Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27
SECRETARY SHAW is FOR
THE WHOLE STATE TICKET
His Home Newspaper Makes Plain
the Position Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury

The Denison Review, edited by close
political friend of Secretary Shaw says:
We have before us from an unknown
nobody named Johnston. letter which
seeks TO iniame the republican friends
of Mr.. Shaw into opposition to the Iowa
republican ticket. This man Johnston, II
seems, was an employee of the Perkins
headquarters during the preconvention
fight. We do not know what the Perkins
organization paid Johnston, but whatever
they paid him, IT. was too much. This
man writes us ION behalf of the stand
patteTs." Who gave him license thus TO
misrepresent great element of the re-
publican party is not stated and we ven
ture 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 NJ 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
If 1t is any way possible for Leslie NJ.
Shaw to return to Denison to vote in Mo-
vember, 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. II every vote I'm Iowa
was as certain as Leslie NJ. Shaw's, A..
b. 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 pa
per. 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 nominal
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 IL also
frutless--just as fruitless as it would be
to try to array the friends of Judge Con-
ner against the secretary IL cannot be
done by any reputatonless. penny-a-line
like G. W. Johnston.
No one resented the ungentlemanly ex-
hibition at Des Moines more bitterly than
did Judge Conner and his Crawford coun-
ty friends. No one has been stronger i'm
denunciation and II 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 was 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 i'm small measure, IL any, directed
against him. Mr. Shaws friends tell us
that it was in protest against factlonal
chairman who insisted, at great length,
i'm recognizing and praising but one fac
ton of the party over all of which he
was presumed 10 preside. II is not Mr.
Shaws friends who are trying To mag
Nifty whatever injury may have been done
him by an unseemly few. II 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
or this affair
There Is no apology TO be offered for
any man who would hiss Leslie NJ. Shaw
either in republican convention or out
of it. Those who did it, IL any there
were, deserve the contempt of all honest
men, But we repeat, no friend of Mr.
Shaw's is now trying to magnify the in
jury or 10 attribute to discourtesy TO him
that which arose from other causes. Mr..
Shaw needs neither the tears, the SYM