The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-29


one thing the President IS anxious
about these days it is that William
Randolph Hearst shall not be elected
governor of New York. Some OF the
things the President says II private
conversation about Hearst would make
what Horace Greeley called mighty
interesting reading
AT first it was announced that Mr..
Root would make but one speech and
that in New fork city. Since tacn 1t
has been determined that Mr.. Root
shall make two speeches-one IN New
York city and another up the state
The President is afraid the upstate
Republicans NAV 90 back on the party
this wear. General apathy up the State
has defeated Republican candidates IN
wears gone by. Mr.. moot ought to be
able to stir up the sober conservative
sentiment. for he IS a strong speaker,
when once be consents TO an effort on
the hustings The Hearst newspapers,
of course. will parade his corporation
connections but that IS not likely TO
be needed by the class OF voters Mr.
/ Root reaches.
WILSON STAYS HOME.
There will be others of the cabinet
contingent in New York before the
campaign there is over. in fact Presi-
dent Roosevelt is sending every good
speaker in his official family to the
Empire State, excepting only Secretary
of the Navy Bonaparte and Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson The latter IS
a power with the farmers and has been
hustled out by the administration on
numerous political occasions, but for
some reason he is doing no campaign
stunts this year His own explanation
is that he is too busy with the enforce
ment of the meat inspection and pure
food laws to dip into politics.
OvERWORKED SECRETARIES.
One of the latest announcements IS
that Secretary Taft is expected to de-
liver a speech or two In New York,
apart from his itinerary in the distant
West 1t is mighty hard on the public
business to crowd Secretary Taft and
his other colleagues in the cabinet with
so much speaking. The members of
the cabinet have spent but little time
in Washington since last June and all
work of Importance, save what they
could dispose of on their vacations, re
mains piled up on their desks. What a
scramble there will be shortly after the
November voting to climb on top of
this work and get out the annual re-
ports for Congress Most OF the coed
cabinet speakers are to be kept at 1T,
drilling Republican doctrines into TIE
heads of voters, right up to the last
Saturday before the election. The
cause must be elo9uently pleaded by
influential officials, which means that
no others can take the place of cabinet
members as stumpers. With such
regime in operation, it begins to look
as though Secretary Taft must soon
have a deputy as Secretary of War.
He is not to have any time worth
mentioning between now and election
and Immediately after election the
President intends going d Panama.
Cuban affairs are in such satisfactory
shape that the President sees no reason
for postponing his Panama trip. Fur
thermore he wants Secretary Taft to
accompany him on that voyage, calcu-
lated to occupy the best part of three
weeks.
SHAW'S ELOQUENCE.
Reverting to cabinet stumpers in
New YORK. there is Secretary Shaw
who has been raising big dust out
West and who has gradually been
working his way across the Alleghenies,
having the Empire State as his desti-
nation The Treasury Department has
been run by subordlnates for several
weeks while Secretary Shaw was out
disseminating sound doctrine and, of
course, encouraging that Presidential
boom. By common consent he is voted
far and away the most effective STUN
per the Republicans now have at com
mand. He has been growing in power
to entertain and instruct voters, ever
since he had his first trial in his home
town in the early nineties, his neigh
bors having put him forward as the
man who must try to answer a free
silver speech by Bryan. There will
be a quickening of interest politically
when the Secretary strikes the Empire
State circuit
MOODY a POSSIBILITY.
Like Mr.. Root, Attorney General
Moody will confine his stumping efforts
to his home State OF Massa chusetts.
He is billed for a couple of speeches,
within the boundaries or his I'D Con
gressional district. There has been oc-
casional mention of Mr.. Moody as presi-
Dental timber but that was only de-
sultory and many months ago. His
qualifications are being reviewed anew
by the President makers and more may
be heard before long of the Attorney
General as Roosevelt's successor. He
is going to leave the cabinet about
January / to resume the practice of
law in Boston While he entertains no
lively expectations of participating in
politics after he thus retlres from pub
lie life to earn a competence, Mr..
Moody will remain as one of the lead
ing figures in Massachusetts political
affairs He is hound to be remembered
as the man who has stood exceedingly
close to President Roosevelt for the
last four or FIVE years and who has
invariably been in sympathy with all
the President has been doing.
No other member of the cabinet,
probably, is better suited to carry out
the policies the President has inaugu
rated. Mr.. Moody agreed with the