Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-10-25

Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Mackey
Smith, Of st. Johns Episcopal church.
being the officiating clergyman. I'm
mediately after the services the body
will be taken to Mansfield, O., where
the arrangements for the last sad
rites have been left in the hands of
Representative W. s. Kerr and other
friends of the family. Services will
be held Thursday, probably, in the
Episcopal church usually attended by
Mr. Sherman when at Mansfield, and
the interment will be made on that
afternoon in the family burial lot
beside the grave of Mrs. Sherman.
The party going from here will in
clude relatives and friends and also
representatives of the state and treas
ury department.
sketch Of Hia Political Career.
All these honors have been his A
delegate to the whig national conven-
ton in 1S4s, when he was rs years old;
delegate again to the convention of
1852; president of the first republican
state convention held in Ohio in 1855;
elected a representative in congress
in 1854 and reelected in 1856, 1858 and
1860; the republican and free soil
candidate for speaker in 1859, losing
an election by only three votes; en-
tering the senate in 1861, and serving
there continuously until 1877; devot.
ing four years as secretary of the
treasury in President Hayes cabinet
to carrying into execution the tinan-
cial legislation which he had been
the chief factor in passing through
congress; returning to the senate in
1881 and retaining his seat there
through three successive reflections;
a candidate for the republican presi-
dental nomination in $780, 1884 and
1888, receiving in the convention of
1888, 240 votes; leader of his party in
The senate and one of its recognized
and authoritative spokesman on the
public platform, concluding his pub
lie life as first secretary of state un-
der President Mckinley.
Proclamation nv the President
The president as mark of special
honor to the deceased who was not
at the time of his death connected
in any official capacity with the gov
eminent of the United States, re.
sorted to the unusual course of per-
sonally preparing an expression of
the nations grief in the shape of a
proclamation descriptive of the per-
sonal qualities and civic abilities of
the deceased statesman. At the state
department also message was
framed to be transmitted to the
United States ambassadors, ministers
and charges abroad, officially notify
ing them of the demise of ex-Secre-
tary Sherman. The department will
be closed for business during the
funeral services to allow the officials
and employees to attend in person.
Ex-PreSihent Harrison's Tribute.
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 93.-Ex-
President Harrison. speaking of John
Sherman, said: "The death of John
Sherman removes one of the few re-
naming participants in the heated
and important legislative contests
that led up to the civil war. His pub
lie life brought him into an active re-
lation to the most exciting, difficult
and momentous questions the presi-
dent and congress have ever been
called to deal with since the union
was formed. In all of these, as
member of the house of representa-
tives, as senator and as a cabinet
officer, he bore wise, courageous
and prominent part. He was one of
our most able and useful public men
and will be widely and sincerely
mourned. | have felt that it was a
great pity that Mr.. Sherman could
not have closed his career as mem
Der of the senate
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