The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-11-07
IATION IS now
!. IN MOURNING
FOR SHERMAN
Vice President of the United
States Who Died at Utica
Thursday Night.
HOME PEOPLE ARE SAD
Sketch of His Life Shows
Him TO Have Been Use
full Public Man.

Death Of James S. sherman, which
secured last night at 9:42 O'Clock
,ner a long Illness OF Bright's dis
sase complicated with disease OF the
leart and hardening of the arteries.
he was an exalted public man,
; hough he was known here as Jim
Sherman. indeed, in most cases his
nrname was dropped and the com
non exchange OF salutations among
the older residents today was poor
Jim is gone"
All flags are at half mast and in
Uery other way his home city
slowed its grief.
Arrangements are being made for
the funeral, which will be simple
r,ther than pretentious.
Mr.. Sherman was member OF the
Dutch Reformed church and the I'M
Outstanding today was that the OBJ
RQuics will be conducted according
to the forms of that denomination.
II was announced later that the
hneral will take place Saturday al
rnoon at o'clock at the Dutch
Reformed church.
The twenty-seventh president OF
DE United States and the only one
r-nominated. was christened James
Shoolcraft Sherman. But, in near
quarter OF a century OF public
iie Jim" Sherman he was to his
climates, and probably half the ma
ton referred to him as Sunny
lin" sobriquet he earned as one
rell might imagine by a never-fail-
hg all-year-round sunny DISPOSE
lon
Sherman belonged TO the school OF
Republicanism now adays popularity
allied Regular" and he fought his
POLITICAL battles shoulder to shoulder
Tith men of his faith without COM
Promise or flinching. Like every
public man. he had critics, some BIT
er; but he also had friends who
we're match for his enemies. The
SCENTS he helped to shape are so
~mparatively recent that history
an NOT assign him to his proper
Place until it also records the work
y bis contemporaries.
To the House of Representatives
Of the Fiftieth Congress, he came in
ihe winter of 1887, just passed. his
irenty-seventh birthday, with the
Energy and optimism OF youth, col
sge bred from the halls of Hamil-
ton which has given to public life
many other statesmen and public
Sgures, none without some mark OF
distinction. He had been elected
mayor Of Utica two years before,
Like many others who came to lead
q the national legislature, he
brought with him an education in
aN He was well born and well
'ed His father, Richard U. sher-
man, was an editor and public fig
nc IN the state OF New York.
Two sessions of Congress found
Norman defeated and out of office.
'n' net for long. Henry w. Bent
fy q Madison county, beat him by
'sS Than thousand votes in tbs
ace tor the Fifty-second Congress.
y the Interim, sherman went back
% tiica, built UP his law practice.
M returned to the Fifty-third
congress With a signal victory. He
ema'ned in tie House without de-
Fa' e h Sixticth Congress. when
Y was nominated and elected vice
les.leut On the ticket with Mr..
lIis asst years in the House
'''usa him into clofe association
''h loalcrs. Joseph w. Bailey,
4'er senator: Breckenridge, Bry-
a. BourEe Cochran, Crisp. Dalzell,
u'hEley Dolliyer, Henderson, payne,
raynier. Raynor. Reed, wadsworth.
S'ght.ng Joe" Wheeler and a score
y others whose names became
.oaseholl words in discussion OF the
1fid and other national policies
'eFe his fellows. The Senate had
"ch men as Aldrich. Allison. Cock
'u. Daniel Frye, German, Hoar,
''N Teller, Vest and wolcott. All
we're NOT Republicans. but all were
''m sherman's friends, ard in
,aca an environment he worked TO a
20 place in the councils and final
was number one of the Big Five Of
Canaon. Dalzell, Payne. Sherman
20 Ta"ney we're the great quintette
WING the comparatively recent
,'4'a ~ which Congress was Repub-
ga. Each Of them invariably wore
,ea carnstion for a boutonniere.
- when Sherman went to preside
~, y, The Senate and occupy the COW