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Show SULLIVAN TO BE . A CONGRESSMAN Boston, SepL 20. If present plans do not miscarry, the voice of John L. Sullivan, former champion heavy weight, may bo heard ringing in the lower hall "of congress within a year or two. The campaign of the onetime one-time champion prizefighter of the world has been 'launched bj a number num-ber of his Democratic neighbors and Mr. Sullivan is quoted as follows, relative to the office: "Ever since I was champion of the roped arena my secret ambition has bqen to some day occupy a soat in congress, the most representative body In the United Stales, if not in the world.' Eight years ago Sullivan went in for the "simple life" and has ever since been a quiet country sqnlro on the little farm ho purchased near Boston. |