New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-13
JEWS SEEK PLACE
HELD BY BIG TIM u
Civil Death of Clan SuIIIVan'S
Head Signal for Racial
Battle.
WIGWAM FOR FITZGERALD
Commitment of Leader Likely
10 Change Political Color OF
the 18th Congress Dis
trict Soon.


some time this week, probably to-day.
amli,ation will Doc made in the Supreme
Court for the appointment Of a commit
To-, To take care Of the person and prop
crty of Representative Timothy u. SuIli-
IAN. whose picturesque political career was
legally terminated by an order signed by
Supreme Court Justice Amend on Friday
committing him to Dr q. VI. Bonds sana-
forum, in Yonkers.
The application will he made by Will
lam r. Ellison. who is now looking after
the estate of Big Tim" which is worth
far more than 100000, according to his
friends
To-day Big Tim is a ward of the
state. ciyilly dead, and the requiem Of his
long and chcckered political career will
Joe chantcd when the tally clerks begin the
counting Of the vote of the special cleo
ton i'm the 18th Congress District, for
Governor Sulzor will shortly order spe-
ciaI election i'm that district for success
sor % Big Tim who was elected last
November by = vote larger than the com
ldned votes Of Rinchart and Potter his
Republican and Progressive opponents.
III When Nominated.
Timothy p. Sullivan. according to those
who have known his real condition for
some time. was really a mental wreck last
fall when he was nominated for Congress.
His friends hoped it was only a tempo
rary nervous breakdown. and everything
possible was done to keep from the public
4f..Y in a sal p a.
forum. a mental wreck when the votes
were being cast that made him Repre-
sentative from the 18th New YORK Con-
grcss District.
At the time and for weeks prior TO
Election Day. il was given out that ne
was confined TO his apartments i'm the 81
Denis Hotel. owned by his stepbrothef'
Larry Mulligau. who. with Chris SUI
liyan and Senator John G. Fitzgerald
have directed the political destHnes OF
the Clan Sullivan for the last three years
Tor during that tim, the mind Of the big
Fellow as he was aftectionately termed.
was gradually giving way.
The friends Of Sullivan first began 10
fear for him after his nephew, Little
Tim" whom ne brought from Boston ana
made political power in this city. dIed
i'm his home after stay in Bellevue HOS
pitals psvchopathic ward Of the sam"
disease that has overtaken Big Tim.
This was iu Christmas week four years
ago. The final stroke that told ON the
"uf- fellows" nerves was tine death Of
his wifi. last September. Then the mind
tina; made its owner a power second only
To- croker and Murphy in the regimes of
those two cars of Tammauy Hall began
,o fail
Jews May Contest Place.
Senator FITZGERALD is already regarded
hy Tammany Hall as the wearer of Big
rims" political mantle. The Senator has
lived for years iu the same house Oh
Second avenue that Governor Sulzer
made his hcme until two days before his
inauguratiOn But even his long friend
shin with Governor Sulzer will not pre-
vent am open contest in the district be-
tween the Clan Sullivan or what is left
of il. and the Jewish clement which now
dominates the Sullivan bailiwick' in the
next primaries. At least one prominent
jew Tammanyite who lives south of l4tn
street so declared last night
This man intimated that there were
several young politicians OF his religious
persuasion who were after the SULLIVAN
suzerainty. and he pointed out that al
that was needed to put Jew into BIS
Tins" political shoes was n desire of the
Hebrew Tammany men Of the district
10 do so.
Big Tins" election 10 Congress fol-
lowed a wish he made known a year age
this month in Albany, when he was state
Senator He said he was Disguised Wit
state legislative life and wanted to 20
back TO Washington.
You've got to 90 around Albany witt
"a bunch of pale pink whskers and sad
and solemn look on your :ace these DAYS
10 please the reform element said Bis
Tim" at the time.
And il was a somewhat similar whin
that caused him to leave Washington III,
several years ago At that time-it was
his first term i'm Congress-he said: NE"
Concressmen are so common in Wash
ington that they use them for hitchine
posts along the streets
Sullivan Wit Always Ready.
Big Tim" was always prone to witt
savings. and the hest Of the true storie-
told about him-there were many untrue
is the following:
Several years ago, when Sullivan was
no less powerful than Croker, man sus-
pccted Of disloyalty to him was bein-
talked about for an Assembly nomina-
ton. Big Tim" was against him, anc
TO persuade the big fellow that he was
mistaken q number Of friends Of tn,
Tammany man under suspicion went {.
him and spoke Of the political merits OF
their friend.
He's slick" said ono of them TO "Bi-
Tim"
yves. know he's slick" said "Ei'
Tim" slowly. Hes the slickest man or
the East side. He's SO slick that ne cOul,
carry a double armful of live cells up a
six story ladder and never drop one
Another anecdote Of the big fellow
concerns the time when he went to Al
bauy to east his vote as a Cleveland
presidential elector in 1892.
Sullivan sat in the smoking room of q
Pullman with three other electors. Tw,
were Harvard men and one was a Prince
ton man. one Of the Harvard men did
not recognize Big Tim as the man VIII
three wears before had been publicly
branded as an associate Of thieves by IT,
spector Byrnes. He asked the big Eel
low # ne was college man.
His Alma Mater.