Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-26
It Is Expected He Will Attempt
to Dictate the Tariff
Resolutions
MAY ADDRESS CONVENTION
Former Trick of Pretending to Repre-
sent the President Not Likely to Be
Repeated-Bis Mass Meeting the
Night Before the Convention Is
standpat Scheme.
IBy Ora Williams1
to Times s-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines. July 26.-Leslie NJ
Shaw, of the Tenth district of Iowa.
nominal resident of the town of Den
ison, Is said by the Washington cor
respondents to have left the national
capitol and to be on his way to Iowa
to take part in the political campaign
and to appear at the republican state
dispatches, however, about his coming
ito represent the president but the
bills will probably indicate that he
comes latter a conference with Pres
ident Roosevelt At any rate it is as
serted here that he will come to tell
Iowa republicans once more what the
national administration wants.
The manner in which the alleged
conclusions of the Oyster Bay confer
ence have been advertised and feat
ured, lends additional Importance to
the program which Is being arranged
for Shaw at Des Moines. 1t will be
recalled that several months ago it
was announced with authority in the
railroad organs that Shaw would be at
the state convention and would ad-
dress the republicans. Later this has
been denied. Now it appears he has
started this way. The dispatches from
Oyster Bay indicate that 1t was the
standpatters who attended the confer
ence who rushed to the newspaper Of
fees with hints as to what was done
and that they desired it to be adver-
tised that the congressional campaign
will be run on the strictest standpat
lines. But some Of the Washington
correspondents refer to the we'll known
fact that President Roosevelt has in
mind the offering of suggestions for
actual work of revising the tariff and
they declare that he is not in fact a
standpstter as some of those who sur
round him would have us believe. But
when Secretary Shaw talks then the
matter will be opened again.
1t is understood here that the stand
patters are bringing Shaw to Iowa in
anticipation OF fight on the tariff
plank in the state convention. Having
lost everything else they desire to save
the platform. If they could put up
platform out Of harmony with the
ticket and not supported by the repub-
licans generally they would still be
happy. The plan is supposed to be to
arrange for a big mass meeting the
night before the convention to be ad-
dressed by Shaw and others who will
undertake to show that President
Roosevelt would be nightly offended
by any sort of a revision platform.
Some time ago one Of the leading
antis in this city stated that it was
the intention Of the managers to force
the convention to adopt a platform so
radical and so utterly offensive to the
progressives on many matters that
they would thus force the progressives
to bolt the convention. This was at a
time when it was supposed by the
speaker that the convention would be
in control Of the antis by means of
pressing the fake contests. They still
have hope of making trouble over the
platform.
The progressives are preparing to
present a. platform that will fully and
fairly express republican sentiment on
the tariff and other questions. But the
coming Of Shaw will surely be the sig
nal for a. fight on the tariff question.