The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-15


! planned to make but one. II was al
that time that arrangements were be-
| gun for a visit to Oklahoma 1t gave
| the Secretary more trouble. because OF
the turbulent situation in the new
State, than any other speaking date in
his busy life for the last eighteen
months.
The week of May the Secretary
| spent several days on a boat in Hamp-
! ton Roads resting, but took a few
| hours off to inspect the jamestown
| Exposition. He returned to Washing
| ton to remain in his office most of the
| time till May 81, when he was off ia
| New Haven to attend a meeting of the
| Yale corporation. Undaunted at the
| thought of a railroad train, he took a
| Sunday trip to Leesburg, Va, an
| hours ride from Washington, six days
| later starting for ST. Louis to address
| a millers' convention, and was back in
| Washington June /. The end of that
| week found him in Philadelphia, at
the invitation of Booker Washington.
attending a meeting of trustees for a
fund of S1,000,0 600 devoted to the funda-
mental education of negroes in the
oOutIis anu sum SuICAIiS liOAii d COlO
he had taken on his ST. Louis trip.
The afternoon of June s, the Wash
ington papers told how the chiefs in
the War Department We're crowdiug
into his anteroom and vying for a
chance to get his ear for moment on
public business before he took the
train for his trip into the far West to
inspect military posts. En- route he
spoke at Milwaukee, Davenport Min
neapolis, st. Paul, Sioux Falls, S. D.,
Ottawa, Kan. and other places on a
variety of occasions ranging from a
Chautauqua meeting to commercial
club banquet.
The Secretary was back from this
trip June q, feeling eft as a fiddle"
but June %, after stopping in Wash
ington long enough to take deep
breath. he started off to New Haven
to attend the Yale Commencement. He
tarried there several days and just
prior to July 4, started for Murray Bay
Canada, for a months vacation.
BY this time the Secretary was be-
ing pressed hard to give a political
statement but was very chary about
indicating for publication that he was
a candidate. Workers in the territory
where he had travelled had begun to
give hints about his campaign. Victor
Rosewater. at Omaha, who has been
designated as a delegate to the Chicago
convention, said then that 1.-THE Secre-
tary had been selecting men to look
after his campaign in Nebraska
His Murray Bay vacation, which was
occupied in considerable part with the
consideration of War Department BUSH
ness, came to a close August 10. The
Secretary Travelled to Washington by
i way of Oyster Bay, where he conferred
at length with President Roosevelt, ar
irving here August II. Six days later
he departed to keep IAN engagement
made long ago. to address a Republic
can gathering August 10, at Columbus,
/ Ohio. From that time on to Septembs r
10 when he sailed from Seattle on the
| Minnesota. for the Philippines, the Sec
! rotary was making a series OF speeches.
on his way across the country. He
/ spoke in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mis-
souri,, Colorado, Oregon and Washing
ton and arranged for a trip of several
days duration to the Yellowstone
Park.
The Secretary was back in his office
at the War Department December Il
for the first time after his round the
world trip to find the politicians from
many western states, crowding his
| ante-room The next day, December
%. his Ohio manager, Arthur Vorys,
was here for a long talk and the Sec
retary left forthwith for two days
visit to Cincinnati, along with his
brother, Henry w. Taft, 10 attend to
some family business. He was once
more in town Tuesday and the follow
! ing Sunday, December 20, left TO deliver
/ three Monday addresses in Boston, one
to the Merchants Association and was
once more in Washington the Wednes-
day following.
The address before the Merchants
/ Association was one Of the first Of a
political series. He had prepared with
/ care a talk on capital and labor. which
he delivered in New York January 10.
/ the first of his important addresses in
/ the calendar year of 1908. Having
winged his way back to Washington
/ early in the week, the Secretary was
away again January IA to speak before
! the Ohio Society at Philadelphia. by
/ that time fussy folks at the Capitoi
were complaining because his annual
; reports were not ready. The Secretary
/ had been working on his annual report
as head Of the War Department at odd
moments
| For the best part of three weeks he
remained here but on February ! left
| for an absence Of at least a week. to
make more speeches in the West He
spoke this time at several places, in
Guiding Kansas city, went by way OF
/ Chicago to Grand Rapids Michigan,
and Detroit. to West Point, where there
was a graduation of cadets, and TO
New England, and on February 20 was
at his desk again. He. had lived
twelve days on Pullman cars and in
hotels" and shortly took an hour off
for recreation" On the night Of the
following day he started for another
weekend trip TO deliver an address on
George Washington" before the Eli
colt Club. Of Buffalo.
The close Of the next week found the