New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-04
mr. SULLJvANS RE4PPEARANCE.

DIR. SULLIVANS RE4PPEARANCE
The last faint echoes OF the campaign have died
away below the horizon The country Is again
undisturbed by the ominous tramp of the torch
light parade and the sharp cry OF the stump
orator has ceased to reverberate among our hills.
The campaign lies, with nails in them, have been
carried away. And with the calm there comes
something else at which oil must be pleased 1t
is this: Dr. J. L. Sullivan has again placed his
mouth in commission. We are at peace with
foreign powers there is no internal conflict to
make us afraid, famine rests not on our fair land,
and-not least-the talking apparatus OF Bostons
foremost citizen is again all that could be desired
John [, Sullvan's voice comes back to him at
peculiarly appropriate season-with the usherihg
in of the Christmas time with it's peace on earth,
good will toward men, That has always been
exactly the Doctors idea-peace on earth, with
half the gate receipts
As the reader may probably know, DR.. Sullivan
has recently been very i'll. Disease had the
Doctor in chancery some time, but was Itself at
last knocked heavily against the ropes lie LAY
for many weeks sick of a fever, and walked nigh
unto the valley of the shadow of death; but he
has recovered and it has brought home to him
a realization of the fact that the night cometh
when no man can work, and he is accordingly put
wants to fight He thinks nothing Of three or
four challenges day After weeks hard work
in telling what he can do and what he is going
TO do, he is apparently as fresh when he entered
the ring His lungs and the muscles OF his
throat arc said to be in the very pink of condl-
ton We wish to congra tulate him on the fact
that his sickness has cost him none of his former
activity OF mouth.
The career Of DR.. Sullivan is one which should
interest the student of American biography. Born
of Door but honest parents he was thrown upon
the world at an early age with nothing but his
own hands with which to carve out his fortune.
Putting on pair of four-ounce gloves, he began
the task The browning feature of his career
| was a few years ago, when he made an appoint
ment to meet that other justly popular citizen
Mr. Paddy Ryan, with the raw 'uns lie kept
his appointment, and, owing to Judge Ryans In
ferior agility in putting up his dukes the Doctor
easily defeated him. Then did his professional
| life, so well known to us, fairly open up before
| him Turning his back on the raw 'uns, he put
on the pillows and started out on tour Tor the
aimsies And the dimsies, as well as the hard
uns and the yellow boys, came to HIM IN great
ouantities ALFRED in light but neatly fitting
| knee brooches and pair of heavy DucKsRh
| gloves, with cured-har dressing he nightly STOOD
! nm bcforc great crowds of his fclOw-cOuntrymen
and pounded leading citizens. These cluzens
were not usually professionals in that great eveer
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ring, but rather local lights
who stood up for the distinction of saying that
| DR. Sullivan had knocked them down These
were the Doctors pamy days. HIS challenges
were strewn about like the sands on the sea-shore
! He announced that he was afraid TO strike any
man as hard as he could from fear OF killing him.
| lie wanted to fight an elephant An elephant
that is. a large elephant with bad disposition,
was something like it. If he couldn't have an
eleAbant he must insist having at least q
rbinoceros with its mouth open. And the more
the Doctor talked, the dimsies did he take
| in at the box Office
Last spring the Doctor made tour of Great
Britain. which was extremely successful from
| aimsical point of view lie was however, I'M
| fortunately drawn into a controversy with Sir
| lem Smith 1t is not likely that Sir Jem was any
| more DESTROYS of getting hurt or of hurting any
! body than was the Doctor. Sir Jem didn't want
any trouble about this thing They were both
men of peace However, they were into 1t, and so
they fought-judicously and carefully, so that
there might be no dsagreeable bloodshed or any
thing of that kind about II. But this is where
the Doctor made his misake-getting into the
controversy with Sir Jem at all People asked
embarrassing questions. OF course Sir Jem wash t
an elephant but why could not the Doctor have
tapped him light 'un? Why not have struck
| him one easy blow so that he would have searched
blindly for grass, and his attendants have tossed
M the sponge from their corner with quick, de-
cisive movement? Why not at least have held
out his bunch of fves and let Jem run into them /?
| This WAS the hcartless way in which an unfeel-
! ing public talked
Soon after he returned TO his native Boston, and
lately he has had the mill with sickness TO
which we have referred. But, as we said before,
he appears to have fully recovered the use of his
great feature-his mouth. That we shall have
from him much loud and entertaining converse
| ton as time rolls now seems to be certain.
| The Tribune welcomes him again to the ring of
theoretical and oratorcal puglism. Mr. Jacob
Kilrain and Mr. Charles Mitchell two other gen.
temen deeply versed in pure, as opposed TO APP
piled, prizc-fghting, are also with US, and we may
expect a lively in long-range encounters.
But the Doctor will down these recruits. Give
John Lawrence Sullivan a twenty-four-foot bar
room and q good shorthand man TO take down
what he says, and he can wind any man in
America.