Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-24
Secretary Of Treasury to Return
to Iowa Soon to Begin Act
i've Campaign
TURNS DOWN $4,000 JOB
Refuses Flatterins Offer to Go to New
York-shaw Among List of Avail
abIes, According to Astute Politicians
Blythe to Manage His Campaign
Other Political News.
Special to Tlmes-Republican.

| Special to Times-Republican.
Des doines. Nov. 24.-It has remain,
| ed for Secretary Leslie NJ. Shaw, Of
Iowa, to receive larger number of
fattering offers to head great financial
institutions than any other secretary
of the treasury, and he has turned
else ever received. His latest was
turning down cold proposition which
| would have placed him at the head OF
one of the big financial institutions in
New York. the center of speculative
/ finance, at salary equal to that which
the president of the United States re-
ceives. The offer came to him recent
ly, and altho he considered it seriously,
as any one would, yet he has not ac-
volved his leaving the cabinet very
soon.
Secretary Shaw has other plans. Ii
is his intention to retire from the cab
turn to Iowa, making his home again in
Denison, and TO enter actively upon
campaign which is to land him in the
White House, If it is successful. He
will ask the support of Iowa republi'-
cans and the delegation from this S
to the national convention which -
meet inside OF eighteen months. s.,
.tary Shaw has advised with friends and
has reached the conclusion that he is
clearly i'll the class of availables and
that it is worth while to deliberately
make the fight for preference.
The campaign manager for Secre-
tary Shaw. both for Iowa and for WORK
in the nation at large. will be Mr.. j. w.
Blythe, OF Burlington, regarded by
many as the most resourceful politician
in the west. 1t is recalled that an ef-
fort was made to have Mr. Blythe
named as the chairman of the repub-
lican national committee two years
ago, but when it was whispered that az
such he would be possibly better
friends to the secretary of the treasury
than to the candidate for president, an
other was chosen. When Secretary
Shaw, in recent speech in Iowa, went
out of his way to declare that Mr..
Blythe could have been named senator
if he would have accepted, it was TAX
en- to mean that Secretary Shaw stands
quite ready to place his political for
tunes in the hands of the astute Bur-
lington politician. 1t was also sut-
ficient notice to the friends of Sena-
tor Dolliver that the secretary did not
care to link himself with the Junior
senator. Dolliver was in fact, Shaw's
second choice for senator, and he would
have much preferred, as he would
now. Blythe for senator.
Secretary Shaw will have a very
definite political program on which
to appeal to Iowa people for their sup
port as a presidential candidate This
will include:
No primary election law.
Radical reform Of the currency.
Definite promise of revision of the
tariff
The primary election law issue has
been before Iowa voters number of
years and it is pretty we'll understood
Secretary Shaw has taken a firm and
Interchangeable stand against any pri-
mary legislation. He will adhere to
this. In regard to currency reform
it is question which has not as yet
attracted any attention in the state,
but Secretary Shaw is firmly convinc-
ed that it is a coming great national
issue.
On the tariff question Secretary
Shaw has seen a great light and is
prepared to make one of those quick
turns which will inure to his great
benefit. He will be able to point out
that he was the original tariff revis-
ionisf, that several years ago he ad-
vised and urged upon President Roose-
welt a policy of immediate tariff revis-
ion, that he believed the time had
then come for revision Of the sched-
ules and ne will take the position that
the republican party must now recog-
nize the demand for tariff revision and
make a definite promise of revision
He will advocate that the party go
into the next national convention not
with any definite legislation to show
as indicating what will be done, but
a promise of specific legislation at
specific time
It was because of his desire to enter
into this campaign that Secretary Shaw
has refused to go to New York, which
would take him out of the range OF
possibility for the nomination. He
was assisted to his decision by re-
cent incident One of the many busy
bodies about Washington collected in
formation as to what leading politi-
clans regarded as the list of available
presidential timber. A good many lists
were secured. They represented not
the preferences but the judgments of
MANY wise men. On every list was the
name of Shaw. This was decidedly
encouraging.
It is entirely possible that Secretary
Shaw's campaign for the presidential
nomination will be inaugurated during
the comine legislative session. There
has been some use Of his name in con-
nection with the senatorship. but this
probably without his authority. Still