be forced to personally conduct a criminal case, and thereby publicly proclaim just what kind of a legal light the public selected as its chief prosecuting officer? Again, Mr. Christensen fears that the fight will be a fake. That isn't a judicious word for him to use, for even if the fight were the greatest fake ever enacted, it would not be half so monstrous mon-strous a one as was inflicted on Salt Lake county when Mr. Christensen was elected. Boxing contests have been held here before. They have been negotiated at Murray and other hamlets within his jurisdiction, and however raucious they might have been, there was never a word of protest or any signs of intervention on the part of the county attorney. He waited for the best opportunity to splutter into the limelight, lime-light, and so deferred action until a bout was to be pulled off in Salt Lake, where it would be under un-der the close scrutiny of Chief Lynch and Captain Burbidge and other city officials whom the citizens citi-zens of Salt Lake, through long experience, had learned to believe could adequately take care of anything of that nature occurring within the city limits. When the people elected Mr. Christensen to the office of county, attorney, they expected him to conduct criminal prosecutions within the county. They are now treated to the spectacle of a lymphatic official, after three years' como-tose como-tose dumbness, officiously usurping the functions of competent city officials. Persons like Mr. Christensen should keep as quiet as possible, because when they thrust themselves them-selves too prominently into the glare of publicity, pub-licity, people cannot help thinking a little, and a little reflection upon Mr. Christensen's official career is quite fatal to the county attorney. Mr. Christensen should now retire into his former for-mer dense and perfectly harmless quietude. Or, if he persists in agitating his great mentality with this prizefight business, why not hold a twenty-round twenty-round contest with some of his law books, and learn something about the profession in which he is the primitive and original joke? |