Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-29
MR.. sHAW'S CAMPAIGN.
Brings to Light Some Very Shady
Business Methods.
iUorrespondence Which Shows Some
what of His Business Prin.
NJ; ciple-An Unsafe Man
II for Governor.

what of His Business Prime
NJ; ciple-An Unsafe Man
Il { for Governor.
Some of the republican politicians are
trying to make it appear that person.
el fight is being made on Mr.. Shaw, the
republican candidate for governor. The
purpose of the republican politicians in
Fmaking this groundless, babyish plea
lis to create false sympathy for the re.
publican candidate. There is senti.
Inent of fairness imbedded in the Amer.
ican breast. The American people al.
ways exhibit a natural and commend.
able sympathy for those who are un-
justly attacked. In the effort to take
advantage of this noble sentiment. the
unscrupulous republican politicians Of
iowa, who have robbed the tax payers
pf more than s1,ooo,ooo during the past
-four years, are seeking to cover up
their own iniquities by making people
believe that the campaign against the
Irobberies and extortions practiced by
these same politicians is personal
campaign against the republican can.
Ididate.
Not one word has been given out by
the democratic literary bureau in re-
gard to Mr.. Shaw's personal, private or
family relations. It must not be for
gotten that it was Mr.. Shaw himself who
introduced his hired girl into the cam
Paign discussions. This bureau has not
even taken advantage of his indiscre-
tion in this matter. This is the first and
only mention of the subject that has
emanatcd from this source.
= Shaw's Plan of Campaign.
Thrust be remembered that Mr.. Shaw
is the accredited representative of his
party in this contest. With great -four
1sh of trumpets he was brought before
the people and rather extensively adver-
tised:
i. AS prominently successful bust
ness man.
2. AS a man of surprising eminence
In religious matters.
3. As man of rare wisdom and dis
erection in affairs of state.
In view of Mr.. Shaw's plan of campaign
It is certainly strange argument that
the nimble-fngered guardians" of the
state treasury are advancing, to-wit,
that the opposition to Mr.. Shaw may
not, with the utmost propriety, show,
by abundant and indisputable proofs:
i. That Mr.. Shaw's phenomenal "suc-
cess" as business man has not been
achieved by him through those legiti-
mate methods that are generally ap-
proved among high-minded business
men.
2. That the DISCRIMINATION" and
'more- eminentlv-religio than any
body" claims that have been vulgarly
paraded in Mr. Shaw's behalf by the
state treasury looters are entitled to no
weight whatever with thinking people.
3. That Mr.. Shaw is entirely without
experience in affairs of state, and his
proved and admitted public utterances
stamp him as man who is devoid of that
wisdom and discretion that are most de-
sirable if not absolutely necessary in n
governor of one of the greatest states
in this great union.
M Must Face the Issues.
It is strange, indeed, that anyone of
common sense or common honesty
should for one moment contend that the
political opponent of Mr.. Shaw should
be debarred, by even the highest polit-
ical ethics, from presenting in a dig
nified though forceful manner these
logical and legitimate objections to Mr..
Shaw's candidacy. 1t is not at all
strange, however, that gang of po-
litical bandits who have robbed the
state to standstill and who are now
seeking, by fair means or foul, to pro-
long their lease Of power, should resort
to any means within their control to
prevent fair and candid discussion of
The questions at issue and the qualifca-
tions of their chosen candidate. The
public ear is prepared to hear almost
any kind Of objections to discussion
urged by gang of political pirates
whose hands are reeking with jobbery,
fraud, extortion and bald larceny.
Not single attack has been made on
Mr.. Shaw in his personal or private ca
pacity. Not a single charge has been
advanced against him in his public ca
pacity that has not been sustained by
overwhelming and unanswerablepr oofs.
Perhaps this fact In some measure ex-
plains why it is that the treasury filch-
ers are pleading the baby act" in Mr..
Slaw's behalf. They have discovered
that they cannot meet the battle which
they and Mr.. Shaw himself invited at
the beginning of this campaign, and
they now hope to create a maudlin sym
pathy for their candidate.
Mr.. Shaw spoke in Des Moines Thurs
day evening, October 21. Pursuing the
policy outlined by the treasury looters
and railroad statesman at the beginning
of the campaign, he wholly ignored
state issues. He presented his we'll
known arguments on the currency ques-
tion, and made pitiful plea for the sup
port of the gold democrats He failed to
make any mention of the fact that the
British government has recently, in a
formal manner, rejected all overtures of
the American government looking to-
ceptively mentioned in the republican
platform at ST. Louis.
Legitimate Business Men.
It seems to be the theory of the treas
ury-flching politicians that all success
full business men are governed and con-
trolled by the instincts that actuate
thieves. They do not seem to realize
that there are many high-minded bust
hess men in the city of Des Moines and
throughout Iowa who do not approve OF
grand larceny, as practiced by the treas
firy-looting republicans, nor of petty
larceny, as practiced by class OF
greedy and grasping money-getters
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