The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-14

THE HON. "BILL",SULZER, =
German Dad and Irish Mother =
Gave Him His Traits. =

IL Him His Traits. =
1t has been the subject Of COM
ment. writes Vincent Towne. that the
Hon. William Sulzer, just nominated
York. has been becomingly calm and
self-restrained since the Hon. Oscar
Underwood and his committee on
committees and ways and means and
what not elevated that spirited New
Yorker to the craftsmanship Of the
house committee on foreign affairs.
Tor when the Hon. Mr.. Sulzer made
mis- debut In the south wing Of the
national capitol he was so hubby. so
~effervescent. SO delightfully iizzy that
a republican wag. aiming Il horrible
pun at his name. dubbed him "Mr.
Seidlitz Powder" a nickname that
stuck longer than the young Tammany
brave desired.
Some venture to say that tits lucky
for our diplomacy hat the empire Of
Diaz. rather than that OF George v
us while the Hon. Mr.. Sulzer is maxi
Ing his debut as diplomatic adviser
to the president-and this because
the able young chairman inherits
from his Irish mother. a racial long.
Ing to twist the British lions tail,
while at the same time ne falls heir
to a German dads contempt for the
imperial system in the fatherland.
Forsooth. the Hon. MIR. Bill" is
II 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 hat stamps itself all over his
face. while If he's looking kind of
gruf-or trying to-you will say that
he Is every inch a sauerkrauter.
Staunch Water Sulzer was a Forty.
he was one of those revolutionists
who endeavored to establish a repub-
lie in that kingdom.
After wooing and winning his pretty
colleen the battle-scarred F~orty-eight-
err fetched her to Elizabeth Town,
where. while the elements were kick
Ing up for the equinoctial storm of
tne civil wars second spring. baby
Bill" came into the world with a
lour squawk from a pair Of lusty
leather lungs that have never lost
their since that natal day.
Soon the lure of the great metroo.
lis got the better Of Father Sulzer.
Politics was not a lively game in Jer-
sey during those Woodrow VIII
son years. Soon after this second
migration of his parents young Bill
wv uoA6u W Uc put III tHo pun.
lie school and-save on Saturdays
and sundays-Mother Suffers ear
drums got a much-eened rest 'twixt
9 and 3. She was able now to hear
herself think a lit'> about her husky
stripling's future. Father Sulzer. puff
ing MS lot-stemmed. pipe by the fire.
= Of evenings. thar:sed mis- stars
that ;his lad of theirs was not born
In the fatherland in the days when
Frederick the Great Kidnapped Tor his
Potsd.Am guard all OF the young giants
o. his kingdom. for son Bill passed
the siN-foct mark before he passed his
teens. He was also broad in the beam
Wien he entered Columbia col.
lego. in the early seventies, few sophs
there we're who cared to tackle him.
Leaving college. the young giant
went in for tho law and was admitted
to- u" bar rs early as he codi. be.
which is to say when he was 81. SIX
years later he was elected TO the. leg
i%slature. and when 80 he; was chosen
speaker Of the assembly:: Two years
after that he came to the national
house Of representatives.. 80