Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-16
SHAW SEEKS SOFT
PLACE 10 LIGHT
Secretary of the Treasury's Am
bition Leads Him Into a
Bad Plight
WITH ANTI-RoosEvELT CROWD
Not Unlikely That He Is Seeking An
Excuse to Break With the President
In Order to Become the Candidate Of
Blythe and Corporations for the
Presidency.
IBy Ora williams.l
Special to Times-Republlcan.

by Ora Williams.l
| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 16.-Not since Sec
rotary Shaw got Steve Elkins, the no
torious. to dip into the Iowa campaign
and later played a conspicuous part in
the preliminaries to the Kretschmer
deal, has anything been done so well
calculated to bring the Iowa campaign
into national prominence as the invas-
ion by Shaw of Scott county and the
unceremonious reputation of the
Shaw-Blythe-Pe Perkins Hunter combine
by the republican voters of Davenport
The fact appears to have been pref
ing for a soft place to light. Some of
his friends refer to it as a stepping
stone. He wants I'd be the Blythe cam
didate for the presidential nomination.
He must, perforce, get out of Roose-
Nelt's cabinet before he becomes the
open and avowed candidate of the an
ti-Roosevelt crowd for the presidency.
II Shaw would merely retire and go
back to his former home in the Tenth
congressional district of Iowa, and be-
gin from the standpoint of a private
citizen, his campaign for the presi-
dency, he might find it hard to swing
even his own district The last time
the district spoke it was not very en-
couraging to Shaw as a candidate
As stated before, and with good
reason it would nightly please Mr.
Blythe, manager for Shaw's presiden-
tial aspirations, to land Shaw in the
office of governor, there to pose as
the savior of his party" and the man
who stepped out of the treasury de-
partment to prevent disruption of his
party at home, etc. Posing as a mar
tyr Secretary Shaw would cause the
shedding. of some tears.
And If Shaw could be nominated for
governor by the Blythe program, and
could be elected governor under the
of Ed Hunter, and could
get a reasonably good majority = he
probably could be and would be NOM
mated for the presidency provided his
kind of people are numerous enough
to control that convention against the
republicans who stand Loyalty by
Roosevelt.
But if Shaw cannot be named for
governor, the next best thing accord
ing to the view of his hackers, would
be to have him named for senator. If
he could be got into that race and win
he would have the much desired
stepping stone" to the presidential
nomination. And the men who are to-
day pushing him to the front would
not hesitate a minute if they could land
him in the senate regardless of all
others. Blythe would like to go to the
senate himself and he has been pledg-
ing his men nominated for the legisla-
ture so that he could get into the race,
but next to himself he would prefer
Shaw.
Those who anticipate that President
Roosevelt will publicly censure further
the secretary of the treasury for hav-
ing so grossly made use of Roosevelts
name in an effort to turn Scott county
over to the enemies of the Roosevelt
administration, will be disappointed.
President Roosevelt has already gone
much further than ever before in CEN
surfing a cabinet officer by causing to
De sent OUT THRU LIE 1ASSOcldl 9FoSSF
his disavowal of responsibility for what
Shaw might say. He could not very
well go further. save to arrange very
soon for the final withdrawal of Shaw
from the cabinet. Copies of the fam
ing posters used for the Shaw meet
ing in Davenport have been sent to
the president from Davenport. These
bore the name of Roosevelt in letters
three inches high, and they could not
have, been improved as Roosevelt adj
vertisements save by a big picture of
the president.
1t has not escaped notice that Blythe
refused to print the Assoc
ciated Press telegram in which the
censure from the White House was
given Shaw. The Blythe organ here
contained in an early edition an edi-
Lorial virtually branding the dispatch
as a fake, and within a half hour the
manager of the Associated Press in
Chicago had the editorial before him.
What happened is not known, but the
was omitted from the regular
editions of the paper.
Will Shaw be given the desired
stepping stone" by which he hopes to
climb higher after nearly nine years
If steady office holding?