The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-03
SUFFERS AMBITION.
How He Brought on the War and
Freed the Cubans.
Washington Letter in the Louisville cOur-

Washington Letter in the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
1 see that the Democratic members of
the New York delegation, on motion OF
Amos Cummings, have resolved to press
the unspeakable Sulzer for the Democrat
&c leadership. Sulzer is the man who
brought on the war with Spain. 1t was
that magnificent speech of his, which no.
body heard and which nobody ever read
except himself and the proofreader, that
stiffened the necks of the Spaniards and
drove them to destruction. Sulzer admits
in all his conversation that it was he who
freed Cuba; that AL Berry was only q
"hand-plant;" that Capt Lodge was only
an incumbrance; that Bill Chandler was
only an incident in the glorious move
hemisphere. When Sulzer attains the full
meridian of his powers he will chase the
English flag off our side of the world.
Suffers mission In Congress was to
tame" Tom Reed. He avowed that he
would wither the Gar with a single flash
OF his eagle eye, that the first time he
rose to speak the tyrant would wilt |
believe has first speech was on Cuba, and
he was on his legs about two minutes
Then he got leave to print, and the next
day the Congressional Record came out
with tremendous speech by the Hon.
Sulzer, covering several pages, and inter
spersed throughout the Grafton were ZAP
plause," laughter" Laughter and ap-
plause," 'lound and long continued ap-
plause." That was the speech that made
the war, the speech that freed Cuba. the
speech that drove Spain from our hemi-
sphere. Sulzer is the man who thinks he
looks like Henry Clay 1t used to please
Fernando Wood to tell him of his resem-
blance to Mr.. Clay; 1t would take several
Suffers to make a half-sole for old Fer
nando.
There is a little man in Congress from
the Knoxville, Tenn, district, named GiD-
son. He is a bulldog of a man and one day
the Hon. Sulzer fe ! foul of him. 1t was
late in the afternoon, a gloomy day, at
least a cloudy day. / do not recall the
cause of the quarrel now; but the passage
Of "lanwidge" between them was the most
iudicrous imaginable. Both spoke at the
same time-that is both were on their legs
gesticulating and talking at the same time.
Sulzer was dealing in r.dicule, of what he
intended to be ridicule, and Gibson was
dealing in invective. Gibson never heard
Sufzer's sarcasm. and Sulzer never heard
Gibson's denunciation. Each was too in
tent on what he himself was saying or
intended to say, to pay any attention to
the other
l wish 1 could have seen Amos Cum
mings when he Offered that resolution but
l would rather see the magnificent Sulzer
head his side in great parliamentary
battle. Horace Walrole, who did not love
him, described the scene when Chatham.
then plain William Pitt, made the crush
ing reply to Hume Campbell in the Eng
i'sh Commons. 1t was about the beginn me-
of Parliamentary leadership" as we now
employ the term, and since that day. when
the greatest Parliamentary leader the
world ever saw, showed the power of Par
liamentary eloquence, here has been no
leadership" like that the Hon. Sulzer will
give US IL he ever gels the chance. And I
hope he will get il.