Show CORBET TO EMULATE ftlORRISSEY There Is a proposition on hand in Xow York to run James J Corbett for Congress from the Twelfth New York City district now represented by George B IMcClcllan son of lie Gcn eial That reminds UH of a coincidence Probabliy George B McClclIan was more finely educated than any olllccr in the army lie was a marvelous engineer en-gineer he never made a mistake Jn a plan In his life and never won but one important victory and that was won because the machine was set in motion and was not stopped Corbett Is the most graceful of prlxefightcrs but he never won but one real victory That he should run to fill the place now occupied oc-cupied by a son of Gen McClellan Is queer or ralhor It would be In any other place but New York There are Iwo or three districts In New York whore nothing counts for so much as a game fighter The same spirit elected John lUorrlssoy and beat Horace Grec icy for Congress away back in the CCs Morrissey would have filled the description that the defeated Cornish fighter gavo in the West when he referred re-ferred to his adversary In these words He are no slum he arc a ard Miter An Eastern paper revives the record of John Jiforrlssey and shows that It was right to elect him to Congress lie first fought with Thompson in San Francisco in 1S31 for 2000 a side and won Then ho defeated Yankee Sullivan Sulli-van at Boston Four Corners in 1853 for 51000 a side after thirtyseven terrific rounds Again in ISoS he defeated John C Iloenan of California In eleven rounds with 200 on the side Then Morrissey withdrew from tho ring became be-came proprietor of a sporting establishment establish-ment in New York city and another in Saratoga and practically owned the Saratoga race track But there Is this tobe said about John Morrissey Fie was an exceedingly levelheaded man and he had administrative abilities as fine as could be found In tho country Old Cornelius Vanderbilt had Infinite respect for him because he recognized in him a man who had ho been favored fa-vored a little moro in early life might have been quite as good a superintendent I superintend-ent of a railroad and a steamship line as was Vanderbilt himself By the way It will do to repeat a story which has come down the years When he presented i himself in Congress the Speaker was in sore perplexity as to what ho should do about putting Morrissey on certain committees He did not want to offend him because he realized that If he did the world would I would say It was because he was an I exprizefighter The thing distressed him very much for two or three days unlll finally one day as the House adjourned ad-journed Morrissey walked quietly up to Ihe desk and said Mr Speaker If you find It convenient to leave me off from all the committees you will do me a great favor because I am not given to that kind of work The Speaker was sorry but assured him that lie would not forget his request and that night at the Speakers room a box with a hundred of the finest kind of Havana cigars as left with the card of Morrissey which showed that he was willing to do what litllo he could to refresh the Speakers memory in case It was faulty |