News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-02-20
MOrrisviIIe Boy for President.

he1erflDP TO q DeS MONIES dispatch
in the Chicago Inter Ocean, SAYING
that Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw will
not be a candidate for third term,
the Keokuk Gate City asks: "But
suppose the people of Iowa should in
sist upon him accepting a renomina-
ton aad reelection? That is lust
what the people of Iowa should and
probably will do to make certain
that Iowa will be kept in the lead of
all the states for another two years.
The Register has constantly stated
that Gov. Shaw was not and will not
be candidate for reelection, and he
80 notified the editor of this paper
by letter several weeks ago, but we
have not been consulting his desires
and views of the matter in the slight
est degree. The interests of the peo-
pie of Iowa are much greater then
the desires of the governor, who is
merely a servant of the people. The
time has arrived when the people of
Iowa will refuse to be dictated to by
one man, or by fraction of a party.
The independent " organs of Democ-
racy are doing every thing within
their power to keep the Republicans
of the state divided in antagonistic
factions, but those organs and all
the factonists may as well remember
that the people are going to nomin-
ate the Republican candidate for
governor of Iowa this year, and the
Register believes that the people
should and will renominate and re-
elect Gov. Shaw, therefore keep one
eye on the people and on the COVER
nor who asgained unequaled honors
for Iowa, and is going still higher in
the affairs of the state and Nation.
The West Union Gazette says;
Ever since the governors recent visit
to Washington there has been ire
NOR in the political atmosphere of
Iowa presaging cataclysm of some
sort that only chosen few within
the immediate vortex could define.
There have been whisperings and
hints associating the name of the
governor with the White House; but
until recently there has been no pos
tive declaration of the situation. 1t
is safe to presume that Des Moines
papers speak by the card, and when
they say that Gov. Shaw wants to he,
president we in the country me y-SssV
it for granted it is true. And not Only
is he a candidate for the executive
chair at Washington, but in order to
keep in line for this promotion he
wants the people ofLowa, in the event
of the knockout of the constitutional
amendment to give him a third term
as governor.
There is but one thing in the way
of this worthy ambition of Iowa's
governor, and that is the people of
Iowa themselves.
They have it in their power to make
him governor again, and to make him
president. And he is the only man
within the borders of the state of
whom this can be said. Senator Ali
son might be a possibility, but he de-
clines to be considered. None of the
distinguished gentlemen who repre-
sent Iowa in Congress have the con-
fndence and esteem of the people as
has Gov. Shaw, and no man in the
Republican party, excepting, perhaps
Gov. Roosevelt, won higher encom-
iums during the recent campaign.
1t has been perdicted that the next
President will come from the country
west of the Mississippi. What state
in all this vast region has better
earned the good will ofthe Republican
party of the nation than Iowa? And
what public man in Iowa is better
entitled to this recognition than Gov.
Shaw? He has many traits that
made Lincoln great as a politician
and statesman, and as president
would be an honor to the party and
the country and a glory to Iowa.
Iowa State Register.