The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-27
By Ernest G. Walker.

(Mai Special TO The Advertiser.)
BEVERLY. Massachusetts, August
15.-The makers Of political history are
daily on the Job at the summer capital,
Big events continue to tread heel and
toe-big political events is meant--and
the shadows Of those approaching indi-
cate they are Of gigantic size in com
: parison with the ones that have gone
before
There have been so many feverish
dongs that people on the ground are
asking themselves what neXt?' Lead
ers have come telling the President
that the campaign is on the toboggan.
He and an immediate circle Of advisers
have shown a disposition to capitulate
in good measure TO the insurgents in
the hope of saving the situation. The
regulars have come protesting against
the surrender of the party organization
to the insurgent cause.
Meanwhile disquieting rumors come
from Oyster Bay. The Colonel, so It's
said, is swinging insurgentward. He
will have ex-Secretary of the Interior
James r. Garfield and exForester Gift
ford Pinchot with him on his western
trip and the trio on several occasions
Will speak from the same platform.
This has aroused the regulars who say
that if this proves so Roosevelt viii
split the party wide open and adj hands
might as well quit without the expense
of a campaign. Why not turn the gov
have it done with'
But there is a rift IN every cloud
and at Beverly it seems as though this
is a growing agreement between Taft
and Roosevelt. If the Colonel IS swing
ing insurgentward, so Taft seems to be
and the two in that regard are getting
upon common ground where it may be
possible to join forces against the com
mon political enemy There are yet
two and half months before the elec
ton and a vast deal can be done in
that time. The harmony makers have
not yet entirely despaired of their task.
The Rubber Tariff.
For several days Senator Aldrich has
doomed large in Beverly considerations.
Those charges by Senator Bristow in
the Kansas campaign about the Rhode
Islanders interests in the rubber trust
and the increased tariff on rubber goods
some of the President s friends ire
mendously. Senator Crane and Secre-
tary Norton hurried down to War
wick, R. l., where Senator Aldrich
lives, few days ago. according to
an account brought back from there,
Secretary Norton labored with Senator
Aldrich all day trying to persuade him
to issue a statement in answer to Sen4
tor Bristow. And according to the
same authority Senator Aldrich with
great reluctance agreed to write
statement. which has already appeared
in print, containing harsh appellatlons
for the Honorable Bristow and descrlb-
ing the part Of the Honorable Aldrlch
in promoting the production Of crude
rubber in Mexico and other foreign
countries as not only enterprising but
even humanitarian. For as Senator
Aldrich explained. the increase in duty
upon rubber in the tariff law which
bears his name IN part, was upon the
manufactured product and not upon
the crude product.
According to another story about the
visit to Senator Aldrich's home, See
retarv Norton was not at all lnstru-
mental in pcrsuading the senator to
issue the statement He had had an
inquiry about it some time ago IRON
REPRESENTATIVE W b. Mckinley, cnair-
man Of the Republican congressional
committee, and had been running over
in his mind as 20 what it was best to
do. There has been much more pro
and con as the contest and controversy
have progressed but all the same the
denial of the Bristow charges Is before
the public. and the little cOterie Of men
who are irving TO run the campaign for
the President are much relieved. Sen
ator Bristow has returned to his NUT
tons. as If were He is giving Sena-
tor Aldrich hail Columbia again. ana
living the rubber statement and pro
claiming it as very adroit and all that
sort of thing. The Honorable Bristow
is up in Wisconsin. making the welkln
ring in behalf of Senator La Toilette,
who is mp to his ears in fighting for a
reelection.
Tabu on Aldrich.
Some time before the statement came
out Senator Aldrich suggested that he
would like to see the President. He
was warned away, told politely that hi:
visit would stir mp politics ana make
bad impression. Whether Senate
Crane. Of Massachusetts, who seems t
be the baunarhcarer # the new dis
pensation, or Secretary Norton, who j
playing fast politics, conveyed this in
formation is not entirely clear. Blu
the interesting thing about it is that
just rs soon IS Senator Aidrich ha,
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