Photograph by C. M. Ball, Washington.

James S. Sherman, nominated for Vice-President.

Throughout the months preceding the assembling of the Democratic

convention, in Denver, there was some uncertainty as to who would

control it. Governor Folk, of Missouri, had been much in the public eye

through his war on graft and on account of his successful administration

of the gubernatorial office. Judge Gray, of Delaware, who had served his

State in the United States Senate and had acquired an enviable

reputation as a justice of the United States Circuit Court, was also a