The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-03
SULZER BORN ON 4 FARM
once speaker of the Assembly, ia
Congress since 1904.

Congress since 1924.
Suzers life would contain these dates
and facts:
Born in Elizabeth. y. j. March IL. 1869.
his mother of Scot ch Irish and Dutch
ancestry and his father of German stock
He was the second son Of a family of seven
children. His father was a farmer and the
son worked on the farm until he was Il;
then worked in a law Office and
studied at Columbia law school At
2l he was admitted to the New York
bar Stumped for the Democratic party
and five years after he became lawyer
he was sent to the Assembly
In 1898 he became Speaker Of the Assem-
| bly, and he..folowing year was leader of
the Democratic minority. II was during
these years he gained the sobriQuet of
The Boy Orator" Since 1894 he has gone
to Congress from the Tenth district OF
New York
Congressman Sulzer. Billy" TO most of
his friends. has also been called H. Clay
Sulzer," because of resemblance. fancied
or real, to Henry Clay. The Congressman
is well over six feet tall and Of fair
weight. This is how one writer describes
him:
"Sulzer is not a classically beautiful
man because his features are broken up
into these rugged juts OF force, those
Cbrupt bubbles of intensity, which tend
to spoil the smooth. even. waxen SYM
metry known az regular features Sulzer
ia decidedly a good looking individual
1 i III. 4
the jump"
| The Congressman is topped bv crop
Of sandy hair on the right side. front OF
which Is one huge lock which lust won I
behave. II is always falling over his
right eye and when Congressman Sulzer
is delivering vehemently speech in
which he is interested that lock bobs
forth and back. across his face. np and
down, and around in circle.
II was his ability to talk ably for the
things he advocated that won him his
first nomination to the Assembly AT
that time he was a young lawyer. withou,
any powerful friends. He took the stump
for the National Democratic Committee
in the Cleveland campaign in 1884, Just
after he had been admitted to the bar
and kept speaking away until the county
leaders recognized his force and his
His name has been urged for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor every
two years since 1908, That year a Sulzer
} campaign committee opened head
quarters but the nomination was with
/, held. as it was in 1909 and 1910. Mean
while he has been working away in Wash
ington. doing his best for measures he
! was for, and his best against measures
he was against. He has been prolific as a
statute maker.
! lie increased the pay OF letter carriers
made Lincoln's birthday legal holiday
passed the bill which authorized the
raising of the Maine once introduced a
bill providing for postal savings banks
aud the parcels post and passed a new
copyright law.
MIR, Sulzer's marriage in January 1908
was almost an elopement. He disappeared
from Washington and several days later
WAS found in Atlantic City with u bride
who was Miss Clara Rodeheim of New
York
Mr. Sulzer has devoted so much of his
time to the offices he has held that he
has not been able TO pay mucn attention
to his law practice and he is reputed tC
be poor man.
As an orator Congressman Sulzer il
impressive. He has a ready flow of words
can turn phrase neatly and can enthus.
or s,lbdue. cause tears or laughter in thu
average audience. He is not lacking in
fire when no thinks ii desirable and h,
is in demand TO speak at dinners