The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-17
NEW LEADER
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Diaz, rather than that of George V
or of Kaiser wilhelm II is frettine
us while the Hon. Sulzer is making
his debut as diplomatic adviser to the
President-and this because the able
! young chairman inherits from his
Irish mother a racial longing to twist
the British lions tail, while at the
same time he falls heir to a German
dads contempt for the imperial sys.
tenn in the Fatherland.
Forsooth, the Hon. Bill is such an
even blend of Paddy and Fritz that
when you behold him smiling you can
even trace the rocky road to Dublin
through the map of Erin that stamps
itself all over his face, while if he's
looking kind of gruff-or trying to
you will say that he is every inch a
Sauerkrauter.
Staunch Water Sulzer was a Forty
Fighter of Prussia, which means that
he was one of those revolutionists
who endeavored to establish a re-
public in that kingdom. Failing of
their enterprise, many of those bold
Forty-eighters were executed as trait
ors, while many more took to their
heels and fled to America And Sui
ger the elder was one of the latter.
'Twere a fine thing to go down in
Prussian history as a martyr, but
Father Sulzer preferred to have his
neck on his shoulders rather than in
the glorious moose. Following the
example of once exiled king of Spain,
he sought asylum in New Jersey
ever favorite retreat for those op-
pressed by foreign tyrants or do
nestle hot weather.
After wooing and winning his pref
ty colyeen, the battle SCARED Forty
Fighter fetched her to Elizabeth Town,
where, while the elements were kick
ing up for the equinotical storm of
the Civil Wars second Spring, Baby
Bill came into the world with a loud
squawk from a pair of lusty leather
lungs that have never lost their reson-
ance since that natal day, so glorious
for Jersey.
Soon the lure of the great Metrop-
oils got the better of Father Sulzer.
Politics was not a lively game in
Jersey during those Woodrow
Wilson years. Soon after this second
migration of his parents young Bill
was old enough to be put in the public
school and-save on Saturdays and
Sundays-Mother Suffers ear-drums
got much-needed rest 'twixt nine
and three. She was able now to hear
herself think little about her husky
stripling's future. Father Sulzer,
putting his long stemmed pipe by the
Preside of evenings, thanked his stars
that this lad Of theirs was not born
in the Fatherland in the days when
Frederick the Great kidnapped, for
his Potsdam guard, all of the young
giants of his kingdom, for son Bill
passed the siX-foot mark before he
passed his teens. He was also broad
in the beam and when he entered
Columbia College, in the early Seven
ties, few Sophs there were who cared
to tackle him.
Leaving college, the young gian
went in for the law and was admitted
to the bar as early as he could be,
which is to say when he was twenty
one. Six years later he was elected
to the legislature and when thirty
he was chosen Speaker of the Assem-.
bly,. Two years after that he came
to the national House of Represent
atives.
When, with full war paint on, with
Feathers flying and tomahawk waving.
the young Tammany brave entered
Congress, that winter of 1856, Speaker
Reed, tits said, fled precipitately to
the Maine woods to begin anew the
study of parliamentary practice, at
which the ex-Speaker of New York
was said to be "phenom." And what
made the Hon. Sulzer all the more
formidable to both Republicans and
Democrats of the House was the news,
heralded in advance of his coming,
that he was the Great Commoner
Henry Clay, reincarnated in the flesh
In those halcyon days, when the
great Car himself ruled with a might
that was absolute and when a House
Committee on Committees was as un.
dreamed of at Washington as the
oogies in initiative, referendum and
'ecall, tradition demanded that each
freshman of the House go away back
md sit down-be seen little and heard
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