The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-01

it be to say something by way of ap-
| prevail. lest it embarrass the President
| and his administration.
| 1t is an open secret in Washington,
! however that the Presidents attitude
I toward the Vice President has been
! far from friendly. He has frequently
given the Vice President dig and has
/ thumped the Fairbanks presidential
| boom in season and out of season. He
/ has even called writer's of articles re-
/ fecting on the Vice President to the
| White House and spoken cordially of
| both the articles and of the writer's
all of which, in due time reached the
Vice Presidents ears
AS the campaign for the nomination
progressed, the Vice President, usually
unperturbed by critics. showed keen
| resentment at the things the President
was doing to him and his boom The
activity of Federal Office holders
against him-which activity the Pres
fdent did not curb even if he did not
originate it-exhausted the Vice Pres
ident's patience. 1t became appa-
rent that he was ready when the right
opportunity offered to give some ex-
preston to his resentment.
The Vice Presidents speech at Chi
go the other day, decrying the pres
ent military tendencies and declaring
that we should provide adequately
for the national defense; the money
necessary 10 this end should be freely
expended, but beyond our reasonable
needs we should not go. Our Nation
al tranquility is not menaced from
without nor is our domestic peace
threatened from within was plainly
q roSo fn he
efforts to secure four battleships and
to the Presidents other assertion for
building up a great military power.
What the Vice President did say was
a great deal for him to say but people
here know that he could have said a
great deal more without exhausting
his present views in opposition to what
President Roosevelt is doing and plan
ming to do. Probably the result in
Kentucky the other day when the Fed
eraI office holders were active in TAX
ing away from the Vice President
big bunch of delegates spurred him on
to say what he did say. As soon as
Congress adjourns the Vice President
has several dates for the delivery of
addresses. The knowing ones here look
for something more in the line of pres
idential criticism when Mr.. Fairbanks
gets on the public platform again.
OF course the Vice President will
support the Republican ticket Loyalty
in the coming campaign, whatever be
the outcome of the Chicago convention
for he is nothing but loyal in party
matters, but he is not likely to make
as many speeches for the party this
year as he did four years ago. He
still goes to the White House OCCASION
ally and keeps on amicable terms out
wardly with the President but political
subjects are not preached. The Vice
Presidents friends are growing more
and more outspoken in condemnation
of the treatment he has received from
the President and talk more bitterly
about it than he does.
This is by no means the first time
that a President and Vice President
have not gotten along we'll together.
Tt was generally known that Vice
President Stevenson cordially disliked
President Cleveland and they had as
little intercourse with one another as
was possible.
ERNEST G. WALKER.