Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-29
Recent Events Have Proved the
Accuracy Of Special Corre-
spondence Last Summer
srANDpAr POLICY D's'PATED
Some Gossip Prior to the National
Convention is Recalled Because Of is
Failure to Come True and Also Be-
cause of tho Interesting Relationships
Which Were Then Assured to Exist.
,ecIal to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov 29.-Readers of the
eastern newspapers are having told
them now what was given the readers
of the Times Republican some time
ago in regard to the candidacy OF Les
lie HI. Shaw for the presidency ana
the plans Of the campaign on which
he expects to win. A number OF
newspapers, having just recovered
from the shock of the first announce
ment that Mr.. Shaw will not remain
with Roosevelt to help round out his
administration, are now getting a
round to intelligent discussion of his
presidential candidacy In connection
with his attitude on public questions,
and some very interesting things are
being developed.
A reference to the files Of the
Times Republican will show that this
corresponding, writing then from Chi
cago, under the date of June %, when
UilG IldllOIldl COllVcUllOIl WfLS DCLi6 A1CiA
announced that the platform which
was being prepared would mean tar-
iff lowering on some schedules, and
that at no distant day. and that
President Roosevelt plans to send to
congress, If the congress elected with
him is republican, special message
asking for a first step in the direc-
ton of tariff revision inquiry" hence
the platform then being prepared could
not be standpatter In fact. And 1t
, will be remembered that according to
the American Economist, the Iowa
member Of the platform making COM
mittee lined up Iowa with Pennsylya-
MIA, Idaho and Wyoming, as a min-s
ority in opposition to the words used
| In the platform. All this should be
remembered in connection with the
present situation to make 1t perfectly
clear. 1t was in June THAT the Shaw
program for presidential nomination
became fixed.
The standpat position at the present
| time has been expressed by Senator
Scott, of West Virginia, who put 1t
this way:
| "Every republican senator from Cal
ifornia to the Atlantic ocean discussed
the tariff and proclaimed the purpose
of the republican party to let 1t alone.
II the republican party should UNDER
take amendment business would be
FRUSTRATED, industry would cease and
thousands of men would be thrown out
Of employment. I am against it, first.
last. and all the time. For my own
part do not know Of single sched-
ule in the Dingley act that ought to be
changed"
Secretary Shaw, however, has been
hedging since the revision sentiment
has appeared so strong in all parts
of the country, and especially in the
west He has been quoted as favor
ing an extension Of the drawback sys-
tenn, or refund Of duties where the
imported goods are sent out Of the
country again. In regard to revision
he has been quoted as saying he would
change about twenty schedules. Else
where, however, he Is quoted as saying
that he thought that If the friends Of
revision could be got together 1t
would be found that not to exceed
twenty schedules would have to be
revised He then added:
seems to me 1t would be proper to
have the fullest discussion of it. In
INV Judgment If the Dingley act is
modified at all, 1t will be along the
Inc of amendments instead Of revision.
There is a difference between the two
terms. The friends Of the tariff will
do nothing more than amend, and that
Is the true republican doctrine"
.
Secretary Shaw, while pointing out
that the revisionists would not touch
perhaps more than twenty schedules,
fails to point out how many the
amenders would touch, but the pre-
sumption is left that 1t would not be
so many. But 1T is in this way that
Secretary Shaw seeks to meet the al
most universal demand that something
must be done and at the same time
keep himself solid with the standpat-
ters who went away from the Chicago
convention realizing that they had
been beaten.
That the ambition and the attitude
of Secretary Shaw has been known
to the president all along is certain.
1t is equally certain that the president
would like very much to get rid Of
him, but even a president may not all
ways do as he likes, and Roosevelt is
no exception. A widely quoted Wash
ington dispatch declares that Shaw
will remain some time in the cabinet
mot so much because it is the personal
wish of the president as because the
financial interests of the country want
him to stay" which is only another
way Of saying that President Roose-
velt has found Shaw out, but doesn't
dare fire him. And the same dispatch
continues:
CAS- soon as he leaves the cabinet Mr..
Shaw will begin to shape his plans to
secure the republican nomination for
president in 1908. His presidential am
bition is given as one Of the reasons
for the little GOODNESS existing be-
tween him and MT. Roosevelt, and so