The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-04

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and critics have observed that certain
of these magazine writers came to
WASHINGTON at the instance of the
President for the purpose of opening
their batteries upon the Senate with
whom he has been locked in a deter
mined struggle. 1t is certain now that
the President is differentiating among
magazines and magazine writers, for
he feels very keeniy about the class of
articles. which have been apnearing for
the last few months, alleging corrup-
ton 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 COS
sip about the selection of the next
Democratic candidate from the South,
recently prevented conference of
Southern men to discuss that question.
Following the publication of editorials
in Richmond newspaper. several
Southerners proposed that it 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 adj
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 it, 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 it. Nothing
more was heard of the ACCESSIBILITY of
nominating a Southerner till ex-Judge
Parker gave out his interview in North
Carolina. Ii was not at all inappro-
pirate that Judge Parker should have
because the suggestion of his own name
for the Democratic nomination first
came out of North Carolina. Elk
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 Parkers
name and certainly doomed him per-
sistently. !
The Southerners at heart are paying
but little attention to the talk about
a 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 men
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 men
toned for the office His colleague,
Senator Culberson, is a very able man.
but is comparatively unknown through
out the country. Some think that SEN
ator Rayner. of Maryland, now rapid
ly forging to the front, may become
a presidential possibility one of these
days. He is not quite DO years Ola
and served six years in the House.
more than a decade ago. Senator
Bailey is 43. 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 Ntr- +
ginia, is the best known of any, ex-
cent Gov. Folk, of Missouri, provided
Missouri is classed as a Southern state.
The fact that Gov. Folk is a native
of ennessee-distincUy Southern
state-and that Missouri promises to
be close territory encourage most or
the Southerners to believe Gov. FOLK
will be the presidential nominee, pro-
vided any Southern man is chosen.
The Southerners were very much dls-
gusted with Tammany Hall during the
preliminaries that led up to the last
National Convention. Many OF them
were loudly declaring at st. Louis that
thew would never again enter an al
lance with Tammany, because OF
, Tammany's opposition to Parker lhey
are still far from feeling cordial TO
Tammany and, for that reason, Far
ker's mention of the South's right 10
select a candidate pleases them, now
ever much they may realize that
Northern vote getter may have and
nrohably must have the preference in
| the next convention.
ERNEST c. WALKER.