The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-07
GOLF AND STATECRAFT
AT SUMMER CAPITAL
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again and seeing to it that all of the
President time is accounted for in
every stopping place. This will all be
carefully arranged and put down in
| writing before the Presidents train
pulls out of Boston on Wednesday
morning, September Is, and the ar
engagements will cover practically ev-
cry minute for two months. The Pres
| ident will be back in Washington No
| vember 10 to take up the work of pre-
pairing his message and making ready
for the winters work.
/ Secretary Carpenter will not accom-
| pany the President on this transconti-
| mental tour but viii return to Wash
ington late in September and take care
| of the business In the White House
J offices. Capt. Archibald W. Butt. the
President s military aide, will be the
major domo of the party and will at
tend to the execution of the program
from town to town as mapped out by
| Mr.. Carpenter. Captain Butt has been
rapidly becoming the Presidents ready
man, without whom he does not care
to fare forth. Then the business of
| the office at Washington has become
| so important that it is necessary for
the President IS secretary to be there
| to look out for things when the Presi-
dent himself is away.
There is a very lively interest over
what the President viii say on his
Western trip. He has not yet written
| anything on his speeches and probably
will not write anything till a few DAYS
before he IS ready to start. The Presi-
dent does not perform tasks long in adj
vance of the required time He sticks
pretty close to ideas, once they are
formulated, and in subsequent speeches
amplifies and rounds out details with
| out departing from the original thought.
Those who have been much with the
President say his speech of acceptance
year ago, when he was Presidential
candidate, and his inaugural address.
remain fundamental documents outlin-
ing plans for his administration for the
| next three and a half years.
He will naturally have three or four
big speeches for his long tour. One
of them, for use chiefly in the low tariff
section of the Middle West, will be
| upon the tariff. 1t viii be in iustifea-
ton of the Payne law All the Presi-
dent has yet said about it was contain
ed in brief statement made public at
the time he signed the bill the after
noon that Congress adjourned. 1t will
not be surprising, say those familiar
| with the Presidents methods, if that
| statement contains the substance of his
tariff speech to be delivered before
audiences of insurgent Republicans in
the West. The President, of course,
will amplify it and bring it up to date.
1 IC ,Jo+. -
whether the President will deliver a
| speech in the West on conservation
policies. Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger is to travel with him all through
| the Northwest, and Mr.. Ballinger s
! friends are taking this as proof of the
| Presidents approval of his strict adj
| herence to law in carrying out the con-
servation policies. But the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy is becoming very
warm, indeed, and has possibilities of
embarrassing President Taft The rad
zeal Rooseveltians of the West are max
ing the decision of that controversy a
test of President Taft's adherence to
or departure from the policies of his
predecessor.
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot is
plainly pressing the issue home He
was member of the Roosevelt tennis
cabinet, one of President Roosevelt s
closest personal friends, and believer
| in the Roosevelt plan of doing things
and talking about them afterward. He
insists that the water powers in the
West are being gobbled up by trust,
has dared to contradict Secretary Bal
linger on that and other matters, and
| consequently has become an idol among
| the Rooseveltians of the West, even
through to the Pacific Coast, saving
| only few States where the develop
ment of the public lands is preferred
| to their preservation for forest pur-
| poses. His progress through the West
has been sort of triumphal affair,
whereas Secretary Ballinger has faced
frowning audiences and has had to pre-
sent his defense to people who were
plainly against him.
Both men have been touring many
| Western States. They attended the
| National Irrigation Congress at Spo-
| kane, and then Chief Forester Pinehot
went to the Transmississippi Congress
at Denver. Both men have spoken to
scores of public gatherings throughout
| the West during July and August, and
the controversy between them has be-
| come tremendous ISSUE Now Presi-
| dent Taft will touch many points where
| these two officials of his administration
have visited, and Secretary Ballinger,
stepping out upon the rear platform
with him, appearing in the same halls
and at the same public gatherings with
the President, will be recognized by the
Western public as having the Presi-
dent s favor.
OF course, the President can hardly
speak out against his Secretary of the
Interior, when he is travelling with him
and has invited him to go through all
the Northwestern country with him. IF
the President makes any speeches on
conservation, he naturally will be gen
eral and noncommittal or he will speak
out against the Pinehot plan, which, in
the public mind, has come to stand for
more things than Mr.. Pinchot has him
self been fighting for. So intense has
the feeling become that many believe
the popularity of the President S West
ern trip would be diminished materi-
ally, should he come out against Chief
Forester Pinchot. 1t would be inter
preted as a slap against Mr.. Pinchot
and the forest reserves and against Di-
rector Newell and the reclamation ser