The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-11-07
VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN
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with sigma! victory. He remained !
in the House without defeat till the |
sixtieth Congress, when he was nomi- /
mated and elected Vice President on
the ticket with Mr.. Taft.
His first years in the House brought |
him intoclose association with leaders. !
Joseph w. Bailey, later Senator:
Breckenridge, Bryan, Bourke Cock |
ran, Crisp, Dalzell, Dingley, nol!iver,
Henderson, Payne, Paynter, Raynor. |
Reed, Wadsworth, "Fighting Joen
Wheeler and a score of others, whose
names became household words in dis
cussion of the tariff and other national
policies were his fellows. The Senate
held such men as Aldrich, Allison,
Cockrell, Daniel, Frye, German, iloar,
Hill, Teller, Vest and Wolcott. All
were not Republicans, but all were
"Jim" Sherman's friends, and in such
an environment he worked TO y high
place and finally was numbered one
of the Big Five in the House.
Cannon, Dalzell, Payne. Sherman
and Tawney were the great quintette
during the comparatively recent years
in which Congress was Republican.
Each of them invariable wore red
carnation for boutonniere, and when
IN In NO
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 ses-
sion Of the Upper House.
Any review of Sherman's life would
not be complete without reference TO
Nhis work in the House. Briefly, there
is recorded no time when tie moved
galleries to applause by debate from
the floor, or changed any votes by
eloquence. But the statutes bear
marks of his work in committee and
caucus, and the results of his abors on
the Rules Committee, the Interstate
Commerce Committee, and other
branches Of the machincy of the
House, where the real !egislaiing is
done, while speeches prevail upon the
floor.
1t is not to be said he was no cam
paigner. In New York States politices
he was a leading figure. He was known
in other states. His appearance in
campaigns state and National, were
not frequent. He was at one time
Chairman Of the Republican Congress
sional Committee. He always was
active in the New York State lsepubli-
can conventions and figure at all ma
tional gatherings of the party.
| Sherman went TO preside over the
Senate inst about at time when what
popularity isknown as senatorial digni-
ty was beginning TO feel its first break.
| In the chair, Sherman was dignity IL
| self, fair in his rulings, his colleagues
said quite, firm, sure and seldom rev ers-
ed OH an appeal. But dignity so far as
the traditional senatorial rrock coat and
silk hat were concerned generally was
absent. lie regarded his time presid-
ing over the Senate as a days business
to be attended to as if lie were sitting
in his bank in Utica or AT the directors
table of one of the many enterprises in
which he had found Il fortune and
laid the foundations OF another for his
SONS. Heusually appeared in business
suit, on hot day he came in tiannels,
Oh very hot day Il palm leaf fan dis
placed the gavei and perhaps a glass
of lemonade topped of the book OF
! rules. Other senators, reluctant, per-
'haps, To transgress staid custom, fell
in with his ideas, and NOWADAYS on a
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