The National tribune., 1907-08-08
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delivered as many speeches. The Sec
retary, on the other hand, has been
talking politics chiefly in his public ut
terances, While Vice President Fair
banks has been talking on civic sub
jects. The latter only recently returned
from tour to Seattle, Washington.
whittier he went to address the Inter-
national Convention of Christian En-
deavorers. On the way out he made
| a dozen or more addresses, and on al
most every occasion he was introduced
as ''our next President He always
looked pleased at this courteous ailu-
sion to his future, but he said nothing
of politics in reply. He held that he
was on his-way to Christian Endeavor
convention and that he did not pro-
pose to give journey, made chiefly for
a religious purpose, anything like po-
litical look
From the Pacific Coast the Vice Pres
idcnt journeyed to Boston to participate
in the festivities of Old Home week.
He was graciously received there, and
created n very favorable impression by
his digntied and amable bearing. From
there he hurried away to Lincoln, Neb
| to deliver an address at the home of
| the greatest of Democratic Presidential
| travellers. He is now on his way back
! from Lincoln, and when he has rested
| for little while he will start again for
| the Pacific Coast. He has an engage
ment to address the Irrigation Congress
which meets in that city in September
Further than that, he has no travelling
plans, but the invitations are pouring
in upon him by the dozens daily, and he
will surely accept several of them for
dates between September and Decem
Der, when he has to be back in Wash
ington to resume the gavel as presiding
officer of the Senate
He is conceded to be one of the most
graceful and one of the happiest of
speakers in public life. There is a tone
of optimism and patriotism in his utter
ances. He tells bright anecdotes that
are always to the point and speaks with
a dignity and facility that capture his
auditors. His speeches and his appear
ance among the people are rapidly dis
pelling the newSpaper-made but mis-
taken impression that he is a cold man.
for he is quite the contrary.
Secretary Taft, although very busy
with his duties as head of the War De-
partment, has done a lot of travelling
this Summer on insular business. Butt
in addition to these voyages to Cuba,
Porto Rico, and the ISthmus of Pan |
anna he has made two trips into the
Southwest and is going there once again |
this month to deliver political ad- |
dress before the Republicans of Okla |
homa. He would like to have the sup
port of the delegates from the new
State to the next National Convention. |
The Republicans of Oklahoma are also
very anxious to have a Presidential
possibility in their midst. They had an
opportunity to get acquainted with
Vice President Fairbanks in the poIiti-
cal campaign last year.
Secretary Taft has likewise made
trip this year into the Northwest, in
which there was a lot of politics. He
went into the distant West also, and is
going there again on his way to the
When he returns from his
trip to the Philippines, which will take
him around the world. he proposes to
do more travelling. He already has
made date or two for December. One
of his first speeches after he returns
will be before a commercial organza-
ton in Boston. That date was arranged
several months ago.
Cannon, Knox and Hughes.
Perhaps Cannon, Knox and Hughes
are looking for some shorter cut to the
White House. They have abstafned
from the long and circuitous travel
route. Every man of the trio has done
a vast deal of campaigning and has
lived for weeks at time in a Pullman
car as he went about in campaign time
10 address the voters But none of
them, as far as known, has done much
travelling solely for the purpose of
getting acquainted with people who
would have a voice in deciding whether
they should be voted up or voted down
1T the next Republican National Con-
gention. In the last two Congressional
Speaker Cannon made ex-
ended speaking tours, covering prac-
ically every close or doubtful Congress
'ional district in the country. He did
his. however. to help elect a Republi-
san House of Representatives, which.
ne had every reason to expect. would
continue him in the Speakers office
Senator Knox has done little cam
paign work outside of his native State
Of Pennsylvania. He has spoken less
n public and has Travelled less on po-
itical missions than any other White
House aspirant. He does not like polit-
cal campaigning and is not overfondI
IF making pubic addresses. He has
If making public addresses He has
delivered some very notable speeches.
loweyer, some of them speeches that
President Roosevelt wanted him to de- q
liver for the purpose Of expounding
certain of his policies. \
Gov. Hughes has Travelled little outside
If New York in making public addresses :
)f course he had Il strenuous tour last {
ear in his campaign for election to the {
but no one would say that {
vas with any idea IT would land him in {
he White House. He has spoken once
'r twice outside of New York since he
vas elected Governor, and possibly he y
lad it in mind that he was thus trav-
ling on the way to the White House e
It Washington. Probably he was not 1
mistaken, if he had any such idea, for i
hese speeches helped him. One speech. {
in Boston, made a particu-l
arly fine impression, and is likely to
,elp win the delegates of that State.
numbering 80. for his nomination to &.
ucceed Theodore Roosevelt as Presi- t
lent u