Macomb Daily Journal on Lawrence Y. Sherman

       "Judge Sherman is the sort of man that we wish we had more of.  While he does not feel that he is obliged to be in violent accord with everything the president {Wilson} says, or may say, and being in his position of United States Senator he claims his full privilege of all the rights accorded to the members of the national legislature guaranteed by the Con-stitution, and exercises the rights he claims, yet he is firmly loyal to the government, just as interested in the prosecution of the war {WW I}, and equally as anxious for its successful conclusion as any man in Washington today, or in the United States for that matter.  Not only does he favor those conditions above mentioned, but he works assiduously along the lines that he believes are most conducive to their success.  Because of the fact that he has not been of that class of congressman who are in favor of passing a blank paper bill, with a heading providing that the president and his cabinet fill in the white paper passed what they want, he has been called by some of that class 'an obstructionist,' and sometimes even a 'slacker.'  If these gentlemen had the courage of their convictions, as has Sherman;  if they would look into measures they are asked to pass upon--indeed, their desired action outlined in the bill or message connected with it--it would be much better for the country.  While Sherman has under his constitutional rights investigated and discussed the merits of bills before the congress, he has opposed but two of the important measures that became a law--the conscription bill and the food conservation bill, passed with a whole aim to making Hoover arbiter and even dictator in all food matters as to supply, prices, and even to making him autocrat of the private tables as he sees fit.  On the first measure, Judge Sherman, while just as eager to raise a large army as anyone, he believed in the volunteer system and labored to continue this time-honored and always successful plan in the United States.  He opposed the conservation bill because he believed it gave entirely too drastic powers to place in the hands of any one man.  Both bills were passed, and our senator is for the enforcement of both, just as much as he is for the enforcement of the laws that he most earnestly advocated.  In a word, Judge Sherman is the lawabiding man.  He will vote against a measure if in his opinion it is not for the best public policy.  But when it makes its place in the statutes, he is for the law's carrying out.  Nor does he take favors or 'sops' to keep him 'hitched,' as is the case with some self-presumed important persons, who are prone to rate the Illinois Republican Senator as 'opponent of the administration,' and yet they have to be kept on the payroll to have themselves and followers in line and 'loyal.' "