The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-26
QUARRELs ARE
SERIOUS ONES
Dissension in Party Hurting the
Republican Chances
for Success.
By Ernest G.. Walker.

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., August 10
Are the Republicans going to settle up
their quarrels2 The well wishers of
the party are beginning to ask that
question with all seriousness. For
while Nominee Taft is the apostle Of
Peace and has been doing much to
place the olive branch in the hands of
all concerned, the month of August Is
slipping away and some of the Repub.
lican fights are quite as acute as ever.
Republican quarrels are not allowed
to distract well informed men as a
rule Hard as the party fights before
conventions, its factions are accustomed
to close the ranks after conventions.
August is usually the great month for
the Republican peacemakers. The
quarrels this year have been of an ag-
gravated character and the month of
September, when the presidential cam
inside its own lines. The old and prac-
ticed peacemakers seem to have retired
this year. New men are at the helm
and thew are not as skillful as some
of the oldsters were.
The quarrel in Ohio is an example.
No matter what the plausible takers
say, the Buckeye state is not at all
certain for Taft this autumn, as matters
stand today. That is not altogether
because the Republican state central
committee has recently seen fit to slap
ing to invite him to speak at the open
ing of the campaign in Youngstown.
There are half dozen elements of Sc
rious diseord among the Ohio Repubi-
cans. These would not be serious were
there somebody with the acumen and
the diplomacy to adjust differences and
get all the Republicans into line for
the ticket.
The Germans are not going to vote
for the Republican state nominees this
autumn, because of Gov. Harris s atti-
tude on the liquor question. Hereto
fore most of these voters have been
with the Republicans. 1t is claimed
that many of them can yet be won over,
but nobody is taking hold of the task
and working out satisfactory solu-
ton. The negroes are apparently will
ing to vote for Taft in Ohio, but if
Senator Foraker is treated with indig-
nifty by the party leaders these negroes
will resent it. If there is one thing
that will turn the Ohio negroes against
Taft it is unjust treatment of their
Ohio champion, Senator Foraker.
With September days approaching,
the Indiana Republicans are fighting
among themselves; so are the Illinois
Republicans. In each state the breach
is wide. The eagerness with which
Democrats are seeking nominations for
office in both states speaks for itself.
Often it is next to impossible to per.
suade the big Democrats in those states
to run for offices. The Republicans in
Wisconsin are fighting; ditto the Re.
publicans in Iowa, ditto the Republicans
in Kansas. One of the ugliest party
fights of the year is on in West Vir-
ginia In New York the Republicans
are demoralized and pulling at cross
purposes as to whether Gov. Hughes
shall be nominated.
Party fights of this character FREEDOM
mated within the Republican party in
1892 when the Democrats swept every
thing and elected Cleveland for another
term. There have been party fights
galore since, with this difference that
the Republicans have settled their quar-
rels during Angnst The Democrats in