The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-12
NATIONAL POLITICS IN
THE HOUSES OF CONGRESS
Phases of the Great Fight for the Republican
Nomination and Their Ways
Hawaii May Decide.

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 19.-An
Washington is now waiting with bated
breath for something to drop. AS the
has to do with booms it
night be more correct to say for some
hing to go up.
There has been an absolute presiden-
-ial calm for quite seven days. Almost
100 Representatives and almost 100
Senator's are acting like strong men
who have been taken off full diet
and compelled to live on one meal
day. They are as cross and fussy
without their daily pabulum of poli-
tics as the late Secretary Hay once
found a distinguished diplomat, with
whom he could make no progress in
negotiations for an important treaty
till the diplomat located a place where
he could have a stiff game Of whist
every evening.
Usually the morning papers bring
the Congressman a load or political
news There is no legislation, worth
talking about much. Then the presi-
Dental headquarters have been shut.
The big mahogany door to the little
office of the Secretary of War IS smut.
A visitor. if he comes properly ac-
credited, may walk in, right past prl-
vate secretary Carpenter-and see the
room where the big chief works. But
the telephone in the northwest corner
where the Secretary talks with all the
country-north south, east and west
this side of the Mississippi-when ne
is here. has not been ringing its head
off as it constantly does when the
Secretary sits within his office and the
high pitched Taft notes, as ne con-
verses with political leaders all over
this tremendous area, are not heard.
Up at the Capitol, headquarters or
the chief of the allied booms, Senator
w Murray Crane of Massachusetts,
are exceedingly uninviting Inc
double mahogany doors, of clouded
glass panels, are locked. Some people
think that Senator Crane, who repre-
SCENTS no particular boom, but is work.
ing for the common welfare OF the
anIl-I alt DOOitS olA tAAS SAANDAS
is quite as well to send delegates to
the Chicago convention unfnstructeo'
claiming also that 1--WE shall be just
as wise in June as we are noW' WIN
| he doing a few political stunts during
his absence. Some people would IKE 10
know whether he has not been holulhs
a confab or two with Gov. Hughes
who is something of a favorite in New
England
To add further to the political stag
nation, Representative William b
+, Mckinley. of Champaign, ILL.,, has left
| town.
THE FAIRBANKS STILL HUNT
The Fairbanks boom is moving along
| .hut it always did progress by very
ouiet. although, as many people be-
/ Iieve. bv very effective methods. FAR
| hanks continues to be the leading can
/ didate in point of delegates elected
for Tndiana's thirty have all beer
named and bound to stand under th'
Fairbanks colors. There is great rue
ton down in Kentucky. the ADJOINING
state where it seems to be on tn
cards for Mr.. Fairbanks to get aoou
twenty more delegates, in spite of tn
| Taft claims IIldt l4iC 49,
war was going to bag the entire oeie
CATION.
MANY visitors come to Washlngtol
asking the Vice President TO go GU
and deliver addresses. some cam
from Chicago the other day on sue
mission and within twenty-Iou
hours more came from Michigan, bid
ding him make a pilgrimage into tnel
s+a+a He waived them all aside coui
+aous1v During sessions of congress
he makes no speeches that will tax
hin, awav from the Senate. In tn
+h,aa wears that he has been the pre-
siding officer of that body he has mao
record which probably no other VIC
president ever made. He mas pee
obsant only two days and that was
attend a general Methodist conIefeht
AZ birmingham, Ala. Wnere one
the leading topics for considerable
was the unifcation Of the mortimer
or5 southern branches of that faiti
y He is much interested IN seeing u
q two churches become one
Tn in his library on the thlrd llot
of his washington residence the NN
II President has seven large tan w
4 ,,,,es They contain the typeWrltte
Il manuscript on long pages OF ever
N e,,aacb he has made since ne oecaii
III x+;ca President. He has had praet
n ca1,v no vacation in that time. Il
when Congress adiourns he speh'
ahont all of his time travelling to al
fro and accepting the invitations
eraak. Most Of these addresses
N about civic topics. When he goes
n Low cornerstone for = NJ. Z.
~ h,iilding or to address sunday SEM
ha never talks politics. He taxes |
III found that on those and similar
ID % sfons he has no right to partlelpa
m IN noliticaI discussion or to inject an
M self as vice President of all the peol
Id 80 ,o1itics But when campal
comes on he speaks on polltics'
III FORAKER THE FIGHTER
Tn all the political calm Senator r.
o,-ar of Ohio. has stood out as a '1lo
III aanenieuous figure than ever ai9
III so,7rrefuIness as fighter was ne'
&& When he seems