Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-09-24
Mr.. TkfTS BIG
RUNNING MATE
aames 6 aft Sherman.
Orig al sunny Jim"
a Wise, Versatile, Experience
Statesman Who Has Shaped
National Legislation.

When Vice Presidential nominee,
James Schoolcraft Sherman, returned
home TO Utica, New York, after having
been nominted by the Republican Con-
vention at Chicago. II is said that in
the vast throng Of his home people who
turned out 10 meet him was an old
woman, bent with the burden OF eighty
years. She approached Mr.. sherman,
whom she has known almost since his
birth, and declared to him that he had
been selected by Providence to his new
Office Of honor. In order TO teach the
American people the gospel OF good
cheer and sunshine OF kindness for all
Americana
IL is not definitely known that she
b IN the confidence Of Providence, aud
% speaks by the card, but Sherman's
career up 70 date has shown his capa-
bIIities In that line. He Is the original
sunny Jim and wears the smile
that won't come on"
The Original "sunny Jtn."
This Is not a superficial attempt TO
lsok pleasant 1t does not seQuester
itself In the wrinkles Of his mouth or
the lines around his eyes This gen.
mi, expansive. irradiating smile speaks
ef good digestion. q sunny tempera-
ment and compliment mind. possessed
ny man who In pretty well satisfied
with the past, and reasonably sure OF
th< future A man Of cheerful yester-
oeyk and confident tomorrow He
has been laughing good humor for a
liftle more than half a century. Now
fhe world laughs with him His sun
shine and good cheeg. as bread cast
upon the waters returned 20 him
pound-cake, az josh Billings would
say, and ont OF this and other assets
ne has been enabled 10 rise. and be
nominated TO the second highest posi-
fion within the gift Of his countrymen-
nk-rnsn, Seymour, Cenkains, Born
M Uttca-
sunny Jim" sherman first appeared
su earth at the village Of New Hart.
ford, New York. q suburb Of Utica, on
the night Of October "a. 1855. two
years before Mr.. Taft saw the light In
Cincinnati. Utica was already at that
time Esinting with pride to one Of her
iliustrious sons In the person OF Hor-
alto seymour. and was soon 10 point
with increasing pride to another still
more illnstri0us son In the person OF
Roscoe Conkling. Mr.. Sherman's faith
er was a lawyer Of prominence In
Central New York and determined
that no 'pent-up Utica" should re-
strict the powers OF bis son. and SO he
sent him at the proper time 10 Whites
town Seminary and Hamilton College
He came cur husky youth--he weigh
ed 1870 pounds at sixteen years OF age
with orntoricai talent and reputation
~ good student
Delengs 20 ola American Family.
His family runs back to Roger Sher-
man who was one of the signers Of the
Declaration OF Independence, and back
Of him for more than one hundred
years to 1860, when the first Sherman
came over from England to this coun-
try. with strain Of stolid Dutch In his
veins John Sherman, the Ohio Sena-
Tor. and william Tecumseh Sherman,
the great Civil War general, were from
the same original stock. Edward
Everett Hale IL also distant connec-
ton. Schoolcraft the historian OF the
American Indians. was Sunny Jim"
Sherman's great-grandfather.
Get. Into Politics EARLY.
One OF the FIRST things the Vice
Presidential nominee did when he re-
turned from college was to accept the
nornination for State senator on the
Republican ticket, and was beaten Dy
only one vote. He was elected mayor
~ Utica at the age Of %. He was the
youngest municipal head the city had
ever had. From that date politics haa
wooed him away from his profession
of law. He was elected to Congress,
and has served his constituency with
bit one excepted term ever since. He
= now n his tenth congressional term
There q "big Ore" In the lower
hoOne u Congress. who do things and
lofcely shape the legislaticn a tht
A. A1ep< Paslaansssarsas.
~ Sherman was particular friend
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