The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-04
THREE PUBLIC MEN.
JOHN SHERMAN, LON LIVINGSTON
AND BEN TILLMAN.

Character sketch of the Congress-
man From the Fifth GeOrgia-TiII-
man and His Predecessors.
Washington Correspondence Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Washington, May 22.-John Sherman Is
showing himself much more in public
since he went out of office than he ever
did before. Every day he is seen on the
streets. and his step is quick enough for
young man of 20. AS tail as Thomas B.
Reed, he is as slender as John James In
CALLS He is better dressed than ever be-
fore, and there are folk who suspect that
long John is on dress parade, and that
it is his design to let the public know
that he is far from superannuated. The
other day he met a friend on the street
and stopped him long enough to declare
that he had never been in better health
in his life. His walk shows that he spoke
the truth.
Sherman's Washington residence is at
1921 X street, northwest 1t is not as
fashionable neighborhood as 1t once
was-before society moved out Connecticut
avenue TO Dupont Circle and @ street; but
it is as comfortable a location as there
Is in Washington. Ii has a southern ex-
posture and the front looks on Franklin
square, the handsomest part in this city
of handsome parks. 1t is about a mile
from the capitol, about half a mile from
the White House. A step to the west and
you are in Mcpherson square; a step 10
the north and you are in Thomas Circle,
and just another step and you are in the
beautiful little park where is erected the
statue of Farragut. over there little
way is the Shoreham; over yonder q little
way is the Arlington, and a brief little
walk and you are at the Metropolitan
Club
The house is not palace like Hale's, or
Letters, or the one Foraker Is building;
but ii is an eminently comfortable home
and has a most respectable appearance.
There Is an air of soiidity about it, ana
the contractor who built It earned every
dollar that was paid him. Like Stephen
A. Douglas and James G.. Blaine, Sher-
man is natural born money-maker. Had
he never entered politics he would have
been one of the very rich men of this
country, as Blaine would have been, as
Douglas would have been. Sherman got
his money by perfectly legitimate means
and he has not one-tenth the wealth your
wild-eyed Populist says he has Read
what he says on this subject infhis BOOK.
His fortune, and probably It does not
exceed half a million was made in this
wise He was convinced that the COnfe0-
crate government would be overthrow
He argued that in that event Washington
would become the magnificent city il rs.
Acting on this idea he bought land by The
md e,of Z bNrf L. bad hoo
a successful lawyer; his wife and himself
were the only members of his family un-
til he adopted a daughter He was a fru-
gal man. He never drank intoxicating
liquors; he never INDUCED In expensive
banquets. He invested what he had saveo
out of mis- legal practice and his salary
in acre property in this town, and that 10
how he made his money Soon after the
war he persuaded his brother. The General,
TO invest a part of his salary in Washing
ton real estate No man ever had a great
or horror of taxes than that same Will
liam Tecumseh Sherman When the first
tax bill was presented he paid 1t and put
up his holdings 10 the highest bidder II
went at a sacrifice and that is how Il hap
pened that one brother got rich and the
other died a comparatively poor man.
The farmer in Congress Is nor the Hon
Jerry Simpson. not the Hon Benjamin
f. Marsh, not the Hon. John d. Clardy-
none Of these. The farmer In Congress Is
the Hon. Leonidas l.. Livingston of Geoi-
gia lie began the fascina ting vocation Of
national solonizing In 1891 as the repre-
sentative of the Atlanta district and has
been hard at It ever since. The other day
he was renominated, and he will be a mem
Der of the Fifty-siXth Congress He was
renominated over the protests OF Editor
Howell and Editor Smith. He beat the At
ianta Constitution and the Atlanta Jour
NPal-two papers that arc agreed in moth