Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-10
HAS SHAW SUCCEEDED I'M PUSH.
ING, THE BURDEN UPON
JUNGLE JoE9,s ses's III sss-se
Washington Politicians Think This
Has Been Done Cannon TOO Old
For President in 1908 - Joseph Folk
Too Young for Roosevelt's' Place.
Thy II. ]. MAHIN.1
Washington Bureau of the Courier.
Washington, D. c., May 7.

washington, u. u, May Z.
Did Secretary Leslie NJ. Shaw I'M
load his unwelcome vice presidential
boom off onto "Uncle Joe" Cannon,
speaker of the house?
Mr.. Cannon himself, who is vainly
struggling against the boom thinks he
did and there are some other people in
Washington who are also of that
opinion. Secretary Shaw denies it Of
course, but he chuckles gleefully over
the situation.
1t is strange how these two men
who probably more than any other
two men in Washington, represent the
typical American are fighting off vice
! presidential booms. 1t came to Secre-
tary Shaw first and he seeing the ut
ter impossibility of resisting it is said
to have deftly bequeathed it to MI.
Cannon. Several thousand nice little
| buttons bearing Mr. Cannon's picture
! and the words Cannon for vice presi-
dent" have appeared in Washington.
Some were inclined to lay this to the
door Of Secretary Shaw but he clear
ed himself of that charge and it has
| been ascertained that the buttons are
due to the efforts of certain of Speak
err Cannon's enthusiastic friends.
| The latest phase of the situation is
| talk to the effect that both of the men
are fighting for their political future.
1t is said that Iowa will bring forth
i Secretary Shaw as the presidential
candidate in 1908 and that Illinois will
do the same with Uncle joe" OF
course if either one of them were put
in the vice presidential chair this fall
it would probably kill his presidential
possibilities.
| This story is denied by both men.
Mr.. Cannon says that having served
in the house for nearly thirty years he
wants to live and die there and Secre-
tary Shaw says that he iS wei satisfied
with his present place.
All Iowans of course, stand back of
1 the Shaw boom for president in 1908.
The Cannon boom is new and is not
taken nearly as seriously in Wash
| ington as the talk of Secretary Shaw.
Mr.. Cannon. in fact, is pretty old, or
rather will be in 1908, to be considered
1 as vice presidential candidate. He
! is now 6S years old Secretary Shaw
is just the right age; he is just Sc.
| > So
A bombshell has been thrown into
/ the camp of those who have been
thinking of the famous Mr.. Folk of St
Louis as a possible dark horse for
president. Mr.. Folk is only 33 years
of. age and under the constitution a
man can not be president until he is
| 35.
A certain well known Iowa congress
man just before he left for home last
week was offered position in Boston
! at salary of $4,000 year The
/ congressman promptly refused the of
fer. The tender came from a large
corporation that might come under the
Z name of trust"
/ 81 would rather live back in Iowa
4 where the people are human" said
4 the congressman in speaking of the oc
currence.
| Senator Allison, Iowa's grand old
man, while he did not care to be pub.
licly interviewed, said just as he was
leaving for Iowa this week that he
had the greatest confidence in the out
come of the elections in the country
this year Senator Allison stands by
Roosevelt and supports the admins
tration earnestly and with all the logic
he is so well able to put forth. As
regards Iowa the senator said that he
had no doubt that a harmonious con
A vention will be held and that the
1 course wisest for the state and for the
nation would be followed 1t is under
/ stood that Senator Allison is greatly
encouraged over the situation in lowe
] as it has developed recently. Along
Il with other great party leaders he is
1 DESTROYS that harmony shall exist ant
/. that the democrats will not be giver
an opportunity to make any campaign
material out of lack of harmony il
Iowa's republican ranks. 4. i.