The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

! adjourned, with Sherman stin IN the lead
announced that Sherman was no longer
a Presidential possibility so far as this
/ convention Is concerned" From that day
| TO this Foraker has been credited with
being a Presidential aspirant
Following his election In 1900 as COVER
nor Of Iowa. Leslie NJ. Shaw frankly let
his friends know that he would be q
Presidential candidate four years hence.
E0t early In 1872 he became Secretary OF
the Treasury in President Roosevelt 8
Cabinet, and as Mr.. Roosevelt was an
open candidate for the Office, Mr.. Shaw
gracefully retired for the time being.
Shaw StIH a Candidate.
He was in the field again, however. IN
November OF 1904, Immediately following
President Roosevelrs statement that he
would not be a Presidential candidate
again; and in the field he remained until
few months ago. Then Mr.. Shaw. who
has always been credited with sight suf-
hcientiy keen TO see a stone wall dead
ahead Of himself, once more retired. To-
day he IS simply a passive candidate.
As an active candidate he was refresh
ingly frank regarding his ambitions Last
year, when he resigned the Treasury
portfolio IN order TO head a New York
trust company, he told the newspaper
men that as candidate he would be as
easy to locate in the metropolis as IN the
National Capital. Neither Lincoln.
Grant Hayes. Garfield, Blaine. Roosevelt
nor Bryan was nominated because Of the
State he represented" said Mr.. Shaw
when asked what effect his going to the
city OF ''the money power would have
on his candidacy, and some OF them have
secured the prize, notwithstanding loca-
ton"
Next November Mr.. Shaw will be sixty
years old, not too old, according to num-
erous precedentS, TO be an active candi-
date for President four OF eight wears
hence Whether he has put away his
lightning rod for good remains to be seen.
though some Of his Iowa friends are Of
the opinion that he will never again ba
an aVowed candidate for the great honor.
As Presidential candidates go Mr.
Shaw's career in politics has been exceed
ingly brief He did not make a campaign
speech or take an active interest in poli-
tics untl the third Cleveland campsign
when he was moved to answer the next
day Democratic argument he mad lis
tened to the day before His advocacy
OF sound money In the first Mckinley
campaign brought him wide prominence
In his State, and resulted in his nomina-
ton for governor I'm 1898
Senatorial POssessors of Rods.
Through most Of the SOS. and even as
late as 1886, when he received tbirty-1ve |
and one-half votes in the Republican con-
yention Of that year, another Iowa man. |
the now venerable Senator William r |
Allison. was a receptive Presidential can
1idate- Only when age put him out of /
The running did he cease to have his /
name mentioned both before and at his /
oarty's conventions.
Allison's candidacy reached its apogee /
At the Chicago convention of 1883 when /
le stood fifth in the balloting up to the
eighth and deciding ballot His friends
iay that the keenest disappointment of |
us lie has been the refusal Of his party
o make him standard bearer, which he
hought ne had excellent chances of be
coming in 1883. But unlike David r T4ul
ne distinguished Iowan has not changed
loticeably 20 his intimates becauSa of
his disappointment, and he has hAs1
leard to refer jokingly to the years when
le prayed fervently that the PresldentIai
lightning would strike him.
Senator Allison's vigorous young COL
eague from Wisconsin, Robert N Ia
toilette, Of course, has a good sized
residential rod up: Presidential anbi-
ions have been known to be his since
lis second election as governor of Wis
onsin in 1888. Senator Shelby M
'uliom was for years Illinois "favorits
on Senator Henry NJ. Teller. of Colo
ado. after he walked out OF the 1895
republican convention, when that body
In favor of the gold standard.
xpeoted TO secure the Silver Republican