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Show WHO SHERMAN IS. Congressman Howell has already expressed ex-pressed to us his approval of Sherman as candidate for the vice presidency. Having served with him on the committee com-mittee on Indian affairs he has had excellent opportunity to judge of his character and ability and the follow. Ingcllpplng will show that Mr. Howell was right is designating htm as an tile man, the stuff of which presl-'dents presl-'dents are made: ' ''Two things combined to make Representative Rep-resentative James Schoolcraft Sherman Sher-man of Utlca, republican nominee for vice president, the most available Of all the men who had been suggested to represent New York upon the national na-tional ticket. First and more important, import-ant, perhaps, was Mr. Sherman's remoteness re-moteness from all the factional fighting fight-ing of recent years in that state, as a politician he has little real Importance Import-ance in the local field; he does not control a district; he has had no significant sig-nificant share In all the struggles that have torn the republican party to pieces in New York In the past ten years. Secondly, whatever prominence promi-nence he has Is national; so that he Is known and recognized In the national field, while there Is ao faction Ih the local Held which could be affronted by his nomination. These two factors combined supply a unique availability among New York republicans whose names have been mentioned for the second place on the ticket. Sherman was born in Utica, October 24, 1855; was educated at Hamilton college, front which he was graduated in 1878. Two years later, he began the practice of the law, and, almost at the same time, became president of the Utlca trust and deposit company. He was elected mayor of Utlca In 1884, and, two years later, went to congress, where his service has been continuous since, save for a brief interruption of two years 1801-1803 thus he has has steadily grown in Influence and Importance, Im-portance, sharing with Sereno E. Payne the most Influential role In the New York delegation, and( of very re- , cent years, supplanting Payne. , "Twojeara ago Sherman took astep , forward' In the national field, when h'e was chosen chairman of the republican republi-can congressional committee. It was at this tlme.lhat he acquired one of his few.Blcknkroes, his call for dollar subscriptions for the campaign fund earning him the' sobriquet of "Send-your-dollarJIm." The campaign which he directed was successful and added materially to his national reputation, rep-utation, similarly Increasing his prom Inence In the local councils of his par ty. ' Last spring he was selected to preside at the republican state convention con-vention In New York'andat that time It was felt that 8herman was likely to have a prominent position in the nominations nom-inations this fall. This summer and at the extra session there was much private talk about the possibility of naming Sherman for governor, In case Governor Hughes should decide not to run again. This talk was mainly among the elder sta'te leaders. A quiet boom tor Sherman as Senator Piatt's successor also grew up. "The present boom for' vice-president is the second one that Sherman has had. In 1900, wfecn lie was permanent per-manent chairman of the New York state convention, he was for a number of days a close rival 0 Theodore Roosevelt. The late Mark Hanna at one time regarded the suggestion favorably. fa-vorably. Since then Sherman has become be-come a much more pronounced figure In the nation,, while retaining all his availability within the state. At beat, however, ho is little known outside of the political world, and has never had any following of, large Importance In the politics of the state. As a banker he Is likely to be accepted as the representative rep-resentative of the conservative element ele-ment of theatate, whlle.as a politician, he has none of the handicaps of all the other New Yorkers who have been mentioned, notably State Chairman Woodruff." . , |