The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-09-04

Committee Should Get Together.
On that account there continues TO
be much anxiety am ing the leading
Republicans for the party to settle its
quarrels and also for the National
Committee to establish itself on n
more harmonious basis. In spite of re.
pr,its to the contrary matters are far
from a satisfactory condition within
tne Taft management. The nominee
il maintaining eoterie Of confidential
Ineu about him, whose work is entire.
W independent of the National Com.
mittec. The feeling between the two
factions, namely the Arthur /. Vorys
faction and the National Chairman
Frank H. Hitchcock faction is still
running very high. 1t is virtually o
President Theodore Roosevelt faction
and an Representative Charles p.
Taft faction. For the President is
back of Mr.. Hitchcock, whose move.
ments he is largely directing, and
Charles p. Taft is back of Vorys, who
is keeping right at ex.Secretary Taft Is
elbow and who has with him a press
representative from Charles p. Taft Is
newspaper in Cincinnati as special
aide.
The nominee is trying to preserve
the peace between these two factions
and they are leading him merry
dance. He recently gave out an inter.
view expressing his entire satisfaction
with Chairman Hitchcock. who is un.
doubtedly working very energetically
and effectively for Taft IS election.
But, lniuirly in all probability, there
is much prejudice against Mr.. Hitch
cock smong the Ohio politicians and
MIR Vorys is doing his utmost to
rlacate those politicians. There has
been danger at times of the feud get
ting intn the open and beyond efforts
of control.
Friends of the party expect some
capable men to step in before long
and perform important peace work, is.
sue commands that will line the rival
forces up and make them forget their
petty squabbles in the interest of a
victory at the polls. The demand for
such leaders is becoming more and
more Imperative as the weeks slip by.
"A Word From Roosevelt Needed.
The man who can do this is Presi.
dent Roosevelt and there arg intima-
tions that he contemplates taking A
h1nd openly. There have been state
ments from G,s tcr Bay that che Presi-
dent was not going to participate ac-
lively in the campaign but they came
from Secretary Loeb and never from
the President directly. However some
of the President s closest friends, who
have come from Oyster Bay recently
aud who are likely to know the Presi-
dents plans in that regard, say there
is not the slightest doubt about his
getting into the campaign later on
and that he will deliver some hercu-
lean blows for his personal friend
and favorite. He is not alarmed about
my prospects of Taft's defeat at the
polls but is simply determined that
the ordinary political precautions of
a thorough and effective campaign be
taken all along the line.
1t may be that the President will
refrain from making stump speeches
as such, but he will write letters
nd by other methods indicate in no
uncertain way the necessity for unit
ed action.
Therefore, all in all, the presidential
campaign this autumn promises even
tually to be very spirited indeed. 1t
will open up by the first or the middle
of September and continue sizzling hot
right through October. During the
present month the public utteranees of
Taft and Bryan will more fully out
line their attitude on the various is
'ues and acquaint the voters more
thoroughly with the comparative cap
acity of the two men as political con-
troversialists. Rival armies of orators
will be moved out into the field. They
are now being organized east and west
and are taking the customary coach
ing as to the dominant themes for pub
lie speeches and as to the methods of
handling these themes.
Appeals are being formulated to the
various classes of voters, whose at
titude this year is more or less I'M
certain. The claims and counterclaims
of the two parties are being analysed,
and while much of this appears in
the daily newspapers, much remains
for the orators to present. The
canned" speeches of the two can
didates are also to play part, for
the graphophones have been manufac-
tured by the thousands and are being
distributed into many communities. If
anything can be done toward putting
old General Apathy out of business,
both the campaign managers are do
ing it. The indications are that by
the middle of September these man
ayers will be able to report to their
respective chiefs, at least, that they
have won complete victory over that
ancient political foeman.