Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-30
JOHN |. SULLIVAN
 AS CONGRESSMAN
Brother Watterson Believes There Have Been Some
 Worse Ones


 The announcement that John L. Sullivan has an ambition 10 be sent 70 congress from Massachusetts dis triet in which his farm lies and where he has been a sober country squire for some time, is perhaps regarded more humorously by many persons than it should be, is the opinion of the Louis vile Courier-Journal Mir. Sullivan in congress might be as miscast as Eddie Foy would have been in Hamlet if the managers had allowed him to try the role. But voters are sometimes less chary than managers. Their fortunes are not invested in the piece they stage. Mir. Sullivan may not be imminent, yet he is not impossible or wholly improbable as candi- date.
 The Washington Star which has it's being near the seat of the mighty and sees the procession of the patriots and prisoners pass it's doors every day upon the way from breakfast to deiiberatiOn takes a sensible view of the Sullivan announcement. It re- calls little history that many of the | older generation have forgotten and many of the younger generation do not know.
 Says tn Star:
 But admitting the improvement in MT Sullivan's habits and condi- ton, how would it benefit him to put him forward as a statesman? {? Is 1t not too late? He has reached the ! half century mark, and at that age new tricks are difficult to learn. After 1 ne lowered his dukes in the real ring 1 he put them up for while in the mim- l ic ring. He became an actor and en. teTtained audiences in theatres, with ! iabs at a companion between puffs | But as a mime the big fellow proved 1 no good. The business was not in ! his line.
 Would statelnanship be? It is Is a long time since John Morrisey True, Tim Sullivan and Tim Camp l cell were later recruits in congress | and while not former prizefighters | were as little associabIe with law mak | ing as Morrisey But New York was ! responsible in their cases and New fork has always taken liberties with 1 the country. The staid old common wealth of Massachusetts could not al l ord to copy such an example 1 No, it is administration run wild | hat proposes Mir. Sullivan for a seal I n the house. He would soon tire | of it. Tim Sullivan did After 6 | brief experience in Washington he gent home in disgust, saying that he | would rather be on a hitching-post | there than a statesman here. Which ! showed that he had a level head as tC
 ais own qualifications. Applying a l famous bit of advice. let Mir. Sulli ,an keep his farm and his farm viii 1 Esep him. As he has gone back to na lure let him remain near. The house l would be unnatural to him.
 It may be that when accounts are
 ast in Heaven John t. Sullivan will
 be found to have served the country | letter than some of the indifferent ! representatives we have sent to con
 sress. He has always been honest 1 and complete honesty, in prizerings | pr elsewhere, is a somewhat rare and l even beautiful human virtue that | gins a universal tribute. As a living 1 breathing, clustering proof that in the 1 and strong drink stingeth like an ad | der he has been Of some use as q | warming As a country squire of a 1 lhiloscopic turn of mind who can al
 ways dwell at common length upo1 | honesty as a shining ornament and
 working principle and upon alcoho
 IS a snare, Mir. Sullivan is not wholly
 failure in middle fife, despite his l finished fame, and the frailty ht
 claims to have conquered after i'
 rushed him. In congress he would
 eed the hungry pens of the humoristi
 # the press galley for the nine day:
 notted to minor sensations. Ther
 ho deliberations of congress would | lore the gladiator and he would re urn 10 the farm to view the waxeI
 4dipoise tissue of the the hogs and
 uminate upon his former glory 1T
 he ring Better life upon the farm
 han ennui in the house of represen l tatives.
 | Nevertheless there has been wisel | congressman who was @ far worse | representative than John Morrisey