The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-30
Ernest G. Walker.

mail Special to The Advertiser.)
BEVERLY, Massachusetts,. Septem-
Der l9.-President Taft has been keep
| ing out Of the New York wrangle. al
| though his letter to Chairman Lloyd
Griscom, of the county Republican com
mittee. indicated that his sympathies
We're with Colonel Roosevelt. But hay
ing written that rather startling letter
to the discredit of Vice President Sher-
man the President seems to have lost
confidence suddenly in Mr. Griscom.
and he is too much vexed over the
| course that Colonel Roosevelt has been
pursuing in national politics to have
much to do with him nowadays.
But the troubles of the dominant
party seem to have spread over all of
the populous and wealthy easternmost
| section OF the country. Down in New
Jersey the regular Republicans have
! trlumphed in the most holly contested
primary of years. Representatives
Charles n. Fowler, the most pronounced
of all eastern insurgents, has been de-
feated for denomination. One Of Col
onel Roosevelt's associate editors OF
|
ination in another congressional dis
trict, and Representative Richard
| Wayne Parker. chairman of the house
Judiciary committee, and a pronounced
| regular, has triumphed over insurgent
opposition. 1t is expected, however,
that some of these Republicans will go
down to defeat at the polls. jersey is
full of New Idea men. who are
likely to vote with the Democrats this
lyear. A few days ago President Wood
row Wilson, Of Princeton University, a
| southerner by birth who has shown an
taptitude for politics. was nominated as
the Democratic candidate for Governor
There is considerable curiosity as to
how well this scholar in politics will
run, but the Democratic, factionists
iseem to be united this year and with
| the decentralization of their opponents
the prospects of a victory and even the
detection of a Democratic United States
bsenator are brighter than ever since
| the Democrats lost the State along in
| the Cos
Unfounded Reports.
| BY the time President Taft comes
back across New Jersey, into New
| York. where he is to make a speech
before the New York League of Repub-
| lean Clubs. and fares forth for Bev-
erly conditions will have settled some
what and the Republicans may have
! gotten themselves into a better posi-
ton. If that should be and if he is
able to rally his party friends in Ohio
to activity, he will enter upon his DC
| tober vacation with more assurance.
Just now reports are in circulation
Nthat he is so discouraged that he does
not contemplate standing for renom-
fination in 1912. These reports. it
should be said, are utterly without
foundation. They probably have been
started for sinister purpose and will be
persisted in for while to an
Ewhat effect they may have upon public
sentiment
The facts are that the President has
given very little thought to the matter
of a second term. He is very intent
upon discharging faithfully the duties
tof his Office for the term to which he
has been elected ami is willing that,
flor the present, the matter of another
term shall take care of itself. If the
Ipeople are we'll satisfied with what he
taccomplishes and there is a call for
him to continue in office he will not be
faverse. 1t may be that, as the months
roll by. he will find himself willing to
make a fight for denomination, as
against certain Republicans who may
. aspire But all that will be determined
after the autumn elections. The agita-
ton Of the subject may bring decl-
sion from President Taft before next
winter is over. It is quite possible
that if Colonel Roosevelt tries TO crowd
him too hard the President will fight
back and not allow the predecessor ia
become his successor If he can help it.
Some observers think that IS about
what viii happen.
Giving Him Rope.
| The President now is exercising
great forbearance in not doing or say
ing ANYTHING at which the Colonel can
take offense. His friends believe that
he is giving the colonel lot Of rope
in which the latter may become badly
, entangIed While the evidences OF
. Colonel Roosevelt s popularity in the
West are abundant, there are wise NEE
who claim that he is losing popularity
and that he IS certainly contributing