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Show WINS NOMINATION AFTER SIX DEFEATS I i y t If I: -. , a i A. 5 Cv ! x v , v V a sits V 1 William Sulzer. representative in congress from New York city, ' was nominated for governor of New York state the other day by the Democratic Demo-cratic state convention. It was the seventh time he had been a candidate for this nomination. Mr. Sulzer was born in Elizabeth, N. J., March 18, 1863. His father, Thomas Sulzer, was a German patriot of the school of Sigel and Schurz, and after the revolution of 1848 was imprisoned. Escaping, he went to Switzerland, and came to America in 1851. settling in New Jersey. When William was a baby ' his parentB moved to New York city, and his residence has never been chaSiged since. William Sulzer was graduated from Columbia college, where he studied law. He acquired a reputation reputa-tion as a speaker and debater in the Cooper Union Debating society. After Aft-er graduation he took up the prac tice of law, and also entered actively into politics, his first public appearance appear-ance being as a speaker for Cleveland in the campaign of 18S4. |