The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-30

President intends going to Panama
Cuban affairs are In such satisfactory
shape that the President sees no reason
for postponiDg his Panama trip. Fur.
thermore he wants Secretary Taft TO
accompany him on that voyage, calcu.
lated to occupy the lest part of three
weeks
SHAW'S ELOQUENCE.
Reverting to cabinet stumpers in
New YORK, there is Secretary Shaw
who has been raising n 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 subordinates 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 free
silver speech by Bryan. There will
be 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 Massachusetts.
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 l to resume the practice of
law in Boston. While he entertains no
lively expectations of participating in
politics after he thus retires from pub
nc life to earn competence, Mr..
Moody will remain as one of the lead
ing figures in Massachusetts political
affairs. He is bound 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
President about railroad rate legisla-
ton when both Secretary Root and
Secretary Taft were disagreeing with
him. He<has had intimate knowledge
of all the antitrust work the Presi-
dent has been doing and, as Attorney
General, has done some very impor-
tant and effective work in prosecuting
the trusts.
EAST PRESENT HOTBED.
Likely enough the West will demand
the Republican candidate the next
time, for the East has had the presi-
dency almost eight years. But it is
to be noted that the hotbeds of radical
ism now are east of the Alleghenies
''in the enemy's country" New York
and Massachusetts, which were in the
very heart of the conservative country
in 1896, are now as radical in their
tendencies, apparently, as Kansas and
Nebraska were in 1896. Kansas and
Nebraska are very calm under present
conditions and apparently well salts
fed.
Suppose the radicals poll big vote
in New York and Massachusetts; or
suppose that Moran is elected governor
of the Bay state and Hearst of the
Empire State. Those two States have
90 votes in the electoral college and
the Republicans can not do without
them. The very logic of the situation
would call for candidate who could
command confidence with the radicals
of those two States and assure them
of distinct and positive corrective
policy for the cure of trust evils. Per-
haps President Roosevelt would run
againi Yes, but that is very doubtful
and in all the eastern territory there is
at present no man more likely to be
acceptable than the present attorney
general.
CORTELYOU' COAT OFF.
Postmaster General Cortelyou is play
ing an interesting role in the present
He makes no pretensions of
being an orator and does not try to
help the ticket by work on the stump,
but he has taken off his coat and is
probably doing rs effective work for
the ticket in New York as any other
Republican. Many look upon him as
the President s personal representative
and through him the PRESIDENT is
gaining much of his in
about the New York situa-
ton. Mr., Cortelyou is still chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee and he knows where to pull the ,
strings to bring results in New York.
FAIRBANKS STUMPING.
1t should not be overlooked that
Vice President Fairbanks has been
taking part of late in the political
Some weeks ago it was the
opinion that he could stand aloof this
year and confne himself to non-parti.
san addresses on civic occasions. Mr..
Fairbanks has done much of that kind
of speaking in recent years, apart from
the vast amount of stumping that has
fallen to his lot. Soon after he was
elected to the Senate in 1897, he began
10 devote much of his time to these
addresses and he has spoken at an.
niversaries, picnies and fairs in al
most every northern state. This year
he went to Kansas for John Brown
celebration and to Idaho for an Irri-
CATION Congress. to New Hampshire for