The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-26
THE PRESIDENT ON HIS
BEVERLY PLAYGROUND
Trying to Avoid Work, but Is Likely to Get Plenty
of It---Secretaries and Politicians Gathering
Around Him.


Ambassador T. J. O'Brien. who repre-
sents this government at Toxic. made
an appointment to see the President at
Burgess Point quite while before the
President left Washington. He had
some things to tell about the progress
of events on the other side of the Pa
cific-things that the President wanted
to know.
Other officials are preparing to visit
the President on errands and this will
continue all through the month of Ad-
gust. Even the vanguard of those who
might be called solely politicians is
passing through Washington and on
North. Col. Cecil Lyon, of Texas, is
one of the first to want TO talk politics,
although the President has said from
his summer residence that he is not go
ing to allow any political worries to
cloud his skies while he is on his vaca-
tion. Col. Lyon nominally wants to
talk about the President Is trip through
Texas in the autumn but in reality
wants to discuss with him the selection
. of Census Supervisors According TO
the best information number of South
ern politicians viii be fastening Bever-
j lyward about the Census Supervisors
and the enumerators which these super
yisors will have to appoint.
Politics of the Census.
| The situation with reference to the
| Census Supervisors is somewhat sig
| nifeant. By that is meant in the South
| for there has been no particular friction
or controversy about the appointment
of these officials in other states> All
/ the northern states have at least one
| Republican Senator who viii have
voice in the confirmation of these SUI
/ peryisors when the nominations are sub
mitted to the Senate next December.
| While several northern states. like Ohio.
Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska
/ Colorado and Nevada are now in some
degree under Democratic control, they
have virile Republican organizations
! and the Republicans are to have the
census patronage in those, as well as
other northern states.
! It VIII be otherwise in the South.
Out of information gained from months
of study of the Southern situation, the
| President has concluded that there is
a line of states, beginning with Mis-
souri, and extending through Kentucky
and Tennessee to North Carolina, where
the Republicans have good prospects In
those four states the President has
hopes of winning votes for the Repub-
llcan party and also some hope of the
Republicans coming into permanent con-
j troll there. Accordingly the Republicans
are to control the census patronage In
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and
North Carolina. 1t is expected that this
privilege will strengthen the Republican
organizations in those states. In the
rest of the South-in Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas-the census patronage viii be
equally divided between the Republi-
cans and Democrats. This is for the
purpose of encouraging goodwill among
the Southerners who are very sensitive
lest sundesirabIes shall have to do
with the enumeration of the population.
The President is thought to have hit
upon happy plan in that regard but
the politicians in the Southern states
where the patronage is to be divided
VIII want all the plums and some OF
them VIII want TO carry their protests
to the President.
1t is something of a question how
much influence upon party organize.
ton the census patronage can have, The
supervisors win serve for only about
ten or twelve months and their compen-
sation win range from $500 TO $1,000
a year. The larger salaries viii he
paid in the larger and more populous
districts. The fixed salary is $500 with
81 additional for every thousand popu-
iation enumerated above a certain linz
Tn - he 80 L.
of the supervisor is eo-extensive with
the Congressional districts and there the
supervisors viii receive hardly more
than $500. The work VIII not be ardu.
Gus but these men viii have opportunity
to get into touch with sentiments and
can perform numerous little services
In many northern states it is difficult
to obtain men to serve as enumerators
so that high school boys and girls are
sometimes enlisted for the task. II
the South it is different. Full grown
men are glad to have the places even
though the tenure is for but one month
outside of the large cities. where the
tenure viii be for but fifteen days
Then the Southerners are very eager
for Federal Office, which is regarded a:
! a badge Of honor And for that rea
son the census patronage offers a chance
to reward some of the patriots who have
borne the heat and the burden Of the
) day.
From the standpoint of poIitics-aud
the President is the political ehieftaiI
| Of his party-there are quite as good
reasons why the Republicans shoul6
! have control Of the census patronag q
in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, ans
North Carolina. as in Ohio, Indiana. Ne
braska. Minnesota, Nevada, Montana ana
Colorado. The Republicans are trying
70 get complete control Of the govern
nlents IN the four southern states, JUS
as they are in the seven northern states
mentioned. There are mutteTings IN tht
| Wess- Senator Cummins and other IN
surgents have been raising the banBeI
Of insurgency since Congress adjourned
IF the Republicans lose an additioHa
state or two there next wear in the Con
gressioHal and guhernatoriaI elections o
in the next Presidential election ]
would be a decided consolation, should
there he a southern state or two to foi
over into the Republican column
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