Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-02
mn. TlIlIFIT''s BIG ].
RUNNING Mate.
James schooIcraft Sherman. the
Original "s,,s,ny Jim"
Wise, Versatile, Experienced
Statesman Who Has Shaped
National Legislation.

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, 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
Americana
1t is not definitely known that she
is iii the confidence of Providence, and
20 speaks by the card, but Sherman's
career up to date has shown his capa-
bilities in that line. He is the originai
sunny Jim," and wears "the. smile
that won't cone Off" { 5.
The Original .Sunny Jim."
This Is not superficial Gttempt to
look pleasant. It does not sequester
itself in the wrinkles Of his mouth nr
the lines around his eyes. This gen-
ial, expansive, irradiating smile speaks
OF good digestion, sunny temporal
ment and e compiacent mind, possessed
by man who is pretty well satisfied
with the past, and reasonably sure of
the future. A man Of cheerful yester-
days and confident to-morrows. He
has been laughing good humor for a
little more than half a century. Now
the world laughs with him. His sun
shine and good cheer, as bread cast
upon the waters. returned to him
pound-cake, 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-
tion within the gift of his countrymen
sherman, Seymour, ConkIing, Born
at Utica. 80,
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 illustrious 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 his son, and so he
sent him at the proper time to Whites
town Seminary and Hamilton College.
He came out a husky youth-he weigh
ed 100 pounds at sixteen years of age
with oratorical talent and reputation
as good student
Belongs to Old american FanaiIy.
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, end William Tecumseh Sherman
the great Civil War general, were from
the same original stock. Edward
Everett Hale is also a distant connec
ton. Schoolcraft, the historian Of the
American Indians, was Sunny Jim
sherman's 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 thu
nomination for State Senator on the
Republican ticket, and was beaten b,
4 only one vote. He was elected mayor
of Utica at the age Of 20. He was thu
youngest municipal head the city hat
ever had. From that date politics ha.
wooed him away from his profession
| of law. He was elected to Congress
and has served his constituency witt
/ but one excepted term ever since h.
is now in his tenth congressional term
There is a 'big five" in the lowe
house of Congress, who do things ant
largely shape the legislation of tn
country.
An Adept Parliamentnrian.
H Mr.. Sherman was particular frient
Of Thomas Bracket Reed, formerl,
Speaker Of the House, who considere,
him the best parliamentarian on th
door. He often turned over the gave
to Sunny Jim" who occupied th
chair during some Of our most import
ant legislation in recent years. n
presided frequently during the fainou
debate on the Dingley Tariff Bill an
on the Cuban War Revenue Bill, eac.