The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-04-06

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the President is differentiating among
magazines and magazine writers, for
, he feels very keenly about the class of
articles. which have been appearing for
the last few months, alleging corrup.
| tiOn in the government generally and
especially attacking the Senators,
whose views do not accord with his.
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Senator Bailey, Of Texas whose name
has figured considerably OF late in gos-
sip about the selection of the next
Democratic candidate from the South.
recently prevented a conference OF
Southern men to discuss that question.
Following the publication Of editorials
in a Richmond newspaper, several
Southerners proposed that II was time
for consultation and for mapping out
"A program.
The movement was not confined to
Southerners in Congress but many
Southern senators and members were
invited. Among them was Senator
Bailey, who said he would not attend
and also that he thought the proposed
conference ill-advised. Two years ago,
when similar proposition was ad-
vanced a few months before the Ma
tional Convention met, Mr. Bailey said
the time had not come when a South
erner could be nominated for the Presi-
dency. He has not materially changed
his mind about 1t, as far as the next
campaign is concerned He thinks the
day is nearer when such a nomination
can be made. but decries any effort to
bring it about by sectional cam
paign. His idea is that the Democratic
party should nominate its most avail
able man and that the selection should
be made without reference to the sec
ton he is from.
These views were advanced so vigor-
ously by him that the advocates of
the conference abandoned 1t. Nothing
more was heard of the ACCESSIBILITY of
nominating a Southerner till ex-Judge
Parker gave out his interview in North
Carolina. 1t was not at all inappro-
pirate that Judge Parker should have
given the interview in North Carolina,
because the suggestion OF his own name
for the Democratic nomination first
came out of North Carolina. Ex-
Representative Theodore F. KluttZ,
lawyer of Salisbury, N. c., who served
in the Forty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, claims to
have first brought forward Parker's
name and certainly doomed him per-
sistently.
The Southerners at heart are paying
but little attention to the talk about
Southern candidate. But there has
been some looking about to ascertain
what presidential timber there is in
that section of the country. Senator
Bailey, so often mentioned in that con-
nection, refuses to be concerned about
presidential prospects. Some years
ago, when his name was first mem
toned as a candidate, he said lacon-
ically there was a portrait of Jeffer-
son Davis hanging in his law office.
That alone was sufficient reason why
he could never be President Nova
days Mr.. Bailey simply remarks that
a man is foolish who allows his head
to be turned by presidential ambitions,
because he soon becomes unable to give
serious attention to other matters.
There is now no other Democratic
Senator, who would be seriously mem
toned for the office. His colleague,
Senator Culberson is a very able man,
but is comparatively unknown through
out the country. Some think that Sem
ator Rayner, of Maryland, now rapid
ly forging to the front, may become
a presidential possibility one of these
days. He is not quite So years old
and served six years in the House,
more than "A decade ago, Senator
Bailey is AZ, having been born during
the Civil War. Among the governors
of Southern states there is now no
commanding figure. Probably Repre-
sentative Claude A. Swanson, of Vir-
ginia, is the best known of any, ex-
cept Gov. Folk, of Missouri, provided
Missouri is classed as Southern state.
The fact that Gov. Folk is a native
of Tennessee-distincuy a Southern
state-and that Missouri promises to
be close territory encourage most of
the Southerners to believe Gov. Folk
will be the presidential nominee, pro-
vided any Southern man is chosen.
The Southerners We're very much dis
gusted with Tammany Hall during the
preliminaries that led up to the last
National Convention. Many OF them
We're loudly declaring at st. Louis that
they would never again enter an al
lance with Tammany, because of
Tammany's opposition TO Parker. They
are still far from feeling cordial to
Tammany and, for that reason, Par
ker's mention of the South's right to
select candidate pleases them how
ever much they may realize that a
Northern vote getter may have and
probably must have the preference in
the next convention.
ERNEST G. WALKER.