The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-04
By Ernest g. walker.
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President elect is keeping up splendid
speaking acquaintance with Washing
ton. He does not find it easy to re-
main away from here for any length of
time. Perhaps it is something of
habit, formed during the last four or
Ave years, to hasten back to the Fed
eral city occasionally.
About the time he cleared off his
desk at the War Department and start
ed to Hot Springs and Cincinnati as
candidate for the Presidency he heaved
deep sigh and remarked that he
might not be back for many months,
perhaps not till about Inauguration
time, and perhaps not then. He had
some doubts about the outcome of the
campaign. But allesamey," as the
Cinnamon say, he has kept drifting
back to dear old Washington, and he
promises to keep drifting back here
at intervals between now and March
4, 1909, when he goes to the Capitol,
takes the oath of office on the east front
and rides back up Pennsylvania avenue
as the new President of the United
States.
Twice now he has been a guest at the
White House of the Roosevelts. His
last visit there was over Sunday of
this week. The first time he came was
in the midst of the campaign, as he was
travelling New Yorkward. The poll
ticians said that was in very bad taste.
The country would resent it. A loss of
votes would result. Remember the
in Illinois about the SUGGESTIONS
Roosevelt, Taft, Roosevelt again, and
then Nick Longworthf' unused the
wise ones. The country will reason
that there is family community of in.
terests and that Taft is so sure of the
place ad interim between Roosevelt and
Roosevelt that he is going right up to
the White House as though he owned it.
1t will raise the cry of 'dynasties, and
then no Presidential candidate ever did
that way before"
But Mr.. Taft, in spite of all thu
eroaking, went to the White HOUSE
then without any bad results. And hi
accepted an invitation to go ther'
again, without any qualms whatever
He went to New York to make an ad
dress before the Prison Martyrs Asso
citation, and, travelling westward on hi
return trip, got into Washington lat
Saturday night, went to the Whit
House in the President IS carriage, an
was guest there till Sunday evenin
at 1880 o'clock, when he resumed hi
journey to Cincinnati.
The President-elect is very easy an
comfortable in the residence, which vii
be his for four years after March
OF course, he has been there many
many times, although he has been Their
very few times to remain over nigh
and to eat three meals a day there. II
knows the plan of the house from to
to bottom by this time, and has hi
opinion from actual experience as
what kind of a living place it will b.
Mrs. Taft did not accompany him o
his recent trip, but she has been CUES
in the White House, long before he
distinguished husband ever thought @
becoming President. Way back in til
time of President Hayes she visited tn
Hayes family for some time and 81
cured her first good glimpse of what lif
in Washington is.
The President-elect will probably b
in Washington at least twice again b,
fore the Inauguration. He is going t
New York to address the North Carr
Ina Association on the evening of N,
Vember Z, and will return here to r,
main several days, during which he wi
attend the convention of the Red eros
THAT visit, which will last four or fiy
days, will see him and Mrs. Taft
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Boar
man at their fine residence, 1901
street, just off Dupont Circle. Mi
Mabel Boardman, daughter, is seer
tary of the Red Cross Society. II
Boardmans are fine old family,
= wealth and social position, who fo
merly lived in Ohio, and have been i
innate friends of the Tafts for mar
years.
About the middle of December NJ
Taft will go to New York to visit
little with his brother, Harry Taft, al
it may be that he will stay in Was
ington for while as he returns sou
to Augusta, Georgia, for the winter,
These visits of the President-ele
have no small significance with ref
ence to the present administration a
to the next administration. Outward
these visits are incidental to his tri
to New York or to business he has
President of the Red Cross. 1t is fl