The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-27


, about their public men having serve
as attorneys for big corporations b
/ the West is very tender on that subjee
The trust and corporation issues al
) still very acute out here. The day Ia
i passed-at least for time-when tn
western voters win support with an
|, enthusiasm a candidate for public OF
fee who has been allied with the trust:
even as attorney. The campaign thu
far has emphasized the eagerness wit
which all such associations are seize
upon as weapons for the opposition.
Somehow the Republicans have beer
able to keep their own vulnerability il
that particular more in the background
It may be because they have fewe
friendly newspapers in the West ant
fewer orators upon the stump. Ont
hears now almost nothing about Sena
tor Foraker fling that Mr.. Taft haC
recommended a Standard Oil attorney
in Ohio for appointment as federal
judge few years ago and that he came
near securing the appointment. Not
that Mr. Taft should be regarded as
culpable on that account, or that it
should reflect upon his upright conduct
as public official, but simply that his
party has been attacking the Democrats
on somewhat kindred score. Neither
are they emphasizing out here that
President Roosevelt granted over the
protest of his Secretary of the Interior
a franchise to a Standard Oil subsidiary
company in Oklahoma, the same com
pany that Gov. Haskell is charged with
having favored.
Grateful to 'eWillie" Hearst.
And it is one of the humors of the
spirited western campaign, that the Re-
publicans seem to be gaining advantage
out of their plan of anti-corporation
campaign, thanks chiefly to the Honor
able William Randolph Hearst, once
Democratic Congressman, once a candi-
date for Governor of New York on the
Democratic ticket, and now head of
the Independence League and full of
pique against Bryan because Bryan re-
fused to aid his presidential aspirat lions
at st. Louis four years ago.
The Hearst Foraker mix-up over the
former disclosure of letters showing
that the latter was a Standard Oil at
torney number of years ago, is having
more or less of baneful effect upon
the Republican campaign in Ohio and
also on the campaign in other states as
far as the negroes are concerned. Pres
ident Rooseyelt's fling at Senator Fora
ker and his stigmatizing of the Browns
vile agitation as simply means of
damning his administration, rather than
for the principles involved, has made
the colored friend and brother in Ohio
and Indiana wrathy. 1t has probably
set back very materially the campaign
for the pacifcation of the negro vote
and made the tasks of the Republican
managers to that extent lit
lie more difficult. The negro vote for
Bryan would not have been very large
n all probability. Neither will the de-
lection, as things stand now, suffice to
ose the state to Republicans.
The whole western country, especially |
he boys in the trenches, are itching |
or President Roosevelt to take the |
tump. The reiterated statements from |
that he will not do so are |
ot taken as final. There are many
oters who think he will be unable to
onfne himself to the White House and
he White House offices and to the daily
fternoon jaunts out into the country
ut that he will ultimately yield to the
npuise, which is undoubtedly strong
1thin him, to get aboard train and
'avel toward the setting sun. What a
'ception they would give hlml What {
outpouring of people there would be
see Teddy Bryan and all the Demo ]
attic issues would be forgotten for the $
me being. Nobody would be thought I
but the President and his candidate u
r President. t
Thrilled at the Very Thought. {
Folks out this way are picturing to \
how the special train with
e President and Taft aboard would
ok wheeling around the circuit. The
ry thought of it thrills the average
steTner with enthusiasm. Some
gifts ago Son-in-Law Nicholas Long
nth made speech, calling upon the sc
ters to elect Taft for four years and :
an reflect him for four years more -
the end of which time Mr.. Roosevelt =;
uld be ready to come back into the II
esidency. And the West generally nt
ms +o like +ha+ r,7rras+ior D.oLo11- X