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EUEIOBS OF PEACE. A dispatch from Louisvillo to the Cincinnati Enquirer of jeBterday read as follows: "Gentlemen, jou need not givo yourselves any concern about opportunities to. race next sea-eon. Yon have stood by ns and we will protect your interests in the future. Yon may reet as snrad that you will havo as much racing next year us yon have had this season." "Tans spoke Captaia TillaB, of the St. Louib Racing Triumvirato, Cella, Tillos and Adlor, to a group of horsemen at Douglas Park this afternoon. The little tnrf magnate arrived hero ths morniug,Bpent tho;afternoon at Dons-las Park and returned to St. Louis tonight. His mission to this city was simply to assure the horssmon at Douglas Park Racing Association that the St. Louis tracks will be loyal to the Tnrf Congress Association and those who by participating in the racing at such tracks had coma under the ban of the Western Jockoy Glub. In answer to the question, Captain Tilles said that there had boon no conference between them Cella, Tilles and Adlor and the Chicago track owners who dominate the Western Jockey Club, and that whilo overtures had been made -to them from tha ether eide, affairs wero no nearer a settlement now than they were three months ago. He lsft it to be inferred that ha is not at all sanguiDe that tha two factions will come togethor. He reiterated the recent declaration of his associate, Sam Adlor, that the St. Louis tracks will become members of the Western Jockey Club only on condition that the other Turf Congress tracks be let in on a fair basis, and that their adherents be restored to the same standing they had when there was only one turf governing bndy in the jwest. "While Captain Tilles did not say much, your representative has it straight that the Western Jockey Club is ready to comply with the demands of tne St. Louis people as far as the other Turf Congress tracks and the outlawed horsemen! are concerned. The assimilation of the two rival western turf-governing bodies all hinges now on the representation in the Board of Stewards of tha Jockey Club. The constitution of that organization provides for a board of seven stewards. A vacancy occurred in the board when the St. Lonis:FairGrounds paseed into the possession of the opposition, Aull, of course, ceasing to be a memberjof the board. The Weste-n Jockey Club is willing to allow the k St. Louis magnates to have one steward, to take the p.aca made vacant by Mr. AuIIb withdrawal. Italso proposos to lot I Memphis and Nashville together havo one member on the Board of Stewards, thus giving Nashville an equal voice with Memphis in western turf control. The St. Louis people, Jiowever, insist on having two representatives on the board, one for each of .thair two plants. To comply witn their demands in thiB matter either a vacancy must be created in the Board of Stewards as it is now constituted or the constitution of the Jockey Club must be revised and the membership of the board be increased to eight. That iB exactly the state of affairs at present. The impression obtains in Turf Congress circleB that the constitution of the Western Jockey Clnb will be ravissd to givo St. Louis two representatives on the Executive Board of that organization, in which event there will be an ond to the clash that has existed this season." In comment on the foregoing it may be said that St. Louis and Cincinnati papars have had much to say recently of the probability of the amalgamation of the conflicting western turf bodies, ouu hi. Lonis newspaper oven as-eerting positively that all details have been agreed upon, together with the remarkable and bo tho Jcckoy Club starter. Hereabouts little or nothing is known of any negotiations, but certainly all true lovers of racing will be pleased if a solution of oxisting turf troubles is reached. The constitution and by-Jaws of the Western Jockey Club provides for a membership of thirty racing organizations, which shall bs governed by seven stewards. There is now ons stewardship vacancy. It could be easily filled at the approaching annual meeting by a steward from St. Louis to roprosent tho three tracks there. It is assumed in this that any settlement of tho situation would involve the protection of Kinloch in its right to have a reasonable number of racing days assigned to it annually. Next to Chicago St. Louis is by far tha most important racing point in the west and under now existing conditions its meetings are greatly hampered and injuriously affected because owners of the best horsGB cannot afford to risk debarment from the tracks controlled by the Western Jockey Club. Any concsssions that will restore St. Louis tracks to their former standing will be welcomed by all the turf men of the west in a body. Daily Racing Foem heartily hopes that the next annual meeting of the Western Jockey Club will be markod by e restoration of peaceful relations between all woetern turf organizations, that St. Louis will be given the vacant stewardship and that Nashville, Highland Park, Little Rock and Newport will bo given membership or a license.
