Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-04
LOOKER-ON IN IOWA.
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Fonda, Jan. 3.-If Governor Shaw en-
joys newspaper notoriety, he must be a
very happy man these days. The people
still find his appointment as secretary
of the treasury an interesting subject.
Now while it is a act that Governor
Shaw, for a variety of reasons. men
toned several times in this column, was
not popular with the people Of Iowa,
still there seems to be a general feeling
that he will make an efficient official
and be q credit to Iowa. In discussing
his subject in n Of our Iowa banks
the other day, one gentleman present
said he was afraid that ShawSs we'll
known ambitious inclination for a nom
nation for president in 1904 would lead
TO his using the vast patronage nf the
treasury department as a means to that
end, and consequent scandal would fol-
low There is no danger OF that" re-
piled the president of the bank, she will
be all the more cautious In all OF his
public acts, and we can depend on con-
servatism during his incumbency."
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And 1t is only fair to state in this
connection, that the Iowa bankers the
Looker-on meets day by day nearly all
say he will make a good secretary. One
banker says: II had no use for Shaw
as governor, but / think he vii! give
the country q good clean service as
secretary Of the treasury and be a
credit to Iowa. l look on him as a
man who has made a specially Of this
kind of work and while / might dislike
a mans official acts as governor, still ]
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ing and law"
A story comes to the writer which IL
lustrate that Governor Shaw Is human
after all. 1t seems that about the time.
last summer when the organs We're
suggesting the governors name for a
third term, and some other papers were
frankly opposing the suggestion, a
gentleman who had business with the
governor, incidentally mentioned that
he read In the --, SO n so con-
corning the subject under consldera-
ton. To which his excellency replied.
You can't depend IN anything you
read in the -, the --, or the
, mentioning three Iowa dailies
which were 'agin him,") they belong
to the yellow journals and are thor
oughly unreliable"
A grieved father, who evidently was
not much of a boy for sports forty years
ago, tells the Looker-On that he objects
very seriously to his children being as
sessed by the high school teachers to
keep alive he high school foot ball
team. He says his children do not want
to be the only mes in the class who fail
to chip i'm to the foot ball club fund,
and that when the teachers s the
class for contributions they can hardly
refuse. Nevertheless, he considers it a
sort Of highway robbery. Now the read
err will observe no names are given and
there are several high schools In Iowa,
but IL this happens to come under the
eyes Of those teachers they will please
consider themselves reprimanded by IAN
indignant father"
Outsiders claim to know all about rail-
road building ard the intentions of COR
porations and managers, but some
things they can not understand. For in
stance. just why the Chicago Great
Western in building from Fort Dodge
to Council Bluffs should find 1t neces-
sary, wise and expedient to run a par