The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-31
CAMPAIGN
LOOMING UP
Cabinet Members Going
to Take the
Stump.
(Mail Special to the Advertiser)

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WASHINGTON, D. c., August 49,
The dog days of the administration
promise to be quite prolonged this year.
Il will probably be six weeks before
weary officialdom will venture back
inside the city gates and get busy at
de SKIS long vacated. Then the linen
covers will come off the broad mahog-
any tops, that have been deserted for
months, and the activities Of executive
officials will be on in earnest.
| The unusually hot and unusually
humid summer, by no means yet end
| ed, is responsible in large part for the
workers to return as long as they can
have leave on one excuse or another
Then September is very trying month
in Washington and in recent years
there has been more and more of
tendency to defer important govern
nent work till along into October,
when the days, as well as the nights, !
Dec ONE cool and comfortable
The leading members of the cabinet !
viii soon be starting out on campaign
tours. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
has already been doing a little mis-
sionary work in Missouri, where the /
Eaprb licans are hopeful of getting a
majority again this year as they did
two years ago. and thus put Missouri
into the Republicans column perma- :
lently- Secretary Taft is recuperating {
Ii Canada, but he will soon swing t
Town into Maine for a speech or two =
before the early election, which is held
september 10. Then he will start off t
oward the West, nominally on a tour
# inspection of army posts, including +
Fort Sill, Okla, and Fort Russell,
Vyo. AS he inspects, the Secretary U
viii also talk politics at places where a
he political managers want him. |!
Attorney General Moody, the other o
rator member of the Cabinet is still Ct
esting along the Massa chusetts shore, e
here he is taking occasional cruises is
n the Dolphin, but he is to take hand
l the Massachusetts, campaign now
onceded to promise more calorio Than n
ny other state campaign this autumn.
lie will draw the platform for the
Massachusetts, Republicans and also
ound keynote for them early in Oc-
,ber.
lama JIM Wilson. the Secretary of
griculture, is not yet scheduled for
oratory but he will be en-
sted, as he is a power in arousing =.
1thusiasm among the farmers. Much ila
the summer he has been spending an
Washington. with occasional jumps on
1t to meat packing plants, always ur
king a little time for rest before he
cts back to base in Washington. Sec Sc'
tary of State Root, now rounding the an
,ntinent of South America. will not ha
: back here before October 1. He is ~
I influential stumper. but dislikes
umping and will not make any more
'eeches than he has to. mc
Other members of the cabinet ex- be,
pting only Secretary of the Navy eo,
onaparte, who has been here off and
most of the summer. are not stump s'o'
s and probably will be back in town an
r good some time about September tue
Postmaster General Cortelyou cca
ans to get back about that time. Sec
tary of Commerce and Labor Met ooi
Il, now in California, will be here
rly in October Secretary of the In 7
rior Hitchcock. spending the summer ant
~" Ia pioDdbly OC lIlC
ok at his desk by the middle of Sep get
nper. Ian
But outside the cabinet officers there XII
a small army of spellbinders in the Civ
Vernment service, as we'll as small pee
my of party workers, with influence Il
their own localities As the State spe
d Congressional campaigns start off TIL
earnest about the middle of Septem- the
r, most of the available men, either $50
the stump or for hustling among an(
voters, will be scurrying towards &c.,
cir homes to remain until after the p
tie is taken in November. Hence all air,
vernment business that can be post Eas