The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-07

and ventures no opinion favorable 20
the one or to the other. He is aware
OF the political dynamite there is in the
controversy and is waiting to see how
far it will quiet down if let alone. OF
course, this Is the summer season when
agitation comes naturally to the Amer
lean people and to no portion of them
more than to the breezy, aggressive,
seIf-opinionated Westerners. Ii it does
not quiet down, the President may have
. cause to worry as his train steams TO
the westward.
But the President, after biding his
time, is generally fearless in facing an
enemy. Only a day or two ago it was
announced that the arrangements for
his visit to Des Moines, Iowa, included
breakfast at the residence of Senator
Cummins, the leader of the Republican
insurgents Of the West, who is private
ly regarded as antagonistic to the Pres
ident and as having Presidential aspir-
ations himself. And yet the Cummins
people and the insurgent sympathizers
all over the West may unite to make
his trip very pleasant and very success
full. They came Mr.. Taft s way a year
ago, when he was making his speaking
tour as a candidate through the West.
In Iowa the Cummins people We'd with
/ the reactionary Republicans to see who
| should give him the most cordial well
! come and show him the greatest honor.
They did not all vote for him the fol-
+ lowing November, but nevertheless
turned out for him even better than
had been expected.
| The keenest prophets are looking for
I this raarf ornapFp m hn rnnna Fed 0I1rJn Or
the coming October, as far as show of
enthusiasm and Of loyalty to the Re
publican party is concerned. But there
is doubt enough about it to give zest-
full interest to the President s trip. His
speeches will be closely followed for
evidence of the tact with which he
handles some very troublesome comph-
cations. The long trip was probably
planned primarily in the hope that the
President could become better acquaint-
/ ed with certain of his critics beyond
the Allegheny Mountains and, perhaps,
PROPOSES them in favor of his stand
ard.
He has nothing to fear from the rim
: of States along the Pacific Ocean or
the intermountain States adjoining.
But political rebellion is rampant all
the way from the Rockies to the Allie
ghenies, and there are few Republican
States in that broad expanse of terri
tory which are not somewhat affected.
The President on his tour will pene-
trate nearly every hostile stronghold,
which means that the popular attitude
toward him and the popular verdict
about him, as he departs to the Coast,
will be of political concern. 1t may
forecast the prospects of Republican
House of Representatives next year
and the prospects of ambitious men who
Z would like to snatch away a Preslden-
! tial nomination in 1912.
The President trip through the
South will be of a distinctly different
character than the trip through the
Middle West. Republican Presidents
are not in high favor politically in that
section. But Democratic as the South
is, it is very well disposed to President
Taft, and the signs are already multi
plying that he will receive a robust
welcome in that section all the way
from San Antonio, Texas, to Alexan-
dria, Virginia. 1t is a contrast worth
+ noting that while a Republican Presi-
dent apparently enjoys a half-hearted
popularity in the West, where Repub-
licans have been entrenched in power
for many years, his popularity in the
South. where the Democrats are more
entrenched in power than some Repub-
lean newspaper organs will admit, is
of the enthusiastic variety and appar-
entity on the increase.
It looks as though the President
would enter into the spirit of the prepa-
rations which the South is making to
receive him. 1t has already been an
nounced that Secretary of War Jacob
MEG. Dickinson, the Southern member
of the cabinet, will travel with him
through the South. A few days ago
it was made public that at Columbus,
Mississippi, where Secretary Dickinson
was born, there would be a luncheon
in the President s honor at the Lee
home and a barbecue, which he would
attend as spectator, at the Girls In
/ dustrial Home. This is only an exam
pie. A series of hospitable banquets
and receptions have been arranged for
/ the President all the way from Texas
| to Virginia and the southern people
evidently intend to give him the best
| time they possibly can while he is IN
| their midst. They may not be ready
! for political conversion but they APP
preciate the honor a President of the
United States pays them by making
such long tour through their section
of the country.
Although the President has been at
Burgess Point two weeks, but one Sen
ator and one Representative have come
to see him. Senator William Warner
of Missouri dropped in to have talk
| recently. He has been taking his
vacation at Nahant, only a few miles
away, and wanted word with the
President about his trip through that
State, about the Republican census su-
pervisors for Missouri, all of whom
have not yet been named, and about
the prospects for good strong Re-
publican fight to keep the State in line
next year. The President is very
anxious to see the Republicans carry
Missouri next year, and Senator War
ner has a similar anxiety because he
comes up for reelection and RepubIi-
can majority on joint ballot in the Leg
islature is very essential to him.
Representative Samuel W. Mccall.
the sage of Winchester, Mass, has been
the President S only visitor from the
National House. The Massachusetts