Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-25
THEY CAN I USE SHAW
Boilers Need Not Look to Cab
met Member For Any
Sympathy
SHAW is FOR cuMM'Ns
Denison Review, Always Considered an
Authoritative Spokesman for Score
tary Shaw, Appears in Strong Ed-
torial Protesting That shaw's
Friends Will Not Bolt.
Special to mes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Denison. Sept. 25.-The Denison Re-
view, which has always been consid-
cred as speaking authoritatively for
Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, of the Unit
ed States treasury, is out in strong
editorial in its current issue, in which
it protests against the boilers making
any capital out of the statement that
Shaw will bolt Cummins or the repub-
lican ticket
The editorial takes a shot at the
Johnston letter, calling 1t mean, cow
ardly and misbegotten, and says that
the attempt to array the friends of the
secretary against Judge Conner or oth-
err congressman, is fruitless when at
tempted by any "reputationless penny
a-liner like c. W. Johnston"
The Reviews editorial is, in part, as
follows:
I'VE have before us from an UNI
known nobody named Johnston letter
WliiSA SCShS W lliC ACPuOiiSdit
friends of Mr.. Shaw into opposition to
the Iowa republican ticket. This man
Johnston, 1t seems, was an employe of
the Perkins headquarters during the
pre-convention fight. We do not know
what the Perkins organization paid
Johnston, but whatever they paid him,
it was too much. This man writes us
ON behalf of the standpatters' Who
gave him license thus to misrepresent
great element of the republican par
ty 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-appointed one goes on,
thru the two closely printed pages, try
ing in every way to use Leslie M Shaw,
one of the greatest republicans of Am
erica, as a shield and a defense for
boiling the republican ticket. 1t won't
work
We will bet dollars to doughnuts, that
if it is anyway possible for Leslie M.
Shaw to return to Denison to vote. in
November, he will lead the republicans
of his old home town, lead them as he
has always led them, in voting the
straight republican ticket. If every
vote in Iowa was as certain as Leslie
NJ. Shaw's, A. B. Cumnins would have
100000 majority in November.
we protest against the use of Mr..
Shaw's name, connecting him in any
way, even by inuendo with any at
tempt to bolt the republican ticket.
The editor of this paper knows.
Mr., Shaw too we'll. Party disloyalty
is not one of his failings. Long be-
fore this man Johnston, whose croco-
die tears blur the imitation type
writer 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 Den
ison, was working day and night for
the nomination of Shaw for governor.
1t was his characteristic of party 10y
atty which aided the republicans SO
greatly in the successful struggle for
his nomination 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.
he dllSlIipl W. ARRAY llle 1IleIlNlS VI
the secretary against. Judge Conner
is also fruitless-just as fruitless as
it would be to try to array the friends
of Judge Conner against the secre-
tary. 1t cannot be done by any reputa-
tionless penny-a-line like c. w. john
ston.
"The real milk in the cocoanut in
this infamous Johnston letter is to be
found in the fact that certain men,
bers of the Iowa delegation urged
that the contests before the state con-
vention be settled fairly, on their mer-
it's and in accordance with the
very evident wishes of the majority
of the people in the counties repre-
sented. Mr.. Johnston says the con-
test turned upon Scott county. 1t dill
not unless such contests as those in
Audubon Carroll, Delaware and
others of like character were decided
in favor of Perkins. One might with
equal honesty say that the contest
turned on Audubon or Delaware.
Be this as it may, however, it is a
further fact that at this time the re-
publicans of Scott county are practi-
cally unanimous in the opinion that
their contest was rightly decided.
"The Review does not intend to go
into the merits of the contest foc
governor. Had it intended to do So
it would have taken part at the time.
"The Review does think, however,
that the Johnston letter is mean.
cowardly, misbegotten letter, and that
to no one does it do a greater injury
than it does to that stalwart, republi-
dan leader and statesman, Leslie NJ.