The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
SHERMAN IS KNOWN AS sunny JIM''


j. o." is, though the letters might
have stood for Jesse Overstreet, hut
the mysterious manner of Sherman
after that message is quite we'll I'M
derstood. Hartman had stated that
he had turned the money over to
Jim Sherman.
The presidents own letter which
he himself gave out at the white
house beginning MY dear Harri-
man" and using the famous sentence
You and l are practical men," con-
vlcted Roosevelt of coIrusiOn with
Hartman, but it was necessary to
hush it up, and as the president had
elected Hartman a member of the
Annanias Club it was thought the
new member would stand a better
| chance of having his credentials ap-
proved if Sherman, the man to whom
the money was paid over, should
keep his mouth shut.
Obeyed His Orders.
And Sherman did keep it shut,
( never having opened it till this day.
Since he was one of that Big Five
who strangled the campaign pub
licity bill in the house by putting on
it wholly extraneous and impossible
amendments so as to keep the senate
/ from passing it, it can be we'll mag
ined how much he will now talk
about the source and the disburse-
ments of campaign funds.
The people of New York, large
portion of them at least, know
these things, and while Sunny Jim
may be able to get money for the
campaign from the big trust mag
! mates and the bankers and specula-
/ tors of Wall street there are few
other people in New York who have
/ got to be considered. New York
went democratic in the last guberna-
tOrial election, with the single eX-
| ception of the head of the ticket,
and everybody who kept up with that
remarkable campaign understand
that it was the Objectionable per-
sOnality of Hearst which made those
who voted for the rest Of the demo-
cratic ticket scratch Hearst and elect
| Hughes. And what carried New
! York democratic was the revulsiOn
against just such transactions as
! Sherman has been mixed up with.
Hearst's Influence.
| Of course Hearst may turn his
powerful engines against the demo-
cratic ticket and thus elect the re-
publican ticket by a plurality,
though not a majority. Hearst is
in New York like Tom Watson is in
, Georgia; he cannot get elected to
any office himself, but he can pre-
vent any one else's election. He has
already turned his batteries loose
on Sherman, so that there need be
no fear that he will support the re-
! publican ticket, but what he is
threatening to do is to nominate an
| Independent ticket, which would take
votes from Bryan
All of the preliminary talk in Chi
cagO about the nomination of DOlli-
yer or Cummins of Iowa or of Fair
banks of Indiana was simply CUFF.
The president was pulling the strings
from Washington, and he did not
discourage the talk of an Iowa man,
but all the time he knew, as did the
other bosses of the machine, that a
New York man was pre-eminently
needed, for New York they all felt
was in greater danger than Iowa.
Is a "ReactiOnary."
Since Sherman is what the presi-
dents rOOters term a "reactiOnary'
it was necessary that he should not
be the white houses first choice, but
the dominating spirit at the white
house is a far slicker one in his
bunch than ever Sherman was and
he was only waiting for the psyche
logical moment to let the Sherman
boom" boom. 1t was in truth a
most desirable thing to get some one
on the ticket like DOlliver or Cum
minis to try to counteract the ire
mendOus Bryan sentiment in the
Middle West, but it was thought both
by Roosevelt and the other bosses
at Chicago to be very much more
necessary to get some campaign
funds from the trusts and plutOCrats
in New York and it was considered
needful to have a New York man
on the ticket in order to counterfeit
the opposition to Roosevelt and
Roosevelt's man in New York.