The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-07
CANDIDATES
STUMP|NC
Taft and Foraker Taking
Long Range Shots
at Each Other.
(MaI Special to the Advertiser.

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Secretary Taft has contributed TO
| 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. A 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, a very forceful opponent
by attacking the Secretary constantly
from the stump. He has not only
championed the anti-revisfon 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 SIS properly in favor of doing
all in our power for the 100000 of
brown people in the Philippines who
We're until recently entire strangers
and open enemies, but how about the
10,000,000 of black people in America, 4
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 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 little more than year.
Under such conditions, Senator'S 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 a career of
political hypocrisy.
He has already made good his prom
ise 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
nas claimed consistently that the
1lkins law, which he helped frame, was
adequate for the prosecution of trusts
and that the rate law, which he op-
posed, besides being unconstitutional
n his opinion, has not been helpful in
the situation. Time will DEM
,nstrate whether his contentious are
accurate. If they are, men who now
rown at the Senator and deprecate
he fight he is making will take their
lats off to him and his career in the
'ublic service will have an added Ius-
er. Some of the ablest lawyers of the
and are with him, although less fear !
ess men will not express their con-
lotions in the open.
A MASSACHUSETTS, FIGHTER.
Representative Samuel W. Mccall,
f the Harvard College district in {
has already come to the I
1pport of Senator Foraker in a public L
peech. He is one Of the most inde- r
endent Republicans in the National
louise and was one Of the few men, a
ers who voted against the rate bill. a
t the Marshfield Fair, held within a S
alf a mile of the homestead where 0
aniel Webster died, Mr.. Mccall the
her day deplored the centralizing ten V
ancy of the times. decried the evil t
fluences which he thinks sure to fol- b
W the imposition of such an enormous a
1e upon the Standard oil conpany-"a b
ne of such proportions that it allies b
self with the tribute which VIC b
rious nation imposes upon van s.
lished one, a fine that probably is 81
It greatly exceeded by the aggregate ls
all other fines imposed by our Fed "
al courts since the establishment OF C
e overnment'-decIared the suffi- p
ancy of the Elkins law to punish trust t
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