Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-10
EASTERN MAN VISITS GOVERNOR
Man Close to Both Shaw and cummins
Believed to Have Had Political Mis-
sion--Would Work to Give Shaw
Iowa's Support for Presidency and
cummins the senatorship.
Special to Times-Republican.

| have foundation in facts that politics
| furnished the subject matter of their
conference. Mr.. Kittleman Is a mem
Der OF the Illinois Legislature and
probably no man in the west stands SO
close to Secretary Of the Treasury
| Leslie NJ. Shaw, now in business in
New York City. but still a resident Of
Iowa. He has just returned from New
| York, where he saw the former gov
ernor of Iowa.
| Illinois is for Joseph G. Cannon for
president" said Mr.. Kittleman at his
apartments at the kirkwood hotel last
| evening, just before he took the train
| for Minneapolis and st. Paul. And
| Speaker Cannon will surprise the poll
iticians, in my judgment, for he will
develop much strength in his candi-
dacy Cor the nomination.
! IF it is not to be Cannon, who Wilt
| the nominee be-? Shrewd politi-
clans, believe, will agree that Fair
| banks can hardly make a strong show.
| ing that Taft, outside of Ohio, is likely
| to develop little strength, that Knox
| of Pennsylvania, is not well known in
| the west, and that other men who have
| been mentioned for the nomination
| cannot reasonably expect 10 secure
| the nomination. And it is agreed, TOD,
| that no man is likely to go into the
| convention with the votes, to start
with, to nominate.
| Under these circumstances, If Speak
err Cannon is not successful. what
| more likely than that the convention
will turn to an Iowa man?
Secretary Shaw will go into the
campaign in five states in September
| and continue in the campaign until
election. Part of these states are in
| New England and part of them in the
south. No man in the nation is a
more effective campaigner than the
| former governor of Iowa.
"And it has occurred to many men
| interested In Iowa and the sons OF this
great state that the national conven-t
ton will turn to Shaw if he goes into
the convention with his home state be-
hind him with the field open; and 1T is
conceded, believe, that no candidate
will be able to foreclose it, to begin
with.
! There would seem to be no neces-
sity of keeping up the fight that has
been going on in this state so bitterly
since 1900. To many republicans out
4 side the state as well as in it, the
query has come: Why should not the
Ratchet be buried in Iowa and Cover.
\ nor Cummins conceded place in the
4 United State senate, representative OF
Iowa, while Iowa can go into the ma
tional convention behind Shaw with a
4 better chance of securing the republl-
can presidential nomination for an
Iowan than ever before was enjoyed,
in my Judgments"
y "On this point, think it would not
I be difficult to convince the student of
politics have visited a number of
states, this spring, and ] have sur
veyed the situation with considerable
care If viewed from the party stand
point, or from the point of view of the
various candidates for the presidency,
! it is clear that Iowa, at least, has a
very great opportunity.
with Shaw the presidential candi-
date of the republican party and Cum,
minis in line for the United States SEN
ate, Iowa certainly would again take
Its position of highest possible infiu-
ence, If it be true, as stated in some
| Of the dispatches, that it has recently
|relinquished that proud place. And
with Shaw to lead it, the republican
party in the nation would be victorious
at the polls in 1908, for certainly the
democrats will nominate Mr.. Bryan,
and 1 can think of no man in America
| better equipped to make campaign
against the western candidate of the
democracy than a western candi-
date.
There have been differences among
the republicans of Iowa, in the past,
| and much bitterness. Mistakes have
been made, of course. But in the face
Of its opportunity, now, it would seem
to us who still love Iowa tho not res
idents of it, and who take broad
view of the whole political field, that
these differences might be healed and
the mistakes forgotten for the sake of
| attachments now so apparently pos
sible
II came to Iowa to visit old friends
and always call on Governor Cummins
when I am here. helped line up the
Seventh district for him for senator
when he first ran and urged his APP
pointment in 1900. 1t is upon my own
motion that came to Iowa and express
my views on this subject for 1t seems
to me that a great opportunity mas
come to my old state"
Iowa politicians had assumed that
/ Secretary Shaw, since going to New
| York for business and entirely dropped
the idea of the presidency and 1t Is
certain that he will make no trial I'M
| less he has Iowa behind him.
/ Ordinarily, the conflict OF politicians
ia cured at elections. But the fight
that has been going on in Iowa seemed
i to have involved more than the mere
! interests and ambitions of candidates
for office. holders of office and poll
ticians. 1t is this which public men
incline to ADVANCE as possible rea-
son why combination may be impos-
! sibIe as well as the superlative Bit
terness of the personal fight between
j Cummins and Shaw.
Jiends of Cannon. Shaw, Fairbanks
and other men of that school, insist
i thar the next national convention will
j he inclined to conservative atti-
I! tude and have cited the expressed
) views OF the president as indicating