The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-02-21
The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
BLANKETED HUGHES TALK

Stealing tee HreSsSS0t'S official Clothes
and esampteasnx the issues wnicA the
President seems u have grown luke
wSrra about.
TIE town Is sssu talking of the clever
way in which The President e,aaSeseSi
the Hughes speecA. % course the
great reading public can stand only
Just sAoat 81 much mental paeulaul
per Gssss,> They read the Assgess thinS
II the morning papers, They talk dur
ssss the dSy about the esgSest thsns
that has happened. A President. ss-
rscsaiSy President Theodore Roosevelt.
turning himself loose on Congress and
swassing everybody IN sight who dis
agrees with him. is riGch more os q
popular attraction than Gov, Charles
& Hughes - New York. making .
sp~ecA before the Republican Clue ~
the Metropolis and thereby trying 10
reS6 himself into the Republican pres
sSsnttsl running, The President was
hot stuff, the man in the street would
say And he would describe Gov.
EOsAss as three lead dimes in COM
rS-ssc2.
Therefore President Roosevelt got
the center ~ the stage. His message
occUriSG s more prominent place on
the rrSt pSSe OF the newspapers than
the Hughes speech got. Furthe-more
the papers printed the message entire
and chopped Hughes speech down 20
= colcrnn o. two.
The President dii some clever ma
reave-irg % get into the iirlsl;sht az
such an op2orsuns time. He saw that
i was irnp0v,2nt 10 set that special
70 Congress Friday. not nec-
s>SSrily Thursday. which would be a
little too far ahead. but Friday. Com
SrsSS meets az noon. II he sent in the
az noon II would be read
forthwith The afternoon papers would
be fUll ot it. The corps OF washinSton
correspondents would load down the
wires with leads and comments That
would SET the people 70 talking in
every populOUS center about what the
President had done and whst the pop
Ci2r appetite for more the next morn
-rg- when there would have 10 be more
powerful editorial leaders. more Wash
,rs1on dispatches and more newspa-
Per space generally.
II the old leaders Of Senate and
House had not been caught mapping il
might have been different and the
President would not have gotten his
message before the public on Friday.
They have been kicking themselves
zn over the lot' that they did not
tumble il time
The Senate has been 2ijournins from
Thursday OVER 70 Monday. There is
little work 70 10 and Senators are not
fond Of OvsrwuTkinS themselves this
sSriy in the session when social and
11hsr functions are occupying a lot
y their time. They were likely 10
adjourn over from Thursday last week.
me leaders had figured il aI cut that
~zy- The President knew il and that
S2S Ehy he CslephOasi for MS person.
4 friend sDd spokesman. Senator Hen
> Cabot Lodge. 70 drop II al the White
House O1ceS OF the way down town
Thursday morning. When Senator
Lodge LETT the White House offices he
cossi grim and fo-biiiius but under
rs crOEn hs had some very interest
lg Information He proceeded b-iskly
. the Capitol he sought out 3 num-
l%r Of Senator's who. he thought,
night Ike 70 bring S1Ie measures be
o-e Cls Senate, especially Senator
Weldon B Hepburn, Of wallace, Idaho.
VIA ! struggling along 70 set 3
,s12l c,o1s bill passed he sought out
very possible Senator who might like
. have Ihs Senate IN session Friday
NJ then he went 70 the steering cOm-
1iItse and suggested that II would Os
7sI 70 adjourn over The old leaders
~ Al easy going lot, except when
hey sniff q plot This seemed iuno- I
SIT enough They preferred u please
@lzcOr Lodge II & matter that seemed T.
o simple Senator's did not have 10
tta1d the session Friday any way. Il
7lCld 11t last long probably anyway
nj 81 the Senate met
That made the receipt 0f the Pres
tents message possible, for while he
o1l5 have forwarded il If only the
io-S= Esr5 II session. he would not
ave Eksi % Do So And il the mean
Ds cl= White House had tslsphonsi I.
hurSizE % the Speakers room al the
aVitli - ascertain whether the House
-CCl6 d IN session Friday Ordinarily
does meet Friday but Speaker Can
a. after C1s Hrrls Eams had been
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: E1ul1 have adjourned the House
Tsr Friday had he stopped ID think
-1zt that inquiry from the White
-O1ss vas for-
Ths1 a. soo1 ss the Senate and
-0us= had adjourned Thursday night
u tEsre was ID preventing q session
rIdzy and thus II way q preventing
= delivery o The special message ,
= Presidents friends lst II leak out !
} TIE newspapers that thsrs vas =
zrTsl q h0r stuff due for the next
- a. non
Al II al Il Is REGARDED as one Of
= bssr sI=-UIsd and m0st effective ,
UPS -1zr Washington has s=s1 IL the :
lllticzl I1s fo- many. many moons
Il a. th= result q Il Congress starts
: alCtLe- week II grezr stress 0f i.
IND over ths Presidents message.
lrhs- rLs1 sb11t the 10miraci0n ot z
s21bliczu Candidate for the p-esi-
z1cE.
ERNEST 9. WALKER