Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-14
Why SHAW NEN1
1O DAVENPORT
Not as Representative of Roose-
welt, But to Further His
Own Interests
THE RAILROADS WANT HIM
He Would Be An Acceptable Candidate
For Governor to Blythe. Who Wants
To Go To the senate-shaws Trick
at the Railroad Rate Convention in
Chicago.
IRy Ora Williamsl

! Speclal TO Zines RepuDllcall.
| Des Moines, June 14.-Leslie NJ.
Shaw went to Davenport to speak for
personal representative of President
| Roosevelt, not as the spokesman for
| the Roosevelt administration, not as Il
| leader in the movement for corpora
ltion control, not as one representing
the sane and sensible views of a ma
jority of the republican party; but he
| went to Davenport as q candidate for
the presidency and as the representa-
live of the railroad and corporation in
terests which have sought to embar-
rass the president at Washington and
10 defeat every aggressive leader of the
| people in the various states.
He has burned his bridges behind
him. Scott county decides, for Iowa.
at the caucuses this week, the fate of
| the presidential boom and the fate of
the organized fight of the corporations
| in this state.
Shaw is the man the railroads want
for governor" said Henry Wallace, the
veteran farmer editor and keen OBJ
server of events. But do not believe
ne could be elected governor II he was
nominated. The people will not stand
for it. There are too many independ-
ent voters We are coming to time
when party lines are being swept aside
and principles are considered. Look at
Pennsylvania and other states: it is
mo
There can be no mistake about the
position of Shaw. He started for Da-
venport advertising himself as repre-
, senting the president, just Us he went
to Chicago last summer and tried to
break into the rate convention to speak
'.for the administration" ostensibly, but
in fact to raise row and help to break
it up 1t is not forgotten here what
Shaw did on that occasion He Slip
ped into Chicago the morning of the
convention and took a room at the Au-
ditorium, but did not register there
Within few hours of his arrival he
met, by previous arrangement, Ed. H.
Hunter, who was there with j. w.
Blythe, and the two personally inter-
ested in the rump convention the rail-
roads organized.
When the committee in charge of the
interstate law convention program was
in session that afternoon note was
placed in the hands of Governor Lar
rabee, member of the committee.
suggesting that Shaw was in the city
and that it might be a good thing to
have him appear on the program of
the rate convention as a representative
of the administration. The committee
considered the suggestion.
But Edward Rosewater, of Omaha,
member Of the committee, had been
in Washington a short time before and
he had had a conference with Presi
dent Roosevelt. He related the sub
stance of the conversation had with
the president. 1t was that the presi-
dent admitted that in his great fight
for rate control he had only three
members of his cabinet with him, and
that Shaw was not one of the three.
Therefore, and because of this fact,
Shaw was not invited to appear before
the convention, and that evening he
left the city without making known
publicly his presence there.
1t was the belief of men prominent
in the interstate commerce law con-
vention that had Secretary Shaw been
permitted to go before the convention
he would have proved a disturbing ele-
ment and they felt that his rightfui
place was in the runp convention Or
ganized by the bureau, at the head of
which was Samuel Spencer, of the
Southern railway, and which was in
personal charge Of Blythe and Hunter.
the closest friends Shaw has in Iowa.
That Shaw represents not the pres
ident but those who are attempting to
destroy or negative the work of the
president. has been further shown by
the fact that in his speeches before
given in Iowa and elsewhere he has
never said a good word for the great
work in which the president has been
engaged the past year 1t is the plan
and purpose of Mr.. Blythe to make
Shaw a candidate for president and
if conditions are favorable. he will be
made candidate for governor as
stepping stone to the further and
greater ambitions of Blythe and his as
sociates. If Shaw and those who are
using him are successful 1t will be the
greatest blow possible to Roosevelt
and the Roosevelt program in the mid
land states.