Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-09
AN INDEPENDENTS VIEW.


Governor Shaw Is an astute politician.
He recognizes the fact thatin the mael-
strom of party politics astuteness will
survive where candor, independence
and honesty would go down and be lost
to sight forever. Governor Shaw has his
eagle eye on Washington. He knows
that the powerful protected interests of
the east are opposed to a revision of the
tariff, 90 he casts an anchor to
windward.
Candidate Cummins, altho an able
man. is not astute. Not but that he
could be II he would turn his attention
to the; development Of the traits OF
mind essential to astuteness. He has
the ability but lacks the inclination.
While he has been studying the sttua-
ton from the standpoint OF a man try
ing to determine what the interests of
the people demand, and has courageous
" announced tlis conclusions, Mr.. Shaw
has been sizing up the political influ-
ences to the eastward and has conclud-
ed that no western man with the west
ern notion OF freer trade need expect
any comfort or assistance from that
section, hence he endeavora by one mas
ter stroke to make himself solid with
the safe, sound, conservative east the
section that dictates national platforms.
that makes and unmakes presidents at
will, and at the same time put Cumming
in a political pocket from which it will
be difficult to extricate himself.
Governor Shaw made his first cam
paign speech at Indianola last Thurs
day In the course OF his remarks he
said:
president Mckinley during hiss life
time never did but two acts 30 far as
can recall, that were approved by these
elements. In his message to congress
in December, 1899. he expressed the
opinion that we should have free trade
with Porto Rico. I think that Is the
most noticeable error OF his admtnistra-
ton, and that is his only act, save and
except HE speech at Buffalo, on the
day before HE ASSASSINATION, that has
been approved by the opposition. That
fact alone was quite enough to discredit
his recommendation. But the president
himself saw his error"
President McKinIey's Buffalo speech
has been htt!ngly characterized as his
Last Will and Testament to the Amer
lean People, In that speech he advo-
Gated freer trade. Mckinley was the
great apostle OF protection. The Nc
kinley bill made him president. He
made the study OF defensive duties a
speciality. He recognized and admitted
the fact that the interests OF the people
demanded change in the schedules.
President Roosevelt adopted the sug-
gestion and promised to carry 1t OUT.
Roosevelt like Cummins is more cour-
ageous than astute.
: Governor Shaw, thru his Indianola
speech, has served notice of contest of
the Mckinley WILL and at the same time
he notifies Cummins that a seat in the
u. s. senate is protection plum and
that he expects to pluck 1t. Shaw evil
IDENTIFY thinks the west will continue to
bow in humble submission to the dtcta-
ton of the commercial combines; that
party supremacy is the great desidera-
tum. and the people would rather pay
tribute to dominating commercialism
than risk party overthrow. thru insist
ence upon relief from unjust burdens.
Shaw studies the probabilities from the
standpoint Of history. and If history
continues to repeat itself along these
lines the Shaw contest will probably
prevail.
The Roosevelts and Cumminses stand
for the people as against the selfish in
terests If the few. The shaws stand
for the isserests that control party pol
itics and r themselves. When will the
people get heir eyes open?
A YOUlss MANS COUNTRY.
baltimore Americana
A correspondent of a London paper
observes that in contrast to the custom
in England, large number of young
men are found in the United States in
positions of trust and responsibility. On
On this side, he says, he has seen men
familiar with the details of a large bust
ness SO young that in England they
would be still in the position of appren-
tees. The United States is emphatical-
" a young mans csnntry. The onpor-