The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-06-07

aud otherwise over the country. Man.
calls could well be dispensed with. hu
Il Is not 80 easy to separate the whca
from the chat. No other man In this
country has such opportunity for meet
ing people and nsceriaining the popular
mind AZ has the President. True, moi
all who come to him tell Of conditions
ne they are. but rather OF conditions a,
they think the President would like "a
have them. But the President has hun
dreds of unbiased sources of informa'
ton.
His most interesting work continues
to be political and has reference to his
own successor. His men are coming
and going constantly with reports from
many states. They are not heralded
and only by some little bit Of informa-
ton that comes TO light accidentally
from time to time, does one grasp the
significance of the activity.
CLEVELAND ON ROOSEVELT.
Some years ago President Cleveland
was sitting at the head OF his cabinet
table at one of the biweckly meetings.
Richard Olney. then Attorney General,
was near. The conversation was about
the Republican chairman of the Civil
Service Commission.
II have been watching that man for
some time" said President Cleveland
to Mr.. Olney. Il do not know whether
/ shall knock him out of the box or
otherwise. He is one of the smartest
politicians in this country. Keep your
eye on him.
Mr. Cleveland was speaking of Theo-
dore Roosevelt. The man who is now
the only living ex-President evidently
saw into the future, although probably
he did not see that the Republican
chairman of the Civil Service Commits
sion would some day sit where he was
sitting and with the same authority
over country of more millions of peo-
pie and more square miles of territory.
Soon after Congress adjourned Pres
ident Roosevelt was playing his game
of politics in, the open. Now he is
playing it in secret. He played the
suited his purposes. Now he is play
ing it in secret for the same good rea-
sons.
Hence the wide speculation about re-
suits. There is plenty of activity in
the states, although thus far largely
confined to the bosses and managers
and members of state and county COM
mittees. The President is still with the
Taft boom. For a while some of Sec
rotary Taft's friends feared he might
desert it. The President became aware
that too open championship of his Sec
rotary of War might injure the cause.
When the President insisted on pum-
melting Senator Foraker and of driving
him out of public life, the rival can
didates for the Presidency were gleeful.
They said that meant universal knitting
in Ohio. 1t would retard the Tart boom
in Buckeyedom and also in other
states.
Perhaps they chortled too soon. It
to be seen. There have been
so many statements and commensurate
ments from Ohio that the public is
losing interest, although the endorse
ment of the Secretary for the nominal
ton seems to be assured. The fact is be-
impressed gradually upon the
public mind. 1t may help the Secre-
tary to endorsements in other states or
1t may not. The situation on that point
is delightfully."- uncertain. Senator For
aker in one of his fiery outputs, says
the assertions of committeeman do not
count; that only state conventions have
authority to endorse. He has truth on
his side. But members of state COM
mittees are coming out into the open.
has recently pledged delegates
to Taft through resolution of the
state committee. Kansas is one OF the
Sooner" states to use a quotation from
Speaker Cannon, who at Albany the
other day, told sarcastically of the
dogs of his boyhood days out on the
that were first to give tongue,
but never got in at the death.
FORAKER A FIGHTER.
Senator Foraker has tremendous
fighting power. From here in Wash
lngton he is now conducting two big
ights-one for endorsement for reelec-
ton to the Senate, another for the vim
dication of the colored soldiers of the
rwenty-fifth Infantry whom the Pres
dent discharged without honor for
in the shooting up of
Brownsville. He does not say it in any
Of his public statements but in his pri-
vate conversations the Senator is say
ing that the Taft following in Ohio
has chosen to have a fight and that
ne proposes to give them all they want.
He has been ready to make peace and
told them SO, but he will not consent
10 a peace which calls for his retire.
nent to private life. He is not anxious,
ne says, to stay in the Senate but he
Toes not propose to be driven from
he Senate at the behest of anyone ex-
'ept the people of Ohio-his constltu-
snts.
Further the Senator is telling his
riends that, as Taft's lleutenants are
lighting him In this fashion he will
light back and that opponents In Ohio
VIII find themselves with divided del
'gation for their favorite. He thinks
lie is certain of a few Ohio delegates
o the next National convention who
viii follow him and who will not sup /
'ort the Secretary.
The declarations OF negroes for the
are giving the President and
lis administration some uneasiness.
low much IL signifies can not be told
'et. Republicans know that the ne
'roes have become resentful in recent