Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-10-25
JOHN SHERMAN DEAD
GREAT STATESMAN PASSES
AWAY AT WASHINGTON.
REMARKABLE LIFE ENDED
A Career Crowded With Honors-
Member of Congress, Senator, Sec
rotary of Treasury and of State
President Mckinley Issues ProcIa-
mation-Sketch Of Famous Man.

Washington, Oct. 23.-Ex-Secretary
John Sherman died at Gas o'clock
yesterday morning. Services will be
held both at the residence in this city
and at Mansfield, where the interment
will be made in the family burying
ground, beside the body of Mrs. Sher-
man, who died early in the summer.
Services will be held tomorrow al
ternoon, the remains to lie at the
house after their conclusion until in
the evening when they will be put on a
special train for Mansfield. Arriving
at Mansfield tomorrow, the remains
will lie in state in the Episcopal church
in that city until Thursday, when the
interment will take place
In his customary proclamation Pres
! ident Mckinley says in part:
Few among our citizens have risen
| TO greater or more deserved eminenCe
, in the national councils than he. The
story Of his public life and services is
as it were the history Of the country
! the United States he ranked among
| the foremost in the house and later in
the senate. He was twice a member
! of the executive cabinet, first as sec
rotary of state. Whether in debate
! during the dark hours Of our civil war
or as the director of the country's fl
nances during the period of rehabiiita-
| cd in fra,
| ing the nations laws for over forty
years, or as the exponent of it's foreign
policy, his course was ever marked Dy
i devotion to the best interests o. his
beloved land and by able and conscien-
tious effort to uphold its dignity and
honor His countrymen will long re-
we're his memory and see in him q type
Of the patriotism the uprightness Prd
the zeal thet go to moulding and
engthening nation"
Mr.. Sherman was born in Lancaster,
O., May 10, 1928. He is a descendent
Of Roger Sherman, one of the signers
of the declaration of independence,
and a brother of William Tecumseh
Sherman, the illustrious soldier. He
entered public life in 1843 as a dele
gate from Ohio, to the wig conven-
ton which nominated Zachary Taylor
for president From that day until his
resignation in 1897 from President
McKinley's cabinet he was one of the
foremost statesmen of America.
Twice was he in the cabinet and three
times was he candidate for president
of the United States. In 1861 he was
elected to the United States senate
from Ohio and served until 1876, when
he became secretary of the treasury
under Hayes administration. He
again entered the senate in 1880 and
continued to be a republican leader
on the floor until his final resignation
to become secretary of state under
President Mckinley and the vacancy
was filled by Senator Marcus A
Hanna
Mr.. Sherman devised the plan for
resuming specie payment and practic-
ally framed the bill by which resump-
ton was to occur June 1, 1879. When
he became secretary of the treasury
in 1876 his first move was to begin the
accumulation of a great stock of gold
with which to pay specie for paper.
Six months before the time he had &C
cumulated in the treasury $140,000,-
900 and had the satisfaction Of seeing
paper money gradually rise to the
value of gold until gold no longer
! brought a premium.
Not only was Mr.. Sherman thus con-
tinuously honored in connection with
the legislative branch of the govern
ment, but he was pushed by his
| friends very hard for the presidency
time and time again. There is no
! doubt that Sherman nourished a warm
and strong ambition for this high
place, and at one time it seemed al
| most a certainty that he would be the
candidate Of his party for the covet-
ed post. This was in 1880, when
James A. Garfield, Sherman's advo-
cate in the convention, builded so
| much better than he knew that he
himself secured what he sought for his
chief.
Four years later, too, there was a
strong Sherman sentiment working in
the national convention, and again it
seemed possible that the Ohio solon
would be put in the first place in the
ticket, but Harrison was selected. It
is generally believed that this was the
bitterest disappointment Sherman
ever experienced.
The death of Mrs. Sherman was a
severe blow to the old statesman.
While on a visit to Cuba in 1899 he
was himself reported to have died
CHIEF JOSEPH AT WASHINGTON.