Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-06
LONG PUBLIC CAREERS.

The length and importance of John Sherman's career cannot be grasped by mere glanc4ht the list Of the posts which he filled and at the dates which he entered and left them. Sherman as public~man was older than the party of which he dad been q leading spirit for mor6etasin forty years. He was elected to the house of represen- tatives in 1854, the year when, by the repeal of the Missouri compromise, the republican party was created, but the men who composed that party in Its first presidential canvass had not yet all united ill calling themselves re- publicans. At the time when he was first elected to congress most of them, including himself. were known vague ly as anti-Nebraska men. Only about half dozen states adopted the name republican in 1854. Sherman presided over the first state convention of the republican party ever held in Ohio, that of 1855. He also presided n the one held in 1895, revealing promf- hence lasting through forty years of the most stirring political life which the United States has seen.
 At the time when Sherman, early in 1856, as member of the congressional committee which inquired into the Kansas disturbance first became a na- tlonal hgure none of the men who at the present time are in public life were known outside of the precinct in which they resided outside of Grow of Penn- sylvania, and his length of years in public station is not half as great us was Sherman's, though he entered pub- llc life four years earlier than Sher- man. Conkling. Blaine, Hayes, Gar held, Reed, Mckinley and all the other leaders of the republican party in re- cent years save Justin s. Merrill, who entered public life at the same time as sherman, and who died two years ago. were newer men than Sherman. Lin coin has been dead thirty-five years, and he became known to the country forty tWo-years ago, at the time when ne stumped Illinois with Douglas in the contest for United States senator Lincoln received many votes in the Philadelphia convention in 1856. for Vlce-president on the ticket with Ere mont. vet Sherman may be said to have been a national parsonage earlier than Lincoln, although Lincoln had previously served term in the house of representatives
 Clay's public life, from beginning. to end, covered the period from Jefferson to l1lLAOIe- CaSS entered the public service as an army officer in the war of 1872, in Madison's days as president, and was appointed United States mar shal for the district of Ohio several years earlier than that time by Presi- dent Jefferson. and he was in Buchan- ans cabinet at the eve of the war of secession. Benton's days of public service covered the period from the adoption of the Missouri compromise to it's repeal, except two years when ne was in retirement. Nathaniel Ma con was in one or the other branch of congress from the first term of Presi- Qent Washington to near the end of Mad1son'S service. William Rufus King entered congress before the be- ginning of the war of 1872 and died as Vice-president in 1853. John Ouin- cF Adams's career comprising service at foreign courts, in both branches of congress, in the cabinet and in the presidency, stretched from his an- continent as minister to the Neither lands by President Washington to his ueath III the house of representatives III the latter part of the term of Prpsi- oent Folk Adams alone of all thrsa celebrities had longer actual service ID public station than John Shprnon HIoih ine beginning to the end of his career Shef1nan'S service, exceDt fo, q uity or two, was continuous. while that or all the others who have bpnn .nor,o5 was broken by years or retiremon+ St Louis GICbe-Democrat