Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-01-14
|EX-BOY MAYOR SEEKS
LIVING ON WALL ST.
"Sherbie" Becker Buys Seat IN
Stock Exchange and Startles
New York.

sherhurn NJ. Becker. MlIwa0sSe'S Boy
| Mayor and ote OF the noss iEtereSgsng
public characters Ok the mid1ss west has
made his preparations te lay siege 20 New
York city.
sSherbie. as they cali q at home,
mayor OF Milwaukee ar - years % age,
has come TO New yovR CO make = tsvtas.
To this end ne has purchased = seat on
the stock Exchange for the sssrtnnS SUM
OF $500 taken a $4,000 a Veal suite OF
rooms az the Plaza ard settled down 10
wait for Gotham 60 faa
II came 10 New York said the young
man. because New York IS the greatest
financial center ia the world New York
offers ghs hssS opportunities to a younS
man. / sxpect 10 DO a oCokerSSe bust
ness along safe. sane and CONSERVATIVE
lines
Young Mr.. Becker early showed the
spirit which VAS Ia him, Finishing at
Harvard he took unto himself a wife
ard started on a Sddln Clp around the
wo-A keeping Oft the beaten trail OK the
tourist, exgi1rfnS the Ice channels Of the
polar regions and Introducing the kodak
70 the saeiks az the Arabian desert
in Politics
Returning to Milwaukee at the 6 OF
Is years ne announced his intention 20
mix 81 hooA2 politics, IL was a good joke
"a Milwaukee which knew Sherbis" as
the spoiled SON OF Washington Becker
az least Milwaukee thought he was
SpoIlea-And Il was thought impossible for
the han presidents son 20 break into pol
tics
Young Becker thought differently. and
fa = remarkable house TO house anyas
no WAS elected 10 represent two wards.
one az them the s~ilk-stOcking district in
wA8ch be lived. and the other one of the
toughest wards in the city. "Sherbie'
made good in both places. leading the
cotilaons al home and preaching the gos-
pei or clean politics to the dock-wallopers
in the other ward.
Shsrhsa's" FIRST move was to expos
the county printing graft. which saved
The city saaa a = year ard sent 10 men TO
tail.
HIS next step was TO announce his cam
atdacy for the office OF mayor. His first
political moves should have taught Mil
waukee not 10 regard him as a joke, but
they did not. IL seemed preposterous that
q man OF Dc years should oppose Mayor
David s, Rose, who was almost a nation
AZ figure IN democratic politics. and had
four times been elected mayor OF Mil
waukee.
The campaign between the tvo men was
a bitter and sometimes a personal one
Mayor Rose. stung by some OF the things
which Becker said on the stump. referred
20 his young opponent as the boy who was
born with 2 silver spoon in his mouth.
'Snernse" countered neatly and with
deadly effect. stating that II was better
for a man TO be born with a silver spoon
in his mouth than with a tin horn.
They are still talking in Milwaukee
about "Sherbie's'' circus poster campaign,
He beat Rose TO the daily papers and the
result was a terrific campaign of printers
!ck, in which Rose was left at the post.
The tewa was FisstsFed with eight-sheet5, |
until the very walls screamed Becker's
arguments at the passers-by.
Three times a week a special edition OF
a paper was 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
Club which had ten thousand members,
and the club gave smokers and torchlight
parades, and avery week a t~en-pound box
o candy was given to the young why
Becker hould be elected mayor.