Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10
FOR PRESIDENT, 1904.
Said That Governor Shaw is a Live
Possibility.

Possibility.
WILL BE KEPT In THE PUBLIC EYE
Third Term as, Governor, According to
Des Moines Dispatches, is Absolute
ly Necessary as the Means Toward
Gaining the Presidency.
Des Moines, jan 7.-Governor Les
lie NJ Shaw is candidate for presi-
dent OF the United States, and to pro-
mote his candidacy he will be a candi-
date for governor for third term in
case the supreme court decides the I'll
tus amendment not to have been
adopted. If the amendment is sus-
tanned the governor will hold Office I'M
der his present election until the close
of the year 1902 which would carry
him near enough to the time of elect
ing president.
This is important news to the re-
publican party of Iowa, which has new
er made prolonged and systematic
fight for the presidency.
1t is an open secret that the govern
or was much encouraged in his candi-
dacy for president while in Washing
ton.
The wisest politicians know how
easy it is for a man to drop out and
lose his identity with current politics.
Governor Roosevelt's friends thought
it was necessary to be elected govern
or Of New York to keep him in the
push until 1904 Their plans were in
terfered with by the nomination of
Roosevelt for vice president. If Gov
ernor Shaw were to drop out of the
Of Iowa at the close of
this year, in one year he might be so
forgotten in the east that as to be no
longer a star performer at republican
love feasts and banquets. There is
no man so lost to the Immediate thing
at hand as an Tex" or "has been"
Hence it is considered essential to
Governor Shaw's candidacy for the
presidency that his political affairs be
kept alive by reelection, which of it.
self would be unusual and all the
stronger for it.
Whether or not the members of
Iowa's distinguished delegation in con-
gress. some of whom may aspire to be
president, will be more than formal in
their support of the governor remains
to be seen. Sometimes these distin-
guished gentlemen do what the rules
of good society require and nothing
more. They have given the icy hand
before because the candidate was trot-
ting out of his class. Will they reach
the same conclusion with regard to
the governors?
The friends of. the governor among
the politicians say that it would be a
big thing to furnish the president in
1904 and they believe the people of
Iowa would accord Governor Shaw a
third term as governor. to emphasize
the endorsement of the people of the
state of his candidacy for president.
They think thatisall factions of the
party will rally to the support of the
governor for president for the sake of
winning the presidency for Iowa, thus
making Iowa the first state west of
the Mississippi to capture the presi-
dency. The especial friends of the
governor say that he has grown to be
la national character and that he is
larger than any mere faction.
It is understood that the governor
has received encouragement from
members of congress representing
Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio
and dozen other states. 1t is sup.
posed there are four candidates al
ready in the field, consisting Of Colon
lei Roosevelt, Senator Fairbanks, Sen
ator Lodge and Governor Shaw.
Governor Shaw's main strength will
be his ability as stump orator,
wherein he introduces the plain, old
fashioned methods of the common PEG.
pie.
1t is shown among the politicians
that Senator Allison has said that he
will not be a candidate, for president
and it is known that he has said that
the next president will come from
west of the Mississippi.
Governor Shaw is not favorable to
third term candidates. for governor
and if he consents to run this year it
will only be on account of his candi-
dacy for president in 1904.
The governor feels considerable en-
thusiasm in relation to his candidacy
for president and having received so
much encouragement thruout the
state he believes that as third term
candidate for governor he would be a
winner.
A politician very near to Hon. John
Herriott says that if Governor Shaw
is candidate for third term, Mr..
Herriott will surely be candidate
against him.
The governor has had clear sailing
in politics SO far with little to jar him.
1t may be that his luck will continue
and that he is to be the only man ex-
cept Kirkwood elected governor of
Iowa three times, and that he is to be
president of the United States-an Of
flee denied to Clay, Webster, Blaine,
Conkling and Allison.
MET AT DEATHBED.