The Mena star., 1899-03-23

expected to meet the liner and take Mir. sherman aboard. The state de- partment had arranged to have the cruiser bring the sick statesman home.
 Mir Sherman's biography in the congressional directory used to cover barely i2 lines-less than half of the space appropriated by many a young statesman Of one-third his years. A delegate to the whig national convention in iSis when only 9 years old: a delegate again to the convention of 1852; president of the first republican state convention held in Ohio in 1855: elected representative in congress in 1854 and reelected in 1856. lS,S and lS60; the republican and free soil candidate for speak, CT in 1859 losing an election by only three votes; entering the senate in 1861, and serving there continuously until 1877: devoting four years secretary of the treasury in President Hayes cabinet to carrying into execution the financial legislation which he had been the chief factor in passing through congress; re- turning to the senate in 1881 and retaining his seat there through three successive re-elec- tions. candidate for the republican presidential nomination in lSSO. 1884 and 1888, receiving in the convention of 1858 2s9 votes. leader of his party in the senate and one of it's recognized and authoritative spokesmen on the public platform-all these phases of successful po- ltical career had to be read between the lines of the directory's concise and unassuming au- tobiographical sketch
 As secretary of the treasury Sherman achieved his greatest triumph in the resump- tion of specie payments As soon as he en- tered on his duties he set about preparing for the result he had long contemplated, and six months before the date fixed by law he had fl4J QUO in gold in the treasury, When re- sumption day arrived there was practically no demand for gold in exchange for notes
 When President Mckinley assumed office he offered the place of secretary of state to Mir Sherman, at that time head of the senate com mittee on foreign relations. This was to make room for Mark Hanna in the senate. MT. Sherman was feeble and the strain of the diplomatic negotiations incident to the Spanish war was more than he could carry He did not appreciate this fact. and, according to his story President Mckinley forced his resignation by remark he made. The resignation was accepted in April and Judge Day was appointed to the po- sition Since this time Mir. sherman had beeu travelling and writing his memoirs at his home.
 That Mrs Sherman's judgment and political foresight had a marked in influence over her nus band there can be no doubt and more than once she turned the scale in some important political decision. It was Mrs Sherman who practically settled the question of the senator s candidacy for his last renomination to the sem ate Mrs Sherman herself wished to return to private life For year or two she felt this desire growing stronger and stronger, until she had fully made up her mind that after the senator's long service to the public they owed the duty of service to themselves in the enjoyment of q few years of private life. MT. sherman had one daughter, who was married to James McCalum Mir and Mrs McCallum have their own house. built by the ex-seere- tary as Il present to his daughter, Their son Is John Sherman McCalluDs.