The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-15
ROOT IN WHITE
HOUSE RUNNING
Senator Scott Springs Surprise
on Slate Makers---Taft's
- Hard Row.
CMail Special to the Advertiser.)

= CMail Special to the Advertiser)
WASHINGTON, D. c., November :
= The big politicians will take to boml
. proofs for residence in Washington
this winter, if President Roosevelt
continues the warfare now expected
of him. A few little things have oc.
Cured the past week, which the
friends of other candidates attribute
to him and which indicate more than
ever hot, hard contest for delegates
to the next national convention.
If incidents are correctly interpreted,
the President has begun an aggressive,
determined fight against Governor
Hughes A few days ago it was in
timated that Governor Hughes should
be held responsible for the Parsons
Hearst fusion in New York City This
intimation came from a source that
strongly suggested the White House,
and at a time when there was renew
ed clamor for the President to make
some declaration that he was not re-
sponsible for that fusion.
ROOT, UP AGAIN.
| Cannon, Knox and other Republican
candidates have men here watching
every development. They insist that
the President himself knows how that
| intimation originated, and also that he
knows why Senator Scott of West Vir-
ginia emerged from the White House
offices few days ago, suggesting that
Secretary of State Root should be
nominated for the Presidency Mr..
Scott greatly surprised his political
associates by that declaration. He has
given numerous interviews, first and
last, from the steps of the White |
House offices, booming various candi- |
dates. In a confidential conversation |
only a few days ago he said he had |
been for. Fairbanks all along, but now
that the Fairbanks boom seemed to
have collapsed supposed he must |
eventually take his coat off for Cam
non.
This talk, somehow, became the |
property of several Presidentmak ers,
who were highly displeased that the !
Senator should come out for Root. The
National Committee contingent, who
are now urging the Cortelyou boom
more vigorously than ever, have been
whispering around the hotel corridors
that the President suggested little I
boom for Root to the Senator. They
reason also that such things only en-
barrass the New York politicians who
are trying to commit the Empire State
to Hughes.
THE HUGHES BOOM.
Those strategists who would concen-
trate the fight against the Presidents
favorite candidate, by making common
cause for the time being under the
Hughes standard, have been discon-
certed a little by the general acclaim
in recent days for the Secretary of the
Treasury. His star has been rising
since he displayed such a mastery
grasp of the financial situation during
the panic. Bankers and business men
kave encouraged his Presidential am
bition by some substantial declara-
tions. Should his candidacy grow
much beyond the dark horse stage, he
and those behind him would sooner or
later have to turn in and try to win
a substantial following of delegates in
his home State of New York.
ANYTHING TO BEAT TAFT.
At present the Hughes and Cortelyou
workers are in close sympathy. They
want to keep the President from NOM
mating Taft, however much or little
Hughes and Cortelyou may be inter
ested in that effort. Tie same is true
of the Cannon workers, who have
been showing new life the past week
and now promise to come down to
Washington early in December and
''whoop it up" for the veteran Speaker.
CONTIGUOUS STRENGTH.
Secretary Cortelyou's, friends are
now going to exploit the friendship of ]
organized labor for him. He has sided {
with labor on some important Issues.
1t is claimed he will have the solid t
support of the labor forces that have
already opened their guns upon Secre-
tary Taft. His record as Secretary of
Commerce and Labor, especially his
insistence1 on a separate labor bureau !
in the department and as Postmaster
General is being gone over in detail 7
and prepared for political distribution. !
Capital is very friendly to him; labor
is friendly; Roosevelt enthusiasts
would not oppose him. The Secretary's S
boomers argue that once these facts S
come to be generally recognized, as it
is proposed they shall be, there will be
a compact phalanx of strength which
must command the admiring attention
of the country.
ERNEST G. WALKER G