Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-21

SECRET IS OUT
Why Senator Received Appoint
ment at Hands of the Then
Governor Revealed
HAS DoLLIvER BETRAYED SHAW?
Promise Said to Have Been Made to
Retire After Brief Service to Enable
Shaw to Accept Tosa DoIIiver
Wanted Senatorial Prestige as chau-
tauqua Attraction.
Special TO T,mes-Republ,can.

Special 70 Times Republican.
! Des oines, Jan. 21.--Just how Sem
ator j. p. Dolliver got his appoint
ment to the senate from Shaw, and
| just why Shaw has since expressed
regret that he appointed Dolliver, has
reached this city from source so close
| to the throne that there is every
grounds for believing that it is true.
| This explanation also throws some
| light upon the reasons why members
of the Iowa delegation in Washington
are not now giving such great encour-
agement to Shaws boom for presi-
dent
A short time after the death of Sen
ator Gear there was conference in
Chicago which was known to and at
ent Governor Shaw of Iowa, Congress-
man Hepburn and his political back
err, j. W. Blythe, and Congressman
Dolliver and his hacker, Judge Hub
bard, Blythe carrying with him the in
fiuence of the Burlington system, and
Judge Hubbard the influence Of the
Northwestern.
1t was nip and tuck as to whether
Doliver or Hepburn would get the
coveted prize. the appointment to the
United States senate. There were
many conferences and Shaw was in
| Nf hny Ia had n max
an appointment, and here were two
forces laying down hard and no one
to help Shaw out. Shaw himself had
ambitions to go to the senate, and Dol
liver and Judge Hubbard discovered
the vulnerable point.
at the suggestion of Judge Hub
bard, Congressman DOlliver sought
and obtained private interview with
Shaw and then laid before him the in
most secret of his heart. Dolliver had
large ambition to enter the lecture
platform. He did not care for the
senatorial honors except that it would
help him on the lecture platform, and
six months service was as good as
six years He would serve till the
next legislature and then he and Hub
bard would assist in the election of
Shaw. Shaw fell victim, and the
deal was closed.
Once in the senate the duties seem
ed more attractive than Dolliver sus-
pected, and he longed to stay. AS
result, it became necessary to find
Shaw a position in the cabinet, which
was represented to him as being step
higher. The cabinet job over, Shaw
Of hn nngitinn in the
senate. This was just near the close
of Delivers term during the 1906
campaign, and with every evidence
that Dolliver was to ask reelection,
Shaw expressed regret that he had not
appointed J. w. Blythe to be senator.
He explained in a public address that
he had offered it to Blythe. With
further regret in his heart at his mis-
taken appointment, Shaw entered into
negotiations with friends of Governor
Cummins to get the governors sup
port for his boom for president. He
and his friends hatched the scheme to
sidetrack Dolliver to the position of
vice president, the election of Cum
Minis to Delivers position, and the
election of Shaw to succeed Allison.
The boom for president has not had
much encouragement anywhere and
Dolliver does not show any inclination
to retire to the lecture platform. He
was elected only year ago to six
wears more in the senate. If Shaw
could forcibly retire him to the lee
ture platform via the vice presidential
route it would be sweet revenge.
The prohibitionists of Iowa will hold
an informal conference at the Well
ington hotel Monday afternoon, Jan.
27, and continue in session until noon
Of the following day. The call is
made by Malcolm Smith, chairman of
the prohibition committee.
This session is called the day before
the state temperance convention which
will be held at the Plymouth Congre-
gational church and made up of all
temperance and church organizations.
Tt is expected that a number of the
leading men in the national prohibi-
ton party will attend the prohibition
conference One of the subjects to be
taken under advisement will be the
practical working of the primary law.
The state central committee will also
up matters of the party in the state.
William Jennings Bryan, the prob
able democratic nominee for presi-
dent, has been secured by the local
committee for the big Jefferson ban
quet which will be held in Des Meines
on April g AS this is the time of the
democratic state convention for the
election of delegates to the national
convention. an attendance of several
hundred are expected.
II. C. Evans, a member of the COM
mittee, has received word from Mr.
Bryan to this effect. Negotiations are
on to secure Senator Bob Taylor for
mer governor of kentucky. or Cover
nor Haskell of Oklahoma, to be the
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