The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-01-31
PRESIDENT IS
SURE FOR
TAT I
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. lg-It's
Taft Nomination Ind election SIRE.
A majority of the delegates are in
sight. The band wagon is coming
down the road. Choose your seat. Get
in early before the wagon is full
Etc, etc.
That is what the President virtually
says. That is what the Taft boomers
are saying. They have had every tele-
graph wire tingling with the intelli-
gence in the last few days. Some
body's money has been paying for the
widespread transmission of that and
other intelligence-all whooping it up
for the Taft boom, making it plain, II
possible. to warning Ohioans that they
had better stop their quarreling be-
tween Taft and Foraker and support
Taft at the forthcoming primaries for
delegates to the State convention.
Perhaps it is Taft, seriously AMI
coming down to brass lacks. Some
observers are coming to think that
way, although reserving Judgment for
Ia while till there are a few further
| developments. Hardly delegate has
been elected yet and it can not be de-
MED that the Taft boom thus far has
been running largely on wind. State
committees have declared for him in
several instances. A few state legis-
latures have resolved for him Some
county committees. with only a small
membership present. have declared for
him. But all these things have been
utilized to enforce the claims depart
ment, which is working overtime.
The President is known to be pre-
dieting that the Secretary of War
whom he favors, will be nominated on
the first ballot. He will not say so
officially for officially he is out of poll
tics. Unofficially, however, he is
working with might and main for the
Secretary of War and thereby it can
be said that the Secretary of War has
working for him the best politician in
the United States with the backing of
a tremendous federal organization.
The President has been receiving re-
ports from many states about Taft's
prospects. The politicians and work.
ers, when they come down to Wash
ington to see Taft do not fail to drop
around to the White House offices also
to see the President. They find out
what's what there.
The grim old fellows at the Capitol
in Senate and Housewife are tight
ing the Secretary's nomination chiefly
because they do not believe in the
President forcing upon the country
the name of the Republican nominee
are grimmer and GUNNER than ever.
They have not given up the fight
They hear the whirring and the grind
ing of the Taft organization, now in
fine working order. and they hear the
whifring and the grinding of the fed
eral organization, with President
Roosevelt's hand upon it. They insist
that the fight has only begun and they
act like men who are determined
enough to be run over and rolled into
a macadamized roadway.
But all agree that the Secretary Of
Wars boom is making progress and
that the effort to con-
vince the country through the mighty
engines of publicity which the Taft
boomers have at their command that
it is all over but the shouting will
have some effect. Many thousands of
very wise people can be stampeded by
the cry that given man is sure to
win in some political struggle. They
want to be on the winning side and
will get down off the fence at nothing
more formidable than a big noise.
The Secretary is working with
might and main to give his boom force
and is earning whatever progress he
may be making. For the mex, mortt
or twn he will devote considerable tl'ne
ID making addresses in several states
and before that series of spec hes Is
concluded he expects to make il clear
IA the country where he stands Gn
most of the leading questions. He
started off at Boston, before he Mer-
;hants' Association, with an elaborate
License of President Roosevelt's al
This was followed last
week with letter to toiIer in Ohio
cling where the Secretary stood On
questions affecting organized labor
nd night or two later by an address
t Cooper's Union, n. Y, about Capt.
al and Labor. There the Secretary
lot Of questions and made
hit with his audience by his sharp
etorts and his good nature.
In the meantime Senator Foraker's
ctivities in Ohio are driving conster-