The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-18

should not have the support Of tvs
postmasters as well as for Senator
/ Foraker TO have them.
So the Hughes boom looms and th'
/ prospects for a big contest for th'
nomination increases. The lines ar.
! taut IN Washington. The word comes
from many sections that there is sup
/ port for Hughes in spots and the poll
tieians are wondering whether the spots
viii run together and great deal OF
territory be marshaled for the New
Yorker 5 nomination.
Some pooh-pooh the Hughes boom,
however. They say it Is too late and
that be ought to have come cut two
or three weeks ago at least, before the
Taft boom had made such Roadway.
That IS clearly minority view, for the
state and district conventions are q
long way of and the National eonven-
ton win not be held till next June.
The Cannon people welcome the appear
ance Of Hughes IN the race, because IT
checks the Secretary Of War, but they
are also very perky" because they
claim that the Speaker is making SPLEEN
did progress, even though the work in
his behalf is being done quickly. They
even intimate that in the eoursesof a
couple of months the race viii be be-
tween Taft and Cannon rather than
between Taft and Hughes.
Two delegates only, out of almost
1000, have yet been elected and those
were in an Oklahoma Congressional dis
4rict. The Taft boomers out there were
the first to get TO the telegraph office
and they flooded the country with dis
patches that these two delegates had
been instructed to vote for Taft s nom
ination. Others, who say they ought to
know, declare that the delegates were
not instructed for Taft and that it was
a case of trying TO create a favorable
for Taft, when there was no
favorable action. In the course Of two
or three weeks now some conventions
win be held in the West and viii give
definite indication as to whether the
of War is as strong in that
section of the country as he claims 10
be and whether the Hughes boom has
the support claimed for it in the nat
urally pro-Taft territory.
Great emphasis is being given just |
now by administration officials on the
harm of infammatory newspaper arti-
sles on foreign nations and foreign peo-
pie. For. some reason these authorities
are dwelling upon the matter with spe-
eiaI earnestness. This is not inter
preted here as meaning that there is
hanger of hostilities but rather that in
recent times the effect of such publiea-
ions has been to strain relations with
foreign governments, presumably with
Japan.
The President complained much last
rear about the obstacles that Pacific
coast men and Pacific Coast newspapers
tut in his way as he tried to reach an
lmicable agreement with Japan. Some
weeks ago he reiterated those protests
md also observed that the publication
If war articles in Partisan newspapers,
which were eabled to the United States,
Tere annoying in several ways.
1t has been noted here that foreign
governments pay much more attention
o what the American newspapers say
han to what the White House and the
State Department say and do. Refee-
ions upon foreign people, such as the
Japanese, when printed in American
even of the sensational
lass. are resented. The foreign point
f view is different than our own. The |
masses In Europe as well as in the