The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-31

easily because President Taft is far
in the West and because many in
surgent Republicans are busy maturing
plans for trouble this winter, now that
the President has made it clear he is
| going to train with the regulars in
senate and house. They are holler-
ing terribly against Speaker Cannon
| Senator A!drich and other regular
leaders and piling fuel upon the fae,
! tional fires.
All this uproar which is promised
| against the established leaders of the
| party IS to be utilized, as the prophecies
| go, toward widening the breach. 1t
| may not be long before there will be
| Roosevelt Republicans and Taft Re
| pubHcans, representing the two wings
| of the party. Roosevelt may not sane
| ton it. But he will not be in a posi-
ton to forbid it and much of the pos
| sible mischief may have been done
before he gets TO European capitals
where he will first gather reliable in
formation of a comprehensive charae-
ter about what has been happening in
the United States since his departure.
There has been a great furry in re-
cent days about the charges by Re-
preventative Parsons of New York
city, chairman Of the county commit
tee, that Tammany Democrats came to
the rescue of Speaker Cannon and the
House organization during the extra
session because of a deal with the
Republican leaders at Albany. by
which proposed election laws, not de-
sired by Tammany, were beaten. It
is claimed that Representative Parsons,
an avowed Roosevelt man, has done
this to encourage the war upon the
very congressional leaders, whom Pres
ident Taft relies upon.
Whatever the foundation for such
an inference, it has been widely credit
ed. Coupled with this very lively polit
zeal incident of the New York city
mayoralty campaign, is the suggestion
that Mr.. Parsons has been paving the
way for a great popular hurrah over
Roosevelt, who fought the leaders of
senate and house most of the time
during his administrations. So the
Roosevelt revival seems to have been
gaining some Roadway in the East and
undoubtedly is to be carefully en-
couraged.
The agitation will naturally steady
down when President Taft returns and
when his official duties in the White
House begin to absorb the public at
tention again. The malcontents may
be put in an embarrassing situation
Their very opposition and criticism
may rebound in some measure to the
President s advantage. His reform
policies, as outlined in the course of
his western speeches, are advocated by
most of the Rooseyeltian enthusiasts.
AS the President busies himself this
winter putting those reforms into
operation, they must cooperate with him.
But the President has allied himself
with the regulars of his party, because
he has reasons to expect support from
them. Speaker Cannon and Senator
Aldrich are ready to join with the
President in furthering his program
The vigorous opposition of the NAL
contents to those leaders will in lthe
very nature of things stimulate them
to earnest activity in behalf of the
President s program. And if the win
ter's operations demonstrate that the
President has been successful it will
have the effect of subduing the NAL
contents, who have been so aggressive
~ at work stirring up hostile Republi
can sentiment.
1t all means undoubtedly very in
teresting Washington winter The
clans viii come to the capital, prepared
for combat. There will be long
| season of clashing, which may en-
nj tho lothiIitxy of
factions or may result in tremendously
Strengthening the hold President Taft
has upon his party and the country.
Some of the most persistent attacks
by the Roosevelt enthusiasts have been
upon President Taft s cabinet. Seere-
tary of the Interior Ballinger was the
first target. His assailants were I'M
horsed by the President s very specific
declaration of confidence in the secre-
tary of the interior. Yet they are
still clamoring for his official head.
He is regarded as one of the big
lawyers of the cabinet, The resigna-
ton rumor has been worked on others
of this lawyer group. One of the lat
est eases is Secretary of War Dickin-
son. He has been absent from Wash
ilStbu lIiutl On tCGbuIlt u the Illness
of his son in Tennessee. The work of
the war department in considerable
part has been entrusted to others dur
ing his ineumbeney. But Secretary
Dickinson has announced that he has
not the slightest idea of resigning and
apparently must be taken at his word
Although the administration is vet
young, six or eight members of the
cabinet have been mentioned as in line
for retirement or transfer. but this may
be ascribed in some part to the dull
ness of Washington for two months-a
condition that always favors the crop
ping out of idle cabinet rumors. When
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Ma
| gel had troubles with S. n D. North.
| then director of the census, it was
rumored that Mr.. Nagel might have to
resign. But nothing came of that. Doctor
| North was the one who resigned and
| Secretary Nagel has been proceeding
| with his official duties and incidentally
| creating the impression in Washington
| that he is a competent cabinet official,
| Some one started Secretary of the
| Navy Meyer off to London in midsum-
mer as Ambassador to the Court of
st. James. President Taft himself
| cancelled that ASSIGNMENT Dror,r+lvr