Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-13
STRENUOUS IN SCOTT
Coming of Secretary Shaw lndi-
Gates That Blythe Fears
Its Loss
SHAW AGAINST PRESIDENT
secretary's Inference That He Was
Representing Roosevelt May Bring a
Severe Rebuke from the White
House-Roosevelt Not Taking Part
in the Iowa Contest.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Des Moines, June 13.--There may be
repetition in Davenport before this
week is over OF the strenuous times
| witnessed in Waterloo last week. The
conditions seem ripe for an exciting
contest. Secretary Shaw is attempting
| to make the fight there one of national
| import. ED. Hunter went to Rock Is
land to arrange for importation of the
men necessary to carry things, If 1T can
be done in the Council Bluffs way. w.
p. Brady, of the Rock Island, is PLAN
ming the manipula ton of the laboring
vote, and a certificate signed by a dem
ocrat has been sent to Davenport at
testing that Perkins is just the man for
the organized laborers to support. Ben
Salinger went to Davenport this week
TO add his oratory TO the ccasiou. But
Hunter pins great faith on Shaw and
the use he can make of the claim that
he goes there representing Roosevelt.
The plan to drag the national admin
istration into the fight and to get
Roosevelt TO undertake to direct what
shall be done in Iowa is one formed II
long time ago. The Elkins letter,
which Shaw devised, started the move
ment, but the Cummins reply silenced
Ekins and all of his ilk save Shaw.
Now Shaw advertises deliberately that
he comes to Davenport as representa-
tive of the national administration TO
fight all progressive efforts. Il con-
ferred with the president he wrote,
and have decided to cancel other en-
gagements and accept yours" at Da-
venport. In preparation for this move
ment to make Roosevelt personally re-
sponsible for the fight which is being
waged by the railroad organization in
Iowa, the Washington correspondence
of the Sioux 4ity Journal on Monday
went into details as to how the pres
ident arranges these tours of the cabi-
net members.
In this it $ declared that while a
cabinet officer is free to do as he pleas
es, it is well known that a cabinet Of
ficer does not deliver an important
speech touching matters of national
policy without having previously had
some consultation with the president
of the United States" 1t is further de-
clared:
The speech oftentimes is passed up
on not only by the president and the
cabinet officer who wrote 1t, but also
by the entire cabinet and the presi-
dent"
1t is further declared that the notion
that tariff tinkering," as the standpat-
tiers call it, shall be taken UP immedi-
ately after presidential election. rep
resents the views of the president, and
that he would not this summer UNDER
take to revise the tariff. OF course.
this is an easy fight. since nobody is
laying out a program of having the
tariff revised this summer. This ora
Gle also declares that there can be
aothing at all done with the tariff
opening up on every sched-
ale.
But the whole article is intended to
convey the impression that Secretary
shaw. in his stand against any revis- |
on of the tariff, has been with the I
president. and that he comes to Iowa I
IN behalf of the president to prevent |
owa republicans again taking the atti-
ude which they did in 1901 2-3. and I
lave consistently supported for long
ime.
If this is true, then the success Of |
he progressives in Scott county and in
he state means Reputation of Roose-
,eh and his administration.
Whether Scott county can be saved
" Ed Hunter for Blythe on this pro-
ram remains to be seen. His plan is
o make the best use possible of the
lame of Shaw 1t may be necessary to
rag Congressman Dawson into the
ight to keep Scott from doing what it
esires to do. Shaw is to speak We'd
esday evening and the caucuses are to
e held the next evening. If it is pos
ible for the standpatters to do so. they
will prevent Governor Cummins from
eing heard at all before the caucuses
re held.