The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-21
BY Ernest G. Walker.

jovial ha ha every morning from Hot
Springs, Va, where the genial nominee
I" Bill" Taft is again summering. :"
Often before he goes out to the golf
course he takes fling at his distin-
guished opponent of Fairview.
And as the sun comes up over that
fertile expanse of Nebraska prairie, the
other "Bill" is Eliminating what his
daily fling at the most eminent sum,
mer resident of Hot Springs shall be.
Cautious though the rivals are, each
seems anxious to Etake a fall'' out Of
the other. Chip Taft talks it over
daily with his corps of newspaper at
PENDANTS in the Virginia mountains. He
talks with great abandon, tells the boys
to call him MIR. Taft or plain 'fBill =
just as they happen to feel like doing.
Unless the nominee puts an embargo
on his conversation, it is flashed out
daily to hundreds of newspapers and
the readers thereof are able to judge
something of the political gayety at
1.-The Springs in the midst of the
heated term.
''Bill of the Prairies, like "Bill of
the Mountains also has his corps Of
newspaper correspondents to talk to and
there is a similar output there every
twenty-four hours to accommodate both
the morning and the evening editions,
of course. ''Bill of the Prairies' talks
with the same abandon but he talks
less volubly than of yore and the tele-
graph wires say that when he talks
politics he always has his stenographer
right at his elbow to take it down.
That is what President Roosevelt often
does. A singed cat breads the fire.
" Bill Bryan has suffered greatly, his
friends claim, by misrepresentation and
misquotation in the years of his polit,
zeal life, now gone by. The stenograph.
er is his precautlon.
With this constant humping and give
and take between the two leading citi.
zens who have qualified to become ten
ants of the White House and who await
the word of the American people as to
which of them shall move in, it will
be no surprise if they get up a very
interesting duel before the campaign
reaches the autumn stage. Men, even
candidates for the Presidency, do not
talk back at each other in spirited
way very long, when so much is at
stake, without making vicious lunges
sooner or later. It is almost certainty
that both men will be on the stump
before the campaign is over and on the
stump they can pay their respects to
each other more vigorously.
Of course it is well understood that
Nominee Taft plans to conduct front
porch campaign and does not intend
to make many speeches. He proposes
to fortify himself by hard exercise at
golf all during August and with the
tan of the mountains upon his face to
descend into the plain through which
the Ohio flows and during September
and October to make things hum from
the vicinity of Brother Charles Gin
cinnati home.
Nominee Bryan has already announc-
ed that he will make a few speeches
during August and September, but that
he intends to "hike'' back to Fair
view before the brown October days
come and to devote those vital days OF
the campaign to writing signed pieces
and statements, touching and apper-
tanning to the issues that interest the
people. That, to his mind, is the more
dignified way. He prefers it to storm
ing about the country as he did IN his
previous campaigns. But after all Is
said, the growth of the campaign, which
promises to be a very hard fought cam
paign, will very likely project both of
the able aspirants upon the hustlngs.
AT least the politicians expect it.
Nominee sEBill'' at Hot Springs has
announced that he is going to advocate
cheaper justice for the masses. That IS
likely to be popular and may help him
-n4A n.
ognized that the courts are not as ac-
cessible to the poor man as to the rich
man. If the Republican standard
bearer can show how he will enable
one to avoid the laws delays and the
courts exactions, he would become in
deed a benefactor of his fellow Ameri-
cans. He is making a strong bid for
the favor of the masses, especially or
the laborng masses and seems TO be
gaining Roadway. His ieutenants are
filling away at President Samuel Com
pers. of the American Federation or
Labor, for trying to deliver the Fed
Grafton vote to Bryan and although
the abbreviated Gompers Is yelling at
the top of his voice that it is all lie,
that he has not attempted to make any
sucb delivery and that his words have
been distorted, numerous labor leaders
Republican or not or wheth,
or from self interest or otherwise Is not
known-are constantly hopping up and
the would-be dellverer or
their SURFACES >the Democratic party.
Nominee "Bill'' at Fairview is MAX
inc the most of the resembling of the
s2S. 500, 900 fine against the Standard
Oil Company, in spite of the frantic
efforts of President Roosevelt, Attorney
General Bonaparte, and other law off,
GERS to get the case back into court.
The Attorney General has written an
on;n;on against the guarantee of depos'
r. in National Banks and that has
caused a great howl from the Westward,
where Republicans as well as Democrats
90 inclined. it is said, to view the gov
eminent guarantee proposition as ex'
ceedinglv desirable As things look now
tbe government guarantee is looming as
a western issue. Bryan thinks 1t VIII