Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-06
SHAW OPPOSED
1O ROOSEVELT
Secretary of the Treasury Is
Fighting the Principles Ad-
vocated by President
ALIGNED WITH THE TRUSTS
ALIGNED WITH THE TRUSTS
He Opposed the Presidents Railroad
Rate Legislative Program and Aided
Blythe in His Attempt to Beat
Roosevelt in Favor of Mark Hanna
for Presidency.
[By Ora Willlams.1

BY Ora Williams.1
Special to Times- Republican.
Des Moines. June 6.-By what route
does Leslie NJ. Shaw expect to reach
the presidency or the presidential nom
nation?
Secretary Shaw appeared in Newton
and in Knoxville to speak TO the voters.
He spoke on what he called "Repubi-
canism." What he should have said
was anti -Rooseveltism and anti-Cum-
minsisn. In his speech at Knoxville
which is being waged in Washington
and thruout the nation under the lead
ership of Theodore Roosevelt. He did
not discuss for one minute nor mention
in one sentence! the railroad rate con-
troversy which has been the chief con-
cern of the Roosevelt administration
for many months. He gave no word
of encouragement to the president in
his giant struggle with the trusts and
combines-the beef trust, the insur-
ance trust, the coal trust and the rail-
road combination Upon the greatest
issue ever before the American people.
one in which a brave president is maxi
ing the fight OF his life In the inter-
est of the common people. the secretary
of the treasury was silent. Yet he
journeyed to Chicago last fall when a
rump convention was called by the
railroads to break up the interstate
commerce law convention. He as
sumed to be there for the president.
His friends tried to get for him an in
vitation to speak before the interstate
law convention as the representative
of the president. But the committee
in charge of that meeting had positive
evidence that within fortnight Pres
1dent Roosevelt has said that only
three members of his cabinet were with
him and Shaw was not one OF the
three. Shaw was not permitted to
break into the convention "as the rep
resentative of the president" He was
then fighting with those who We're op-
posed to the president. He Is not now
porting the president in his rate control
contest.
Blythe and Shaw.
When j. w. Blythe the first to put
1t into the head of Leslie NJ. Shaw
that he had presidential timber in
him it was planned that Shaw should
be a candidate against Roosevelt to
succeed Mckinley, then alive. When
Shaw was surprised by an invitation
to go into the cabinet he discussed
with his associates the question of
what effect it might have on his pres
idential aspirations to tie himself up
with an administration with which he
was not likely to be in sympathy
President Roosevelt refused to per-
NIT j. w. Blythe to manage his pres
idential campaign on the ground that
he was too close a friend of Shaw and
that Blythe would run the campaign,
not in the Roosevelt interest, but in
facts were made public in the Sioux
City Journal. Shaw is still candidate
for the presidency.
But Shaw did not, in his Knoxville
speech, refer to George d. Perkins, or
Major Rathbun, nor give any commend
alton to either one of them. He spoke
against Cummins. He spoke for the
defeat of all progressive sentiment He
spoke for the return, in Iowa affairs,
to conditions as they were described
by John Herriott when Shaw, Dobson
and Merriam constituted the normal
state government of Iowa, and when
railroad assessments were made in pri-
vate offices or hotel rooms.
Shaw as Dark Horse,
The other day the editor Of a weekly
newspaper in western Iowa, a great
admirer of Shaw, said:
II believe we will be able to make
a deadlock i'll the convention. I am
and l hardly think Rathbun has the
strength to win. I expect and hope
that a deadlock will be the result and
a dark horse will be nominated for
governor"
Is Shaw in the grooming? Was he
brought here by Blythe and Hunter for
a purpose, and that purpose to have
him in readiness for stampede of the
convention to him at the last moment
1t was long since announced in the
papers that Shaw is slated for a speech
at the convention or the night before
He stands out in the lime light and for
a definite purpose.
Stranger things have happened thar
to have Blythe throw his whole force
in the convention for the denomination
Of Shaw as governor of Iowa, abandon
ing Perkins and ignoring Rathbun.
OF course this would be only on the
supposition that sufficient number Of
delegates could be got as were those
in Dubuque, Chickasaw, Montgomery
johnson and elsewhere. The opportun-
ity will never come for the Shaw stam-
pede; but the scheme is being consid-
cred and would be worked If there was
any chance for success.
Fight Is National.
AS if to emphasize the national
character of the fight being made ir
Iowa, the railroad forces played bold
game at Washington the past week
Governor Gummins had asked Senator