Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-09-21
THE BOER'S SHARE,
Inside History Of Sulzer, the Bryanite,
and His Meeting for the Relief
of the Beers.
A Collection of S., 300, Out of which the
Beers Got $18 and some
Few Cents.
A Practical Illustration of the Value of
the Democratic Sympathy
and Support.

Washington, Sept. 15.-(Special
Correspondence.)- the past few
weeks the Washington public has been
highly entertained by a serio-comic
fight in the camp of the gentlemen who
so loudly proclaim their monopoly of
the good motives of the universe. The
occasion for this ludicrous jumble was
furnished by the recent visit of the
Boer delegates to the capital.
When it was positively known that
they were coming, it was the intention
of the citizens, irrespective of party,
to tender them proper reception.
However,, before meeting could be
called by the representative business
men of Washington the irrepressible
Hon. William Sulzer, the Tammany
congressman who revolves like a PIN
wheel, bobbed up and seized upon the
undertaking.
1t appears that Sulzer had taken the
precaution to have some correspond
ence with the Boer officials, and this,
according to his East side mode of
reasoning, clearly entitled him to pitch
in and become the whole thing. He
called meeting which was composed
largely Of gentlemen of the Sulzer cal
ibre and from which the substantial
citizens of Washington remained stud
iously away. Sulzer was chosen as
chairman of the committee to receive
the Beers and was clothed with extra
ordinary power. He appointed the
subcommittee, arranged the pro-
gram for the reception and pubic meet
ing, and the hand of the Tammany
statesman was to be found in all the
most important details. It was to be
Sulzerian affair from start to finish.
BY this time it was plain to be seen
that the affair was being utilized as a
democratic campaign card. Demo-
cratic senators and representatives
were selected as vice-presidents and
orators for the meeting, but the pro-
grams were so carefully arranged that
at each of these functions Mr., Sulzer
was the principal orator. All the
other orators revolved about the Tam
many congressman and at every turn
the Boer delegates made they bumped
into large chunk of the eloquence
that made Sulzer famous.
The climax came the night the meet.
ing was held in the Grand opera house
sulzer was in his glory and the only
person who approached him was the
Hon. Webster Davis, who was fresh
from his famous exploits in South
Africa. 1t was upon this occasion Mr.
Davis paid his much talked of eulogy
to former Consul Macrum and recited
his thrilling experience with the
horse dragons. The speeches of
Sulzer, Davis, the Hon. Windy" Allen
of Nebraska, and few of the lesser
lights were touching, and that was lust
what they were intended to be.
After the speeches were we'll under
way Mr.. Sulzer announced that COL
lection for the benefit of the widows
and orphans of the Boer soldiers would
be taken up, and he Immediately
called for subscriptions, leading off
himself with liberal sum. Repeated
ly would Sulzer call the names of
members of the audience and suggest
that they contribute. Placed in such
uncomfortable positions, there was
nothing for them to do but shell out"
and when the sand-bagging process
had been completed it was supposed
that the widows and orphans of the
Beers would be the recipients of over
S1,SOO. The meeting was voted a sue
cess from financial standpoint and
the Boer delegates appeared to be
highly pleased over the showing of
substantial sympathy.
But 1t is the sequel that amuses. BY
this time the pro-Boer movement in
Washington had degenerated openly
into a democratic anti-expansion and
Bryan side-show and the Bryanites
were whooping it up to the best of their
ability. However, there was some de.
gree OF satisfaction to be found in the
fact that 81 800 had been raised for the
distressed families of the Boer soldiers,
and the thought that they were to be
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