The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-09-20
complain today.

complain today.
With more than million voters |
interested as government servants,
would not this country soon have
government of, for and by the rail-
road employees instead Of the people?
1t cannot be denied that Bryan's
ideas are utopian, fancy-laden and
enhancing. When the Golden Rule
obtains free trade, free silver, social
ism, such as government ownership
for railroads implies, will also OBJ
tain. We wish the millennium was
here but it is not. Greed and selfish
ness and lust for power still have
foot hold on the earth, some even
claim that they have not been entirely
eradicated from the heart of Bryan.
Until the millennium does come we
must be satisfied to do the best we
can, and the best we can do with the
railroads at present is to regulate and
curb and conrol. By the way is
it not odd, is it not almost
IA resent day miracle, that the
country lawyer who eleven years ago
took it upon himself to reply to the
silver tongued orator of the Platte in
the shabby old opera house at Deni-
son is now the chosen representative
of millions of voters to represent the
sober sense of the nation as against
the vagaries of this same great orator.
There are many here who remem-
Der Shaw's reply to Bryan in 1895.
Mr.. Shaw says himself that 1T was
a poor response, but it was the turn
ing point in the lie of one of the
greatest Americans of today. Shaw
was not satisfied with that speech.
He had studied up for the occasion
but he studied up some more He
tried that speech in the country school
houses, and each time it was better
speech, more logical, more convinc ng.
He worked on that speech as no other
American ever worked on speech
before. 1t was an evolution, steady
growth. until it became known
throughout Iowa that there was one
man for whom the silvery -tongued
had no terrors, one man before whom
Bryan's sophisties Went down as men
of straw. He was sought for, far,
and near, and his utterances did more
to stem the tide in 1896 than did those
of any one other man save possible
the great McKinley's.
The saying that no prophet is with
out honor save in his own country is
not true in Mr.. Shaw's case. 1t is
true that our people do not see him
in the same perspective as do others.
To US he is not so much the Secretary
of the Treasury, as Shaw the lawyer,
Shaw the banker, Shaw the friend
and councillor. He knows the intim-
ate affairs of our lives and we know
the intimate affairs of his. There
can be little secrecy in a town of
Denison's size. But Denison has had
faith in Shaw all the time. No
community in Iowa ever put up bet
ter. more enthusiastic, a more
harmonious fight for any man than the
people of Denison made for Leslie M.
Shaw in 1897.
You can hardly point to republic
can in Denison who did not "help
make Shaw"
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We have before US from an un-
known nobody named Johnston, let
ter which seeks to inflame the repub-
lican friends of Mr.. Shaw into opposi-
tion TO the Iowa republican ticket.
This man Johnston it seems was an
employee of the Perkins headquarters
during the preconvention fight. We do
not know what the Perkins organiza-
ton paid Johnston, but whatever they
paid him, it was too much. This
man writes US ION behalf of the
stand-patters. :" Who gave him Ii
cense thus to misrepresent great
element of the republican party is not
stated and we venture to say cannot
be given. Certainly the honest,
plain farmers, who as Mr.. Johnston
proclaims, constitute the vast ma
jority of the standpatters, gave him
no such commission. But let that
pass.
This self anointed one goes or
through the two closely printed pages
trying in every way to use Leslie M.
Shaw, one of the greatest republican:
of America, as shield and defense
for boiling the republican ticket.
1t won't work.
] We will bet dollars to doughnuts