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dialect. do youse want to put me on
the bum like Tim Campbell and Sui
ger? Nit!''
But it's fine"
Say" said Sullivan, what is the
graft over there?"
His friend dilated on the possibilities.
| How long does it take to get to
| Washington" asked Sullivan.
only five hours"
"Sure?" asked Sullivan, obviously. A
railroad time table was brought to
| prove it.
That amt such a long time" he
went on, reflectively, and then, in in
terested tone: Say, those guys that
flag the Washington graft get to be the
main squeeze at the White House if
their gang is in. don't they? They are
the whole cheeze in national conven-
tons. That amt a bad lay. Maybe I
will go down there and look the game
over. 1t amt a pikers game, and
| maybe l may take a stack and sit in.
1t might be a grand game, with the
limit off,
The back room of the Occidental is
Sullivan's Throne Room. About its
doors Perry Belmont waited and wait
ed on the night of the nomination, to
see big Tim and ask why he had
not received the nomination as expect
ed. But big Tim the former boot
black, newsboy, Bowery tough, would
not receive the Minister to Spain,
ex-Member of Congress, and son of the
great Belmont, who was the Roths-
childs' agent in America.
He had decided that he wants to go
to Washington for possible power in
national conventions, and, naturally,
for graft" but his public interviews
to-day and yesterday indicate that per-
haps if Perry Belmont, who expected
the nomination, would make it worth
while, Sullivan would transfer the
chance to him. All Sullivan wants is
graft" He is now the Tammany boss
of practically all below Fourteenth
street, and not much more influence is
needed by him to be the successor of
Croker as sovereign leader 1t is Plum
/ kits idea that Congress is too far
! away, and that one gets out of touch
with his people by going there; but
! Sullivan, in the course of his six terms
in the Assembly at Albany and seven
terms in the Senate, never permitted
legislative duties to keep him there
when interests personal or political
| synonymous words) needed him else
where, and Washington is really by
modern train service not much farther
away than Albany.
At eight years of age he left the pub
lie school in City Hall Place, became
a bootblack, then a newsboy, then a
| typesetter; at eighteen was interested
| in ward politics; at twenty-three was
nominated for assembly by the Coun-
ty Democracy and won the election
against Tammany. At twenty-five he
left the County Democracy to join
Tammany at twenty-nine was leader
of the Third district; at thirty-one was
leader of the Sixth, and now he is boss
of the Bowery and supreme in politics
from Tony Pastors to the Battery
| Charlie Adler's district, and the one
/ about Washington Square being the
| only ones that ever go anti-Tammany.
| What sort of a representative in Con-
gress Dry Dollar will make, no one
seems to ask Everybody judges his
| future by his past, which, after all, .s
| sound philosophy. His past has been
remarkable, and his future will be
worth observing, whether he goes to
| Congress or passes it on to Perry Bel
| mont, for he is still young (39) and
| more of a figure in Democratic politics
in New York than any man besides
Croker.
He is a product of New York slums,
yet at thirty-nine lis worth $400, 000
Though open-handed, he has accunnu-
lated this fortune on a salary as legis-
lator of $500 a year for twelve years,
never having spent a cent on tobacco,
never %aving touched a drop of liquor,
and always observing the old-fashion-
ed virtue of going early to bed and