The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-10-31
v|CE-PRES|DENT
SHERMAN HAS
PASSED AWAY
END CAME AT 9:42 LAST NIGHT.
FOLLOWING ILLNESS OF
SEVERAL DAYS.

Utica, Oct. 31.-Ctica vi:h the
.ation today mcu"ns the death OF
Vice President James 5. hoolcrafI
Sherman. His death occurred last
night at 9:42 O'Clock at the family
residence, caused by Bright's dis
ease, complicated with ma.a.Gy OF
TIC heart and hardening of the ar
,erics. following q period Ct more
than twenty-fOur hours Of almost to-
tai unconsciOu-ne
Exalted public fInctionary though
he was, he was known to the people
Of Utica as "Jim" Sherman. Indeed,
iii most cases tire surnamc was
dropped .and the common exchange
Of salutation among the older resi-
dents today was poor Jim is gone.
All arrangements being made for
i..e funeral are simple rather than
prCtcntious.
Aiming to obtain q larger auditor
ium, the first decision to have the
funeral services Of the vice presi-
dcnt in the Dutch Reformed church
was abandoned today, and the First
Presbyterian church will DO used.
The SERVICES will be at o'clock Sat
urGay. conducted jointly by DR.. IIOl-
den, pastor of the Dutch Reformed
church, and President NJ. w. Strii
q, of Hamilton college. The BODY
will lie in state at the Oneida coun
ty courthouse Friday afternoon. The
burial will b. in Forest Hill ccm,-
tory.
The twcnty-ScvcntlI vice president
OF the. United States and the only
Cnc rel ominatcd. was rhristenod
James S hOOlcraft Sherman. But, in
nearly Il quarter Of q century of pub
lie life. Jim" Sherman he was TO
lis intimatcs, and probably half tn"
nation r 'fcrred to him as sunny
Jim" sObriquct he earned as one
we'll mi: 1T imagine by Il ncver-fail-
inl. all. rar-rM,ad sunny disrosi-
tiob
Shrrm,n belonged 10 the school OF
kcpubli' ,nism nowadays popularity
,;ll,d "icgular." and he fought his
political battles shoulder to shoulder
with M, Of his faith without COM
promise or ilinching. Like cvcrs'
rgl lie II n. h had critics, some bit
ter, bur he also had frisrdi who
were u rlatch for his enemies The
events i" helped to shape are so con-
p@r,tityly recent that history can
rot assign him to his rropc" place
until it also records the work of has
Contemporaries.
To the House Of Reprcsc scntativcs
~ the Fiftieth Congress he c.,mc in
the winter of 1887, just passed his
twcnty-srvcnth birthday. with the
energy ;ld optilaisM of yGut,,, co..
lcgc bred from the halls Of Hamilton.
which has given to public lie mans
other statesmen md public figures.
nCnc without some mark Of distinc-
tion He had been elected mayor oi
Utica two years before. Like man.
others who came TO lead in the ma
tioral Legislature, nc brought With
him an education in law. II" was
well born and well bred. His father.
Richard U. Sherman, was an editor
and public figure in New York State
Two sessions Of Congress found
Sherman defeated and out OF office.
lat not for lonE. Henry W. Bentley.
of Madison county. beat him by less
than a thousand votes in the race
for the Fifty-second Congress. In the
interim, Sherman went back to Uti-
"a. built up his law practice, and re-
turned to the Fifty-third Congress
with signal victory. He remained
i, the House without defect to the
Six;icth Congress, when he was NOM
iratcd and elected vice PRECEDENT or
tho ticket with Mr. Taft
His first years in the House
brought him into close association
with leaders. Joseph W. Bailey. later
a senator. Hreckcnri,ee. BRYAN.
Ecurke Cochran. Crisp. Dalzeli,
Dinrley. Dolliver. Henderson. Payne.
Paynter. Raynor. Reed, wa;swortn,
'Fichting Joe" Wheeler ard score
Of others whose names became house
held words In discussion of the tariif
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