The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-19
sTATEMEyf OF MIR. SHAW.
He Declares He Is Not Opposed so Any
 Candidate.

Kansas City. Feb. ls.--Leslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of the Treas ury. who arrived here today to address the Kansas City Bar Association to- night gave out a signed statement to the Associated Press, in which he de- olared that a number of unauthorized reports had been published concerning his visit to Chicago yesterday.
 Mir. Shaw declared that politics had in no degree influenced his visit to that city. He went there, he said, lat no mans instance, and fin no mans in- teFest.y His visit, he said, was on a matter of personal business. Mir. Shaw, Fin his statement, continues:
 'I am not seeking to defeat any mans nomination for the Presidency. There is not 8 man whose name Is mentioned who Is not my personal friend, and for whom would not cross the continent to bestow a kindness. That I prefer some does not imply that I would lift my hand against others.
 "I am intensely interested in busi- ness conditions. The number of men out Of employment and the number to be dismissed is to me alarming. The interests of these men and the effect of their enforced idleness upon busi- ness generally far transcends any ean- didates's ambition.
 
 party to which I belong might cease, and that Q convention of broad-minded. patriotic. unselfsh and unambitious men, uninstructed and unp1edged. might gather in Chicago on the 18th of June next, and in the light of conditions as thek then exist, to select a man who is Believed to be most likely to lead the party to victory and whose elec- tion will best conserve the moral and industrial interests of the country The nominee of such\a a convention, if such convention can be he'd, will be elect ed whoever he may be, for the party thus will. be united.
 q allow no man unrebul<ed to speak dercgatively in my presence of the administration with which was con- nected for i've years. No man within my knowledge has said. more in conn mendafion of that administration than I have. The fact, however, that be- lieve the eAspecial work which our un- ceasing evolution has brought to the hands of the present administration has been wonderfully we'll performed and that in my judgment emphasis should be placed upon the restoration of bus iness and industrial activity has led some to discount my repeated utter ances in laudation of the work of the President so fearlessly accomplished.
 
 and abroad is now at ebb tide all who know something of the subject must admit. It will require something be- sides espionage of business men, some thing beside drastic business restrain ing IeRislation; something besides criminal prosecution to again set our industrial wheels in motion. It Is nev- CT wise to give primary consideration to one subject to the exclusion of oth- CTS for any considerable length of time.
 My visit to Kansas City and Dem yer in both of which cities am to speak during the week, is not Infu- enced by political consideration. am simply a business man and a lawyer. Long before public office came my way I was deeply interested in public ques- tIons. could not if would. and I certainly would not if could. cease to be interested in them now that I am again in private life"