Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-15
SHAW Will SEEK
ONA'S SUPPORT
Election to a senatorship His
First Aim, and Presidency
Comes Next
coNJEcTuREs MADE
There Seems to Be Less Known In
Washington About Secretary of the
Treasury's Future Actions, However,,
Than in Iowa--New Phases in the
Transportation Problem.
to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 10. - Leslie M.
Shaw. ex-governor and present secre-
tary of the treasury, will seek the sup
port of Iowa for the presidential NOM
ination in 1908, and will expect the
support of a large number of the east
ern states. He Will return 10 IOWA
early next year and to his nome M
Denison, and he will seek electloh 10
the Tinted States senate in prepara-
ton for his race for the presidency.
In the meantime he will devote much
of his time to his vast financial IN
terests, to his several banks in this
state, his rice land and oil land IN
Texas and other enterprises.
The first part Of the program is not
new in Iowa. 1t will be recalled thae
previous to the time of the assassin
alton of President Mckinley, after A.
b. Cummins had been nominated for
governor OF Iowa, it became known
generally in Iowa that an organization
was being perfected to push Governor
shaw for the presidential nomination
to succeed Mckinley. 1t was then ex-
pected that Vice President Roosevelt
would be one of the candidates. Gov
e1ror Shaw Wen into the campaign OF
that year with speech was INTENDED
to rive him national prominence as
presidential candidate and after con-
sultation with friends on that very
subject. Later all plans were upset
by the death Of Mckinley; but again
the question came up when Shaw was
invited into the cabinet. He hesi-
tated on account of Just one thing, fear
that as cabinet officer he might In
| lure ills elnlnces for presidential nom-
Iination. The thought s. q oessiia,eas
presidential nomination has not been
departed from at any time: and with
in the past few months the close
friends of Secretary Shaw 1--we re-
ceived additional evidences that he ex-
poets ultimately to become the lows
candidate for the presidency to sue
ceed Roosevelt.
That Secretary Shaw will retire from
the cabinet at the close of the pres
ent term has hardly been doubted by
a large circle of well informed persons
here. Last December a personal
friend of the secretary came back from
Washington and carried the informa-
ton that the secretary was not con-
templating remaining long in Wash
ington. During the campaign it was
printed and never denied that certain
persons were strongly urged for lead
IL. olrrp, L.
for the purpose Of assisting the plans
for the Shaw nomination to succeed
Roosevelt, and 1t was also plain that
this was one reason why President
Roosevelt passed over some of thr
candidates and made personal selec-
ton for chairman Of the national COM
mittee. The washington correspon-
dents, most Of whom have pretty
strong prejudices, have disagreed as to
Shaw's status in the cabinet. First.
they had 1t he would be the last man
Roosevelt would let go, then that he
was sure to be one of the few who
would not step out. then that If he
quit it would be on his own motion,
then that the understanding was all
along he would not remain after March
A. Raymond" the Chicago Tribune
correspondent, declares positively that
1t was understood when Shaw went in
to the cabinet that he should remain
only until March 4, and further that
he has not been invited by President
Roosevelt to enter the new cabinet.
Always with these various rumors is
does not desire an active candidate for
the presidency in such position as
that of head of the treasury depart
ment 1t is evident. however, that
there is much less known in Washing
ton about the matter than in Iowa.
An interesting piece Of news has been
given out in some of the Chicago and
New York newspapers regarding the
plans of the mergerites which empha-
size the oft repeated suggestion Of a
coming great issue in regard to the
transportation question. This is to
the effect that all the big railroad in
terests are combining SO that there will
be left only five or six great groups or
systems of railroad and these will be so
closely allied that they will be. vir-
tually under one management. Thus
all competition between railroads as to
rates will be eliminated and the rate
question will be under one head. The
complaint Of the stock shippers and
others interested in transportation in
Iowa has been that competition is now
practically eliminated. and that the
rates are fixed without regard TO the
value of the service performed. But
little has been heard of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association lately but
now that the campaign Is over doubt
less it will become active again, espec-
tally in relation to some OF the prob
lens which vitality affect the producers
and shippers Of the state. The news
that the mergerites have practically
completed the merger idea suggests
that the transportation problem pre-
sents some new and interesting phases.