The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-08-07

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was the way Mckinley conducted his
campaigns, his speeches having been
delivered from the famous front porch
at Canton.
Taft has promised TO make n few
speeches outside Of Cincinnati and Bry.
an has promised to make ten or twelve
efforts away from Fairview. Neither
now contemplates n whirlwind tour,
but the campaign is yet young, very
Young, and il need be no surprise IL
both candidates are on the stump pun
melting one another hot and heavy be-
fore the last of September days are
here. Taft is a 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 successful-more successful
than he has been often in his written
speeches.
While Bryan gropes for campaign
manager, Taft has a campaign manager
in the field. National Chairman Frank
H. Hitchcock has already set his New
York headquarters in order, has speed
ed to the West to get his Chicago head
quarters in order and is MY 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
commonwealths, have been called into
10 70 20 I'D
rather to report and deliberate. This
; is an innovation in the management of
presidential campaign. 1t is n rec
, ognition of the fight the Republicans
have on their hands in the west and of
; the fact that the Presidency is to be
won or lost by the Republicans in the
, Western country. Another similar
conference will be held in Chicago in
early August for the states of the Mid
, die West and still another conference
at New York later in August for the
:. states of the East. Detailed state
e ments are expected from all the visit
: ors by which the National Chairman
l will be put into touch with the con
: ditions among the voters of divers
G localities. When the last of the three
: conferences are held he will have a
n pretty general idea of what is required
Q for the campaign and can settle down
, at his headquarters in Chicago or New
i York and begin operations in earnest
: Therefore the Republicans, as usual
promise to have their campaign ON a
g business like basis from the start and
C will likely have some advantage over
e their political opponents in that regard
o There has been some rather interest
s ing play over the matter of campaign
g contributions. Nominee Taft has made
t the latest move in that particular anC
= yet to date Nominee Bryan is trifl,
e ahead of him in respect to the popular
o sentiment about campaign contribu
i tiOns. First the Denver convention
g declared against any contributions
d from corporations and for publicity OF
J. contributions The Oh cago convention
o turned down a plank of that kind by
y a decided vote. The Denver conven
e ton had adjourned but few days be
Q fore the Democratic Committee, at Mr.
r Bryan's instance, declared that the
h provisions of that plank would bt
It observed in their campaign this year
G But Republican National Treasurer
Sheldon, of New York, with Nominee
Taft's approval, announced that the
h list of their contributors would b,
Q made public after cleo ton. Bryan took
g advantage of this by announcing that
t all Democratic contributions of more
y than 800 would be made public or
t October 10. Treasurer Sheldon said
e that contributions to the Republican
J. fund would be accepted f.om corpor
: atoms.
Y Things drifted along with these an
u nouncements before the public severa
,. days, The New York papers began IL
v print copies of the federal law, adopt
t ed at the instance chiefly of Senator.
n Tillman, of South Carolina, and Cul
! berson, of Texas, forbidding contribu
g tions to federal elections by corpora
|. tions under heavy penalty. And the
d last development by Nominee Tart nov
: is that no corporate contributions will
d be accepted for his campaign. Tha
i comes nearer to putting the two can
p didates on a level. The alacrity will
o which the Republicans have come NJ
to Bryan in that regard shows the re
% spect candidates for the Presidency
!. if it be public sentiment which
Q part created. Some think that Nomi
o nee Taft, before much time goes by
j. will have to consent to making the lis
e of his contributors public by October
l. 10, as Bryan has pledged himself to do
s. The whole proceeding means that tn
public is sure to know a great dea
o more this year, than it has ever befor
o known in presidential year, about tn,
q money that is used to corral voters TO
n either of the big parties and where i
70 comes from. There will hardly be an,
Is big corruption fund this year for tn,
.r Republicans, although they will un
.e doubtedly have plenty OF cash for thei
r. operations. Taft has made no appea
# for. funds, but Bryan is already on
rs with a stirring circular letter to tn
y farmers, who, he and vice presidential
e candidate Kern say, should come t,
n the support of the Democratic tickle
d. in this year of grace.
d The biggest of all the present politi
cal rumpusses, however, seems to b.
1t about the attitude of the organizel
n labor vote. For the time being tn
is union labor leaders certainly have tn
" center of the stage and are telling th