Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-02
Death Takes Public Official,
Who Was Known as
Sunny jim; Combatted
Disease for Long Time.
URAEMIC POISON
CAUSE OF DEATH
Final Summons Came at
GAP O'clock After Entire
Day Had Been Spent in a
Comatose Condition.

Utica, N. Y, Oct. 31.-With the end
IN view OF obtaining larger auditor
lum, the first decision to hold the fun
eral Of Vice President Sherman in the
Reformed Dutch church has been
abandoned and the First Presbyterian
church will be used for that purpose.
The services will begin at o'clock
Saturday and win be conducted jointly
by DR.. Holden, pastor Of the Dutch
church and Dr. NJ. W. Stryker presi-
dent OF Hamilton college. of which Mr..
Sherman was an aluminus. The body
OF the vice president will lie in state
1t the Oneida county court house Fri
day from p. m. to 9 p. m. and 1t is
expected that 1t will be returned to the
Sherman residence for private services
there Saturday morning.
Mr.. Sherman will be buried in For
est Hill cemetery. where many mem
bers OF his family have found Anal
resting place. He selected his pail
bearers before his death. They con-
sist OF prominent citizens and init.
mate friends.
Mr. Sherman was treasurer OF the
Reformed Dutch church.
In addition to the public funeral 1t
10 possible that there will be private
service ct the Sherman home Saturday
for the benefit of the members Of the
family exclusively. The wish for such
q course has been expressed by some
members Of the household.
1kstoh Of 9hsrman's Life.
The twenty-seventh vice president
OF the United States and the only one
Ye.nominated, was christened James
Schoolcraft Sherman. But, In nearly
quarter Of century Of public life,
"Jin" Sherman he was to his inti'
mates, and probably half the nation
referred to him as Sunny jim" a
sobriouet he earned as one well might
imagine by q never falling, all-year.
round sunny disposition.
Sherman belonged to the school Of
republicanism nowadays popularity
called regular and he fought his
political battles shoulder to shoulder
With men Of his faith without com
promise or flinching Like every pub
lie man, he had critics. some bitter;
but ne also had friends who were
match for his enemies. The events
he helped to shape are 20 comparative
" recent that history cannot assign
him to his proper place until 1t also
records the work OF his contempor-
aries.
Wss Mayor Of Utica.
To the house Of representatives of
the fiftieth congress, he came In the
winter OF 1887, just passed his thirty
second birthday, with the energy and
optimism OF youth, college bred from
the halls OF Hamilton. which has CIV
On to public life many other states
men and public figures, none without
some mark OF distinction He had
been elected mayor Of Utica two years
before. Like many others who came
to lead In the national legislature, he
brought with him an education IN law.
He was we'll born and we'll 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,
hut not for long. Henry w. Bentley,
az Boonville, Oneida county, beat him
by less than q thousand votes in the
race for the fifty-second congress.
IN the interim, Sherman went back
to Utica, built up his law practice,
and returned to the fifty-third con.
gress with signal victory. He re.
NAMED In the house without defeat to
the sixtieth congress. when he was
nominated and elected vice president
on the ticket with Mr.. Taft.
His first years In the house brought
him into close association with lead
err. Joseph W. Bailey. later a SEN
ator; Breckenridge, Bryan, Bourke,
Cochran. Crisp, Dalzell, Dingley, Dol
liver, Henderson, Payne, Paynter.
Reed, Wadsworth, Fighting Joe"
Wheeler and score Of others whose
names became household words in dis
cussion Of the tariff and other nation
ii policies were his fellows. The
senate held such men as Aldrich, ALI
SON., Cockrell, Daniel, Frye, German,
Hoar. Hill, Teller, Vest and Wolcott.
All were not republicans, but all We're
"Jim" Sherman's friends, and in such
IN environment he worked to high
place in the councils and finally was
number one of the big five in the
house..
Cannon. Dalzell, Payne, Sherman
and Tawney were the great quintet
during the comparatively recent years
in which congress was republican
Each OF them invariably wore red,
carnation for, boutonniere, and when
Sherman went to preside over the
senate and occupy the coveted marble
room in the other wing of the capitol
he took the custom with him and the
flower always appeared at every ses-
sion Of the upper house.
His Work In House.
Any Esvia,-- Of Sherman's life would