Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-16

ture and refinement, who speaks flu
emily two languages and who has fire.
quently been the house guest at Wash
ington of foreign ambassador, who
seriously asked the name of the preSi-
dent who preceded President Roose-
welt. III we were to have a national
primary law and the vote were to be
taken today have no doubt that
William II. Hearst would receive twice
rs many votes as any other man save
Williams Jennings Bryan. The con-
servative vote would be divided and
subdivded well-nigh indefinitely A
democracy upon large scale, as dis
tinguished from n republic, is an inn
possibility. When i was boy we had
town meetings, and they were success
full. Every voter of the town (about
1900 knew every other man, his char
acter and his habits A town meeting
in New York city would not be a sue
cess. A republic is constructed upon
the theory of representation. We do
not legislate at the polls, and we can
not safely nominate at the polls. We
can. however, safely elect delegates at
lie polls who shall in turn select del
agates at the conventions to represent
them in state and interstate conven-
tons. and to legislate for them in state
and legislative bodies, and in that way
the people are all heard and in each
instance the individual acts advisedly
In order to get ten per cent of the
votes in Iowa it would be necessary to
have agents in every county of the
state. Railroads could maintain such
an organization: private citizens coull
not afford to build one.
Should Forbid Office Seekers.
In some states | am told the name
At the head of the list of candidates
vote This is natural. Not one per
cent of the voters know the candidates
personally. and they vote as conven-
iently as possible. If the primary law
IS intended to carry the government
back to the people and away from or
sanitation, then it ought to forbid
candidates. If the people untram-
meled are to select their officers, then
office seeking should be forbidden.
Give the people chance.
"The first state convention l ever
attended nominated William Larrabee
for governor I went as chairman of
our delegation and took the boys
around from one headquarters to an
other. None of our delegation had ev-
er met any of the candidates. and l dc
not think there were three men in our
county who had ever met any of them.
We sized them UP as well as we could
and distributed our votes as we each
u Is, hay ",
written the Northwestern railroad
asking transportation for all the dele
cation except myself, saying that some
of the boys could i'll afford to pay
their expenses This was declined.
But after the convention was over II
was announced, as usual, that the rail-
roads had been in control and had
made the nomination. The fact Is, the
nomination was made in the most ideal
way possible and at very little expense
10 Mr.. Larrabee.
How Shaw Got the Nomination.
Take my own nomination as an IL
lustraton The reports of the way |
vas nominated, by those who knew
about it, are amusing to those
who know all about 1t. There We're
ten candidates in the field when my
name was suggested in such a way
that l had to either be candidate or
refuse. l chose the former. 1t was
only twenty days before the conven-
ton and most of the delegates had
been chosen. | made four trips. as, 3
it. One to F't. Dodge, one to-
Boone, one to Carroll and one to Des.
Moines | wanted to meet Uncle Dick
Clarkson, and I wrote to l.. M. Mann.
and arranged that he would take me
over and introduce me. While going
to breakfast at the Slavery house l met
Judge Hubbard coming out I intro.
luced myself to him. though we had
net, l think, three times before. He
asked me what I thought of my
chances. told him that l knew little
mitable way: Well. the Northwest
arn road never has any delegates, but
t sometimes has a little influence. and
,ther things being equal WEI would
rather help the men that live on the
inc of ne Northwestern road because
hey are our neighbors and friends
We visited minute or two, and in
parting he said: Now, Shaw, you may
OF be nominated for governor this
year. You know You are a new man
n politics. You made a splendid record
asst year in the campaign, but you
are a new man in politics, and you
nay not be nominated this year ]
lid not see Hubbard again until after
election. He was not at the conven-
ion, nor did he call on me, nor on
lim OF course I knew from what he
old me at the Slavery house that he
had a favorite. 1t was Mat Parrot
md he was there then trying to get
Uncle Dick Clarkson to come out for
Mr.. Parrott Mr.. Clarkson. you will
'emember. seldom committed himself
n favor of any, but conducting the
hen leading republican paper of the
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