The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-14

| SodSlC6S 10 1Cd01IS do
tive of conservatism. The coterie of
| the White House Offices during the
Roosevelt days have disappeared. The
doors Of the President s room no long
er swing open for them. There is no
special White House propaganda in
certain "loy u newspapers and maya.
zines. Business is done with regulars,
not upstairs and malcontents.
President Taft IS attempts to keep all
| the official folks around Washington on
amicabie terms are becoming the topic
| of the city and of the country. Lately
they have been reviving his old time
i title of "Secretary of Peace He has
| been giving a dinner at which warning
political notables were hidden to break
/ bread around the same festive board.
He has been making up to Senators of
all parties and factions; likewise to
Representatives of all factions and par
| ties. He has made the members of
the old Ananias Club feel at home
when they came around the White
! House offices. He has been making a
| real ehum of the Vice President
a very unusual thing for President
! to do; and he has been getting on
| swimminglv with the members of his
| cabinet. Peace and harmony every
where.
Some say the harmony dinner at the
White House the other evening did not
avail anything, that Floor Leader
Payne and Representative "Gusssie y
Gardner, of Massachusetts, the latter
the leader of the Republican insurgents
shook hands only in a most formal way
| as they entered the Presidents pres
ence as fellow guests. Some say as
much of Representative Champ Clark,
the minority leader, and the leader of
the Democratic insurgents, Representa-
tive John Joseph Fitzgerald, of Brook
lyn. But then, there is no doubt those
gentlemen all felt better because the
President had invited them and their
wives around to the first of the formal
White House banquets. 1t will be
easier now for them one of these days
to agree to let bygones be bygones and
to shake hands across the bloody chasms.
But the way the President and the
Vice President are cumming it has set
all the oldest inhabitants to reviewing
similar eases of Presidents and Vice
Presidents in the days past and gone.
stances. President Roosevelt, of course
never had but one Vice President to
get along with and it is a matter of
common knowledge in Washington that
President Roosevelt did not like Vice
President Fairbanks and allowed no
opportunity to pass without giving Mr..
Fairbanks good stiff dig. President
Mckinley used to be real friendly with
Vice President Hobart and folks here
are recalling that as parallel between
the friendly relations of President Taft
and Vice President Sherman. 1t is
well known that President Cleveland
had little use for Vice President Steven
son. Harrison and Morton used to
drive their horses together pretty well,
but Mr.. Harrison was not very cordial
in any of his official relations. His
great worth as President, however,
has come to be recognized and in Wash
ington many think they see that Pre-
sident Taft is building his administra
ton along about the same lines that
Harrison built. The people are now in
mood to appreciate that kind Of a
President more than they were in Har-
rison IS time.
It is not easy to get inside the White
House offices now as it was prior to
the fourth of March, perhaps, but it is
very noticeable that the era of good Will
which has been growing has brought a
great many people who had not been
going Heretofore A great many visitors
of prominence used to come to Wash |
ington and depart therefrom, without
going near the White House in Mr.. |
s time; now nearly all of
them find time to go up the Avenue
and at least call in to pay their re-
spects. The difficulty in seeing Mr. /
Taft is due solely to the pressure upon
his time. Once one gets within, he is :
sure of cordial welcome.
The Democrats swarm the antero0m {
almost daily. They have errands there /
and are made to feel that Mr.. Taft is
the President of all parties. And much
as they may deelaim politically against
the administration there is a very kind +
ly feeling among the Democrats Of
Senate and House for President Taft. |
That is a very notable evidence of the
era of peace which the President is per !
in his administration.
He has gotten upon especially friend. /
" terms with all the judiciary in and
ABOUT W dSUiuStOu. ne uotiSCo u eAS !
Supreme Court, the judges of the
District of Columbia courts and the
Judges of the Court of Claims have near /
" all been around to the White House /
offices to call upon the new President. (
In former times quite number of these /
judges were at outs for one cause or .
another with the executive. President !
Taft used to be United States Circuit I
Judge himself and knows something or /
the way Judges are accustomed to look
ing at affairs He tells his best stories
when the brethren of the bench come
to see him.
The members of the new cabinet are
growing in favor in Washington even as
the new President is growing in favor
They are all developing like big, brainy
men. and Washington is inferring that
the new President is to prove himself
a good Judge of his fellow citizens.
There is a great difference in Presidents
in that regard. The town is talking much I
Continued on Page Ten.)