Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — LESLIE SHAW DISGUSTED. [ARTICLE]

LESLIE SHAW DISGUSTED.

Cheers for Woodrow Wilson Caused Speaker to Take His Seat. Xew York, April 20.—Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw was probably the most iddignant individual in this city, today, over what he characterized as a “foolish break” by the members of the Xew York alumni of Pennington seminary. At the annual dinner last night, Shaw was the guest of honor, and in a bitter speech assailing progressive measures, but especially the direct election of United States senators the initiative, the referendum and the recall, he spoke disparagingly of Governor Wilson, of New Jersey. The mention of Wilson’s name aroused the diners, who cheered the former Princeton president to the echo and shouted “Wilson will be our next President.” to the utter disgust of Shaw, who, thoroughly disconcerted, sat down. In his speech he accused the lawmakers at Washington of “utter cowardice,” and said: “Apparently the people don’t want them to study the problems of government nowadays, but to stay near the telephone.”