Evening journal., 1912-11-20
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
One Of DemOCraCy'S Amaz-
ing Ways
BY Holland.
BY Holland.

The late James schoolcraft Sher-
man, Vice President of the United
States and candidate for reelection,
who died at his home at Utica, y
Y. only six days before the recent
presidential election, possessed that
peculiar personal gift for attracting
and holding intimate friendships
which is best ILLUSTRATED by the lack
of formal methods Of addressing the
person who has this gift In his homo
city of Utica the late Vice President
was known to everyone as Jim" To
the many friends whom he made dur
ing his long service in Congress he
was identified as Jim" Sherman. He
did not resent this familiarity, but
seemed always to welcome it In fact,
he thought no more of being addressed
as Jim" than he would If he had
been called Mr.. Sherman.
This democratic familiarity, how
ever, occasionally caused embarrass-
ments, not so much to him as TO his
friends. Perhaps the best illustration
OF this is an incident which occurred
at the time of the Hudson Fulton eel
ebration in New York, in 1910, in
commemoration of the discovery of
the Hudson river by the great explor-
er whose name is given to it and the
utilization of that river for the navi-
cation of the first successful steam
boat ever built, a navigation which
Robert Fultons inventive genius
made possible In that celebration
some of the most distinguished Off
GERS of the navies of the world took
part
In order that there might be an op-
portunity to view the Hudson river
from an advantageous point all of the
admirals representing foreign fleets
and leading officers of the American
navy we're invited to spend an after
noon at the country residence OF
General Howard Carroll, who was IN
1884 the Republican candidate for
ngressman-at-large for New York
state. General Carroll's country
home commands a superb view OF
the Hudson and a far-reaching vista
of the Highlands which bound one
portion of the west bank President
Taft and Vice President Sherman
we're invited to be present at this
somewhat informal gathering. which
was to conclude with a dinner in th'
evening
President Taft as unable to be pres
ent. but Vice President Sherman ac
oepted the invitation His train wa
a little late. SO that the guests were
nartaking of the first course Of th'
dinner when Mr. Sherman entered th'
dining room instantly all Of th'
American naVal oeicerr arose an,
rave TO the Vice Pro ident the saluti
fre 10 bis office The foreien nava
oNcers also stood up. The Vic
President was in evening dress HI
was n man Of large frame and h
made a somewhat imposing figure a
he advanced he place reserved 70
him at the table AS ne passed by sev
oral DISTINGUISHED gentlemen. anon
whom were some United States Sen
atcrs. he was greeted with the famil
lar salutation
Hello. Jim.'
Ono after another Of his friend
greeted him in that way and he re
gno9de1 cordially.
The German grand admiral. WI
relm Won koester. whose place wa
o. the left hand Of the host, SCENE
amazcd that there should have bee
Guch informal greeting of so distir
~1ished l0oking a man.. He turned
Ce"eral Carroll and said in Germa
10 him:
please tell me who that man is
THAT is the Vice President of tn
United States General Carroll Il
piled
"Tfe Wee President? What is that,
the ADMIRAL asked
He is the second officer in autho
ify in this country and would becon
President if anything happened
President Taft"
Thereupon a look Of extreme astol
ishment swept over the admiral
countenance He threw up one har
in a gesture signifying amazement
he asked
THAT is the man who would I
President if President Taft shou
dieg
"yes he would become Presiden;
My Cod" exclaimed the Gsrm1
admiral what would happen in &c
many II upon an occasion like III
any one were to call the German er
neror Billv How do you expla
this?"
Because. nv dear admiral. tn
country is a democracy and eve
man before the law is the equal
every other man. II is for That re
son that our people feel Driviieged
call President or p Vice Preside
even by a nickname to his face"
Copyright. 1912, by E. J. Edward
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will Il
\ story OF the Presidential Electi,
Of 1S60."