The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-21
SULTRINESS THE
CANDIDATES KEEP BUSY
Big Bill and Prairie Bill Have Their Daily Long
Distance Tits While All the
World Wonders.

, acceptance to be sprung upon the ex-
pectant public at Lincoln August IL.
The country will await it as one OF
Bryan S most important outputs. The
people will want to see how he handles
Taft. They viii judge something of the
comparative caliber of the men by what
is said on the Capitol grounds at Lin
coin where the notification committee
is to meet and where Bryan is to speak.
The National Chairmen of the re-
spective parties are working with their
coats off National Chairman Hitch
cock is fitting back between the East
and the West, opening headquarters
here and there, organizing his forces
and preparing for a big tug of war.
National Chairman Mack ditto. He has
engaged a whole floor of 10 rooms high
up in the Hoffman House in New York,
named his advisory committees, and Is
acting like man who expects TO win
electoral votes in November. He even
talks seriously about winning New
York for Bryan, which would be a mira
Gle indeed, although the Republicans
themselves say that New York is now
normally Democratic state.
In the few weeks of the campaign to
date, the area of the battle field has
apparently been extended. The Repub.
licans are showing a little uneasiness
about the Pacific Coast, as proven by
the establishment of branch head
quarters in San Francisco. If the three
Pacific Coast states are certainly for
Taft, as has been contended and gen.
orally conceded, the reason for this
activity on the part of the Republican
National Committee is not easily ex-
plainabe. And again, if New York and
all the. East is certainly for Taft, why
should the Republicans be fortifying
themselves in that territory so diligent-
ly? Perhaps the nervous feeling pre-
valent among the Republican candidate
and his managers may have something
to do with these things and, after all,
when the weather cools and men can
wear heavier weight clothing with com.
fort, there will be less apprehension.
Tt is easier to get frightened in August
than it is in September and when a
Republican leader sends up Mace.
DOMAIN cry with the temperature 100
degrees in the shade it is not always
well to take his words too literally.
The campaign scare seems scheduled
for temperance in presidential poll
ties this year. In spite of the ridicule
LHdb mas Deeh utdpeu upon II DIS d COu~
comitant of hat passing, the signs,
which the oldsters in Washington quick.
ly recognize, are already at hand. They
have come earlier this year than usual.
There was scare in 1904. but it at
tended the very fag end of the cam.
paign, after nearly everybody had been
taking it for granted for three months
that politically and presidentially
Judge Alton B. Parker was dead card.
The scare that year WAS due in con.
siderable part to the charges of cor
iporation contributions, which Judge
Parker began making at the eleventh
hour Then a few days before the
election a New York newspaper pub
lished a poll showing that the Great
er City was to give a big majority
for the Democratic candidate and that
the entire State was wavering in the
balance. National Chairman Cortelyou
was startled by that showing, and even
the White House was uneasy for
while. And yet, as the election dem
onstrated, the people had at that very
time made up their minds to elect
Roosevelt by an unprecedented ma
iority.
Nothing approaching the dimensions
of campaign scare occurred in 1900,
but the September fears, which pos
sessed the late Senator Mark Hanna
in 1896, have become historic. By the
early autumn he had had opportunity
to sound the sentiment of the coun-
try, saw a tremendous trend toward
Bryan, and FASTENED eastward to
shake down. Wall Street for many
millions. 1t has often been said that
Bryan would have been elected had
the country voted in September OF
that year-a statement which, of
course. can neither be proven nor sue
cessfully contradicted.
Politicians in Washington are skep-
teal about the efficacy of scare
among the Republican leaders this
year. It has been tried so many times,
when the expression of fears was en-
tirely groundless, that the rank and
file of voters may look upon such tao
ties as joke. Something may be nee
essary to start up the party workers
in many States, especially those who
are looking forward to the rewards OF
patronage. both State and National.
But Washington, full of officeholders
and of those who expect offices for
the next four years, contemplates Penn
sylvania avenue without any vision OF
Bryan riding along that thoroughtare
March 4 next as President elect.
The Taft and Bryan campaigns, as
viewed here. have come up to the first
of August without any really startling
changes in status Neither candidate
has made any "break likely to be
of advantage to his opponent. Bryan
has surprised many by the steadiness
with which he has conducted his can
didacy, but there is keen interest to
see how he viii write his letter of ac-
ceptance and whether he goes through
the heart of the campaign, beginning,
probably. about the middle of Septem-
Der, without provoking any fresh an
Trained politicians of both parties
and quite a following of trained news
paper observers have been in recent
weeks through the belt of big Western