The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-01
LAST DAYS At
BEV ER[ \
BUSY
By Ernest G.. Walker.

BEVERLY, Mass, September IA
| 1t is now goodbye to the summer capt.
tai and to the summer White House by
the sea. There has been a tumultuous
| week, tumultuous for Beverly in par
ticular and sufficiently tumultuous in
| general to make the outside world take
just wee bit of notice. This after
noon the big touring car started out for
the last trip of the season with its big
proprietor. The next time he rides in
that car or any one of its two great
| companion cars, it will be in Washing
| ton. lie is off for Boston, amid the
huzzahs of the few people who can
catch a glimpse of him, off for the West,
off for the South and for hundreds of
towns and cities where eager people
will await his coming and regret his
going. But the departure has been
suspicious and no other city on the map
will watch the President Is progress
along the sinuous line of his transconti-
mental route with such a sense of neigh
borly interest as the $4,000 folks in
Beverly.
The President has had crowded
| week. The worry that comes to man,
who has to make a speech and does not
quite know what he wants to say or
ought to say, is the President IS right
now. He does not like to prepare
speeches. He frets about them, gets dis
gusted with what he plans to say, PAGES
the floor at night wondering how he is
ever going to work out of his trouble,
but at the last moment gets fairly
well ordered succession of ideas in his
mind and grimly faces the music. Of
course there are many citizens who have
that experience. The President Is
speechifying" troubles, however, are
many fold greater than those of the
average public speaker. He must make
from one to half dozen speeches near.
ly every day now for ST days. He
wants to emphasize few new ideas and
also to amplify number of old ones in
the time of his long journeying.
His secretaries have collected big
bundle of manuscript, bearing data on
numerous topics. AS things have oc-
cured that the President wished to
dwell upon, he has asked that data be
prepared. This information has already
been packed carefully away in his spe-
cial ear so that it can be fished out on
moment IS notice. For, while the
President has prepared some of his
speeches during the last three or four
nights, he is starting to Boston this af
ternoon with practically no speech writ
ten out entirely. No advance copies
have gone to the press associations for
| release on the day of delivery. In
large part the President intends to
speak extemporaneously on his western
tour. When he speaks on national for
estry or tariff, or reclamation, or any
Af nt1 t,.,
| basic facts will be at his hand, but most
of the President s assertions regarding
| those facts will be spoken on the spur
of the moment.
This method is nothing new, although
sometimes heretofore the President has
made more preparation. He has always
been averse to making up set speeches
in advance and has put off such tasks
till the very last. His pleasure in his
vacation has been so keen that he has
| been more averse than ever to giving
the necessary time to debating speeches.
But he is also relying much upon the
sentiment of the communities he visits
to make up his mind exactly what he
wants to say. The chances are that
most of his speeches will be compare
| lively brief and that he will be guarded
| sues
Events of the last week or two have
| demonstrated to him that he ought to
| exercise caution. 1t is the old story,
reiterated much in the chronicles of
national politics for the last twelve
months. The tempestuous West is as
serting its dissatisfaction. When the
reports first were brought to Beverly
| eli p,,t
poured in from quarters that he felt
were friendly. One enthusiastic sup
porter whose influence for the Presi-
dent in the Mississippi Valley has been
tremendous, told him not long ago that
he would be unable to carry a number
of Western states, were there to be a
presidential election next year, because
of dissatisfaction over the tariff.
This was followed by the visit of an
other Republican of great influence,
whose opportunities for observation are
large. He journeyed from the West to
Beverly to warn the President of the
hostile attitude of the country through
which he was about to journey. These
visits and other reports, whatever their
reliability may prove to be, has made
the President pause. He is in very
garding the tariff when he reaches Min.
nesota, Iowa and Nebraska.
He has said nothing directly to news.
paper correspondents in the last few
days about his intentions in that regard
But one of his most intimate friends al
Washington, who has been staying on
the North Shore has been authority fol
the statement that the President would
tell the Westerners he had done the best
he could in getting tariff reductions
that he had gained something in TIA,
Payne law and at the next election they
should renew their fight for the election
of men who would 20 to Washington
and work for further revision down
ward.
1t remains 10 be- seen whether thi
was not put out rs a sort OF feeler I,
|, ascertain how the country al larg,
would accept such a proposition, Ap
: paiently such a statement from m,
President la the course of publi
speech would be taken 10 mean the re
! opening of tufin and a fierce revision