The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-01
By Ernest G.. Walker.

Both the big candidates seem to hav
been afraid. They seem TO have bee
holding back in their campaigns for tn
.. permission of the American people t
occupy the White House for four years
Otherwise they would have been steE
ping forward more briskly to the en-
counter. They have been fencing diplc
maticaily-Taft to get the Republican
out of the defensive attitude, ant
Bryan to keep the Democrats in the ap
parent good position with which the.
started off.
Now, however, it looks as though
there was to be more earnest and like
wise more aggressive work. Each OF
the candidates has a speech or two il
his system. These speeches viii be de
livered this week for the edificatior
of the American public, and win prob
ably mark another step in the progress
| of the struggle between the two men
for political supremacy. Ex-Secretary
Taft is going to speak Friday at Hot
Springs, when he will address a large
delegation of Virginia Republicans. The
meeting has been planned largely for
the purpose of stirring up enthusiasm
among the Republicans of the Old Do
minion and to give them an impetus to
begin work TO get out as large a vote
as possible in November. It is not for
the purpose or with any hope of carry
ing the State for Taft in November.
For much as has been and is being said
about Republicans carrying Southern
and border States in November, there
is nothing in it, except as pertains to
Maryland.
But the Hot Springs speech of Fri
day is expected also to be return of
the rather cruel sETipes that Bryan
made at the Republican nominee in his
speech of acceptance at Lincoln. Mr..
Taft can be depended upon to aim few
hard blows. The public likes games of
fsticuffs, and will begin to take notice
al the verbal blows which the candi
dates promise to swing at each other.
Bryan's Effort in Installments.
Bryan has several speeches in prep
aration, although he classes them as
of the one long speech
that he is to deliver on the issues of
the campaign. He starts from Lincoln
Thursday of this week, and the follow
ing day (Friday), the same day that
Nominee Taft begins speaking, will de-
liver carefully prepared address at
Des Moines on the tariff. Iowa is UNI
lerstood to be a hotbed of revision SEN
5iment, and for that reason Mr.. Bryan
wants to launch his tariff revision
speech in sympathetic community.
He is really going to swing through the
some opportunity for himself to feel
he public pulse and to judge of the
manner in which his campaign is pro-
crossing. He stops off in Chicago at
he weekend to confer with the officials
md workers of the Democratic Ma
ional Committee, and Tuesday of next
week viii find him down at Indian
ipolis, where, after having attended
he notification ceremonies of Vice Pres
Dental Candidate John w. Kern, the
nominee wifi deliver a
peeeh on the trust question. Two days
alter, or August q, he will be in To-
,eka to deliver an address on the guar
lntee of bank deposits This is expect
d to be one of his interesting speeches,
because there is great interest in that
subject throughout Kansas.
If Nominee Taft makes few jabs at
Nominee Bryan on Friday of this week
t is entirely probable that Nominee
Bryan will promptly talk back. The
Sebraskan is eager for verbal mix-up
With his honorable opponent and
will go after him on the slightest
revocation. All in all, there is prom
Sc of considerable political gayety dur
ng the last two weeks of August. Vice
Candidate Sherman has
een notified this week and, of course,
ad speech, as Vice Presidential Can
idate Kern will have next week.
Taft Is Going Fishing. +
These late August efforts should do
luch toward launching the campaign
nd toward overcoming the reserve that
9th of the candidates have shown tol
ate. Mr.. Bryan is understood to have
Onsented reluctantly to going on
Jumping tours, but his managers in
sted upon it. The result will be watch
4 closely. His course in that particu-
lr is in strong contrast to the program
-ominee Taft has decided upon, for he !
going to keep on playing golf, even
lough it be rich man s game, as some
{ the plain Republican voters have !
cen complaining, and by September
i'll take up his residence at Cincinnati ,
nd make all his speeches from there. {
4 the meantime he is going on fish /
lg trip to Middle Bass Island, PUTIN G
ay, Ohio, an :, reinforced by exercise ]
t golf and by an outing in quest of ,
he gamey denizens of Lake Erie ex- 6
Gets to be in fine fettle for two months
{ hard political fray. 2
Although it is month since the 9
enver convention adjourned, there has f
cen little in the general trend of the '
loughts of voters to show any decisive I
1anges pro-Taft or pro-Bryan. The /
ampaign letter writers are having a f
ig inning. Those of pro-Taft ineli- c
alton have been flooding him with @
These proTaft letters t
IL him things are surely coming his l
ay. Horoscopes have been cast to O
low that Taft is going to be President. b
traw votes have been taken to the
me purpose Fact Fies have been f
.uyassed Ont AFT Fairyiew the daily In