The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-30
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SURE FOR TAFT
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enough to be run over and rolled into
a macadamized roadway.
But all agree that the Secretary of
Wars boom is making progress and
acknowledge that the effort to con-
vince the country through the mighty
engines of publicity which the Taft
| boomers have at their command that
: it is all over but the shouting will
/ have some effect. Many thousands of
very wise people can be stampeded by
the cry that a given man is sure to
/ win in some political struggle. They
/ want TO be on the winning side and
awill get down off the fence at nothing
more formidable than a big noise.
The Secretary is working with
might and main to give his boom force
and Is earning whatever progress he
| rnay be making. For the Mex mon ii,
or two he will devote considerable ti,Ee
t., making addresses in several states
ana before that series of spec hes is
corclu!ed he expects to make it clear
| ~ the country where he stands on
most of the leading questions. He
started off at Boston, before -ha Mer-
chants Association, with an elaborate
i defense of President Roosevelt's ad-
| ministration. This was followed last
1 week with letter to toiler If Ohio
telling where the Secretary stood on
questions affecting organized labor
and a night or two later by an address
I at Cooper's Union. N. Y, about Capt.
tai and Labor. There the Secretary
answered lot Of questions and made
hit with his audience by his sharp
/ retorts and his good nature.
In the meantime Senator Foraker s
activities in Ohio are driving conster-
nation to the Taft camp. He is resist
ing the arrangements for a primary
just as fiercely as the Taft boomers
in many states and in Washington are
shouting that the fight is all over but
the shouting and that Taft. is going
to be nominated on the first ballot.
The Senator's friends in Cayuhoe2
county, which includes the city Of
Cleveland have made it so hot for the
Taftites that Representative I. T..
Burton has gone streaking back 10
Cleveland to assume command OF the
Tafti forces. An appeal has been made
: to that subcommittee of the National
Committee which dealt with the sub
iect j of the call for the convention
| whether the Ohio primary law can be
properly observed in the election Of
! deleaates. Two of the members of
that subcommittee, John w. Yerkas of
Kentucky, and Gen. Frank S. Streeter
of New Hampshire, the latter an ar
i dent Taft man and aspirant for the
! United States Senate, have decided
that the Ohio primaries are all right
and that delegates can be elected un-
der that law which the National con-
/ vention should recognize.
/ The advance which the Taft boom is
making continues to be quite as much
through the weakness of his opponents
as because of his own strength. There
is no one to oppose the Secretary OF
War with, as has been remarked very
many times. The favorite sons seem
to be making no Roadway outside OF
their own states. The Hughes boom
halts. as of yore, because of the air
of mystery with which the Governor
surrounds himself and his unwilling
ness to communicate his opinions on
public questions. The public mind IN
tbe western states has been poisoned
against him by the insinuations from
administration sources. Many ultra
Roosevelt advocates are very strongly
of the opinion that Gov. Hughes is moi
the kind of a man who ought to fiji
the Presidential chair and these views
are accumulated by reference to Gov
Hughes having once been the persona
attorney of John D. Rockefeller.
The strength of the Cannon boon
seems to have been waning ever since
the committees of the House of Repre-
sentatives were announced. There arr
forceful signs that the Speaker still
has his lightning rod up as high al
ever, but lot of members are sor'
over the way he treated them ant
his boom seems to be growing weaker
and weaker in the House, where in
, dividuals as well as the organization
of Republican members Were counted
upon to do wondrous things in push
ing his boom ahead.
! Only the choice OF delegates, as the
< conventions meet and declare prefer
ences, will determine just how strons
the rival candidates are. The Taft PEG
pie are trying to hasten conventions
the country over as much as possible
8 in the belief that, with the opposition
J so disorganized, Secretary Taft's op
portunity is to gather in all the dele
: gates possible at the earliest possible
day While an early state convention