The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-02
0continued from yesterday

timely about the effective way in
which President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Taft are remembering some of
their old friends, especially the Pres
ident's old friends in Congress. The
President has had his fights many a
time and Oft with the Republican lead
ers in Congress. He has taken a stride
forward, demanding some reform legis-
iatfon. Radical. radical" the old
leaders in Senate and House have ex-
claimed. Those are Bryan's doctrines
You have no warrant from the party
to urge those new-fangled ideas upon
us There Is nothing in the National
platform about them. No, no.
But the President fought on and
some things he gained from Congress
and some things he did not get. Now
1t is the Presidents turn TO laugh. He
Is going TO put some of those reforms
right in the platform. The congress
sfonaI leaders and the allies are max
ing their firm stand against such de-
.clarations. but without much avail.
What they will save win afford them
little comfort. The President is all
powerful over the convention. He pro-
poses 10 commit the party to the radi-
cal platform. He is radical himself.
boasts Of 1t and proposes that the Re
puhlicans shall be the radical, not the
conservative party. He proposes TO
put Secretary Taft on radical plat
form. whether the Secretary wants it
or not, so there you are.
This has given rise to Some comment
and one hears in the convention about
Roosevelt Republicans and Taft Re-
publicans 1t means there is a plane of
cleavage between them and that Taft
is more conservative man than Roos-
evelt
Speaker Cannon. it should be added.
took his stand with the conservatives
early. Us it would be expected he would
do. He mas been the bulwark of the
conservative Republican forces in Con-
gress and the President has had to
fight with the Speaker for nearly all
the reform legislation he has secured
in the last four years. 1t had been
said that the Speaker would not come
near the convention but one day late
last week he suddenly appeared in
town and there was a rush of con-
gressional politicians and of allies to
get into touch with him. Senator Al
bert r. Hopkins, of Illinois, chairman
lutions and one OF the Speakers old
reliabIes, had a rough copy of the
Washington made platform in his in
side pocket and he came to show ii
to your Uncle Joseph" The meeting
was at the Union League club. where
these veteran Republicans also had a
luncheon.
The Speaker protested against the
populistic and class planks 1t was
fhe old story over again. He had fought
those things in Congress. And he said
things which many believe contained
an element of wisdom. Suppose we
adopt these populistic planks for an
anti-injuetion bill. for sweeping amend
ments to the Sherman law and for the
supervision of railroad securities, what
them" he asked. Suppose we are beat
en- this autuma, when the polling day
comes. We have been trying to out
Bryan Bryan. He may win in spite of
us What have we left? Our party
will be wrecked. We won't have any
principles to go back to- The country
will have said--I am supposing that
Bryan is elected-that 1t prefers Bryan
rather than Taft shall carry out the
radical policies,
But if we refuse to accept these
Bryan policies, il we stand by eur old
principles, LET them beat us at the polls.
Let Bryan have his four years in the
White House. We have sound prin-
ciples to rally around and we shall be
N shape for another campaign
Speaker Cannon's argument was mot
very impressive to the Roosevelt Re-
aublicans, who have been going ahead
With their original program Of COM
hitting the party irreVocably 70 radi-
caIism and of putting it on the same
basis as the Democrats are under the
read OF william Jennings Bryan.
CONSERVATIVES VS.. RADICALS.
In some respects this has been the
most interesting phase of the conven-
ton. 1t has marked the last desperate
battle Of the more conservative inter-
ests in the party and in fashion has
been duplication of the battle that
has been waging in Congress. Prob
ably Speaker Cannon at that confer
ence did not mean all he said about
the prospects of Bryan's election, None
the less ii was reiteratian Of much
Of the talk that one hears around the
convention. The Soreheads always have
their ptalnE. 4Bet fltsaHE StoD&AtS ~
dfetions when they do not get what
they want or when the power passes
frcm their hands. But no one can
overlook the fact that there Is very
peSsimistic tone here. The country
does not want TO believe that Bryan
is likely to be stronger as presiden-
tial candidate than he ever was before
or that. even with the chances always
favoring the election Of "A Republican /
president, Bryan stin has a better
chance Of election in 1903 than he had
in 1886 or in 1890 Nevertheless that Is
the kind of tax that is made in con-
fidentlai quarters among the Roosevelt !
Republicans. the Taft Republicans and /
tae anti Roosevelt Republicans. All
agree that they must grid themselves
fer a tremendous campaign
There is not the enthusiasm for Taft
that there might be. In the early
stages of the convention there vas
much talk about third term fcr the
President hut that was downed BY !
the big pledged vote for Taft which /