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Show BeeeBJBIR.RBBBBBJKM B VILLIAM HOWAIVD TAFT H (Contlnuod from hst week.) ' B TBAFT nnd Shcrmnn" Is fignln B fl the Itcpubltcan national tick B P et, the Taft men having de- RH cldcd In the convention m H Chicago to reward with the vico prcsl B dentinl nomination the man who has B stood first In the lino of presidential B succession during tho pnst four yours. BH Friends of Mr. Shcrmnn construe his B ronomlmitlnti also as a deserved rccog- B nltlon of the manner In which he ban B presided over tho United States sennte jH In virtue of his vice presidential otllcc. B An w e der of tho gavel In tho otntoly JM senate chamber In the cnpltol In Wash- H liigto'i. Vice President Sherman has H won the friendship of Democrats aud H Republicans of all shndes of progrcs-, H slve nnd nonprogressive opinion. They H like him ns a presiding officer, what- H over they may think of bis political be-, H liefs nud tendencies. M When tho returns came in four years B ago and announced to tho world the, B election of the Bopublican national B&B ticket- the tiatlou wus asuured a mun W&B of ripe political experience us presid-.- H tug ulllcer of the senate, although Mr. B Sherman's legislative knowledge was fl gained entirely In the other wing of fl the big gray building. He had been In B the senate chamber only us a visitor, B but he hud heeu a mnmbcr of thu nn- B tiotial hoime of representatives for ten B terms and knew nil the lus and outs of B Inwuiitklug lu both his own house and B the senate chamber nnd In committee fl rooms. Of statu politics, too, ho knew ' V&B more limn a little, having been chair- H man of Itepubltcnn state conventions fl in Ills own state (New York) and chnlr- .v fl man of the Kepubllcnu national con.-; - if VH gressloual committee. Also, as mayor fl of Uticu, his homo city, where he has H ' lived for many years, he gained n fl knowledge of municipal affairs and H politics So he brought to thu vice H presidential olllce n pretty thorough H knowledge of municipal, stnto ami nu- H tlonul polities. Ills Ideas tiro conservn- B tlve lu tendency rather than radical. H Product of a Small Village. Bfl .lames Schoolcraft Sherman Ib In his H fifty-seventh year, having been born H Oct. '21, 18.5, lu New Hartford, a small village on the outskirts of Uticu. Ills JH father wns Itlehurd U. Sherman, for Vfl mnny years a leading Inwyer of central H New York B While the' younger Sherman wns a BH youth the family moved to Uticu, and BB there tho present nomlnco grew up. VB Then he went to Whltestown semlnury, jBH when; he prepared for Hamilton col- ., .B lege. lie was u close student during H all his student days "" WMaiiM"1 iimwiisihiii i msi i "tyB imTlnennirah "oFaT6TTiirwoy:"" Tie -" Bfl studied lu the Utlcn Law school. B At college dinners he wns always B the chief speaker, and when sumo one B was to he selected to make n fornui PB address .Mm Sherman wus Invariably AV picked. He liked It, ami he likes It yet ftS When he was twenty years old he had - Vfl a repiilntlou us one of the best speak- B ers In his own town, nud he hns been B Improving steadily ever since. He enn rB imke n Kpeech In tlve minutes and say B things, or If It Ls n ruse of necessity. B as frequently happens, ho cun tnlk for B hours and sny little, Wfl After his first nomination there was '" Bfl much speculntioii us to the weitlih nud ' B nconie of Mr. Sherinnn. Mr. Slier- B mnu is well to do, lint by no means Bfl wealthy ns wealth Is measured lu New '. B York nnd Waiihlngton. lie has been Bfl president of one of Utlca's leading B fliianclnl Institutions since It was or- B ganhed. and he has a small Interest lu , " B a trolley company which operates lu B the vicinity of Plica. Bfl To ho continued ) H |