The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-31
NATION IS l
IN lIlJ7
FOR SHz2
Vice President Of the
States Who Died at Jte
Thursday Night
HOME 80 are Sc
Sketch Of His Life
Him to Have Been
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UTICA NJ; X Oct sos
IN morning today as 9 result OF
death Of James s. Sherman Wll3s
occurred last night at 9s42 o'e1Qc
after long illness Of Brigh&'s dir
ease complicated with di5edse Of ttcs
heart and hardening OF tie dFterils
GEe was an exalted public man
though he was known here q ssJi3lss
Sherman. Indeed. In most eoos
surname was dropped and the COM
mon exchange OF sa1utatfons auaonE
the older residents today was s'RooE
Jim is gone"
All hags are at half mast ana n
every other way his h0me eity
showed its grief
Arrangements are being Mde Tor
the funeral. which wiz be nDlo
rather than pretentous.
Mr. Sherman was meml5e The
Dutch Reformed church ana
Outstanding today was that e
sequies viii be conducted le
to the forms OF that denoml on.
It was announced later th
funeral VIII take place SII ~
ternoon at 2 o'clock 1t the Dutch
Reformed church.
The twentyseYenth presid 10 Of
the United states and the "a y one
re-nominated, was ehristened Ja1le1
SchooIcraft Sherman. But a near
" a quarter OF century Of public
life, Jim Sherman he was 20 his
intimates, and probably half The nl-
ton referred to him as sunny
JIM" sobriQ1et he earned Is one
well might Imagine by a neVer-fail
ing alI+year-ronnd sunny disposf
tion.
Sherman belonged to the school oe
Republicanism now. adays popularly
called Regular, and he fought his
political battles shoulder to sheuldeE
with men Of his faith without COM
promise OF ainching. like every
public man, he had critics, some Bit
ter; but he also had friends Who
were a match for his edemie The
events he helped to shape are -
comparatively recent that history
can not assign him to his. proper
place until it also records the work
OF his contemporaries.
To the House OF Represeniveo
Of the Fiftieth Congress, he came fn
the winter OF 1897, Just pag5ed his
twenty-seventh birthday With the
energy and optimism -oE ylpI eoI-
Iege bred from the halls Of
ton which has given to public lie
many other statesmen and pubic
distinction. He Had been elected
mayor of Utica two years before
Like many Others who came 20 1ead +
in the national legislature. BE
brought with him an educ Hon IN
law. He was well born ana ven
bred. His father, Richard q sheE-
man, was an editor ana public aG'-
ure in the state of New York
Two sessions OF Congress found
Sherman defeated and ont ~ once.
but not for long. Henry w Bent
ley, of Madison comfy beat him By
less than thousand votes n thO
race for the Ftftyaseeond ConGTegl.
IN the interim, sherman went back
to Utica, built Sup his law pFacticey
and returned to the Fffy-third
Congress with signal .victoFy. 10
remained in the House without de-
feat to the sixtieth Congress, when
he was nominated and elected VieP
president on the ticket with l[E
Taft.
His first years in the House
brought him into Close adoeiattou
with leaders. Joseph ". Bailey
later a senator; BreckenFldge, BY
an, Bourke Cochran, Crisp DaIEell.
DingIey. DoIlfver, henderson, Payne
Paynter. Raynor Reed, WddsWorth
Fighting joe wheeler ana 4 scoEs
of others Whole names became
household words IN discussion of the
(conting - Rlep thE