The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-01-10

? been peering into the future to Sc
. what the effect of the reiteration wi
!, be. II is plain that there must be
!. realignment of booms forthwith. !
few weeks may be necessary for thing
to settle down so that the aspirant
5 can say just where they are at" on
4 effect has been to emphasize the ex
istence of the Cortelyou boom and I,
lay bare the fact that II has beer
growing tremendously. although littl
observed. The prophets are divided
: about the prospects of that boom
2 Some of them say it is bound to grow
because of the secretary's popularit,
, with organized labor. with financiers
with the old Hanna crowd of the Re
publican organization. and. as a youns
man who has risen through his owr
, efforts in the Civil Service, with tht
country generally. There are other
prophets who insist that the Cortelyor
boom will collapse. now that it has
been exposed. because he will be char
lacterized as the bankers candidate. or
account of his operations in Wall
street during the recent panic.
Possibly the most serious phase OF
the situation, is that il discloses two
This has given rise to wide spread ru-
mors that both Secretary Cortelyou
and Secretary Taft would resign.
There is no foundation for belief that
either will resign Immediately but
there is foundation for the belief that,
if both remain as active, aggressive
candidates, one of them. at least, must
resign. The usefulness of the two Sec
retaries in the cabinet would be i'm
paired. if their thoughts were centered
chiefly on winning the nomination and
/ it would become intolerable to the
President, who would inevitably be
drawn into the struggle. He could hard
ly avoid showing favor for either the
campaign from the War Department
or for the campaign from the Treasury
Department. Then as Secretary Taft
was plainly the Presidents first choice,
he would be annoyed by the progress
of the Cortelyou boom, which, up TO
date. has done better than the Taft
boom has done under Presidential
management.
Some of the big and influential men
of the country are very highly pleas
ed at Secretary Cortelyou's admins
tFation of the Treasury Department
and the President could not dispense
with Mr.. Cortelyou's services without
arousing a tremendous storm of pro-
test. Financial matters are not any
too settled at present and the Pres
ident would not think of making any
change in the Treasury portfolio at
the present time. 1t would be very
like swapping a good horse in mid
stream for some other, whose qualities
had not been proven. And yet, certain
as the things already mentioned are,
the President is distrustful, or claims
to be, of Secretary Cortelyou's polit-
ical activities and is not quite will
ing TO forgive his Secretary of the
Treasury for having done better in
booming himself than the President
was able to do in person for the Sec
retary of War.
All the Republican booms will now
be reorganized on a new basis but the
organizations of Taft and Cortelyou
will probably be most watched just
for the present. Secretary Cortelyou
has recently said that he does not
know yet just what he will do in the
way of organization. He has made
no formal announcement of his can
didacy, but he has told his friends
that he feels he has right II a
Presidential ambition and that, as long
as the President does not want the
place himself, he can not bind men,
bers of his cabinet in fairness to work
for any candidate of his choice.
When he gets back to Washington
this week Secretary Taft will be the
recipient of lot of advice as to what
he ought to do to promote his political |
prospects. He will be urged, among
other things, to get rid of Arthur 1. |
Vorys, his manager, who, some claim, |
has botched things all along the line. |
Mr.. Vorys, or someone acting in his !,
stead. has done some very silly things |
that nave hurt the cause of his chief |
But, possibly, some of the opposition |
to him comes from the secretary's /
rivals, who naturally would not think
been tactless in invading the home
states of favorite sons. He has vio-
lated an unwritten law. observed by
politicians in that regard, for it is a
rule of political etiquette that an as
pirant for office must not prosecute his
in his rivaPs front yard. Mr.
Vorys has bumped into the Knox boom
and the Cannon boom, in that way
with the result that there has been
a reaction against Secretary Taft in
those particular localities. Probably
Secretary Taft you'd have been the
second choice Oh some of the Indiana
but foka foolish invasion of
Indiana by Taft lieutenants.
Here in Washington. too, Mr. Vorys
has been drawing political anathemas
upon his own head. He has stirred
up trouble with the candidates and
caused himself TO be sincerely hated
by Secretary Cortelyou, Senator For
aker. Vice President Fairbanks and
others. Such things make the friends
1f candidates mad and they work hard
er than ever, as hard as mad men
,an work for the sake of getting even
Very much will depend upon the at
-itude of the President toward the
Taft boom. He told a friend of Speak
ar Cannon, the other day, that he
thought it his duty now to do all in
his power to promote harmony within