The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-09
BY Ernest @. walker.
Tail Special TO the Advertiser) !.

WASHINGTON, d. c., September 10.
Bryan is this minute in the heart of
| the Enemy county, Taft is put.
ting on his travelling clothes, packing
his grip and making ready for the train
that has steam up for a trip into what
| is claimed to be Organs country
One t. Roosevelt is pacing impaticntly
on his front porch at Sycamore Hill and
peeking upward occasionally as the big
thunder clouds push up over the hori-
zon. Whoop-lal The campaign is get.
ting gay.
Yes, the Republicans are a little
scared. 1t is not the scare that pre-
eedes the passing of the hat. No, it
does not necessarily mean that Bryan
is going to be elected President of the
United States. 1t means that the Re-
publieans are waking up, that they now
realize what some folks were saying a
month or two months ago that William
Jennings Bryan is an exceedingly
strong presidential candidate-for the
Democratic party to have-and that
nothing can be taken for granted. The
Republicans have been deprived of
some of their old time implements for
use in campaign time. They have n
big job ahead to keep w. J. b. from
getting into the White House.
But the Republicans are big enough
and heavy enough for that job, the wise
men generally agree. They are going
to quit loafing around the house and
go out into the field. They must.
Some Trend Toward Bryan.
There is trend toward Bryan. It
! can not be ignored. How much it is
election day will disclose. AS he has
iourneyed Eastward through Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland
, and into New York, the evidences of
friendly regard for him have multi.
piled. Perhaps it is the same kind of
. Friendly regard and of wild enthusiasm
that was shown for him on the stump
/ in 1896 and again in 1900. Perhaps!
Who can say9 The trained politicians,
| and possibly better still the trained
) newspaper observers, who have lived in
D Washington long enough to care little
/ | in the abstract whether one party or
/ another is in power, say these Bryan
4 demonstrations have been little short OF
, wonderful. They say the enthusiasm OF
| the farmers, laboring men and of Others
a who toll is not to be sneered at The
9 Republicans must reckon with it.
| OF course there is the old answer
r Probably no presidential candidate OF
: the stump was greeted with more en-
r thusiasm than was shown for the late
James G.. Blaine, and yet he was beaten
/ on election day. The Republicans say
0 that voters cheer Bryan Is speeches and
t vote against him. This year Bryan &
+ speeches are little different than OF
: yore He continues to conduct his cam
d paign with more discretion and calm
/, ness. His speeches are addressed more
h to the intelligence than to the impulse:
d of the voters, which is evidenced by the
IS way the Republicans have to take no
/. tice of his assertions.
IS Wait Till "Big Bill Speaks Up.
But "Big Bill" of Cincinnati il
i making ready. When the enginee
- turns on the steam and the train, tina
' carries the Republican nominee as it
'e most distinguished passenger, pulls on
:, of the station for that Republican tou
IL of the erstwhile Republican states o.
e Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Ne
% brAska, etc., etc., look out.
y, , oh, Bryan will eat him alive SOM
l. morning before breakfast" say tn,
3 Democratic enthusiasts. "It's reall,
a shame. Why don't somebody tel
e Taft to stay at home. The front porcl
campaign is the thing for him. H,
/ can 7 get hurt much speaking there"
g "Don't fret, my friend" returns tn
Republican enthusiast. Big Bill il
: a hard man to chew up before break
u fast or any other time. He talks facts
= He's no ordinary windjammer. Cain
yourself. Wait and see the people ris,
q up and give him tremendous and con
e tinuous ovation as he steams along oil
e his tour
IS OF course the country will hang oil
s. the words of these two Bills. For, il
II all seriousness, Taft's trip through tn
e Middle West, beginning next week, i
d a very important one in the campaig
a, and is expected to be a tremendou
st vote winner. The Republican manager
rs are counting upon it to arouse citizen
e, from their lethargy, to explode som
T. of Bryan IS arguments, and to bring tn
y doubters over into the Taft camp
d. While Taft 8 election is regarded a
certain, the fact remains that his Mic
'e die Western tour may after all decid
m as to who will be the next Presiden
Is Chance to Win the Backsliders
"a IF the farmers and the toilers of til
10 West are deserving in great droves
A Bryan and if, as Bryan himself claim
~ today, he has the election won, provit
ed he can only hold the strength h
i. now has, there is chance for the RI
no publican nominee to win back thos
70 deserters from the faith. The tour wi
Va give the Middle Western voters an OF
n. portunity to take new measure of til
az man and to pass judgment upon h
no campaign arguments and to make u
n. their minds whether, after all. they pr
an fer Bryan for President for four year
;s rather than the man whom PresItel
~, Roosevelt has said is best fitted to co
~ tinue "my policies"
"a In few days now President Roc
ne evelt will lie back in Washington. n
" rumor comes from different quartz
az az that he is going to pitch into the car
"a paign, that he will take hand
w. fiaying Bryan, will tell the country tn
mS there is no comparison between Bry'
1es and Taft, that Taft is far and avn
D,y, the best man for them and so on. II
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