The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-09

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But the best observers do not agree
with him in such expectations. At
best they think he will only reduce
very largely the former Republican
maiorities in presidential years and
that he will run behind the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nominees in Conf
necticut, Rhode Island, West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota. The
Democrats are conceding as much with
reference to the last three States.
Bryan said the other day that he did
not regard himself as strong in illinois,
as ex-Vice President Stevenson, the
Democratic nominee there for Goy1
ernor.
Avalanche OF "split'' Tickets. \
There is more than one reason to ex-
pect such an outcome. Many Demo-
Gratis have acquired the habit in recent
years-and the elections have demon
strated that the tendency is growing
of voting for Democratic local tickets
and for the Republican national tick
cts. Ballot laws make it easier than of
yore to split tickets. East of the Mis-
sissippi river, the Democrats have NOM
mated more conservative men for Of
flee, men who are supposed to be more
in accord with the masses of Democrat
ic voters of their section than Mr..
Bryan is. Then the Republican state
, governments have not been as satisfac-
tory in their administration of public
affairs as the Republicans have been, on
the whole, in Washington.
, On the other hand while efforts to
get the Republicans into the thick of
the campaign thoroughly united, have
been only partially successful, the mi
, nority party has not been so harmo-
NOUS, outwardly at least, for many,
, many years. Every week has been add
ing something to their compactness as
a voting army. Mr.. Bryan and his lieu
tenants, of course, are making the most
of this. Hence their broad smiles and
their predictions that Gan we need to
do is to hold what we already have"
Taft's Tour Significant.
Coupled with other recent political
events, the decision of Nominee Taft,
all but finally made, to go upon the
stump in the West is very significant
!, at this stage of the presidential cams
paign. 1t means that the pro-Bryapa
a sentiment in that section is largel3o
:, identical with the pro Roosevelt sentiA
ment and that the voters who are OBJ g
sessed with the Roosevelt Bryan ideasl
!. are by no means yet convinced that
= Taft would be the preferable occupants
!, of the White House for the next four
years. 1t also means that the RADICAL
, western sentiment, which cropped out
= so prominently at the Chicago convenIs
tion has not receded as numerous wise'
prophets claimed that it would 40.
= Polls have been taken already I'll
Il some of the western states. By thu
Il | and hv nthar mo nf Hatarn,i in inn ttf|.
= political trend, the Republican leadeEtr
i state and local, have fathomed SOM
thing of the depth and direction of tftf
/ currents. They have Immediately rxt
Z ported and put in their appeals fdsI
|. help, which in turn have gone up I'd
Chairman Hitchcock and by him made
:, plain to Mr.. Taft. Now Mr.. Taft and
: his lieutenants are celebrating whetherl
:. the plans for front porch campaign
, exclusively, as far as the nominee is
:. concerned, should be changed, with Mr.
:, g Hitchcock already admitting publicly
the possibility" that they will be.
} If the early September polls and recon
: noitering had disclosed satisfactory en-
: thusiasm for the nominee and general
alignment of the normal Republican
! strength for him the change would not
II !. be proposed. Mr.. Taft would follow the
u precedents of Republican presidential
n nominees ever since the disastrous
u Blaine campaign of 1884 and pass the
months of September and October in
= his home city of Cincinnati.
IS Time for Real Serious Work.
l. The Washington politicians do not
p infer from these striking developments
e that Bryan is going to be elected. They
;, only recognize the prospects of close
u campaign and that the necessity is
u right at hand for the most aggressive
r and determined combat the Republicans
% have made since 1896, memorable in all
D. presidential campaign annals. They
n see in it the possibility, not the prob
ability, that blocks of western states
may flock TO Bryan and make his cleo
n toral total so close to one half of the
ID entire college as to be uncomfortable
,s Then with the radical western senti-
T. ment. for Bryan running unchecked all
u through the preliminary stages of the
u campaign, and probably, according to
a, reports here, increasing, the imperative
&c demands upon the national leaders to
p check 1T are recognized.
Is The batteries of heavy artillery
az Chairman Hitchcock has been assem-.
x bling can be utilized on this western
d, situation only to limited degree. Only
as very few of the orators of national
e. reputation can help much with the vo-
OF tiers in the storm belt country between
OF the Pennsylvania line and the Missouri
Ia river, not to mention the many states
81 of small voting population farther west,
er ward. The voters out that way who
ut bolt tickets are the progressives They
have been educated to believe that
Roosevelt and Bryan are the two great
est Americans and that Fairbanks For
"a aker, Knox, and Cannon are reaction
'is aries. The latter classification was
AN dinned into their ears during the Taft
Ss campaign for the presidential nomina
on ton. Fairbanks and Cannon can helT
'h' some possibly by speaking in their re
~ spective states of Indiana and Illinois
lie but the great demand in the western
ny states will be for earnest orators, suci
~ as La Toilette and Cummins.
, re RHEUMATISM.