Arizona republican., 1908-03-04

reserve strength which may be useful unique and is evidently based upon the expectation that there will be a hard and protracted struggle in the republi- can convention. The eX-secretaTy's hopes appear to be founded on the pos sbility that the various other candi- dates will exhaust their strength in fighting one another and that the con- Nention may be forced to turn 10 some man not represented in the early bal boting When that time comes. if it ever does, Leslie Mortimer Shaw will be found sitting within easy hearing distance of the call to duty and ready to respond to the first alarm. In rac- ing Darlance MT. Shaw is playing d long shot. realizing that if he is to win it can be only through d combination of circumstances that cannot be as sured n advance.
 Of course this plan of prOcedure has not been divulged by the eX-secretary himself Your Uncle Leslie is too old a hand to reveal his plans in advance. He has been careful not to announce himself as a candidate and he has been even more careful not to deny his will lingness to become one. He will not have to take back anything in order to accept the honor if the delegates at tempt to thrust it upon him.
 Tn other respects the Shaw sandi- dack is unusual. For one thing. he has written book which has just been published here by the Appleton com pany Since Biblical times it has been recognized as dangerous thing for public men to write a book Biogra- phies of candidates are common enough but for q man who is seeking an cleo tive office to declare himself Tn black and white, violates one of the cherish ed traditions of practical politics. Worst of all, the Shaw book is entitled Current Issues" and deals with all sorts of public questions from the origin of the constitution of the panic of last October. Interspersed with these discussions are stories of his ex- perience as a farmers boy. farmer. cabinet officer and banker. but it is evident from its perusal that the book is intended to serve as the Shaw plat form as well as a handbook of sound republican doctrine and that the eX- secretary intends that there shall be no doubt as to where he stands on the tariff, currency. trusts or any of the other big questions that will enter into the next campaign.
 MT. Shaw announces himself against the steady consolidation of power in th6 federal government and the shear ing down of the authority of the states, but he is careful to point out that this is not a criticism directed at the pres ident, for he says Tn my Judgment no president of the United States has per formed the task which the logic of his time has brought 10 his hands better than has Theodore Roosevelt. l am equally certain however. that it will require several years to change the evil effects resulting from much agi- tation, some ill considered legislation, and the promiscuQus threats of prose- cutiOns by those who have been unable to appreciate the presidents purposes and who have therefore sought popu- larity by initiating the weaker side of his administration"
 Naturally the eX-SecretarV comes out strongly for high protective tariff and he illustrates his position in re- gard to revision by a parable of his boyhood days. Partly because of bet ter soil and partly because of better