The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-21
SKETCH OF SHERMAN.
He iw an Able Man and a Vigorous R'
 Publican Leader.

He is an Able Man and a Vigorous Re- Publican Leader.
 James Schoolcraft sherman. Repub- lican nominee for President, was born in Utica. N. Y. October 24, 1855. He received an academic and college education, graduating from Hamilton College in the class of '7s. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar, becoming member of the firm of Cookinham 6 sherman. In March. 1884, he was elect ed Mayor of Utica, then Democratic city, with a substantial majority of votes. In 1895 he was elected tenn porary chairman to preside over the deliberations of the Republican conven- tIon at Saratoga
 Mir. Sherman is an orator of no mean ability. He was elected to the Fifti- eth, Fifty-flrst and Fifty-third Con- gresses and reelected to the Fifty fourth Congress as Republican. receiv- ing 22,510 votes against 16.269 votes for John D. Henderson, the Democratic candidates. The two other tickets in the field drew 1,008 votes for W, C.. Curtis, the prohibition candidate, and 734 votes for the Populist candidate. He was again elected to the Fifty fifth. Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Mir. Sherman is a man of affairs and one of some moment in the busi- ness history of New York State He is head of the Utica Trust Company and President of the New Hartford Can ming Company. Years ago there was a combination of all the ice companies in Utica under one head and the pool of interests was headed by Mir. Sher- man. In addition to those interests he is a member of the directorate of half a dozen banks and trust compa- nies and Is rated as the richest man in Utica.
 Mir. Sherman has always taken a keen interest fin national politics and his pre- diction made some time ago showed his insight into the situation. Tn AL bany he gave out an interview in which he predicted the nomination of Taft on the first ballot and prophesied that either Deliver or Fairbanks would be chosen for second place.
 Representative Sherman is chairman of the Republican Congressional Com mittee.
 Last year little publicity was drawn upon the head of MT. Sherman by the disclosures of his part in the alleged Hartman contribution to the Republi- can national campaign.
 In 1899 Mir. Sherman aspired to be- come Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives but was defeated.
 There was a Hull in Mir Shermanrs political life for a time following that. When the picking of candidates for the present campaign was begun Mir. Sher- mans name was mentioned in connec- tion with the Vice-Presidency. In May Mir. Sherman went to Washington and upon his return home he gave forth this statement to the newspaper cor respondents:
 "The Constitution wisely, in my judgment, provides that the President and Vice President must not he resi- dents of the same State. New York has a candidate for President in the per- son of Governor Hughes. Ills candi- dacy has met so far with popular ap- proval throughout the State and from the moment MT Roosevelt was elimi- mated for a possibility for the place have heartily endorsed the candidacy of Governor Hughes myself. We must go to Chicago determined to exert our best efforts to nominate Governor Hughes"
 But the efforts availed them noth- ing.
 Tn 1901 when exposures were made relative to brutal hazing at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, Represent ative Sherman introduced resolution providing for a Congressional inVesti- gation of affairs at the academy. MT sherman went quite deeply into the af- fair He secured interviews with ex- students at the academy ana Tn ms speeches said he had been informed hazing was carried on even more eX- tensiveIy at Annapolis than at west Point Ultimately the Congressional