Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-02
No Instance in Recent Years
Wherein Iowa Republicans
Followed His Advice
WHAT HE STANDS FOR KNOWN
People of State Have Repudiated His
Political Suggestions on Numerous
occasions-Shaw to Speak Before
Des Moines Bankers Friday Night,
Cornell College Alumni Tonight.
Special to Times Republican.

Special 10 IlmeS-RepuDllCan.
Des Moines, Jan. 2.-That Secretary
Shaw is coming back to Iowa in the
hope Of getting the state to warm up
to him as presidential candidate. no
one versed in the politics of the times
has any doubt But politicians are
somewhat on the qui vive of anticl-
patton to know just what form the
public expression will take. Secretary
shaw addresses the alumni Of Cornell
College tonight and the Des Moines
Bankers Club tomorrow night.
1t is recalled that number of times
In the past Shaw has made excursions
into the political sentiment of Iowa
to see just how the land lay, and it has
not always laid right. Just before the
republican convention last year Shaw
was brought back by the standpatters
Minis, and he argued in the lobby of the
Slavery. not for publication" that the
good of the nation demanded the de-
feat of Cummins-and the convention
proceeded to nominate Cummins ana
the state to elect him.
On March % Ga suggestive date)
Shaw came to Iowa and made a speech
before the Polk County Republican
Club, in which he devoted almost his
entire address to arguing against the
enactment of a primary election law
Among other things that night he said;
Il have never believed in statewide
primary for the nomination of state
Officers" which idea the people repudl-
ated by electing progressive legis-
lature, which enacted stringent
"statewide primary election law.
1t will be remembered furthermore
that on innumerable occasions MIR,
Shaw has used all his Yankee inge-
nuity to persuade the people of Iowa
| against the Cummins idea of tariff
revision, all of which has been fol-
lowed by the people breaking all pre-
cedent and re-electing Cummins for
| third term as governor. The secretary
even Cancelled date at Syracuse, y,
| y, and some other dates. In order to
| hurry to Iowa, for the third time dur
| ing the 1906 campaign, to speak
against Cummins at Davenport. June
| 10, and at that time he argued with
the republicans again that factional
fights within me party ranks would
mean the success of the democratic
ticket and the republican primaries OF
Scott county the next day instructed
for Governor Cummins.
| Iowa has so many times acted in re-
gard to Shaw and what he advocates
that politicians have no doubt as to the
outcome but are specializing consid-
erably on the manner and form OF the
! expression of the public mind. Ac-
cording to many of the standpat news
papers and most of the progressive pa
pers, Shaw came into the office OF
governor of Iowa largely as an I'M
known quantity, with the state al
large ignorant Of what he stood for.
He was given the customary four
wears. during which time he took
stock in the National Life & Trust
!, Company, a wildcat insurance con-
Germ, which has since been forced out
of business, in consideration of the use
of his name as director OF the COM
pany, Since that time politicians can
remember of no instance in which
Shaw has urged Iowa to do anything IN
which the state has accepted his ad-
vice. Now he is coming to the state
and according to standpat newspapers
friendly to him he is about to launch
a boom for president. What will Iowa
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