The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-16
Mr.. TAFT'S BIG
RUNNING MATE
James schoolcraft Sherman, the
Original sunny JIM"
A Wise, Versatile. Experienced
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
rention at Chicago. it is said that in
the vast throng of his home people who
turned out to 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
Americans.
1t is rot definitely known that she
IS in the confidence of Providence. and
so speaks by the card. but ShernE,n's
career UP TO date has shown his capa
bilities III that line He is the original
Sunny Iim.' and wears "the smile
t.iat won't come Off
The Original "sunns Jim"
This is not superficial attempt to
look pleasant. 1t does not sequester
itself in the wrinkles of his mouth or
the lines around his eyes. This gen
ial, expansive. irradiating smile speaks
OF good digestion, sunny tempera-
ment and Il complacent mind, possessed
hy a man who is pretty well satisfied
with the past, and reasonably sure of
the future. A man Of cheerful yestar-
days and confident to-morrows lie
has been laughing good humor for Il
little more than half century. Now
the world laughs with him His sun
shine and good cheer, as bread cast
upon the waters, returned to him
poundcakc. as Josh Billings would
say, and out of this and other assets
he has been enabled to rise, and be
nominated TO the second highest posi-
zion within the gift of his countrymcn
sherman, Seymour, Conkling, Born
at Utica.
Sunny Jim" Sherman first appeared
on earth at the village of New Hart
ford. New York, 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 pointing with pride to one of her
illustrious sons in the person of Hor-
alto Seymour. and was soon to point
with increasing pride to another still
more iMustrious son in the person of
Roscoe Conkling. Mr.. Sherman's faith
er was lawyer of prominence in
Central New York and determined
that no "pent-up Utica" should re-
strict the powers of his son, and so he
sent him at the proper time to Whites
town Seminary and Hamilton College.
lie came out a husky youth-he weigh
ed 100 pounds at sixteen years of age
with oratorical talent and reputation
as a good student
Belongs to Old American Family.
His family runs back to Roger Sher.
man who was one of the signers of tho
Declaration of Independence, and bacl,
of him for more than one hundred
years to 1000. 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 is also distant connec
tsion. Schoocraft, the historian of the
American Indians was Sunny jim
sshermans great-grandfather.
Gets into Politics EARLY.
One of the first things the Vice
Presidential nominee did when he re.
turned from college was to accept the
nomination for State Senator on the
Republican ticket, and was beaten ny
only one vote He was elected mayor
of Utica at the age of %. He was the
Youngest municipal head the city had
ever had. From that date politics has
Wooed him away from his profession
Ut law. He was elected to Congress
and has served his constituency with
but one excepted term ever since. lie
is row in lis tenth congressional term
There is a big five" in the lower
house of Congress, who do things and
largely shape the legislation OF the
Country.
An Adept Parliamcntarian.
MI. Sherman was a particular friend
OF Thomas Bracket Reed, formerly
Speaker of the House, who considered
him the best pariamentarian on the
floor. He often turned over the gayel
TO Sunny JIM" who occupied the
chair during some OF our most import
ant legislation in recent years. lie
presided frequently during the famous
debate OH the Dingley Tariff Bill and
on the Cuban War Revenue Bill, each