Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27
SECRETARY SHAW SUPPORTS
THE ENTIRE TICKET
Statement From His Home Newspa-
per as to His Attitude In the
Pending State Campaign.

Because of an effort made to use the
name of Secretary Shaw in support of
movement to disrupt the republican party
in Iowa, the Denison Review, his home
newspaper, edited by F. w. Myers, who
sustains confidential relations to the sec
rotary of the treasury, makes the follow
ing plain statement of the position OF
Secretary Shaw and his friends:
Denison Review: We have before us
from an unknown nobody named john
ston a letter which seeks to inflame the
republican friends of Mr.. Shaw into OPP
position of the Iowa republican ticket.
This man Johnston it seems was an en-
ploye of the Perkins headquarters during
the preconvention fight We do not know
what the Perkins organization paid john
ston, but whatever they paid him, 1t was
too much This man writes us "on be-
half of the standpatters." Who gave him
license thus to misrepresent a great ele-
ment of the republican party is not stated
and we venture to say cannot be given
Certainly, the honest, plain farmers, who
as Mr.. Johnston proclaims, constitute the
vast majority of the standpatters, gave
him no such commission. But let that
pass
This self-anointed one goes on through
the two closely printed pages trying TO
use Leslie M. Shaw one of the greatest
republicans of America, as a shield and a
defense for boiling the republican ticket
1t won't work.
We will bet dollars to doughnuts that
jf it is anyway possible for Leslie M
shaw to return to Denison to vote in No
yember. he will lead the republicans of
his old home town, lead them as he al
ways has led them, in voting the straight
republican ticket. If every vote in iowa
was as certain as Leslie NJ. Shaw's, A.
3. Cummins would have 100000 majority
in November.
We protest against the use of Mr.
Shaw's name, connecting him in any way
even by innuendo, with any attempt to
bolt the republican ticket
The editor of this paper knows Mr.
Shaw too well. Party disloyalty is not
one of his failings. Long before this man
Johnston, whose crocodile tears blur the
imitation typewriter print had possibly
ever heard of Shaw, the editor of this
paper, together with Hon. j. p. Conner
and all the rest OF the republicans OF
Denison, was working day and night for
the nomination of Shaw for governor. 1t
was his characteristic of party loyalty
which aided the republicans so greatly in
the successful struggle for his nomina-
ton at that time, and they know that
neither does he now intend to vote
against the candidate of his party nor
does he wish his friends to do so.
The attempt to array the friends of the
secretary against Judge Conner Is also
fruitless-just as fruitless as II would be
to try to array the friends of Judge Con-
ner against the secretary. 1t cannot be
done by any reputationless, penny-a-line
like c. w. Johnston.
No one resented the ungentlemanly ex-
hfbition at Des Moines more bitterly than
did Judge Conner and his Crawford coun-
ty friends. No one has been stronger
in denunciation and If there were friends
of Judge Conner among the hissers, they
could have done nothing that would have
wounded him more deeply, and they have
certainly had opportunity to know just
what his opinion of their conduct
1t is agreed, however, both by the
friends and the opponents of Secretary
Shaw that this so-called demonstration
was in small measure, IL any, directed
against him Mr.. Shaw's friends tell us
that IL was in protest against fractional
chairman. who insisted, at great length,
in recognizing and praising but one fac
ton of the party, over all of which he
was presumed to preside. 1t is not Mr..
Shaw's friends who are trying to mag
Nifty whatever injury may have been done
him by an unseemly few 1t is only such
men as Johnston, who care nothing for
Secretary Shaw save to use him to their
own purposes who are making the most
of this affair
There is no apology to be offered for