Arizona republican., 1900-10-23
GREAT UNTIL DEATH
The Last Also of Two Families Who Make Up Much of the Last Half Century of American History. The Longest Conspicuous Life in the Service of the United States.

Washington. Oct. 22--HOn. JOhn Sherman died at his residence in this city at 6:45 this morning. in the 18th year of his age. The immediate cause of death was exhaustion due to old age. MT Sherman had been uncon- sclous most of the time since Sunday afternoon.
 Relatives from all over the country were present at his bedside. Funeral services will be held here on Wednes- day afternoon. The body will then be taken to Mansfield. O., where services again will be held on Thursday. at which President Mckinley will attend.
 The president was greatly affected by the news of Sherman's death. He i'm meGiately directed that the White House be closed to visitors and the flag on the executive mansion to be lowered to half mast. After ordering some beautiful flowers from the White House conservatory he went in person to the sherman residence to express his grief and offer consolation. Members of the cabinet express profound sorrow and pay a glowing tribute to the abil- ity and service of the dead statesman.
 The funeral arrangements. so far as they pertain to the services at Wash ington, were completed late this after noon. They will take place at the late residl nee of MT. Sherman on Wednes- day afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. Me Kay Smith of St Johns Episcopal church being the officiating clergyman. Immediately after the service the body will be taken to Mansfi Id. Ohio, where arrangements for the last rites have been left in the hands Of Rev. W. s. Kerr and other friends of the family.
 Mr. Sherman is the last of a great family of Shermans and EWings, and what is of more importance he is the last of the great statesmen of the war period and of the early ante-bellum days. Only last Saturday The Repub- lican in a story of a republican ticket, referred to him in connection with the first republican ticket ever voted for, and that was ticket in Huron coun- ty. Ohio. in 1854. He was then elected to his first seat in congress, th7 Thirty fourth. The republican party as na- tional party was not actually formed until nearly eighteen months later. Mir. Sherman's life embraces so much of the history of the United States that any description of it on the day of his death would necessarily he pitifully short and weak. It is hardly necessary anyhow to speak of him, for there is, perhaps. no other American of whom so much is popularly known. The chro- nology of his public services is this: He served continuously in the house of representatives from the Thirty fourth to the ThirtyseVenth congresses inclusive. On the resignation of Sen ator Chase in 1861, MT. Sherman sue cseded and was continuously in the United States senate until 1877. having resigned two years before the eXpird- tion of his last term to accept the sec retaryship of the treasury under Pres ident Hayes. At the head of the sen ate finance committee. he was the head and front of the historical ''crime of '73" and as the secretary of the treas ury he taught the country how to re- sume specie payment.
 He was reelected to the senate in 1880 and served in that body until he became secretary of state in the pres ent administration. He was then in firm and after a brief service resigned, to be succeeded by William R. Day. It is enough to say that no abler American ever lived and no other American served his Counlry so con spicuously for so many years.