The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-07-29
PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE
PARTY WORK HE WOULD DO
Is Resting Now, but Expects to Lead the Fight
for Republican Senate and House
for Next Congress.

these laurcls during the month Of July
and allow the news Of the vast work
he has done 10 reach the people in
many States and be discussed by them.
This process can but inurc to his ad.
vantage,
Can Get 10 Work.
When he is ready to take up political
questions. the situation will be ripper
than il is now. BY August Colonel
Roosevelt will have completed his Oys-
ter Bay conferences, OF at best the
major portion of them. President Taft
can then take up the work that belongs
to him as the leader of the party. He
should be able to to so without any
appearance of rivalry with the distin-
gushed citizen of Oyster Bay.
IL is the opinion that during August
President Taft viii have conferences at
Beverly with many Republican man
ayers in the various States. He will
have conference chiefly with the regu-
lars the same men he depended upon
in Washington to help him put through
his legislative program. His prestige
as President, who accomplishes what
he promises, will then be more general
ly understood. The hostility of the
West should be softened by that time.
Many erstwhile critics in that great
section should be disposed to be
friendly.
What Roosevelt Gould Do.
Colonel Roosevelt has done much be-
yond question to appease the insurgent
wing and if he is ready to call upon
them to join in support of the party,
help elect a Republican house Of repre-
sentatiyes, and carry the party banner
TO victory in the States-and it is be-
lieved this is just what Colonel Roose-
welt will do-there will be harmonious
forward movement. BY September,
when the campaign should really begin,
the Republicans will be in something
like their oldtime form.
One should not assume for moment
that the President purposes TO surren-
der by one jot or little his position as
party leader. He will welcome the CO.
operation of ex-President Roosevelt.
Amy service the ex-President can rem
der to further the prospects of No
vember victory will be encouraged from
Beverly.
But the President is not unmindful
of his own responsibility to the party
and to the country and he will not sit
back and surrender it to any other Re-
publican. His record in Office for the
last six months warrants him in call
ing upon the country for cordial sup
port. At the right time the appeal
TO sustain his administration at the
polls will be made and should meet
with generous response.
Wants Responsive Congress.
The President has other legislation
in mind. He wants a Republican sem
ate and Republican house Of represen'
tatives during the last two years of
| his term to help him obtain this legis-
lation. He has some hopes of further
tariff legislation, if the reports of the
tariff board, whose members are hard
at work investigating and Analysing
the present law, indicate that there
should be a modification of some of
the schedules.
There is yet much to do in legisls-
ton to carry out the President Is con,
servation plans. The coal, petroleum,
phosphate, and water power sites are
secure from the encroachments of sell
fish corporations. The next step must
be to provide for the development Of
these resources under government SUI
pervision.
A considerable body of laws must
be enacted to that end. The President
will want congress during the next two
years to frame and vote those laws.
The work can not possibly be done at
the short session of congress next win
ter 1t will fall normally to the Sixty
second Congress which will assemble in
December, 1912, There are further
railroad regulations by the federal gov
eminent to be worked out The Presi-
dent wants some supervision over the
issue of stocks and bonds. He already
has a commission at work investigating
employees liability.
These are all matters in which there
is popular interest and the people win
be asked to give the PresideT a Re
publican congress, so that he can work
expeditiously in his legislative plans.
All this in detail will be advanced as
material for consideration by the vot-
ers, when the campaign gets well under
way in the early autumn.
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