The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-05
THE BIC CHIEFS GETTING
INTO FORM FOR THE FIGHT
Question of Campaign Managers and Speech
Making --Both Sides Getting After the
Organized Labor Vote.

are going to open their mouths more or
less frequently during the eampaign.
Candidates for the presidency always
make more or less speeches, but the
question invariably arises whctL r the
people shall come to hear he candi-
date or the candidate shall go to the
people-shall travel about to con-
venient places for the people to as
semble.
Tt became apparent some days ago
that both the candidates are going to
be wary of swinging around the circle
this autumn. Bryan used to do it in
his former campaigns and he always
had whirlwind tours with tremendous
evidences of popular enthusiasm. After
Tall, however, only a small percentage
of the voters--a very, very small per
centage-ean ever get within sound of
candidate g voice. The newspapers
can take a candidate S views to very
many more voters than any candidate
can hope to reach if he travels on
special trains night and day and i'm.
proves every opportunity for a tail end
effort.
Taft has made no speeches yet, but.
he has given a number of informal in
terviews atfHot Springs, Va, which is
another way in which a candidate can
reach the masses if he so desires. In
terviews are generally read more close.
~ than speeches, although candidates
are a little loath sometimes to give
interviews. Taft has dared it and has
gained the public ear thereby. Bryan.
too, has been giving similar interviews
at Fairyiew, for both candidates have
large body guard of newspaper cor
Loft cd ~ OH TaIn 4ha5r
daily doings But Bryan hos also been
making few speeches. He started
off with addressing enthusiastic dele
gates who stopped on their way home
from Denver. Delegations have been
visiting him since then and he has
been making addresses to them. That
was the way Mckinley conducted his
CO npaigns, his speeches having been
delivered from the famous front porch
at Canton.
Taft has promised to make a few
speeches outside of Cincicnati and Bry-
an Aas promised to make ten or twelve
Efforts away from Fairvi6w Neither
now contemplates a whirlwind tour,
but the campaign is yet young, very.
young, and it need be no surprise If
both candidates are on the stump pun
melting one another hot and heavy be-
fore the last of September days are
here. Taft is ready campaigner, has
had much experience and does not
shrink at making public addresses. His
friends say if he would write fewer
addresses and Just go before audiences
and give them frank talks about his
plans and about the issues, he would
be very suceessful-more successful
than he has been often in his written
speeches.
While Bryan gropes for a campaign
manager, Taft has campaign manager
in the field. National Chairman Frank
Fl. Hitchcock has already set his New
York headquarters in order, has speed
ed to 1.-THE West to get his Chicago head
quarters in order and is ntw at Colo
RADIO Springs, holding a great powwow
of Republican chiefs. THIS powwow is
of big Importance. All members of the
National Committee from states west
of the Missouri River and also from
most of the states between the Mis-
souri, and the Mississippi and the chair
men of the State Committees in those
have been called into
a conclave to deliberate and report, or
rather to report and deliberate. This
is an innovation in the management of
a presidential campaign. 1t is a rec