Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-16
SECRETARY LESLIE M. SHAW Elk.
PLAINS HIS PARTICIPATION
IN IOWA CAMPAIGN
STANDS FOR HARMONY
States That He Has Spoken for No
Candidate and Against Nc cand'-
date-Interested Only In Success Of
Republican PrineipIes-No Presl-
DENTAL Interference. ,#

the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw gave
out an official typewritten interview
yesterday In Chicago to the effect that
President Roosevelt is not going to
interfere in Iowa politics and he
doesn't want the President to inter-
fere. Mr.. Shaw said he himself had
not taken any part in the factional
controversy in Iowa politics and that
he had no candidate for governor.
Mr.. Shaw was on his way back to
Washington after making some
speeches in his home state. His Off
cial interview says:
There Is no seeming conflict even
in the kilograms that have been print
ed and reprinted in some of the oppo-
sition papers. l simply said that
went to Iowa after comforting with
the President; this was true Mr..
Loeb said in his telegram that had
gone to Iowa on my own responsible
ity; this is equally true, and the
strange thing about it is that ony one
should have thought otherwise.
Misrepresented for Ten Years.
"The reason stated in my tele-
gram that I had conferred with the
President before going was that a cer-
tain Washington correspondent of a
Des Moines paper and Of Chicago
paper, who lived in Des Moines while
l was governor, and whose special
mission for the last ten years seems
to have been to misrepresent me, has
filled his papers with stories to the
effect that the. President was dis
pleased that I should become inter.
ested In republican politics In my own
state. He stated that It was general.
ly understood at Washington that the
President and were out Of sympathy,
ETC., etc.
II wanted to save the fellow the
embarrassment of further Justification,
and stated that l was going to Iowa
this time after comforting with the
President. Instead Of doing him d
kindness, as l had intended, I seem
to have got him into yet deeper trou.
BILE, for he now sends two column ar
ticles telling how the breach is wild
ening, and intimating that may now
have to retire from the cabinet before
the time have fixed.
President Not Interfering.
"Of course the President is not in
terfering, and will not interfere in
Iowa factional politics. He would not,
if | wanted him to, and l would not
let him, If could help it, If he so de-
sired. What is more. have not in.
terfered in Iowa factional politics and
do not intend to.
Il have stated in all my speeches
that have no candidate for governor
of Iowa. have spoken for no one
and have spoken against no one. l
do not care who holds the Offices in
Iowa. am interested only as a re.
publican, in the success of republican
principles. have simply spoken for
my party and have defended the
record Of that party.
81 believe in maintaining a speaking
campaign twelve months in the year;
people listen better and think better
in the absence of the excitement Of a
campaign. Last night, for instance,
at Davenport, when / closed, after
speaking more than two hours. during
which I mentioned no candidate and
spoke only Of republican principles
and republican party records, men
were standing in the rear Of Turner
hall.
Party Fight Getting Bitter.
aThe fight in Iowa is getting bitter,
and in their zeal some republicans are
liable to become forgetful of repub.
lican party principles. To use par.
able, my political brethren in Iowa are
quarreling over an Inheritance of
which I have already received more
tnan my share. If receive anything
more, 1t must be a gratuity So am
not directly interested SO long as the
family traditions are not violated. l
am intensely interested, however, lest
the entire estate be squandered in at.
torneys' fees ond court costs.
II therefore went to Iowa, not as a
litigant, nor as an attorney for the
litigants. / went as peacemaker,
and as a peacemaker tried to place
fathers portrait on the wall. I paint.
ed, as best could, the old party which
l believe is yet of far greater impor-
tance than the conservation Of any
mans ambition"