The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-11
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the country are almost unanimous in
the high praise of the splendid speeches
the President has been making through
3 out New England. The verdict seems
to be that no other President has at
tanned to the same high standard in
his public utterances since the time
when President Harrison journeyed
across the country to the Pacific Coast
and caused his fellow citizens to mar
vel at the numerous well worded and
patriotic words, which he spoke, al
ways dwelling on some new theme.
Within the last week the President has
spoken in every one of the New En-
gland States and is reported every
where as having been most enthusiasts
J tically received. His speeches have been
non-partisan but sounding an exalted
note for probity and diligence in the
public service.
HAWAIIAN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
H. A. Taylor said today he had not
| yet decided on any person to send to
the Hawaiian Islands to look over the
situation as to public buildings at Hilo
and Honolulu. He felt quite certain
the Department would be unable to
spare the Supervising Architect, Mr..
James Knox Taylor.
ABSENT OFFICIALS.
Although September is at hand it will
be two or three weeks yet before the
wheels of government begin to whirl
again with customary alacrity Nearly
every department now has an acting
secretary" Two of the cabinet officers
are across the water-Attorney General
Knox and Secretary of War Root The
Adjutant General, Corbin, is hobnob-
bling in Germany with the Kaiser. The
heads of the Interior, Treasury, Navy
and State Departments are out of town
and will be most of the time for quite
a while. President Roosevelt is not
expected back here much before Octo-
Der l. The summer has been phenome-
nally cool, just as last summer was
phenomenally hot in Washington, but
this does not seem to hasten the re-
turn of big officials, who want a respite
from the 0rudgery of their work, quite
as much as escape from torrid weather.
CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN.
The Congressional campaign is be-
ginning to quicken. BY the time the
election in Vernont, which occurs next
Monday, and that in Maine, which oc-
ours a week later, have been pulled
off," the pulse of politics will begin
to throb all over the country. Cam
paigns in many of the States have not
yet been opened. The Republican Con-
gressional committee, with headquarters
in New York, has a multitude of spell
binders ready to turn loose in a few
days and they will go to the four quar-
tiers of the country wherever there is
a reasonable chance of making votes
and electing a Republican candidate for
Congress. AS l have written hereto
fore, the prospects all apparently favor
the Republicans and the prophets of
that party are most emphatic in their
forecasts of a victory. There is no dis
counting the decentralization which ex-
lists within the Democratic ranks, but
there are also signs within the Repub-
lican party which are giving some con-
Germ and will stimulate the Republic
cans to vigorous campaign. The
moneyed influences, that want all the
possible advantage from great trusts
are trying to throw their influence tot
the Democrats, because they fear less
the efforts of that party to curb those
mighty organizations.
EXTRA SESSION TALK
Extra session talk for the Senate to
ratify the Cuban reciprocity treaty has
subsidized but, from the best informa-
ton, there seems no doubt that a reci-
procity treaty is practically completed
and that the President will call the
Senate together Ia November, as soon
as the fall elections are over. The trou-
bles of the government in Cuba are
attracting considerable attention and
have not tended to increase the sym
pathy of americans for the sugar
planters. However, it is certain that
the Cuban question is going to be up
permost in politics for the next year
and that there will be a great deal of
agitation for annexation. 1t will be no
wonder If numerous bills and resolu-
tons for annexation are introduced at
the coming session of Congress, follow
ing the fashion set by Senator EIkins
and thus emphasizing the desire of
some constituencies to offer that sort of
union. The Weather and more pros
porous classes of Cuba are talking of
| annexation continually and the echoes
of their clamors for union with the
great Republic are heard constantly
here at the Capitol.
ERNEST G. WALKER.