New Hartford. Here they lived until 1868. In the fall of 1868, Mr. Sherman's parents purchased a house in the village of New Hartford, where they continued to live until the death of Mr. Sherman's mother in 1896, his father having died the year previous.

Mr. Sherman lived with his parents until 1881, when he was married at East Orange, N. J., to Carrie Babcock, taking up his residence in the Seventh Ward of the City of Utica, two blocks from where he now resides.

While Mr. Sherman lived on his father's farm he attended the district school, half a mile from home, and, when old enough to do so, he assisted in doing such work on the farm as a boy of his years would be capable of doing. After removing to the village of New Hartford he attended the public school in that town, and later attended the Utica Academy, which was four miles distant from his home, connected by a street car service. Later he attended the Whitestown Seminary, a preparatory school situated in the village of Whitesboro, four miles distant. This was a co-educational institution, with a very large attendance. From this school young Sherman entered Hamilton College in the fall of 1874, and was graduated in 1878. In school and college he was distinguished for general goodfellowship rather than scholarship. He gained a considerable reputation as a declaimer in both school and college, carrying off the first honors in declamation at the end of his Freshman year. He also enjoyed a reputation as a debator, and was one of six chosen from his class at the conclusion of his Senior year to contest for prizes.

After leaving college Mr. Sherman began, at once, the study of law in the office of Beardsley, Cookinham and Burdick, at Utica, N. Y. He was admitted to practice two years later, and at once formed a partnership with Hon. H. J. Cookinham, his brother-in-law, and former Mayor John G. Gibson. He continued the practice of law in partnership with Mr. Cookinham, with various changes in the personnel of the firm, until January 1, 1907, when he withdrew as a member of the law firm. In his law practice his work partook more of an office business than an advocate.

In 1899, with other Utica business men, he organized the Utica Trust and Deposit Company, now one of the leading banks of Central New York and was chosen as its President, which position he has since occupied. The New Hartford Canning Company was organized in 1881 by his father and another gentleand after his father's death he became president of the company. He is also interested, in various ways, in many other local enterprises.

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Mr. Sherman's first active work in politics was the year succeeding his graduation from college, when he spoke a few times in different parts of the county in advocacy of the election of Alonzo B. Cornell, Republican candidate for Governor, making his first speech in the town of his residence. During the last fifteen years Mr. Sherman has campaigned in various parts of the State, having spoken in most of the important cities, and in a great many minor places, as well as in half a dozen or more other States. During various campaigns he has spoken in substantially every town in Oneida and Herkimer counties. He was chosen Mayor of Utica in 1884. The city was then, as now, normally Democratic, but he was elected by a substantial

ELIHU ROOT'S APPRECIATION OF

JAMES S. SHERMAN.

Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, delivered the following estimate of Hon. James S. Sherman, the VicePresidential candidate, at the notification ceremonies at Utica, N. Y., on August 18.

"This occasion justifies general congratulation. The people of the Herkimer-Oneida district are to be congratulated on the confirmation of the judgment they have so long maintained in the selection of their representative in Congress.

"Republican national conventions have always been very wise bodies and the last convention's imitation of you in nominating Mr. Sherman, is the sincerest flattery. Mr. Sherman should be congratulated upon this signal expression of opinion and feeling by the people of his home. There are few things in this world worth so much as the respect, esteem and affection of the community in which one has passed his life. Money cannot buy this; scheming cannot produce it, artifice cannot simulate it.

"It answers to no call but that of character. It is natural reaction of kindly human nature under the influence of what the man really is.

"The country is to be congratulated upon this evidence that one of the men for whom it will have an opportunity to vote at the coming election for the office of Vice-President, to preside over the Senate and to stand in the place of heir apparent to the Presidency, is a good and true man, in whose hands the vast interests of American prosperity and peace and order and liberty will not suffer.

"There can be no better evidence of a candidate's worth than the esteem in which he is held at home. What political partisans and political enemies say about a man is apt to be colored by their partisanship or their enmity. The praise and depreciation of a campaign is a poor guide to just opinion. What the newspapers say about a man often reflects but a superficial judgment based upon those occasional striking and spectacular acts which constitute news rather than upon the inconspicuous, steady and most useful labor and conduct that make up the true record of life. The members of the national government for the past 20 years know what Mr. Sherman has done in the broad field of national legislation. They know with what modest disregard for personal display, thorough knowledge, clearness of expression and force of mind and character he has maintained upon the floor of the House, his views of what was best in legislation, until the time has come when every member listens with attention and respect, because it is he

who speaks. They know that rare combination of quick perception, fair judgment and decision of character which, through long experience as chairman in committee of the whole, has made him the best parliamentarian of the House of Representatives, and a member of the standing committee of five which directs the difficult and complicated administration of the rules necessary to enable the House to do its business, and of necessity which in a great measure directs the conduct of business. But we know our friend and neighbor better than the men at Washington, better than the newspapers, better than the politicians. We know the man himself through and through by his living-by the multitude of little things that in the long course of years make up a record that cannot be untrue. We know the stock he came from-sound and honest stock. We know his respected father. Some of us go back to knowledge of his grandfather. My own recollections of earliest childhood are of a farmhouse in the town of Vernon and a stone's throw away the simple house of his grandfather, Willet Sherman, an honored and conspicuous figure, remaining from the early settlers of the county-a leader in the first manufacturers of central New York. We have followed the grandson through his boyhood and manhood. We know that he has been a good husband and a good father and a good neighbor; that he has always been upright in business, self-respecting, just, fair and considerate; that everybody in the community trusts him and believes his word without any bond, We know that no desire to make money ever led him to do a mean or unfair or unkind act, and that he never sought to grow richer by making anyone else poorer. We know that he is a true and loyal friend and that from all this region the weak and unfortunate have learned to go to him, always to find help in his sympathy. We know that he has always borne his part as a good citizen in the public affairs of the community and that he is universally respected and beloved.

"We are competent to testify, not upon hearsay, but of knowledge, and we do now testify to our countrymen everywhere to the people of all distant States, that this is a man for Americans to be proud of, to respect, to honor and to love.

"We certify to all that great electorate that when their votes in November shall have chosen James Schoolcraft Sherman to be Vice-President of the United States, the Senate will be sure of a presiding officer in character and competency worthy of the best traditions of that great deliberative body, and that if, which God forbid, the sad contingency were to come which should for a fourth time call a Vice-President from New York to the executive office, the interests of the country, and of the whole country, would be safe in good hands; and the great office of the Presidency would suffer no decadence from the high standard of dignity and honor and competency of which we are so justly proud."

ADDRESS OF HON. JAMES S. SHERMAN

In Response to Notification Speech at Utica, N. Y., August 18, 1908.

Senator Burrows and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: Your chairman, speaking for the committee, has notified me of my nomination by the Republican National Convention, held in Chicago in June, as the party's candidate for Vice-President. As I chanced to be in Chicago in June, I had an inkling of the convention's action, which was confirmed by a warm-hearted reception tendered me by my neighbors on the occasion of my home-coming on July 2.

In Accord With Mr. Taft.

This official notification, however, is welcome and the nomination you tender me is accepted; accepted with a gratitude commensurate with the great honor conferred; accepted with a full appreciation of the obligations which accompany that honor, an honor greater because my name is linked with that of William H. Taft, whom I respect and esteem highly and who approaches the high office of President exceptionally well equipped to discharge the duties and bear the varied and weighty responsibilities of that exalted position. My acceptance could not be made with honor unless I were in full accord with the declaration of principles adopted by the convention. Not only am I in full and complete accord with my party's platform. but I endorse every word of the statement made by Mr. Taft in his address of acceptance when notified of his nomination as the Republican candidate for President.

That speech fully and comprehensively discussess the issues of this campaign as presented by the platforms of the two great parties, so that it is appropriate that my statement should be short. Those not convinced by the presentation of Mr. Taft I could not hope to persuade. It is, however, in conformity with custom that I refer at least briefly to some of the important issues of the campaign.

A Discussion of the Tariff Issue.

First, then, let me say that I am a protectionist. I am sufficiently practical to value the utility of a fact higher than the beauty of a theory, and I am a protectionist because experience has demonstrated that the application of that principle has lifted us as a nation to a plane of prosperity above that, occupied by any other people.

I especially commend that plan of our platform which promises an early revision of tariff schedules. That pledge will be fulfilled in an adjustment based in every particular upon the broad principles of protection for all American interests; alike for labor, for capital, for producers and consumers. The Dingley Bill, when enacted, was well adapted to the then existing conditions. The developments of industrial prosperity in a decade, which in volume and degree have surpassed our most roseate expectations, have so altered conditions that in certain details of schedules they no longer in every particular mete out justice to all. In this readjustment the principle of protection must and will govern; such duties must and will be imposed as will equalize the cost of production at home and abroad and insure a reasonable profit to all American interests. The Republican idea of such a profit embraces not alone the manufacturer, not alone the capital invested, but all engaged in American production, the employer and employed, the artisan, the farmer, the miner and those engaged in transportation and trade; broadly speaking, those engaged in every pursuit and calling which our tariff directly or indirectly affects. During a statutory application of

New Hartford. Here they lived until 1868. In the fall of 1868, Mr. Sherman's parents purchased a house in the village of New Hartford, where they continued to live until the death of Mr. Sherman's mother in 1896, his father having died the year previous.

Mr. Sherman lived with his parents until 1881, when he was married at East Orange, N. J., to Carrie Babcock, taking up his residence in the Seventh Ward of the City of Utica, two blocks from where he now resides.

While Mr. Sherman lived on his father's farm he attended the district school, half a mile from home, and, when old enough to do so, he assisted in doing such work on the farm as a boy of his years would be capable of doing. After removing to the village of New Hartford he attended the public school in that town, and later attended the Utica Academy, which was four miles distant from his home, connected by a street car service. Later he attended the Whitestown Seminary, a preparatory school situated in the village of Whitesboro, four miles distant. This was a co-educational institution, with a very large attendance. From this school young Sherman entered Hamilton College in the fall of 1874, and was graduated in 1878. In school and college he was distinguished for general goodfellowship rather than scholarship. He gained a considerable reputation as 8 declaimer in both school and college, carrying off the first honors in declamation at the end of his Freshman year. He also enjoyed a reputation as a debator, and was one of six chosen from his class at the conclusion of his Senior year to contest for prizes.

After leaving college Mr. Sherman began, at once, the study of law in the office of Beardsley, Cookinham and Burdick, at Utica, N. Y. He was admitted to practice two years later, and at once formed a partnership with Hon. H. J. Cookinham, his brother-in-law, and former Mayor John G. Gibson. He continued the practice of law in partnership with Mr. Cookinham, with various changes in the personnel of the firm, until January 1, 1907, when he withdrew as a member of the law firm. In his law practice his work partook more of an office business than an advocate.

In 1899, with other Utica business men, he organized the Utica Trust and Deposit Company, now one of the leading banks of Central New York and was chosen as its President, which position he has since occupied. The New Hartford Canning Company was organized in 1831 by his father and another gentlemau, and after his father's death he became president of the company. He is also interested, in various ways, in many other local enterprises.

Mr. Sherman's first active work in politics was the year succeeding his graduation from college, when he spoke a few times in different parts of the county in advocacy of the election of Alonzo B. Cornell, Republican candidate for Governor, making his first speech in the town of his residence. During the last fifteen years Mr. Sherman has campaigned in various parts of the State, having spoken in most of the important cities, and in a great many minor places, as well as in half a dozen or more other States. During various campaigns he has spoken in substantially every town in Oneida and Herkimer counties. He was chosen Mayor of Utica in 1884. The city was then, as now, normally Democratic, but he was elected by a substantial