The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-04
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

tive, Dut II you initiate Tor him, give him his orders,
he will carry them out or break a trace.
jim is not a captain of the ship. He is the navl-
gator. Tell him where to go, and he will go there.
He will ask no questions. He will breed no interior
ence. Orders are orders to him. He never antici-
pates. He will never suggest. But if you give him
the chart he will sail to the point indicated by the
cross in red ink, or he will go down in the attempt.
Sherman has been in Congress for about eighteen
years. He has progressed in that time to the chair
manSlp of the committee on Indian affairs, and to the
number three place on the committee on rules.
When General Charles Henry Grosvenor, of Ohio,
was compelled to relinquish his place on the COM
mittee on rules, not because he wanted to, but be-
cause an unfeeling proletariat wouldn't let him go
back to congress, Speaker Cannon chose Sherman to
fill GroSvenor's place.
The three members of the committee on rules who
do things are the Speaker, John Dalzell, and Sher-
man. There are two democrats, but they are excess
baggage. Dalzell is the man who reports the out
RACES to be perpetrated on the defenseless minority.
After said OutrageS are reported, it is Sherman who
stands up in the house and tells the republicans how
needful it is for them to follow the rules committee
while c%ondoling with the democrats on the necessity
of macerating them, of beating them to a pulp. Sher-
man IS the regular rally-boys-rally speaker. He
rounds them all up, drives them in, and makes them
vote. When either Dalze11 or Speaker Cannon has
thought OF a nice, abrasive rule that will rub the
democrats as raw as a b~eefsteak, Sherman is the
chap who explains how humane it is-to the major
ity-while deprecating in a measure the cruelty that
must be extended to the democrats.
When they put Sherman across at the convention
lIc 9UU ana OQQ QeleSdteS voted Tor MIN VOC1ferOuSlY,
and then inquired casually who he is.
He was in a commanding place.
1t was the desire of the ticket heads and managers
to have a New York man for second place. Prim-
arily, there had been two New York candidates for
vice-president-Timothy L. Woodruff, who still re-
tains his proud record of having been candidate for
more places he hasn't secured than any other man
i'll the universe, and George B.. Cortelyou, who had
a confidential boom, of whom the sole custodian and
only friend was Louis A. Coolidge.
Then Lucius Littauer bulged in with Sherman.
That made New York %plethoric with booms, for it
had one Charles Evans Hughes on its hands as a
candidate for president.
New York tried vainly to get Mr.. Hughes to re-
nounce the honor, but Hughes, apparently, had a
lingering idea that some miracle might happen that
would put him at the head of the ticket, and refused
to get Oft the track and let nature take its course.
The convention assured Mr.. Hughes that no
miracles are happening nowadays, and eliminated
him. That left New York three candidates for the
job of vice-president. Always a joke, Mr.. Woodruff
became a scream. Cortelyou wasn't thought of. In
stead, the New York delegation yelled for Sherman,
and word was sent to Washington humbly asking
for an O. K. Washington had been favorable to
CumminS, of Iowa. Nobody knew why, but that was
the fact. Cummins could not take anywhere with
the Iowa delegation, and there was nothing to it but
Sherman, for Washington 0. KID.
1t was a love feast. Tim Woodruff named Sher-
man, and Uncle Joe Cannon, mindful of the many
gags Sherman had neatly and expeditiously appliedto
the minority, as well as the majority, in the parlous
days of the past congress session, seconded Sher-
man.
There were tears in Uncle Joe's voice, but none
in his eyes, when he told of the many valuable
qualities of Sherman, throwing in, by the way of
good measure, a few bouquets for Mr.. Taft. Then
the convention fell to it and nominated Sherman
nominated him with loud cries, giving one vote to
the elongated statesman, Charles Warren Fairbanks,
and a few others of the various patriots who are now
wondering why they came to Chicago, anyway, and
carefully totlng UP III red-covered memorandum
books a list of items comprising the expenditures of
their boomS.
Meantime, if you should meet a rather square and
heavily-set man wearing glasses, with a rubicund