Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-12-22
THE SUCCESSFUL SENATOR.
John sherman's Worldly Prospect.
ty a Proof Of His Financial
Ability.
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The election of John Sherman TO
the Presidency of the Senate will di-
rect public attention to him and 10
his past record. lie is to-day one of
the richest men in the Senate. If he
expects to be a very formidable
Presidential candidate lie should
take steps to conceal the record of
his great wealth. He owns such
large blocks of real estate property
in this city that one real estate firm,
which has at his head his nephew,
has a substantial business in collect
ing his rents. This real estate firms
title is John Sherman 81 Co. 1t has
been under the cover Of this firm
that Mr.. Sherman has made most of
his real estate speculations. Ills ne-
phew's name is Identical with his. 1t
is hard for the public to tell whether
IL is John Sherman, the uncle, who
collects the large rent-rolls handled
by this firm, and which is the princi-
plo in the numerous sales and pur-
chases of valuable roperties in the
town. John Sherman, the nephew,
when his uncle was Secretary Of the
Treasury, was poor young man.
Ills uncle obtained an appointment
for him in the Southwest, and then
afterwards set him up here in bust
ness as a private banker and broker
The uncle was back of him then.
Later this banking firm was changed
to real estate firm, and it is now
one of the most prosperous in the
city. Mr.. Sherman is one of the
owners of good interest in the
Fifth National Bank in New York,
which owes its greatest prosperity to
the Sherman influence when he was
Secretary of the Treasury. A West
ern Senator tells me that Mr.. Sher-
man is one of the largest stockholders
in the National Bank at Helena, in
Montana Territory. This bank does
most fourishing business and pays
a dividend upon its capital stock of
from forty TO fifty per cent. a year.
1t is not known how many other sue
cessful business enterprises through
out the country may have Mr.. Sher-
man as their principal hacker. 1t is
certain, however, that he is in enough
enterprises to bring him in a great
income and is classed by business
men as a millionaire.
No one has ever charged that Mr..
Sherman has been corrupt man in
the sense of taking bribes. lie is al
together too intelligent and high
minded for that. But there is no
doubt that he has used the special
information. which he has at his dis
posal during his official career for
the purpose of specializing. lie has
the Inoney-making faculty enormous
ly developed, and is economical al
most TO the verge of penuriousness.
1t has been said that he would have
been more successful in his previous
campaign If he could have only been
more liberal. IL was one of the scan
dals of the campaign of 1880 that he
refused TO pay hotel bill at Chicago
incurred in his interests by Gov.
Foster and several of his associates.
Gov. Foster paid that hotel bill.
From that pecuniary dispute has
grown the quarrel between Sherman
and Foster, and If the latter should
happen TO be successful in beating
Sherman for reelection the cause for
this defeat can be traced back direct
ly TO this disputed hotel bill. Sher-
mans misuse of his position in the
Treasury when he was Presidential
candidate, and his petty diversions
of the Government funds for person.
al private expenditures were fully
brought up before the Senate COM
mittee on appropriations. This was
a Republican investigation which
was afterwards suppressed through
the aid and connivance Of the Demo-
cratic members of the committee.
The Shermans live in very CON-
Portable house on X street. The
house is furnished throughout plain
ly and substantially, without any at
tempt at decorative display. Upon
the walls are a number Of pictures
painted by Mrs. Sherman. She has
had a fairly good training as an art
ist. She has copied a number of
noted pictures. Some Of the best of
these copies hang in the Senator's
house. Mrs. Sherman is tall, precise
in her manners, plain in her looks,
but thoroughly experienced in Wash
ington social ways. She is very
much like her husband in that she
is reserved and angular. The two
have never had any children. Miss
Lizzie Sherman, their neice, and the
daughter of Judge Sherman, of Ohio,
was nearly adopted by the Senator.
After she became young lady she
spent all of her winters with the
Senator and his wife, Don Cameron,
who subsequently, married her, met
her at the Senator's house. They
have another niece now living with
them who, tits understood, they have
formerly adopted.
The union of the Sherman and
Cameron families was the result of
a political combination. 1t is. said
that the marriage was planned by
John Sherman. At any rate, the
two Senators are as close together
to-day as if they were father and son,
so far as harmony and working TO-
gether are concerned. Don Cameron
is worth 100000. He is reasona-
bly, popular with a certain class of
Senators. Notwithstanding his cold,
forbidding exterior, he is much more
sociable than John Sherman. Don
Cameron can be warmed up to gentle
geniality. Nothing can warm up
Sherman, The two have never been
able to accomplish very much in the
direction of their political aspirations,
but they still continue to pull togeth-
or.
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