The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-08-07
THE BIG CHIEFS GETTING
INTO FORM FOR THE FIGHT
tMall Special to the Advcrtiscr.)

AMall Cp'cial w the AdNertltcr.l
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 90
Each week measures a little progress
toward the designation of our next
President. The candidates have been
taking few short steps during the
last seven days. 1t will yet be long
before they will reach full walking
stature. The long suffering political
public must have patience and note
the slow progress with fortitude. In.
FAINT nominees do not run at n swift
pace when they are less than n month
! old, but rather when they are three
months old.
For il is well to bear in mind that,
while the Presidential campaign is now
about year old, the preliminary
stages have really not been passed.
Candidates are designated just before
the sultry hot weather of July and
August sets in. They do not enter
the lists for giving and taking heavy
thumps till September. This year
, they will put on their thick mail hard
ly before the middle of September and,
perhaps, not till the early part of Oct.
: ober.
And yet the week just passing has
, been full of interesting preliminaries.
Bryan is still cropping about for a
National Chairman. He is having just
the experience that Taft had. The
men he wants to manage his campaign
. do not want to undertake tine job. 1t
looks as though he would have to throw
the lariat for some one, or take some
young man, as Taft did, who can make
: the National Craftsmanship a stepping
stone in his career.
Taft started a lap ahead in getting
the nomination of his party trio of
T weeks before Bryan got his. There
4 fore he is now in the throes of his
9 speech of acceptance. Bryan is more
nonchalant about his acceptance. He
; has written other speeches of accept
U ance. 1t behooves him to be very
r cautious, for the success of his cam
, paign before the American people is
> likely to depend considerably on his
:, ability to avoid making mistakes.
d None the less Mr.. Bryan is very .iaunty
l. about it and says he will give thought
/. occasionally to what he is going to say
On the other hand Taft, at his fine
D summer resort in Hot Springs, yir
o ginia, has been sitting up early and
a late and, as the saying goes, "sweat
i. ing blood about his speech. He wrote
rough draft and found that it con
u tanned 10000 words. He has beer
IS warned not to make it too long. There
l. are many advantages in short speeches
q especially in short speeches by Pres
!. dential candidates. The less can
'' ddate of either party writes the less
1t fubbdub he is likely to hand out the
much imposed upon political public
aforementioned, and the less likely he
is to say something that will return tc
roost over his headboard as he sleep.
Inf 10Th Thnn thn T.
been DINING it into the ears of Taf
- that his speech should be short. Now
adays it is well known that acceptanc,
| speeches are not made for the littl
company that gathers about n candi
date when he delivers it but for tn,
Mt millions who read the evening anC
~ morning issues of the daily newspapers
But the readers do not take kindly tt
10 long newspaper articles, whether they
q be presidential letters of acceptanc,
lie or articles about the latest homicid,
IL in the community. SO the newspape
editors and owners want short speecl
~ from Taft and they will probably ge
K it for the nominee has been ''boilin,
,r down.
,r And when the voters of the United
t. States of America get Taft's speech
y of acceptance, as they will on the
afternoon of July % and the morning
of July %, they must remember thai
he must also write a letter of accep
lance A week or two after the Taft
speech of acceptance they will have the
e. Bryan speech of acceptance, to be de
I'd livered as matter of fact, at Fair
III view. Nebraska, August ~. Then afte
m the Bryan speech of acceptance will
"a come the Taft letter of acceptance,
&, which will probably be one of the few
Republican campaign documents. L
will be longer and more studied thar
the speech of acceptance. Soon there
3 after look for another advance in tbs
slow but sure progress toward cam
paign in earnest and a hotly contested
a. election-the Bryan letter of accept
a. ance. 1t will be we'll along toward
the last of August before the candi
dates put down their pens and take NJ
their-perhaps it would be better t,
say open their mouths.
T. For it now appears that both candidate
are going to open their mouths m )re D
IS less frequently during the campaign
Candidates for the presidency Away
Il, make more or less speeches, but th,
he question invariably arises wbatL II IL,
T. people shall come to hear The rnndi
{ date OF the candidate shall go to tn,
y. people-shall travel about to con
u venient places for the people to as
semble.
1t became apparent some days ag
el that both the candidates are going t.
H. be wary of swinging around the circl
this autumn. Bryan used to do it il
L. his former campaigns and he Away
had whirlwind tours with tremendou
a, evidences of popular enthusiasm. Afte
all, however, only small percentag
of the yoters--a very, very small per
e. centage-can ever get within sound o
a candidate voice. The newspaper
y can take candidates. views TO yer
many more voters than any candidat
can hope to reach if he travels o.
special trains night and day and i'm
proves every opportunity for tail en-
effort.
Taft has made no speeches yet, bu
he has given number of informal in
i'm tervicws at Hot Springs, Va, which
ianother Xyav in which n candidate IN