Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-13
LESLIE N. sH.Aw,s SHADOW.

LESLIE N. SHAW'S SHADOW.
Secretary L. NJ. Shaw's active and
unwarranted interference in the lowe
gubernatorial contest appears to have
eliminated in an attempt to work 8
dirty little trick that would do more
credit to ward heeler than to mem
Der of Roosevelts cabinet. Respond
ing to Macedonian cry from Daven-
port standpatters asking his aid on the
eve, of the caucuses that will elect
Cunlmins delegates to the republican
state convention, ne telegraphs
wired Des Moines yesterday that
could not accept an invitation to speak
at Davenport on the evening of June
13, as it necessitates cancelling two
important previous engagements. On
receipt of your invitation, / conferred
with the president and have decided to
cancel the other engagements and ac-
cept your. ] will be with you on We'd
nesday evening.
The telegram was cunningly worded
to convey the impression that the pres
ident was sending Shaw to Iowa as his
mouthpiece against Cummins. Stand
= pat papers featured it. Mr.. Perkins
paper printed a story to the effect that
the president had told Shaw to get
back into Iowa and help the standpat-
tiers. It was the bCldest of many at
tempts ON the part of the secretary and
the Blythe outfit to force Shaw before
the public as the representative of
President Roosevelt's personal views
and desires.
The cheap coarseness of this petit
Jogging trick defeated it's object. The
White House repu6.iated Shaw as its
personal representative. Secretary
Loeb is authority for the statement
that Shaw's conference with Roose-
| welt was merely to ask permission to
go away for few days. Secretary
Loeb denied fatty and with emphasis
that Shaw came to Iowa as a represent
tative of Roosevelt or that Roosevelt
was mixing in the Iowa contest in any
way Today a further and emphatic
reputation of Shaw comes from the
white house presumably directly from
President Roosevelt. The facts
appear to be that Shaw cam
celed an engagement to speak
at Syracuse University and came into
Iowa to bolster up the men and inter-
ests in whose advocacy Chancellor
Day thru complaisant press has at
tanned public notoriety.
| An old lawyer, once leader of the
Iowa bar the author Of. standard
work on jurisdiction ana who in his
! time won more cases before the SUI
preme court than any other lawyer in
the state, some years ago gave this
opinion of Shaw: He is man with
! talent, but a id pettifogger!" This
exceptional and acknowledged ability
I he is Enthusiastically weak when
men should be strongest. This trick
of the telegram is only incidental.
Shaw has secretly lent himself, or,
apparently, given himself freely, to the
Incorporation while asking the conf
dence and franchises of the people.
i His parole of Shercliffe a the request
lof Hubbard, his granting veto power
1 to Blythe and Hubbard against the
appointment of a United States sena-
I tor, his reputation of Perkins in Da-
kota while supporting him for gov
ernor in Iowa. are part of the black
shadow cast by tall man. The trail
tof the pettifogger is over Shaw's
whole political history
i Everywhere the public eye is seek
ling men of conviction ar simple, I'M
Ishaken honesty fol. official position
1.-THE call is for clean men, the four
square kind of men to whom present
success is not worth the sacrifice of
lprinciple and personal manliness.
Neither capacity nor brilliance of in
.Itellect can qualify mean or dishonest
man to govern others or to conduct the
public business. The people are grown
tired of men who talk like bishops and
lact like travelling horse traders.