The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-10
Will Talk at metropolitan
Hall at Noon.
A MAN OF OPINION
SuIlY, Once the Undoubted Napoleon
of the Market, is Now Getting Ready
for a New Campaign. How He
Looks and What He

Daniel ]. Sully, of New York, the
man who possibly knows better the
feel of being in the rapidly revolving
vortex of cotton speculation; the
gurgle of the waves as they revolve
the feel of viewing the landscape
oer' from the crest of the seethins
poland, the sickning tumble into
the cornecopia funnel at the bottom OF
the cave of glass, is in Raleigh.
He came in on an early train yes
tcrday went around to the place
where his triumphs were in the past
marked up in neat rows OF hgures
with white chalk on black board.
shook numerous admiring hands and
in the afternoon took a long drive IN
company with his representative, MI
Allison seeing how the staple grows
in North Carolina.
In the evening, when L sought MIN
in his room at the Yarboro Mr.. Suliy
was in the comfortable humor to alb
sorb a good cigar after dinner ana talh
as il befitted him to speak--whlch,
one saw without further parley, was
as he saw fit to speak.
A confession of curiosity as to Mr..
Sully is no disgrace. The man VINO
could come a stranger into the street.
consistency as we'll as name. who
could there abide for a month or
more and demand place so that all
the old-timers laughed-and then take
the place with his hands; a man who
could start with the figures and the
men and the money against him on
his own views as to cotton as capt.
tai and take that shrinking staple
and wave it like a Fourth of July
Flag over his head and holler Hurrah
Boysl and have the whole country
Wall Street included--at his heels, Is
somebody to look at!
In the end the fact that Mr.. Sully
went down before concert OF the
powers as it were, only lends romance
10 his career and does not detract. but
rather adds TO his interest. Napoleon
could not have been the man he has
turned out TO be in history without
his Waterloo.
BIT IL is evident in every line of Mr.
Sully's face that he wants no Helena
in his. Rather he is the Napoleon
of the cotton market arrived at Elba
with the determination to wipe out
;he Waterloo end of the program!
Say it under your breath, lest the
Kings might hear it-Mr. Sully Is
getting ready to speculate again!
S-hhh, Sufly is a bulE |.
1t is at. the same time "a shocking
and a reaSAuring thing that the world
IS so near kin. Time was when the
whisper. '"Sully is buying brought al
the little fellows running pell-mell to
the bucket shops. when the farmer
turned back from market with the
bale of cotton: he had hauled ten
miles, to town to sell, when the name
conjured up a man who showed hi
magic in his face. "Bosh!" we thought
as we looked at the Sully pictures
"he's not that kind of a man, there is
something in his eye they haven't
caught" Like the negro spies in Tom
piyon's play we were apt to say:
"Shui He's high as Ell church steeple.
The fact that Mr.. Sully is pleas
ant looking, well-fed gentleman with
"A brown mustasche and "a short bang
like part in his middle hair; or fig
ure that suggests good-living rather
than stoutness and cheeks which ex-
hibit the glow of health and an alb
Sence of wrinkles should not proper
IN give the suspicion to these ref1ec-
tions drawn prior to an introduction
Mr.. Sully puts on no airs. FRANKLY
he is a business man; and cotton is his