Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-07-05
and SHAW
The Republican Ship In Danger
Through Mutiny.
STAND PAT VERSUS TARIFFREFORM

The Atmosphere of the White House
mt Melting Point The Iowa Tele-
gram and the Sncrifce of the Pri-
vate Observation-Disclosures Inter-
ference In Local Politics.
The real truth about the difference
between Secretary Shaw and other
members of the cabinet and the presi-
dent is gradually coming to light and
the evidence is not favorable for the
G. O. p. Chancellor Day Of the Uni
versity of Syracuse. in his fight for
tainted money and trust magnates, was
casting about to find a prominent poll
tician to deliver the
Grafton and he very naturally lighted
upon Shaw. In the meantime the
Standard Oil exposure occurred and
Chancellor Day flew to the assistance
Of the Wall street trust and Incl
dentally denounced President Roose-
welt. The president will not brook criti-
cism or contradiction and the atmos-
phere of the White House took on a
~sulphurous hue due to presidential re-
marks that from their warmth would
require asbcstus paper of a fireproof
nature to be printed upon. The ears
OF Private Secretary Loeb and others
who We're in the line Of the presidential
fire are not only still tingling. but
show signs Of having been sizzled.
Shaw heard of the presidential pas
sion, but still stood pat on his deter
mination to keep his appointment to
speak at the trust tainted university.
the name of which suggests tyranny
n trusts, for no doubt Dionysius ia
vored the trusts and combines of his
day as faithfully as the Shaws and
Days do Of these modern times.
Loeb telephoned Shaw to appear be-
fore the autocrat of the White House,
and more sizzling began, and the secre-
tary of the treasury was ordered to
cancel his engagement and to 90 to
Iowa. Shaw has nerve without end
and gave it out cold that he was to car
ry a message from President Roose-
welt to the Republicans Of Iowa and
1ntimated that the president was for
Shaw n stand Dat-ism and against
Cummins and reform. The Iowa re-
formers wired the president to know if
he had gone back on them, and then
there was more sulphur and sizzling in
the sanctum Sanctorum of the strenu-
GUS one.
However much the president might
tack and fill and jamb up into the wind
AN Itc,,J1f01 NoI;%;oo1 l..
not standing for Shaw's steering. Since
the compact with Speaker Cannon, by
which the president agreed to shun
tariff reform and the speaker agreed to
pass "some kind of a railroad bill"
talk on tariff revision has been tabooed
at the White House. Loeb, like Senti-
mental Tommy, said such things were
not to be mentioned and warned visit
ing statesmen, unless they were fire
proof, to beware. The Iowa telegram
broke the camel's back. and the breach
between the president and his secre-
tary Of the treasury is as large as a
barn door.
In this wreck of worlds and presi-
Dental cabinets the ever faithful Loeb
offered himself as a willing sacrifice on
the Roosevelt altar and wired the war
ring Republican factions of Iowa that
the president had not and would not
interfere in fractional quarrels in that
or any other state. OF course President
Roosevelt did not authorize this semi
official declaration, for he has strenu-
ously interfered in the local politics of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Della
ware and nearly every state in the
Union.
Let us have peace at the White
House.