The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-31


fSrfN on 1aEional
we're his fellows. The Senate ll9tl
tsueh men q Aldrich. Allison. CQcl-
ren. Daniel, Frye, German, HoaF,
Hu, Teller vest and Woleott All
5Were not Republicans but an we're
Kim S8erfnanss ErfRdss ana 70
such an e1Hirou aoIt M 1orkel to 2
high place in the eouneiB ana llna..ls-
" was number one Of the Big Five OF
the House.
cannon. DaIzell, Payne, Sherman
land Tawney were the great qufntette
during the comparatively recent
years in which Congress was Repub=
iliean. Each Of them invariably wore
a red carnafion for boutonniere,
and whein Sherman went to preside
over the senate and occupy the COW
etcd marble room In the other wing
OF the capitol. he took the custom
with II and that flower always APP
peared at every session OF the up
per House
Any review Of sherman's life
would not be complete without a
reference to his work in the House
Rriefy, there is recorded no time
when he moved galleries to applause
by a debate from the floor. or
changed any votes by eIoquence-
Blu. the statutes bear marks OF his
wcrk in committee and caucus, and
the! results OF his Iabors on the
Rules ieommfttee, the Interstate
Commerce committee and other
branches OF the machinery OF the
House where the real legislaung is
done; While speeches prevail upon
the floor.
It is not to be said he was no
campaigner. In New York state
politics he was leading figure. Hel
was known in other states. His ap-l
pearance in campaigns, state and
national, were not iurequent- He
was at one time chairman OF the Re
publican congressional committee.
He always was active in the New
York state Republican conventions
and a figure at all national gather
ings of the party.
Sherman went to preside over the
Senate just obout the time when
what is popularity known as sena-
toriaI dignity was beginning to feel
its first break. In the chair, Sher-
man was dignity itself, fair in his
rulings, his colleagues said, quiet,
firm, sure and seldom reversed on
an appeal. But dignity so far as the
traditional senatorial frock coat ana
silk hat were concerned generally
was absent. He regarded his time
presiding over the Senate as days
business, to be attended as If he
were sitting in his bank in Utica or
at the directors table of one of the
many enterprises in which he found
a fortune and laid foundations OF
another for his sons He usually
appeared in business suit, on
a hot day he came in fannels, on
very hot day palm leaf fan dist
placed the gaveI and perhaps a glass
of lemonade topped on the book OIL
rules. other senator's, reluctant
perhaps. to transgress staid customs,
fell in with his ideas, and nowadays
on bHstering Washington summer
day the Senate chamber looks quite
like a business body.
The illness which proved fatal was
little known in washington until the
last few months. Mr.. Sherman was
not present during the closing days
of the last session, and the Senate
without a president pro tenn by the
death OF Frye. and unable to agree
upon a successor, got along by tenn
porary agreements placing some
senator in the. chair for two weeks
at a time. when. he disappeared seek
ing rest and health in vain Sherman
was genuinely missed about the cap
itol, in the departments, at the
White House, where he was a fire.
Quent caller and always exchanged
"a new Joke with President Taft, and
on the. streets where he often
walked IN a hurry he used a mo
tor, but it was an occurance Of an
ordinary day with Congress in ses-
sion to meet Sherman walking down