Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-12
/ LOOKER.ON in IOWA !

| Secretary Shaw is still IN the ring as
a possible nominee for the presidency.
| raises a great big laugh whenever
mentioned. Mr. Shaw Is or was cit
lien Of Iowa, that made good sec
rotary of the treasury. AL his home In
] Denison, the place to judge u man is
! in the town where he lives. he has
many friends. But when 1t comes to
his being nominated for Roosevelt's
place, it is too funny. In the first
| place. Mr.. Shaw has succeeded In many
| ways in making more personal enc
mics than any public man in the state.
| Again, he has neither the friendship,
political nor otherwise. of tho politi-
clans or the people. He cannot get
| next" When he tries to mix he gets
caught at It. And finally. what little
show he once had has gone glimmer-
| ing, for he IS at the head OF "a trust"
| this very hour That his trust Is an
! innocent one makes no difference. Mis-
| used by fate instead of naming his
| business q banking institution, an in
| vestment company, or some other high
| sounding hume, in an unucky hour he
| called 1t a trust, and now the people
will not trust him.
Here's an extract from the report
to the Iowa Falls city council of the
delegates to the Iowa Municipal
League convention at Council Bluffs.
THE banquet was success from
every point of view: there being one
hundred and ninety-flve covers laid:
the mayor OF Council Bluffs acting as
toastmaster. After a program OF
speeches by Mr.. Switster of Waterloo.
POSTMASTER Donald Macrae, H. Il
Clark, r. r. Commissioner of Ne
braska, Federal Judge Smith McPher-
son. U. S. District Atty. M. T.. Temple
and Mayor Mozambique of Mason
City. These speeches mostly following
a splendid paper on municipal taxation
of railroads by r. 7. True, city treas
urer of Council Bluffs. Mr.. True's pa
per was of great interest, showing very
clearly and in great detail the injus-
tice to municipalities, by the present
method of railway taxation in Iowa
Railroad Commissioner Clark Endorsed
the claims made by Mr.. True showing
the necessity of better method for
such taxation: but Judge Mcpherson
and NJ. l.. Temple attacked the princi
pie of municipal taxation as defined by
Messrs. True and Clark, claiming that
the state governments had, in many
cases. gone mad in such enaetments.
The speeches of Mcpherson and Tenn
pie, while eloquent and their argu-
ments adroit, showed clearly to think
ing men present that these speakers
last named were, at heart, corporation
lawyers, and in our judgment, so
warped by such influences as to be un-
fit to serve the people in such offices
as they now hold
Iowa republicans watching the polit-
ical careers of Messrs Mcpherson and
Temple, should make note OF the fact
that while this is q business report to
a city council, 1t was written by some
very influential republicans in Hardin
county.
Gov. Cummins' statement to the pub
lie regarding his position on the new
primary law. appeared in the Sunday
morning papers. Senator Allison's
statement was published Monday
morning.
In many sentences it was almost a
duplicate of Gov. Cummins' words and
in sentiment exactly along the lines of
the governor. So much were they alike
for day or two the public were inn
pressed with the idea that the inten-
ton was to have them appear stimuli
taneously This idea was strengthened
by the newspaper report that Senator
Dolliver was In Dubuque over Sunday.
the guest of Senator Allison
and even now scome believe
!, s,,er ha
good of the party at heart, agreed thus
to bury the Ratchet and let the people
settle this matter for once and all
time, On the other hand, the intense
Cummins men. say Cummins made the
shrewdest political move of his life
when he got in his work first and
virtually forced Senator Allison to
show his hand.
A dozen times q day the writer is
asked, what do you find, going over
the state. the people saying concern
ing Allison and Cummins? And the
answer is. the exact situation is the
same, as during the last gubernatorial
contest. Blood is still on the moon,
and the braves are, sharpening their
knives everywhere. Every standpat-
ter will express his preference for U.
S. senator, as Allison. every progress
siye for Cummins. If there are more !
standpatters in Iowa than progressives
then Allison will be reelected. If the
reverse, then Cummins 1t any re-
publican voter has had change of !
heart since last November the writer
has yet to find him, or hear of him.
In regard to the plans of some of |
the anti Cummins press, to. understand I
the primary vote as not binding on |
our next legislature, they are by no |
means accepted by all of the friends
of Allison The majority of the peo-
pie. standpatters, progressives and
democrats wanted a statewide pri-
mary law and are willing to have this
new primary law settle the U. S. SEN
atorship The notion that the demo- I
Gratis will go into republican primar-
les to vote for Cummins is received by
the democrats as nonsense. They are
seriously at work to select a good
democrat for the office. thinking the
in the next legislature
will join them in electing a democrat
in Allison's place.
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