The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-25

looks over his struggling columns, and
agrees with the President that the time
has come when the campaign in his
behalf should be abandoned.
1t is thought in some quarters that
the President will try to use Secretary
Cortelyou to defeat Hughes instrue-
tons in New York. Secretary Root is
regarded as out of the question AS a
matter of fact, while strenuous de-
malls continue in official circles, there
is good reason for believing that be-
fore many months, probably some time
next spring, Secretary Root will retire
from the cabinet and Assistant Secre-
tary Robert Bacon will be named in
his stead. He would be of no avail as
an administration candidate in New
York. If the President should take
Secretary Cortelyou up he would be
joining with a coterie of influential
Republicans who are booming Mr.. Cor
telyou in the hope of thereby embar-
RAISING the Presidents efforts to NOM
mate Secretary Taft. A move to Cor
telyou might therefore embarrass the
President greatly and be interpreted
as a sign that he was throwing up his
hands.
The elections last week gave little
encouragement to either party, because
it was difficult to perceive any par
ticular drift of sentiment one way or
another. The President issued a state
ment that the results were very graft
flying to him, because the Republicans
carried New Jersey by as big a major
ity as they did in the middle of Pres
ident McKinley's administration, that
they won in Kentucky and in Brooklyn
and scored tremendously in Massa-
chusetts. Nevertheless Republican poll
iticians in Washington get very little
comfort out of the New Jersey result,
as it is evident the Democrats would
have elected their State ticket but for
a trade" that a Democratic boss
made in Jersey for the purpose of de-
feating a popular Republican mayor.
In Massachusetts the Republicans poll
ed a comparatively small vote, but the
ticket had tremendous plurality. be-
cause the Democratic vote was split.
In that State the Democratic party
has been wiped out as one of the two
big parties, the Independence League
backed by w. r. Hearst, having polled
more votes than the regular Demo-
cratic candidate. There has been a
Democrats alike that one result OF the
November balloting had been to elimi-
nate Hearst as a future political fac
tor, whereas he seems now in a way
to be more of a factor than ever. His
party ranks next to the Republicans
now in Massachusetts, and will have
5000 offices, including membership on
bipartisan commissions and registra-
ton offices at the next election.
The fusion that his Independence
Leaguers and Representative Herbert
Parsons, President Roosevelt's leader
in New York, made was badly beaten
by Tammany, but the independence
League judicial ticket polled 100000
votes in the entire state of New York
for judges of the Court of Appeals, as
against the Republican and Democratic
fusion candidates. It is difficult TO see
how the Independence League has
been eliminated in that State or how
the Democrats can ignore Hearst in
next years gubernatorial and presi- |
Dental campaign. He is likely to be |
the undoing of the Democracy and |
make whatever prospects the party |
may have for electing President alb |
solutely hopeless.
ERNEST G. WALKER.