Show from the pally ot september 10 THE CHAMPION SLUGGER FOR CONGRESS by the latest bulletin from the inner arcles of the great we are informed that he B ill not enar tain any more challenges that he has reached as sublime an in the manly art as any one p raon should desire and will detira from bis arduous sion and with the splendid noton ety he has gaibel as the greatest beugger of bis time bill seek lie more secluded and lesi glorious pursuits of a unite Cu many who read his announcement will receive it as a rare sort of joke when indeed is very little of humor in it think the matter over tor a moment john L sullivan is not entirely a fool and if he were it is hardly that all of his friends are and only a fool would allow such a message to go with his sanction unless lie had some reason for believing would not only be successful in liis effort to gain the position desired but would be able by some means to meet its requirements now we belice that there are districts in this republic that would elect john L sullivan to the position that he aspires to and not in the spirit of startling the w orid ft ith a great joke but with the con notion that this sublime specimen of muscular manhood would do capable service in that body which in theory is tom poi ed of the intellectual giants of the greatest nation on earth we believe upon the best of evidence that there are thousands of the stable citizens of mississippi and louisiana alio esteem the capabilities of this renowned ned slug per infinitely higher than those of alie governor gover cor alio has been instrumental in having him as a lawbreaker we believe as w aa observed by a kew york paper soon alter the eichburg Kich burg fight that there are thousands of citizens and political leaders and aspirant aspi rans for high office w ho w far rather be the victor in the sullivan kilrain fight than to ie president and if w e may be pardoned for being candid to alie finish we believe there are representatives in congress today to day w ho are no more fit to be there we could not very well gay less alian is jolin L sullivan conceding that many of the minds of the nation find their way into that body no person who holds the proper respect for hs can visit the house of the nations any of its important deliberations and escape the conviction that through its alie american keople at large are grievously mia represented in other word lie avelae aniceti can cazen intellectuals and morally is a or specimen of manhood to the amae congressman john L sullivan in the present order of clings woud be a decided step in advance true be could not v rite a of intelligent english if be made that one achievement the task of a whole session but one of the thousand 20 pieces that bis prowess of another sort ins won for him would purchase as good a speech as the average delivered in congressional halls lie could not memorize a paragraph raph of euch a speech and deliver it with credit in the course of a whole term but it would be no special gain to his constituency or his reputation v ere his abilities in that line as good as the beet of them there is a department in the record of proceedings edited for the convenience of the numerous members of the john L class where with the consent of the house all these purchased efforts and many more beside may find expression and here is where the greatness of the worlds champion would come into real congressional service imagine a bedlam of several hundred of the nations small men all on their feet at the top of their feeble voices to be heird in the interest of a private oi dofher as may be seen almost any day in that assembly and in the majit thereof the great john L towering like a real pillar of elate and contending in his own forcible way for the right to print in the interests inte reits of his loyal constituency 1 what a sublime bacle of picturesque statesmanship he would make does anyone believe for an that any present would carry a more lofty tone or that any would stand before him or that his way tt the bar of the house would be obstructed or that the speaker in an e of that portly mein and prodigious eloquence of sound would deny the boon really we are almost persuaded that under present conditions the areat champion of richburg nichburg nich burg would make a literal mark in the house so heres success to john L s con p aspirations and herbs to his chosen party the democracy OGDEN LOST nothing by her courteous treatment of the kansas editors they are at home now and their papers are fairly redolent of compliments to the junctions beainy and grandeur more to their pen bands I 1 |