The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-24


TO reason that the members are will
out influence Mt Washington.
Some Of these men who do not lik
TO PROSTATE themselves before th
third term movement are coming ou
for the nomination Of Secretary Tai
because they reason that that viii
please the President. lie has made n
formal statement Of his preference TO
the nomination Of the Secretary Of Wal
although il is known that he is work
ing to that end. The Federal Office
holders in many States are also il
about the same fix, for they realiz
that IL is serious matter to declar,
for the nomination of any other can
didate than Taft. This is particular,
true in the southern States, where the
President is using patronage with q
vengeance to further his plans for max
ing the next national convention bow
to his will.
Thus the strange political situation
| in the Republican party grows more
complicated every week, and no one
knows just what the outcome Will be
| The sincerity of a large army of Re-
publican Senator's, members and other
officeholders is a matter of doubt, and
there is no telling but what, as the
time for electing delegates to the ma.
tlonal convention draws near next win
ter, they may desert the President. BY
that time he will have only year re-
naming of his term and the nearer he
comes to private life the less regard
the officeholders will have for him.
There is a likelihood that this will be
true in the South, as the President
has been severe on officeholders there.
as compared with the treatment they
have had from former Republican adj
ministrations.
Then it is also a question whether
the Southern officeholders will take
kindly to the candidacy of Secretary
Taft. Already copies of speech that
the Secretary made last year to the
Republican state convention at Green's
boro, N. c., are being circulated exten.
svely throughout that section. In this
SptSIli upDl Vic couthCih nv
publicans for being governed by offices
holders and for being in politics chief
ly for the Federal places. The speech
caused much comment in the South at
the time and did not enhance the es-
TEEN in which the Secretary of War
was held by the Republicans there.
Now they are being reminded that they
would have little to hope for, should
the Secretary be nominated and elect
ed as President of the United States.
The political warfare in Ohio between
the Taft and Foraker factions goes on
with great eruptions of hot air. The
Taft followers here claim that Sem
ators Foraker and Dick are quitting.
The Foraker supporters here say that
Secretary Taft is getting very sick of
his bargain and wishes he were out of
the Presidential running, as they think
he will be before another spring rolls
round. Both sides are playing distinct
politics from Washington, and the best
informed people here believe the fight
is likely to be very close.
1t is known that Secretary Taft fears
Senator Foraker will be endorsed for
reelection as Senator, whatever the OUT
come of the struggle for Presidential
delegates may be. That might mean
the loss of the next Legislature ana
also the loss of the State in the Pres
idential campaign. The Taft men have
had some careful canvassing done in
the cities and they say it is by no
means certain that Bryan can not cap
ture Ohio.
conclude
the large cities of the State, unless it
be Cincinnati, may elect Democratic
of the Legislature. There is
big radical element in the Ohio cities. |
the factional fight is
growing so bitter among the Republic
cans that 1t will be difficult to get them
to the polls for one ticket in Novem-
Der, 1908.
The Foraker press bureau and the
Taft press bureau are busily at work
here in Washington. The Taft press
bureau says Senator Foraker is now
trying to run away from a primary and
that he is doing this because he has
seen the State is against him The
Foraker press bureau here is saying
nat President Roosevelt is opposing an
Early primary because he is satisfied,
after careful investigation of the
situation, that Secretary Taft can no,
win the four delegates at large and that
he (the Presidency would interpret the
allure of Ohio to elect Taft delegates
rs rebuke to his administration,
which would weaken his influence with
Congress and encourage anti-admin-
stration Republicans in other States
o raise the standard of political re.
'olt. Probably the truth is that both
tides are afraid to make the test IN
ohio
The Foraker press bureau In WASH
ngton is also making much of the fact
nat President Roosevelt may at any
line desert the Taft boom, as he has
deserted other causes the moment he
las seen they were doomed to go down.
There is no doubt that the Taft boom
RS feel little uneasy on that point,
ut present the President is
behind Secretary Taft and
'roclaims TO callers that he wants Taft
dominated. But he has said several
lines, also, that he wants above all
Kings man of the Taft type, and, of
curse, he might slip away from the
ohio supporters of the Secretary of
War at "A critical moment II he saw
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