The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
r,rEET'S TAIL is ONE OF CAN
VOWS big FIVE" AND CALL
ED BY CHAMP CLARK
asLICKEST OF THE BUNCH

u.,. Mixed Up in the Hartman Row,
, Friend of ii. H. Rogers, and
Was ROoseyeIt's Choice Because of
His Ability to Handle the Finan-
ciers and the Finances. Hearst
Dead Against Him.
WASHINGTON - James School
craft sherman is known in Washing
ran As Sunny jim" He is an ideal
mining mate for Taft from a re-
rublican standpoint.
Ouite a character on Capitol Hill
is Sunny jim with his gray English
walking coat, fiat top derby hat,
round. ruddy cheeks anu funny little
chopped-off whiskers just under the
ears. OF course he will be relieved
n his duties as chairman of the re-
rpblican congressional campaign
committee, in which capacity he had
become especially skilled in pulling
the legs Of corporations and individ-
ual plutocrats for the patriotic pur-
nose of insuring a republican ma
ioritv in the house. For such valu-
able service to his party he was at
the ODening of the siXtieth congress
made a member of the house COM
mfttee on rules and one of the Big
Five. as Champ Clark designated
Cannon. Payne, DalZell, Hepburn
and Sherman. and as Champ further
observed on one occasion in the
house Sherman is the slickest one
in the bunch" He is a jolly, genial
man and personally is very popular.
When Champ Clark made the re-
mark about his being the slickest
one in the bunch he laughed heart
lily.
A Pen Picture of Sherman.
Physically the republican candi-
date for the vice-presidency is OF
rather stout build, though the stout
ness is not fat; he is of the athletic
type. His face is ruddy, his hair
just slightly turning gray ana there
is a Quickness of his movement
which indicates energy and alert
ness. He does not often speak in the
house; he does not nave to. He is
one of the fortunate ones who can
get things they want without max
ing speeches, though as rule Sher-
man never wants anything done eX-
cept what he is told by the bosses
higher up to want And yet he has
a most potent influence over the
speaker He has money. being the
richest man in Utica, fact which
rather appeals to Uncle Joe"-and
those who have watched the speaker
and Sherman in the house are not
surprised that Uncle Joe should
have come into the Chicago cOnven-
ton and get permission to make
speech seconding the nomination OF
Sunny Jim for vice-president.
Those here who know New York
express the opinion that Sherman is
personally not popular in the EN-
pire State, and it is by no means the
universal belief among political eX
perts that putting him on the tick
ct is going to insure New York
electoral vote for the republicans
What he was really put on the tick
ct for is to get money from Wal
street. He ought to be able to de
this because he has been so Ions
Identified with Wall street trans
cations, having for the great length
Of his public career been a prOmi
nent factor in that little coterie o.
what Col Watterson terms 'higf
finance and low politics" Not man!
OF the finanCial-politiCal deals IL
New York have been put through
without the knowledge of Sunny jim
and the Big Five.
Pupil of Hartman and Rogers.
Hartman has been his preceptor
Henry H. Rogers one of the lamps
10 his feet.
Sherman was mixed up in the
Roosevelt Hartman fund in the las
presidential campaign. 1t is beint
recalled that while the letters impli
eating the president and Hartman
IN the raising of the 100000 fo1
the republican presidential campaign
jim Sherman and Speaker Can
non were on a cruise down towards
the Bermudas. They got a wireless
telegram on board the vessel signed
~. o. and reading avoid politi
cal interviews"
When, therefore, the two states
men arrived in New York harbol
a few days afterwards and were me-
oy a delegation Of newspaper mel
Jaey began telling about the beaut!