Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-08
SHAW AND IOWA.

secretary Shaw has not been hurt
by anything that was done at Fort
Dodge. He has merely received a
hint that the republicans of Iowa are
able to do their own thinking and to
manage their own politics. When
Iowa republicans choose one of their
number to high Office they do not
by that act lose any of their rights in
other matters. They still retain the
right to select their state officers to
suit themselves"
From the viewpoint of the average
Iowan, the above paragraph, clipped
from an editorial in the Des Moines
Register and Leader, seems to be I'M
called for in a rather wrong manner
OF looking at a question of consider
able Importance to Iowa and to the
nation at large.
Secretary Shaw is one. Of Iowa's
truly notable men. He. . has
spent almost all his life in this state
and has grown rich among the Hawk
eye people. He served the state and
served it well as governor through two
terms and when he was called to
ury Iowa, or at least a great many of
the people Of the state, felt highly
honored. For Secretary Shaw is an
Iowan. He was an Iowan when he
was a young man. He sold fruit trees.
studied law, practiced little; entered
the banking business and prospered-
all in Iowa. And when he leaves the
cabinet he intends to come back 10
Iowa, where he still has property and
financial interests, and make his
home. He has never ceased to call
Dennison his home, and never will.
He is an Iowa man and is proud of it.
Time was when a state hon
ored as is Iowa by having two Of her
citizens members of the Presidents
advisory board, was, as one man, glad
to do honor to the neighbors thus ele-
waited. Time was when an honor thus
bestowed was felt to apply to the
whole community. But now it seems,
from the action of the tenth district
convention, that, that "times has
changed" Secretary Shaw is the
same man who, after having served
the two terms to which he felt en-
titled, after his first election, stepped
down to allow others to enjoy the
honor. He has not forgotten his old
friends nor has he allowed them to
forget him. He has kept in close
touch with the affairs of his state and
he knows the political conditions
here. Naturally he takes an interest
in Iowa and naturally he is interested
in what is going on here now. Natur-
ally, he doubtless feels keenly the ac-
ton of the tenth district convention
which refused to endorse his record as
secretary of the treasury. But he
should not feel that that is the senti-
ment of the republicans Of Iowa as a
whole. There are still Iowans-thou-
sands on thousands Of them who are
proud of Shaw and all he does. They
are not jealous because of his success
nor miffed because his ideas of poll
tics are not in accord with theirs in
everything. They are Iowans and
they are glad whenever any one from
the Hawkeye state does make a ten
strike such as Shaw has scored. They
regard him as an Iowan. They do
not want to call him man without a
home simply because he is honored
by an appointment which takes him
to washington temporarily. They do
not want nor do they receive, amy die
tation from tie secretary, but they are
glad that he takes enough interest in