The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-13
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WASHINGTON, D. c., August "a
Secretary Taft has contributed t
the current discussion of national pol
itics by his progress across the conti-
nent. His speech at Columbus, Ohio
was followed by a speech at Lexing-
ton, Ky. rousing state campaign is
on in Kentucky this year. as is the
case in Oklahoma, where the Secretary
will also speak. There is strong Taft
sentiment in Kentucky and the Secre-
tary hopes to bag the delegates from
there. While he has been declaring
for tariff revision and for general ac-
cord with the Roosevelt policies in his
utterances. he is holding aloof from
any discussion Of the negro question.
That has been carefully noticed by the
Secretary's opponents, for it is known
that the disapproval of his candidacy
by the colored voters is regarded as
a matter Of grave danger to him.
Senator Foraker, Of Ohio. is proving
himself a very spectacular and, as
many believe, very forceful opponent
by attacking the Secretary constantly
| from the stump. He has not only
championed the anti-revision cause
which will help to rally the standpat-
ters Of the country against the Secre-
tary's nomination. He has also been
jabbing a knife under the Secretary's
rib because Of the negro. Chautauqua
platforms have offered the Senator
/ splendid opportunity to exploit his
| views. He has declared that the Sec
retary 'is properly in favor of doing
all in our power for the 100000 of
brown people in the Philippines who
were until recently entire strangers
! and open enemies, but how about the
| 100000 Of black people in America,
not one of whom ever drew a disloyal
| breath, who are openly and defiantly
| being denied their constitutional rights
Of citizenship through exclusion from
| the ballot in the South?"
In the meantime Secretary Taft was
in Kentucky preaching loyalty to the
Republican party and urging Ken
lucky Democrats to forget the race
issue which had kept them in the
ranks of the minority party of the Ma
| ton and to help make national policies
in accord with Republican principles.
Senator Foraker will be a more DOM
inant figure than ever in the Senate
this winter. The country will watch
him with great interest, probably with
| more interest than any other Senator.
For even the people who do not agree
with him admire his ability and fear
lessness. He is the only man of many
Republicans in the Senate who dares
voice his opinions in criticism of the
President. His term as Senator ex-
pires in a little more than . year.
Under such conditions, Senators are
usually very cautious of expressing
opinions that might be unpopular and
injure their chances of reelection. Mr..
Foraker, however, is not of that class.
He wants to come back to the Senate,
but would prefer defeat to career of
political hypocrisy.
He has already made good his prom
Use to make the administration pay
attention to him, after the President
had undertaken to eliminate him from
public life. The President and Secre-
tary Taft have had to heed his criti-
cisms and make answers thereto. He
Elkins law, which he helped frame, was
adequate for the prosecution of trusts
and that the rate law, which he op-
posed, besides being unconstitutional,
in his opinion, has not been helpful in
relieving the situation. Time will DEM
onstrate whether his contentious are
accurate. If they are, men who now
frown at the Senator and deprecate
the fight he is making will take their
hats off to him and his career in the
public service will have an added lus-
ter. Some of the ablest lawyers of the
land are with him, although less fear
less men will not express their con-
victions in the open.
A MASSACHUSETTS FIGHTER.
Representative Samuel W. Mccall.
of the Harvard College district In
Massachusetts,, has already come to the
support of Senator Foraker in a public
speech. He is one of the most inde-
pendent Republicans in the National
House and was one Of the few mem
bers who voted against the rate bill.
At the Marshfield Fair. held within
half a mile of the homestead where
Daniel Webster died, Mr.. Mccall the
other day deplored the centralizing ten
dency of the times, 'decried the evil
influences which he thinks sure to fol-
low the imposition of such an enormous
fine upon the Standard oil company-'a
fine of such proportions that it allies
itself with the tribute which a vic
torious nation imposes upon van
quished one, fine that probably is
not greatly exceeded by the aggregate
of all other fines imposed by our Fed
eral courts since the establishment of
the ernment'-declared the suff1-
cheney of the Elkins law to punish trust
offenders, although it was not secured
| with a great flourish of trumpets' like
the rate law, and warned the country
against Presidential autocrats and
against "a strutting, confiscating,
shrieking. meddling America"
Mr.. Mccall is one Of the leading Re
publicans of the House, comes from a
strong Republican but very intelligent
, constituency, and has never hesitated
to express his views on public ques-
tions frankly. His honesty and high
mindedness are conceded, but the Pres
ident has been a bitter foe of Mr.. Nc
Call, because the latter would not
bend the knee to him politically and
| sanction all his policies. Whenever the
President has been right, as the Har-