The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-19
SHAW EVIDENTLY
NOT FOR FAT BOY
Former Secretary of Treasury
Swinging Around the
Circle"
PRAISES THE PRESIDENT
BUT REFORM MOVEMENT HAS
GONE FAR ENOUGH.
PRAISES THE PRESIDENT

Kansas City, Mo-. Feb. 1S.-Leslie Nj.
Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, who
arrived here today TO address the Kan
sas City Bar association tonight. gave
out a signed statement to the Asso-
ciated Press. in which he declared that
a number of unauthorized reports had
been published concerning his visit TO
! Chicago yesterday. Mr.. Shaw declared
that politics had in no way in
huenced his visit to that city. He went
there. he. said. "at TO mans instance
and i'm no mans interest" His visit
was on a matter of personal business.
Mr.. Shaw, in his statement, contin-
ues:
Il am not seeking to defeat any
mans nomination for the presidency.
There is not man whose name is
mentioned who is not my personal
friend, and for whom / would not
cross the continent to bestow kind
ness. That | prefer some does not
( imply that I would lift my hand
against others.
Paralysis of Business.
I am intensely interested in bust
/ ness conditions The number of men
out of employment and the number
| soon to be dismissed is TO me alarm
| ing. The interest of these men and
the effects of their enforced idlenes
! upon business generally far trans
cends any candidates ambition.
Il wish that factionalism within the
party to which l belong might cease
and that a convention of broad mind
ed patriotic, unselfish and unambi-
tiOus men, uninstructed and IN
pledged, might gather in Chicago on
the 10th of June next, and in the light
of conditions as they then exist, select
man who is believed to be most like
ly to lead the party to victory, and
whose election will best conserve the
moral and Industrial interests of the
cOuntry-the nominee of such a con-
vention. if such a convention can be
held. will be elected whoever he may
be, for the party then will be united.
Instructions Will Prevent.
IF there are then as many men out
of employment as there were in June,
1906. the party win probably rake
cognizance of the fact and govern
itself accordingly. unless instructions
have rendered such a course impossi-
BILE
4 am proud beyond measure of the
record of the party to which l belong
and of the work of the administration
with which for five years l was con-
nected. / allow no man nnrebuked to
speak derogatively in my presence of
either. No man within my knowledge
has said more IN commentator of that
administration than l. The fact, how
ever, that 1 believe the special work
which our unceasing evolution has
brought 10 the hands of the present
administration has been wonderfully
well performed and that in my judg-
ment emphasis should now be placed
upon the restoration of business and
industrial activity, has led some to
discount=fny repeated utterances in
laudatiOn of the work of the president,
SO fearlessly accomplished.
Hint for Roosevelt.
That business confidence at home
and abroad is now at ebb tide, all who
know something of the subject must
admit. 1t will require something be-
sides espionage of business men, some
thing besides drastic business restra in
ing egislation-something besides
criminal prosecution to again set our
industrial wheels in motion.
My visit to Kansas City and Dem
yer. in both of which cities | am to
speak during the week, is not in
fiuenced by political consideration. l
am simply business man and a law
yer. Long before public office came
my way ! was deeply interested in
public questions. ! could not, if 1
would, and l certainly would not if l
could. cease 10 be interested in them
now that ! am again in private life"