Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-17
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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
though w;se. remem Der having writ
ten the Northwestern railroad asking
transportation for all the delegation ex.
cept myself, saying that some Of the
boys could i'll afford to pay their ex-
penses This was declined, but after
the convention was over it was an
nounced, as usual, that the railroads
had been in control ami had made the
nomination. The fact is the nomina-
ton was made in the most ideal way
possible and at little expense to Mr..
Larr4bee.
Take my own nomination as an Illus
tration. The reports of the way was
nominated, by those who know nothing
about 1t, are amusing to those who
know all about it. There were ten
candidates in the field when my name
was suggested in such way that |
had either to be candidate or refuse.
chose the former 1t was only twenty
days before the convention, and most
of the delegates had been chosen, I
made four trips, as remember It, one
to Fort Dodge. one to Boone. one to
Carroll, and one to Des Moines.
wanted to meet Uncle Dick Clarksou,
and I wrote to l.. NJ Mann and ar
ranged that he would take me over and
introduce me. While going to breakfast
at the Slavery house met Judge Hub
bard coming out. introduced myself
to him, although we had met, think,
three times before.
Hubbard asked me what l thought
of my chances. ] told him that
knew little about it, to which he re-
piled in his inimitable way, We'll the
Northwestern road never has any del
egates but it sometimes has little In
fiuence and, other things being equal,
we would rather help the men who
live on the line of the Northwestern
road because they are our neighbors
and our friends
1--WE talked minute or two, and in
parting he said: Now, Shaw, you may
not be nominated for governor this
year. You know you are new man
in politics. You made splendid rec
ord last year in the campaign, but you
are new man in politics. and you
may not be nominated this year.
81 did not see Hubbard again until
after election. He was not at the con
vention nor did he call on me or on
him Of course, l knew from what he
told me at the Savery house that he
had favorite. 1t was Matt Parrot
and he was there then trying to get
Uncle Dick Clarkscn to come cut fo1
Mr.. Parrot. Mr.. Clarkson, you will
remember. seldom committed himself
in favor of any one. but conducting the
then leading republican newspaper o1
the state, he sought to give all candi
dates an equal show, though he did
not conceal his personal likes and dis
likes met Mr.. Clarkson and Cyran
us Cole; and think made favorable
impression, for soon newspaper con
| tanned the oft quoted sentence. KEEP
your eye en- Shaw
II did not go, as has often been
stated, to Burlington. l had never
seen Mr.. Blythe and did not see him
until the day before the convention
convened. l had heard so much about
railroad domination and Of the ma
chine that in my innocence l thought
possibly overtures would be made to
me and conditions imposed, and pre-
pared myself accordingly.
Blythe Hands Him Surprise.
81 even thought out what would
say and was prepared to tell this arch
boss, as | had conceived him to be
that he and his road could go to any
place which it was proper Tor Meth
odist to describe; that did not have
to be governor of Iowa, and was not
in the fight on my own motion. You
can imagine my surprise when Mr.
Blythe said to me, I think you will be
nominated tomorrow. I do not know
whether we could beat you If VIC
should try. l am certain we could In
sure your nomination if we should try
but 1t is a great deal better 70: you
and for all concerned that the matter
should take it's own course. You will
then be under obligations to no one.
"The convention met and the first
district never cast fifth of its votes
for me- Out of it's 116 votes it gave
me IA on the first ballot, IL on the
second and Is on the third, and % or
the fourth Des Moines county the
home of Mr.. Blythe, had "a votes. On
the first ballot it gave me 8, on the
next ballot 1, on the third ballot 5; and
on the last ballot S.
"The Chicago papers generally an
nounced the result as defeat of the
machine and one of the papers, I re-
member. gave cartoon showing a
great pile Of 'geared' wheels broken
and smashed in great heap Inside
of a week all the opposition papers
announced that 1 had been nominated
by the railroads, and factionai repub'
licansm has laid great stress upon the
railroad influence in my nomination
AS matter Of fact the delegations
came down to Cedar Rapids and were
there three days. They visited head
quarters and sized us up as well as
they could I was fortunate in having
some good friends who said everything
in my favor that could be substantiated
and then some