The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-27
A TREND TOWARDS BRYAN
WHICH CAN'T BE IGNORED
Taft Is Depended on to Explode the Peerless
Ones Arguments Bryan Says HeFHas
Already Won the Fight.

hard man to chew up before break
fast or any other time. He talks facts.
He's no ordinary windjammer. Calm
yourself Wait and see the people rise
up and give him tremendous and con-
tinuous ovation as he steams along on
his tour
Of course the country viii hang on
the words of these two Bills For, in
all seriousness, Taft trip through the
Middle West, beginning next week, is
very important one in the campaign
and is expected to be a tremendous
vote winner. The Republican managers
are counting upon it to arouse citizens
from their lethargy, to explode some
of Bryan IS arguments, and to bring the
doubters over into the Taft camp.
While Taft IS election is regarded as
certain, the fact remains that his Mid
die Western tour may after all decide
as to who win be the next President
Chance to Win the Backsliders
If the farmers and the toilers of the
West are deserving in great droves to
Bryan and if, as Bryan himself claims
today, he has the election won, provid-
ed he can only hold the strength he
now has, there is chance for the Re.
publican nominee to win back those
deserters from the faith. The tour will
give the Middle Western voters an Op.
portunity to take new measure of the
man and to pass judgment upon his
campaign arguments and to make up
their minds whether, after all. they pre-
fer Bryan for President for four years,
rather than the man whom President
Roosevelt has said Is best fitted to con-
tinue 4my policies"
In a few DAYS now President Roos-
evelt will ke back in Washington. The
fafiof comes from different quarters
that he is going to pitch into the cam
paign, that he will take a hand at
flaying Bryan, will tell the country that
there is no comparison between Bryan
and Taft, that Taft Is far and away
the best man for them and so on. The
frequent denials from Oyster Bay to
the effect that the President will not
make any speeches are still fresh in
! the public mind, but Chairman Hitch
cock and Mr. Taft's friends and lieu
tenants are importuning the President.
He is being told that should Taft by
any chance be defeated. when he (the
Presidency has kept his silence, the
Republican party viii hold him (the
/ President) responsible, him upon wnom
| ii has conferred the highest official hon
/ ors. They are telling him about the
! Western OBJECTIONS and about the
troubles they are having in stirring up
any enthusiasm and that he, more than
| any other living man, can give Bryan
an effective "swatting.'
Word from Roosevelt Expected.
Men who know the President well do
not believe he viii remain passive very
/ long under such representations. He
: likes to be in the midst of things.
He likes to clay on" and make the
other fellow cry "enough.' And even
/ though the President may refrain from
going upon the stump, there is great
confidence among the Republican man
ayers that inside of two or three weeks,
whenever the right time comes, he will
/ pen a letter to some friend, who has
obligingly written some inquiry to him
as to whether a doubling voter ought
/ to take Bryan or Taft as his ideal.
And the way the President will enlarge
upon the subject and the way he will
| thump thump at "Bill of the Prairies
viii set the boys in the trenches to
cheering like mad and will give the
campaign great life and spirit and will
enable ssBig Bill'' Taft to forge ahead
( i'm his quest for votes.
Meanwhile the vice presidential can
4 d5datesg The country seems TO have
lost them Who is paying much atten-
A tipA 10 Sherman or TO Kernf Usually
tb4 wee presidential candidates are
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faE IS no particular fault of either
3tinez sehooIeraft Sherman or of John
sqEt4 KekN that this ii not the con-
9;*ia1 zez. 'snsIlz the vice presideu-