Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-15
ROGER C, SULLIVAN, POLITICAL LEADER,
 DIES IN CHICAGO
Beaten in His Own States He Made Wilson's Election
 Sure

Chicago, April 14.-Roger c. Sul- livan, 59 years old, democratic lead CT of Cook county and prominent in state and national politics for 30 years, died at his home in Chicago late today of bronchial pneumonia. Hc had been seriously i'll month.
 Mr. Sullivan returned to Chicago recently from Hot Springs, Ark, where he had gone for his health af- ter spending part of the winter at Palm Beach, Fla, and at Washing ton, where he conferred with po- litical leaders.
 Mr. Sullivan planned to enter the democratic national convention at San Francisco as the leader of the Illinois delegation of 58 with the in tention of making that his last ap- pearance as a political leader.
 Roger Sullivan, condemned in his own state by his opponents as a "boss" and more than once Tread out' of the democratic party by no less person than William Jennings Bryan, led the movement that fi- nally resulted in making Woodrow Wilson president of the United States.
 1t was Sullivan who headed the democratic delegation from Illinois at the Baltimore convention in 1912 "a delegation pledged to Champ Clark-and, who after sufficient ballots had been cast to discharge his obligation to Illinois, switched the vote of the state to Wilson and made his nomination possible.
 Made a Million.
 Roger Sullivan had been partici- pant in every democratic convention since 1892, and in at least three of the seven he attended, he had been a commanding figure.
 His clashes with Bryan. Carter Harrison and the William R. Hearst faction of the party in his home state which brought him the title of "boss" from his political ene- mics made Sullivan democratic figure throughout the country De- spite the frequent attacks on his power and the fact that many of the influential party organs of H. linois were against him, Sullivan was the undisputed leader in Illinois for several years.
 Roger Sullivan as business man had been no less successful than politician. Coming to Chicago in 1879 to work in the railroad shops as an apprentice machinist at S1 25 a day, he was reputed to be worth more than $1,00l,000 at the time of his death.
 Four years after coming to Chica- go Mir. Sullivan attended his first po- litical meeting, a ward caucus, and from that day dated his interest in politics. In 1890 he was elected to his first political office, clerk of the probate court.
 In 1914 he was a candidate for United States senator, but was de- feated by Lawrence Y. Sherman. President Wilson opposed Sullivan's election. Two years later his friends proposed his name for vice president but he refused to enter the race and insisted on the nomination of Thom- as R. Marshall for second term.
 Old Bryan Feud
 Sullivan's differences with Bryan dated back to the free silver cam paign of 1896. He had been dele gate to the democratic national con ventions of 1892 and 1896, but be- fore the elction in the latter year he withdrew from the part wand joined the "gold democrats" The election of Mckinley left Sullivan without 8 party and two years later he re- turned to the democratic fold, and soon after was elected to the state committee.
 In 1900 he helped nominate Bryan at Kansas City. Four years later Sullivan was elected to the demo- cratic national committee. thereby laying the foundation for one of the biterest political fights in Illinois democratic history.
 Bryan opened the battle of 1908 when he served notice at the demo- cratic state coivention that he would not accept the support of the Illi- nois delegation unless the conven- ton adopted resolution demand ing Sullivan's retirement from the national committee. Sullivan defeat ed the resolution and then intro duced a resolution endorsing Bryan, which was passed. Sullivan remain ed | member of the national commit tee until 1S16 despite fepeeated ef-1