Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-31
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
sketch of Career.

The twenty-seyenth Vice-President
of the United States and the only one
renominated, was christened James
~Schoolcraft Sherman. But, in n9arly
a quarter of a century of public life,
Jim" Sherman he was to his init
mates, and probably half the nation
referred to him as Sunny JIM q
s~obriquet he earned as one well
might imagine by a never-failing, all
y%ear-round sunny disposition.
Sherman belonged to the school of
Republicanism nowadays popularity
called Regular" and he fought his
political battles shoulder TO shoulder
with men of his faith without com.
promise or f%linching. Like every
public man, he had critics, some Bit
ter; but he also had frienGs who were
a match for his enemies. The events
he helped to shape are So compare
lively recent that history cannot as
sign him to his proper place until
it also records the york OF his con-
temporaries.
To the House of Representatives of
the Fiftieth Congress, he came in the
winter of 1887, just passed his thirty
second birthday, with the energy
and optimism of youth, college bred
from the halls of Hamilton which has
given TO public life many other
statesmen and public figures, none
without some mark of distinction.
He had been elected Mayor of Utica
two years before. Like many others
who came to lead in this National
Legislature. he brought with him an
education in law. He was well born
and well bred. His father Richard
u. Sherman, was an editor and pub
lie figure in New York State.
Two sessions of Congress found
Sherman defeated and out of office,
but o for long. Henry W. Bently,
of Boonville, Oneida County,
beat him by less than a
thousand votes, in the race
for the Flfty-second Congress. In the
interim, Sherman went back to Utica,
built up his law practise, and re-
turned to the Fifty-thlrd Congress
with a signal victory. He remained
in the House without defeat to the
Sixtieth Congress. when he was nomi-
mated and elected Vice-President on
the ticket with Mr.. Taft.
Associated with Leaders.
His first years in the House brought
him into close association with lead
ers. Joseph w. Bailey, later a Sell.
ator; Breckenridge, Bryan, Bourke
Cochran, Crisp, Dalzell. Dingley, Dol
liver, Henderson, Payne, Paynter,
Raynor, Reed, Wadsworth, Fighting
Joe" Wheeler and a score of others
whose names became household words
In discussion of the tariff and other
national policies were his fellows.
The Senate held such men as Aldrich,
Allison, Cockrell, Daniel, Frye, Cor
man, Hoar, Hill, Teller, Vest and
| Woleott. All were not Republicans,
but all were Jim" Sherman's friends,
mounted to a high place in the coun-
ellis and finally was No. of the big
Five" In the House..
Cannon, Dalzell, Payne, Sherman
and Tawney were the great quintet
during the comparatively recent years
in which Congress vas Republican.
Each of them invariably wore a red
carnation for a ~buttonniere, and when
Sherman went to preside over the
Senate and occupy the coveted marble
room in the other wing of the Capitol
he took the custom with him and the
flower always appeared at every SEES
sion of the upper house.
Any review of Sherman's life would'
not be complete without a reference
to his work in the House. Briefly,
there Is recorded no time when he
moved galleries to applause by a de-
bate from the floor, or changed any
votes by eloquenee. But the statutes
bear marks of his work in committee
and caucus, and the results of his
labors on the rules committee, the
interstate commerce committee, and
other branches of the machinery of
the House, where the real legislating
Is done. while speeches prevail upon
the floor.
Sherman went to preside over the
Senate just at a time when what
popularity is known as sena-
torial dignity was beginning to feel
it's first rank. In the chair, Sher-
man was dignity itself, fair in his
rulings, his colleagues said, quiet,
firm. sure and seldom reversed on
an appeal.
Wore Business suit in senate.
But dignity so far as the traditional
senatorial frock coat and silk hat
were concerned generally was absent.
He regarded his time 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
i'm which he had found a fortune and
laid the foundations of another for
his sons. He usually appeared in a
business suit. on a hot day he came
in nannels. on a very hot day a palm
leaf fan displaced the gayel and per-
haps a glass of lemonade topped off
the book of rules. Other senator's,
reluctant, perhaps, to transgress staid
custom, fell in with his ideas, and
nowadays on a hlistering Washington
summer day the Senate chamber
looks quite like a business body.
Vice-Presldent Sherman was born
in Utica on October "a, 1855. He
was married i'm 1881 to Carrie Bah
cock. at East Orange, N. j. They
have three sons. Sheriff., Richard u.
and Thomas NJ, all living and in
business in Utica. The Nice-Presi-
dent was an Elk, a trustee of Ham
ilton College, a member of the Dutch
Reformed Church, a member of many
clubs and a business mar of wide in
t%erests.