The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-06
..Keen your eve on Shaw"

keep your eye on Shaw"
The Shaw forces were helped by the
fact that the delegates from the eighth
district were practically solid for Shaw,
out Of gratitude for what he had done for
Colonel Hepburn, and about three-fourths
of the delegates from the eleventh were
seeking for a good excuse to break away
from their candidate, Senator Funk. After
the first ballot, the eighth was almost
solid for Shaw and delegations from the
eleventh began to desert Funk for Shaw,
tactfully and gradually, however, SO that
there was no opportunity for the Funk and
Parrot men to unite. On the third formal
ballot Shaw was nominated by decisive
majority His speech in accepting the
nomination set the delegates wild with en-
thusiasm and parts of it were quoted re-
peatedly during the campaign that fol-
lowed. In part he said
Possibly you may care to know something
Of my political antecedents. I was born in
the midst OF the campaign of 1S4S. I was
rocked in the old line wing cradle, and the
first lullabys were the shouts of victory that
went up with the campaign that put General
| Taylor in the presidential chair Eight years
afterward my father brought home portrait,
unrolled it enthusiastically and fastened it on
the west wall Of the house. l remember dis
1inctly the face of that weather worn hero,
and remember the lines underneath and the
| shape and the number of the letters-John G.
|
President of the United States. The story
| of that life was household story I remem-
| Der the defeat. remember the four years
| following, when we were ground in the NOR
| tar, as we have been recently, and during all
| that time the picture of 1.-THE Pathfinder OF
| the Rocky Mountains was on the wall.
| Four years later it was taken down, and in
it's place was hung the angular features of
the ..Railsplitter'' The story of that life,
| with it's humble and lowly birth and gradual
unfolding and his love for truth and liberty,
| wero household words. l remember the vic
| tory that followed, and I remember the four
years that followed-yes, more than four
| years. And the picture of Abraham Lincoln
! Still! hung in its place when in 1869 ! turned
| NV back upon it and put the big river and
| / 200 miles and the scenes OF my boyhood be-
| hind me.
| Governor Shaw then made the follow
| ing pledge which he has most abundantly
| fulfilled:
You may tell your folks, tell your wife, tell
the hired man. that the nominee of this con-
yention was not asked to make any conces-
| sion or any promises, or any pledges to any
man or set of lnen The only pledge that the
| nominee has made is that he will stand
| suuarely upon the platform That he will be
| true to the principles of repubicanism; that
he will administer the affairs of state the
best he knows how, and turn over the office
| to his successor with MS PAIN as cledu DIS
! when he entered the race for this nomina-
| ton. t-s &C.,.
! I will not be so ,self-willed as to refuse to
accept advice; neither will 1 be weak as
| to allow another to determine the questions
that are to be determined by me.
Reputation Extends.
| All through the silver controversy Gov
| ernor Shaw was almost constantly on the
stump and his effective speeches in favor
| of the single gold standard won for hlm
) a reputation almost national. Yet, dur
| ing all this time, he refused to put gold
| clauses in his notes, differing radically
from men like John Peter Altgeld in this
! respect. When asked the reason for this
he replied that ifrthe country ever went
daft on the silver issue every one would
J go down together and he would not take
| advantage of the protection of gold con-
| tract. .r.
No debtor of the firm of Shaw &
| Kuehnle has ever had occasion to COM
| plain of harsh treatment. During the
most trying times of 1893 they were al
ways lenient with their debtors and not
| one mortgage was foreclosed An illus
| tration of Governor ShaW's method of do
| ing business with his debtors As the case
| of a farmer who, in 1894, went to Mr..
| Shaw almost in tears. A landlords at
| tachment had been levied on practically
! everything he had in the world. Banker
! Shaw gave him money to pay the rent
| without any security whatever. He put
the man on farm and gave him money
| to keep him going advancing 5000 in all.
The debt was all paid.