The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-28
SECRETARIES ON STUMP
SHAW, TAFT AND B0NAPARTE
 MAKE SPEECHES.
Iowa Farmer-Banker is in Desperate Earnest About His Campaign for the Presidency-A Bish-
 Op Talks Politics.


 Washington, Oct. 27.-(Special)- Three cabinet officers, so far. this au- tumn have been on the stump making political speeches. Secretary Shaw Is in the process or breaking the records of Presidential candidates for speaking in one State. When he will have concluded his pro- gram and dates in Virginia. he VIII have made more than twenty speeches there. Secretary Bonaparte Is taking part In the Maryland campaign and leading the opposition to the suffrage amendment proposed to the constitu- tion. Secretary Taft has spoken once in Ctlio, after having presided at the Ohio Republican convention.
 Secretary Shaw, who promises to re- tire from the Treasury Department next February, is going forth after delegates to the next national Repub- lican convention. He Is extremely anxious to get the Republican nomi- nation for President, and he is taking advantage of a vigorous fight by the Republicans in Virginia to help them out and win their favor. He has plain ly showed by personal favors to the uppermost faction of the party in the State, led by Representative Slemp, the one Republican in the State, that he is not going to overlook any oppor- tunity to win the Virginia delegation to the ndtlOndi cOnNeHtlOu
 Mir. Shaw is paying no attention to the talk about any other man, not even the awful possibility of having to confront MT. Theodore Roosevelt as candidate of the people" The Iowa farming banker, who has done his best to impress himself upon the masters of finance in the great financial cen- ters by his conduct of the Treasury Department, is not going to hesitate t0 his seeking first to capture the Southern vote.
 Secretary Taft was also invited to speak in Virginia, but had to decline on account of his trip to Panama.
 Northern Methodist preachers, as of yore, are not at all shy about politics. Bishop Willard F. Mallalieh, of Massa- cuhsetts, who is in Washington to at- tend the sessions of the Board of Bish- ops of the Methodist Episcopal church, said today:
 T hope the speech of Secretary Taft is the first gun in this campaign for the Republican nomination for Presi- dent. Personally I feel with him there is good hope of rescuing the State from Coxisfl, and I am convinced the Meth odists of the State will give every as- sistance possible in effecting this de- sirable end. They will hope that the Foraker influence will disappear with the Cox power and that 1t will then be possible for a new Republican par ty, with cleaner leaders and better morals, to be formed.
 T want to see Herrick defeated, and hope he will be- The election of Patterson would imply simply a rebuke to the Republican machine and not that the voters had abandoned Repub- lican doctrines The contrary would be the case. It will not help the Re- publicans to elect a man who Is In league with the rum sellers"
 This effort to array the Methodists of Ohio against the Herrick ticket. and especially it's unvarnished shaft shot at Senator Foraker, who is himself an earnest candidate for President. has created a sensation among the thous- and of Buckeye State people who are in Washing gton.
 But Secretary Taft, at least, with out parading the declaration or antie- ipating public sentiment. has assured his friends that he is not now and does not expect to be a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1908; that he expects to stay in the cabinet. There is no doubt that the administration will cling to Judge Taft. The Presi- dent and he Jointly and earnestly hope and expect to get well under way two very istinguishing features of his ad- .ministration. the construction Of the Panama canal and the pacification and elevation of the Filipinos, to a more self reliant condition as a people who may safely undertake their own gov ernment.
 Secretary Taft, in view of this, will escape demolition should the Roose- welt bandwagon start out again in 1908. In the meantime, if things pro- ceed as 1t Is expected. opportunity may proffer which will give the chief jus ticeship of the United States Supreme Court to MT. Taft. position which has long time attracted him.
 R. H. Watkins