The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-13
MAYOR SEEKS
LIVING ON WALL ST.
"Sherbie'' Becker Buys Seat in
Stock Exchange and Startles
New York.

Sherburn NJ. Becker. Milwaukee, boy
| Mayor" and one of the most interesting
public characters of the middle west, has
made his preparations to lay siege to New
York city.
"Sherbie," as they call him at home.
mayor of Milwaukee at 30 years of age,
has come to New York to make living.
To this end he has purchased q seat on
the Stock Exchange for the startling sum
of $4,000. taken a $4,000 a year suite of
rooms at the Plaza and settled down to
wait for Gotham to fall.
II came to New York. said the young
man, because New York is the greatest
financial center in the world. New York
offers the best opportunities to a young
man. ! expect to do a brokerage busl-
ness along safe. sane and conservative
lines"
Young Mr.. Becker early showed the
spirit which was in him Finishing at
Harvard, he took unto himself a wife
and started on a wedding trip around the
world, keeping off the beaten trail OF the
tourist, exploring the Ice channels of the
polar regions and introducing the kodak
to the sheiks OF the Arabian desert.
In Politics.
Returning to Milwaukee at the age of
rs years, he announced his intention to
mix in local politics. 1t was a good joke
to Milwaukee, which knew "Sherbie" as
the spoiled son OF Washington Becker
at least Milwaukee thought he was
spoiled-and 1t was thought impossible for
the bank presidents son to break into pol
tics.
Young Becker thought differently, and
In a remarkable house to house
he was elected to represent two wards.
one OF them the silk-stocking district In
which he lived, and the other one Of the
toughest wards In the city. 'Sherbie"
made good In both places, leading the
cotillions at home and preaching the Cos
pei of clean politics to the dock-wallopers
In the other ward.
"Sherbie's" first move was to expose
the county printing graft, which saved
the city 10000 a year and sent 10 men to
jail.
His next step was to announce his can
didacy for the office of mayor. His first
political moves should nave taught MIL
waukee not to regard him as a joke, but
they did not. 1t seemed preposterous that
a man OF 30 years should oppose Mayor
David s. Rose, who was almost a nation
al figure In democratic politics, and had
four times been elected mayor of Mil
waukee.
The campaign between the two men was
"a bitter and sometimes a personal one.
Mayor Rose, stung by some OF the things
which Becker said on the stump, referred
~ 500 yONaASl SPPOiASii Va SAA0 IVY AN was
born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
"Sherbie's countered neatly and with
deadly effect, stating that 1t was better
for a man to be born with q silver spoon
In his mouth than with a tin horn.
They are still talking in Milwaukee
about "Sterbie's" circus poster campaign.
He beat Rose to the daily papers and the
result was a terrific campaign OF printers
tnke, in which Rose was left at the post.
The town was piastered with eight-sheets.
until the very walls screamed Becker's
arguments at the passers-by.
Three times a week a special edition Of
a paper wal printed which was called
"Becker's Bulletin and this paper poured
hot shot into the Rose machine and urged
the claims OF the young man born with
the silver spoon In his mouth" Becker
organized the Young Mems Becker
Grub" which had ten thousand members,
and the club gave smokers and torchlight
parades. and every week a ten-pound box
Q candy was given to the young why
Becker should be elected MAYOR.