Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-17
SHAW MAY DEMAND
DELEGATE H0NORS
Expected in Des Moines to At
tend Convention and to Ask
For Place
MAY SPOIL sTANDPAr PLANS
Slate Already Prepared-SpecuIatio
as to Delegates at Large, Permanent
Chairman and Other Honors-Del-
egates Slow in Arriving.
Special to Times Republican.

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| Des Moines. March 17.-When the
| state convention meets tomorrow there
may be something of contest over
/ who will be permanent chairman of
| the convention There will be no
question but that it will be a stand
patter. George ID. Perkins was first
discussed and set down in an unof
, ficial slate as the man who would be
selected. Now 1t is claimed there is>an
understanding and agreement between
ex- Representative William S. Hart, of
Allamakee county, and National Com
mitteeman Ernest E. Hart, of Council
| Bluffs. that Hart of Allamakee is to
! be the chairman. This agreement was
his friends were to carry the Fourth
district for Allison in this campaign,
and send delegates to this first state
convention for Allison. Hart failed to
do this, tho he carried his own county.
There is talk, too, that Torbett, of
Dubuque, may be in the race. The
weakness that has developed in the
Perkins candidacy seems to be that he
is slated for delegate at large. 1t is
possible that Hart and Torbett may
have to be put off with positions of
alternate delegate-a Large.
vif np
that developed today was the possible
candidacy of Shaw for delegate-at-
large. Shaw was mentioned early in
the year for the position. but later was
dropped and a slate fixed up with
Perkins, Young, Hart of Council Bluffs
and Lane as the delegates at large. Ii
was learned today that Shaw will pro-
,nbly attend the state convention.
Letters have been accommodating for
him at the Chamberlain for some days,
and while there was no information as
to when he was to reach the city the
fact that his mail is being held for
him is taken as evidence that he viii
be here Furthermore, there is talk
that some of his friends in the Tenth
congressional district are prepared TO
urge his name for one of the delegates
at-large.
If this is done, it may spoil all the
nicely laid plans of some of the other
candidates 1t is claimed that Shaw
as a candidate would be in direct OPP
position to Lafe Young, who is one of
the slate candidates. But Young is
editor of the only standpat newspaper
in Des Moines, the capital Of the state
and he standpatters could not afford
to offend Lafe, and yet if Leslie M
Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury,
member of Roosevet's cabinet, and
one Of the most. pronounced standpat-
ters of the country, should be turned
down for this, there might be more
trouble than if Lafe was turned down
Shaw was a candidate for president,
but the standpatters of Iowa gave him
no encouragement. He also wanted to
be Allison's successor, and ne got no
encouragement there. Now If he
should be turned down for delegate-at-
large he might be very much Offend
ed. and his friends might be still more
offended. The convention is being run
in the interests of Allison's candidacy
and hence they do not wish to offend
anybody.
There is talk among the standpatters
that they will pass the Ohio plank on
the tariff, and incorporate it into the
resolutions to be reported to the con-
yention and thus dispose of that. They
were very much afraid that an oppo-
sition to that plank would give the
Cummins people chance to bring in
a minority report and offer that plank
This would give the minority chance
TO talk on the proposition, and that
might upset the convention. so the
Ohio plank is likely to be Incorporated
in the resolutions offered by the
standpatters, but this is not definitely
decided.
The progressives will have four men
on every committee They will con-
troll the Fourth, Seventh, Tenth and
Eleventh congressional caucuses and
will name the representatives from
thos. districts on the resolutions, per-
manent organization and credentials
The standpatters will
have all the rest and will have elgh-
teen members of the national delega-
tion to eight by the progressiVes. But
the minority representation ont he COM
mittees will give the progressjlves a
chance to be heard and to offer some
minority reports if they so wish.
There is considerable talk about the
Hobbies of Lafe Young's advocacy OF
Taft for president. After 1t was called
to their attention many remembered
that in February Of last year Lafe pub
lished an editorial in his newspaper
saving that Taft was an impossibility
In that editorial he said: Secretary
Taft is ranked as radical. in the class
with La Toilette and Others"
Further on in the editorial he says:
"Seeretary Taft's position on the tariff
question would make his nomination
against Bryan an impossibility because
on the leading issue they would be
standing together Everybody is fam
iliar with the fact that recently MIR.