The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-02
PRESIDENT IS
BOOSTING ALDR|CR
CONTINUED from age One.1


bona fde interest and enthusiasm in
| favor of the conservation policy
1t is apparent that Secretary Bal
linger is to have the cordial and sub
stantial support of the President. He
has been upheld at every point, and is
now free to go ahead with the develop
ment of his plans for the administra-
ton of the Interior Department. But
| it is also plain that Chief Forester Gift
ford Pinchot is not to be deposed That
| would give the conservationists of the
| West mortal offense. As a pacifcator,
who has shown unexpected fighting
| spirit since he started en- tour. the
President does not at present propose
going so far as to bangle the Pinchot
| scalp before his western audiences
Some Of the President s utterances to
date are of great significance on the
| future of his administration His in
| tention to make the enactment of
| banking and currency law a feature of
his term is clearly foreshadowed in his
/ Boston speech. as is his alliance with
Senator Aldrich TO bring such legisla-
| ton about He intimates the proba-
Utility of the establishment of a cen
| trail bank of issue. Such a long step as
! tAA1S VIA H4ohoEAC great OpBtSlt1OH anu
| probably means that currency reform
and banking reform will be an issue
in the Congressional elections next wear
and, perhaps, in the Presidential elec-
| tion of 1872
For it has already been pointed out
that such a banking and currency law
can not be enacted for two years, pro-
! vided Senator Aldrich s Monterey Com
mission is unable to complete its ex-
| haustive report prior to the autumn
| of 1910. The new financial law could
not be passed at the short session of
| Congress a year from the coming
| winter, in which event, if enacted at
| the long session of the next Congress
| it would come just before the cleo
| lions for President.
Mr.. Taft s statement about the
financial, legislation also indicates as
clearly as anything can that he is not
| going to make any alliances with the
Republican insurgents of the middle
West. He purposes to be regular in
his political affiliations, to do the bust
ness of his administration through
regular party channels, with the aid
of insurgent Republicans if they will
join with the regular party forces,
otherwise without them and in spite
of them.
This is very distinctly contrary to
the Roosevelt policies of administra-
ton. The insurgents were recognized
and encouraged; the regulars either
ignored or driven. But since the days
when Roosevelt first tugged at the
presidential tether the regulars have
learned wholesome lesson and are far
more tractable than they Were SIX
years ago Those who were aware of
the meetings between Mr.. Taft and
Senators Aldrich and Hale at the out
set of the last presidential campaign
are not disposed to doubt that there
was something very like compact be-
tween the three men, the effect of
which on the senatorial side was that
they would undertake to get enacted
into legislation very much that the
President wanted and that on the
whole they would cooperate heartily
to carry out his plans.
Facing the hostile western sentiment
thus boldly, the President may be able
to demonstrate the claims of some
western regulars, that the so-calfed
radicalism there is not formidable and
can be tanned by a strong man. BY
| the time the President has penetrated
the country in the Mississippi valley
| and crossed to the Rockies, he will
| know whether the representations of
| these western regulars that the radical
| ism is not formidable was entitled to
| credence. Whether the western peo-
| pie like him or not they will give him
! an enthusiastic welcome but after he
| has gone away the common talk and
] the newspaper comments will indicate
! the trend.
| If the President succeeds in his
| course toward the radicals and progress
sives he is likely to drive consider
able number of men, now voting with
| the Republicans, over into the Demo
/ cratic party, where, the regulars have
long been saying, those men belong.
| 1t viii make the work of La Toilette
and Cummins and Bristow more diff
ficult and, in fact, will make it hard
| for those men to keep out of the Demo
cratic camp. The upshot is likely TO
| be a strengthening of the conservative
wing of the Republican party, which
would further the division of the two
| parties into GoASS1 dbLNS
and progressive, or radical Democrats,
which prophets have been asserting
| would be the ultimate outcome.
The President s readiness for com
| bat, as he journeys across, the country,
| has also been emphasized by his re-
buke to Gov. John A. johnson, of Min
nesota. That was Immediately taken
as an indication of the President s will
Iingness to cross swords with any
Democrat looming into prominence as
a presidential nominee.
Some weeks ago Governor John A.
johnson, speaking at Seattle, pleaded
for greater recognition of the West
in national affairs and for less DONNA
ton from New England. That was a
sop to the hostility to Senator Aldrich,
so prevalent in the West. President
Taft hit back right hard at Gov. John
son for encouraging sectionalism, the
while he championed Senator Aldrieh.
In asserting that the Pacific Coast and
the Rock Mountains were too near the
East to afford to antagonize the East
| and that all sections of the country
were bound by common trade interests,
1.-THE prosperity of the one being indis-
pensable to the prosperity of any other
| section the President was enlar0ino