The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-29

! ~NehLlOilcAi NbAAAit4AtLECs WHICH Is the lI1c1
chinery of the National Convention, t.
a degree, was inaugurated.
The leaders who participated in thu
meeting at Senator Dicks room woI
all along the line. They mustered Z
per cent. of the vote on the commit
tee for Chicago and they ran thing.
much to suit themselves. Apparently
there was harmony and aequiescence
Some of the Taft men voted for Chi.
cago, because the Eastern members
generally were averse to going t.
Kansas City. twelve hours farther
west, because they knew the accom-.
modations would not be as good and
| they could not be sure of a bath-tut
and a comfortable place to sleep. The
negroes were against Kansas City
because it is essentially a southern
city and they were afraid they would
be roughly treated. In Chicago, g
northern, although an anti-negro
city, they could hope for better things
CoRTELYoU AND TAFT.
The Cortelyou Presidential interests
/, figured in the slyly-conducted contest.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock is supposed to be doing all
| be can as the man who selects fourth
class postmasters to hold things in
/ favor of Mr.. Corte1you. He was hop
| ping around the corridors of the
Shoreham Hotel during the days the
committee was in session and is cred
| tied with having turned a sbunch of
| Southern members of the committee,
| who, of course, are Federal office
holders, to vote for Chicago.
The Taft people discIaimed from the
very start, as they might be expected
to do, that the selection of Chicago
was any setback for their cause
Nevertheless, the men who engineered
the work for Chicago, and who at the
eleventh hour began to show activity,
We're distinctly anti-Taft men. The
Taft boomers We're here in force. head
ed by Arthur I. Vorys, the Ohio man.
ager of the Secretary's interests.
THIRD TERM TALK.
Idle as it might seem, the third term
talk was a very prominent feature of
the two days meeting. 1t has been
proclaimed that the President will not
have third term, he has said Il in
conversations in the most positive way
and yet the President is cherishing the
third term talk so assiduously for the
purpose of confusing his opponents and
preventing the control OF affairs slip
ping from his hands, that a majority
of the politicians continue to be
dubious. They wonder whether the
President is not trying to create con-
ditions under which his nomination will
be the only way out for the party
1t is the custom for the National
Committee to call upon the President
and pay their respects and it is also
the custom for the National Commit |
tee to have a picture taken with the |
President on that occasion. Many |
members got it into their heads that |
the President was going to make a |
of his election night declara- |
ton and therefore the call was looked |
forward to with the keenest interest. |
The business was completed and along i
In the afternoon the committee march
ed from the Shoreham over to the east I
room of the White House They filed
in through the doors. There were
newspaper correspondents with the
party. The President directed that I
they come in also. This was regarded.
Turing the moments Of great suspense.
is a sure indication that the President
was going to reIIerate.
Nothing of the kind. The President
vas simply teasing. He had heard all
about the third term talk and about
he expectation that he would say
something. He had no intention of
aging anything. He expressed his
pleasure at meeting the members of
he committee, said he had done what
lie could to carry out their wishes as j
in 1904 and wanted to shake 4
lands with every one of them. He did 8
hake their hands and then the COM :
nittee filed out, none the wiser about :
he third term.
However, most of the committeeman. ,
" reason of their visit to Washing f
on, are convinced of the hollowness of +
he third term talk. They are aware \
hat the President does not intend to +
un again and will not accept the nomi- t
alton but that he is playing with the
emand for him from some sections OF y
ne country as a matter Of politics. LII
hey know now that he does not pro- r
ose to make any definite statement g
,r the present. because his political f
nemies would use it Immediately to a
leir own advantage. b
Recently some of the Presidents h
osest friends have been saying that T
anything in the world could per- r
iade him to take a denomination it is 8
lie bitterness OF the opposition to him. f.
he New York newspapers and a few q
agazines are denouncing him round C
in every issue. Some of these pub
cations have been OF immense help
the President, because their oppo-
ton strengthens him with a great b
flowing of people who think they see N
e hands of the criminal rich and OF d'
her powerful interests in the oppo- II
ton. But of late, in fact ever since p'
e money famine set in. this OPPOSE oil
IN has been especially aggressive and nj
times almost venomous. Recently VI