Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
Politicians Therefore Think
That Ex-Secretary ofIreasury
is Presidential Candidate
SOME THINGS 1T WON'T CONTAIN
His Newton Speech and the Records in
the Dennison shercliffe Case Do Not
Find Space-State Rate Methods and
Long Haus Do Not Mix-Enforcins
the Pure Food Law.
Special TO Times-Republican.

special TO Times-Republican.
| Des Moines, Oct. 26.-Lesiie All
Shaw has written book. Politicians
now saw that this settles 1t ana tha'
| ex-Secretary and Ex-Governor SHAW
is going to be candidate for president
| Of the United States.
The book is entitled current IS
sues" and is made up of speeches ana
| letters written by Shaw during his
public career. 1t is understood tha'
the book is justification of his stand :
pat record.
The book, strange to say, is adVer-
| itised extensively in Appletons maya
zine for November. in which issue is
the article by Governor Cummins on
"A Western Republicans View OF the
Issues Of 19OS.' The book is Issued by
Appletons and in the November issue
of the magazine by that publishing
house there appears a half page adver-
tisement OF Shaw's book. The book is
unlike that circulated by Vice Presl-
dent Fairbanks in that 1t Will circulate
for 81 per volume while Falrbanks
circulated his gratuitously. 1t was att
erwards discovered in Fairbanks book
that some of the most Interesting
chapters of his life when he was attor-
ney for the receiver for a railroad,
were missing Those chapters We're
81. t,NJJ I,x, ellison Gardner
and relate how as attorney for the re-
ceiver he had the railroad pay the in
terest on the bonds to the bond hold
ers before paying the wages of the
section men. conductors and brake
men, much against the orders and pro-
tests of the courts.
Secretary Shaw's book has not yet
reached Iowa. but a volume is prom
ised by at least a week from today by
one of the Des Moines book stores. 1t
is wondered by politicians whether
ShaW's book will contain his Newton
speech, in which he regretted that he
did not appoint Blythe senator instead
of Dolliver, and his Sioux Falls speech,
in which he came out for revision, or
his letters in regard to Tom Dennison
and Frank Shercliffe. He also made
a speech at Boone at the opening of
the 1901 campaign justifying keeping
down railroad assessments.
The advertisement of Shaw's book in
Appleton's magazine reads as follows:
Current Issues by Leslie M. Shaw, ex-
secretary of the treasury; 12mo, cloth
81. Secretary Shaw's Justification of
his attitude as a standpatter. In this
volume Mr.. Shaw has stated all his
views on the political issues of the day.
Interesting unpublished letters to
President Roosevelt and to other
statesmen of note are given here for the
first time, and the authors shreWd
reasoning about the questions now
occupying the attention of the govern
ment are set forth in an original and
striking manner. The book has an in
PRODUCTION by the we'll known publieist
Harold Bolce."
The state Of Iowa can't mix it's
method of rate making with the elastic
method of the railroads in interstate
rates, and this will prevent it remov-
ing some determinations that the
members of the commission charac-
terise as being rotten" The railroads
will, to meet competition, carry a
commodity entirely across the state Of
Iowa from Rock Island to Omaha for
matter of 81 cents hundred in in
terstate business, and yet on a ship
ment of the same goods from Daven-
port to Council Bluffs, all of which is
inside the state Of Iowa, the same rail-
road will charge the straight distance
tariff rate for that distance when the
rate is much more than 81 cents. The
situation simply resolves itself to this,
that for q short distance over a rail-
road a higher rate is charged than for
a long distance over the same railroad.
The matter was brought to the at
tention of the commission in it's
hearings here by the application of
Commissioner Wylie of the Greater
Des Moines committee who asked that
the rates from the east bank of the
Mississippi river to the Missouri river
(the interstate rate) should be made
the rate from the west bank of the
Mississippi river to the Missouri (the
state rate.)
The commission continued the mat
ter to another time and will take it up
again in couple of weeks but it was
pointed out that there was no way to
do it or at least no way seems visi-
BILE now. The Iowa law under which
the railroad commission is working
provides that nothing but a distance
tariff rate can be put in. 1t provides
that the rates between any two points
shall govern for all other like dis
tances inside the state. 1t provides
futher that If a railroad puts III a rate
that rate shall govern for all other
like distances on that railroad.
Therefore, if the railroad commission
removes the discrimination that Mr..
Wylie pointed out in regard to the
rates from the east bank of the Mis-
sissippi river it will have to change
all its rates. 1t is claimed by the rail-
roads that special rates are put in to
meet special competitions and that
they cannot afford to make such rates
over their entire systems. A bill was
passed by the senate last session al
lowing the roads to put in such rates
with the approval of the railroad COM
mission without changing their rates
or making like reductions all over their
systems inside the state but it failed
to pass the house, the impression be-
ing that it would kill off the interur-
bans.
The school fund of Story county
has been enriched by $55 and the
school fund of Delaware county en-
riched SIS thru fines of groeers for