Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-31
SUNNY JIM" SHERMAN. Vice President Won This Sobriquet by His Agreeable Disposition.

The twenty seventh vice president of the United States, and the only one renominated, was christened James Schoolcraft Sherman. But in nearly quarter of a century of public life
 Jim" sherman he was to his inti- mates, and probably half the nation referred to him as Sunny Jim,1 4 soDriquet he earned as one well might imagine by never-failing, all-year- round sunny disposition.
 sherman belonged to the school of republicanism nowadays popularly called regular" and he fought his political battles shoulder to shoulder with men of his faith without com promise or hinching. Like every pub
 lie man, he had critics, come bitter
 but he also had friends who. were a match for his enemies The events ne helped to shape are so comparative- " recent that history cannot assign him to his proper place until it also records the work of his contempora- ries.
 To the house of representatives of the F1ftfeth congress he came in the winter of 1887, just passed his 27th birthday,with the energy and Optimism of youth, college bred from the hails o1 Hamilton, which has given to pulp lic life many other statesmen and pulp nc ngures, none without some mark of dlStlnetion. He-had been elected nav or of Utica two years before Like many others who came to lead in the national legislature, he brought with him an education in law. He was wei born and well bred. His father, Richard b. sherman, was an editor ana public figure in New York state
 IW9 sessions of congress found Sh6rn1An dnfnz{nH
 but not for long. Henry W. Bentley of Boonville, Oneida county. beat him by less than thousand votes in tbs race for the F'ifty-second congress. In the interim sherman went back to Utica. built up his law practice and returned to the Fifty-third congress with signal victory He remained in the house without defeat to the Six tieth congress, when he was 11on1i- mated and elected vice president on the ticket with Mir Taft.
 sherman went to preside over the senate Just about at time when wnat IS known as senatorial dignity was peglnning to feel its first break. self fair in his rulings, his Colleagues said, quiet, firm, sure and seldom re- versed on an appeal. But dignity SC Tar as the traditional senatorial frock coat and silk hat were concerned gen. erally was absent He regarded his tune presiding over the senate as a days business, to be attended to as If he were sitting in his bank in Utica or at the directors table of one of the many enterprises in which he had found fortune and laid Ioundatiofls Of another for his sons. He usually appeared in business suit, on a hot day he came In fianneis on a very hot day 9. palm leaf fan displaced the gavel and per haps glass of lemonade tooned of the book of rules. Other senators. re- luctant, perhaps, to transgress statd custom. fell in with his ideas. and nowadays on a bltstering Washington summer day the senate chamber looks quite like business body.
 The illness which proved fatal was little known of in Washington until the last few months. MT. Sherman was not present during the closing days of the last session, and the sem ate, without a president pro tenn. by the death of Frye, and unable to agree upon e successor, got along by tenn porary agreements, placing some sem ator Tn the chair for two weeks at a. time. When he disappeared, seeking rest and health in vain, Sherman was genuinely missed about the capitol. in the departments, at the White House, where he was frequent caller, and 7lways exchanged a new joke with President Taft. and on the streets, where he often walked. In a hurry he used q motor but 1t was an occurrence of an ordinary day with congress in