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hvan. Of Chicago. Is wen kno~n IN
Washington. whers he sometimes ap-
pears Oh business connected with Irish
Affairs OF his Jaw practice. Sullivan Is
remarkable man. About 40 years old,
he has a face smooth aai bright like that
Of q boy. His eye Is very Keen, and pos
sesses the quality when fixed upon one
Of making obvious the mans force of
character and wonderful strength Of
purpose. He is always calm aud well
poised, and even in the heat Of a court
trial or Of fierce struggle in Irish con
ventions or secret society was never
known 10 lose the cool aud almost cruel
equaniInity which Is his predominant
outward trait He has a striking gift
for diplomacy and intrigue. and in his
time has played most important part
ia the Irish agitation. which assurediy is
the most remarkable thing Of its sort in
this century, possessing. as it does, more
and unfortunately some Of the blood
thirstiness Is well as the self sacrificing
spirit OF the Anarchistic movement III
Russia. For several years Sullivan has
been the head and front OF Irish agita~
ton In America Ii is well known that
he has been the brain or idea inn
pelling power Of nearly all the
recent activities in that direction
III this country. AS president Of the
Irish National League Of America he was
close To Parnell, and is personally known
10 all the great agitators on the other
side Of the water. Mr. Sullivan resigned
the presidency of the National league 10
take part in tho presidential campaign
OF 1854, being strong admirer and
warm friend OF Mr. Blaine. He took
the ground that no had no right TO par
ticipate in a political campaign while
acting as president of an organization
which embraced men of all parties. Per
haps his friendship for Blaine arose in
the fact that he was born IN Mr. Blaine's
state of Maine. He was also a friend of
Horace Greeley's, and left the Repub-
ican party to support the Greeley move
ment in 1872. Before that he had
stumped the state of Michigan for the
constitutional amendment giving negroes
the right of suffrage, and was an active
Abolitionist. AS a lawyer he stands high
in Chicago, and as a man and citizen is
well respected, though by many thought
dangerously jealous in tho Irish cause
"a 70, cDr o.,
ut all hazards. Whatever troubles his
connection with Irish agitation may lead
him into, the fact will remain that he is
a strong, n remarkable man, one who in
the romantic era would have ruled the
state or overturned u dynasty.
Not less remarkable than Sullivan him
self is his wife. Margaret. She is a wo-
man of broad culture, and one of the most
brilliant writers in America. Her husband
earns eight or ten thousand dollars year
as a lawyer, and this is supplemented by
his wife's income from her pen, surely
as much more. In the field of art or
literary criticism she is tho foremost
writer in Chicago or the west, and for
some time has written the foreign and
many other editorials in two or three
leading papers of Chicago. Her word
pictures Of the national conventions of
1884 and 1888 attracted attention the
country over, and she used her wonder
fully facile pen on tho Inauguration of
President Harrison and the welcome TO |
Dir. Blaine in New York harbor. She |
does what probably her husband dare
NO do in, I,-,+ +af. .,,I
rope. and thence she has sent some re-
markable letters.
She is now i'll Paris writing cable let |
ters to the New York Associated Press, |
and some Of her descriptions have be- |
come the theme for innumerablo editori- |
ais ON both sides tho Atlantic. Some |
years ago she interviewed Gladstone and |
described his home life in a manner |
which made her name known wherever |
tho English language Is spoken. Though |
a woman of refined feelings and delicate
manners. she has head for practical
affairs ~ good IA that of her husband
Alexander Sullivan never takes an inn
portant step without first consulting his
wife. She * every bit "a much "A diplo-
mat as he, and Secretary Blaine once
said If she were man he would like to
send her ~ minister To one OF the capi-
tails Of Europe.
That woman can keep a secret no
longer needs exenplification. since wo-
men lawyers. physicians, journalists and
politicians are playing so important a part
In modern activi-
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