The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28

mind OF John Dalzell. combined with
the bucolic intelligence of Uncle Jo-
seph, to think up the new schemes.
Sherman is fresh on the job yet. 1t
is extremely unlikely he would ever
suggest a rule that made il necessary
for the Democrats TO write two weeks
in advance to the speaker before any
one could move the previous question,
nor would he cOntrive paragraph that
called on the Democratic leader of the
house 10 take a civil service examina-
| ton in mathematics before he could call
for a division.
The Steady Hand at the Wheel.
But-and here is the point-when
Dalzen and Cannon have thought up
rules of this kind James Schoolcraft
Sherman is the boy who can stand up
in the house and crate solemnly as to
the SURPRISING virtues of these restric-
! tiOns. can compare the great minds
who conceived them to the best we
have in the way of parliamentarians,
either in or out of our books, and can
demand, in clarion tones. their imme-
date adoption. James Schoocraft
Sherman is not an originator He is
no impulsiye person to grab a gonfalon
anu nun iiilllcCil against lllc zoe ne
does not stand forth and yell: Rally,
boys, rally! Follow me to the death,
5 death," Not James
He is a navigator. not an executive
officer. Let somebody lay out the voy-
age and give the chart to James, and
he will do the steering or blow up the
ship. All he needs is orders, and the
sitter and stronger the orders are the
better he likes them. Write out on "a
bit of paper what is necessary TO do
and hand the paper to James. Then go
away and forget it, for James viii do
what is necessary, as indicated in the
bond no more and no less. Perhaps
your Uncle Joseph G. Cannon did not
fully sense this trait I'm the new men,
Der of the committee on rules: perhaps
not, and a few more perhapses that he
did. Uncle Joseph rarely casts any
bread on the waters. He keeps his in
a tin can with a paddock, and there
never are any crusts.
Sherman got the congress habit away
back in the Fiftieth congress, and he
has been member of every one since,
except the Fifty-secOnd when many
patriots of the Republican party fell
outside the breastworks. When you
get a glimpse of him on the floor you
think one of Punch's pictures of John
Bull has been vitalized and set down
among the angular westerners, tina
angulOse fasteners and the angulous
SOutherners. He is short, and he has
that rich, round, rudy face that goes
with the ]. Bull ensemble. Moreover,
he dresses the part fairly WELL with
long English walking coats and square
topped hats, but he gets off there for
his manner of speech is Utican, albeit
there are few reasons that can be dis
covered for the funny little whiskers
he wears.
Sherman has been chairman of the
Indian affairs committee for some
years. He has had a lot TO do with
shaping legislation and has always
been In great favor with Speaker Can
non. He Is a good debater and an
adroit paTliamentarian, an excellent
lawyer. and is partisan enough TO suit
the most fastidious. They grab him
off, from year 10 year. to be perma-
nent chairman of the New York
state Republican conventions be-
cause he has that high political IA
Guilty of doing what he is told to do.
no matter how the opposition may
rage.