Show SECRETARY SHAW IS ALL RIGHT And now Secretary Shaw has concentrated concen-trated upon himself the vindlctlva wrath of the Democratic partisan press Hint press whleh puts party above country and would have neon glad to see si flnnnelal panic In the hope that the Democratic party might gain voten by Jl Secretary Shaw slopped a I progress toward a pnnlc such as some of lie Wall street spcculutors showed signs of Inciting nnd thin makes the partisan Democrats rage with fury They wanted that panic They needed need-ed It In heir campaign But they didnt get U thanks to Secretary Shaw Hence their Indignation against him and their disappointed raving They accuse him of violating the law when In fact thc law gives him large discretion dis-cretion even to much greater lengths than he bus gone They say that Congress refused to enact the things which he hat done which Is so It refused re-fused to nay lhat he must do those things but allowed him to do them If he considered It necessary There Is 0 great deal of this In his department he may buy up bonds and retire them whenever there is money at hand to do It with but he Is not required to do It He may deposit public funds with the bmko but Is not directed to do it And so of many things The Secretary must necessarily be vested with largo discretionary powers and Congress has always recognized this necessity But thcreis no public necessityfor a financial finan-cial panic however necessary the Democracy De-mocracy may consider l It for campaign purposes And the Secretary very wish took measures to prevent It using the discretionary power with which he Is vested in order to do s The business interests of the country emphatically approve his conduct in this and the people generally approve The Ils of a lot or unscrupulously partisan Democratic politicians and organs or-gans do not count I |