The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-30
tMan Special to the Advertiser

II in already plain that there is 10 be
an autumn revival of striving among
presidential candidates. BoomE seem
TO have been in the background lit.
tie Of late. The people, of course,
must not be allowed to forget that
there are several eminent Republicans
grooming.
A recent dispatch SAYS that Taft =
boom may be formally launched in Ohio
this autumn. There is much more be-
hind this than one might think.
Foraker may also launch his presiden-
tial boom this autumn. Weeks ago he
was east and there was much infiucn-
tial talk in inside circles about his
availability. An array of strong men
would ''get in behind Senator
Foraker, presdentially, if he would
give the word.
TAFT NOW WILLING.
There is no question that Secretary
Taft has had his eye on the White
House for many months and it begins
to look as though he had at last yield
ed to the appeals of his family and
began active, nut quiet work toward
the qualification of his ambition His
brothers want him to run. They be-
lieve he could be nominated. 1t has
not been announced yet that he will
decline the President IS proffer of seat
on the United States Supreme bench,
but it seems to be accepted as GER
tain that he will do so.
The Secretary undoubtedly returns
from Cuba with fresh laurels. He did
not succeed in tanning the insurgents
without overturning the Cuban govern
ment. That was what he was expect
ed to do at the outset. But the public
seems to have become reconciled to his
failure in that particular and to hold
in lively remembrance his tactfulness
going with minimum of friction. The
Secretary grows in the public eye by
his achievements in that direction.
OHIO'S ATTITUDE.
1t is matter for speculation what
the result will be if Mr.. Taft, aided
and abetted by Representative Theo-
dore Il. Burton, of Cleveland, under
takes openly to capture Ohio in defiance
of Foraker. Burton, and, inferentially,
the President and Secretary Taft, were
thrown down by the Republican state
convention. The two Ohio senators are
in absolute control of the. state organi-
cation and apparently will he when
the convention meets in -, little less
than two years to nominate delegates
to the national convention. 1T is out
side of all presidents for a candidate
to win in a national convention with
out his own state delegation. Therefore,
as things look now, Secretary. Taft will
be risking great deal if he throws
down the gage to Senator Foraker now,
as he would do by formally or informal
ly launching presidential boom.
OF course aspirants for the Presi.
dency are aware that this is frosty
weather. The air is nipping, but there
can be no harm in the candidates keep
ing before the people. Every man of
them is getting out on the stump to
put himself on record as in active
sympathy with the campaign.
ROOT TROTTED OUT.
Perhaps Secretary Root should not,
in fairness, be reckoned as an aspirant
but he has been much mentioned in
that connection. He does not like
stumping. The President would like to
send him out often with messages be-
fore popular audiences. But Mr.. Root
simply won't "stand for it, as a rule.
However, he is going to New York to
speak-at the President s solicitation.
Primarily he is going to help along in
the gubernatorial struggle. If there is
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 in 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 York city. Since then it
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 may go back on the party
this year. General apathy up the State
has defeated Republican candidates in
years gone by. Mr.. moot ought to be
able to stir up the sober conservative
for he is strong speaker,
when once he consents to an effort on
the hustings, The Hearst newspapers,
of course, will parade his corporation
connections but that is not likely to
he needed by the class Of voters Mr..
Root reaches. '*'' i',.
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
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 oil
the cabinet have spent but little time
IN Washington since last June and ali
work of importance, save what they
could dispose of on their vacations, re-
m