The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-30
By Ernest G.. Walker.
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WASHINGTON, June ls.-The ex.
President will deliver at least one
political speech in the approaching
campaign. AS far as known now it is
the only political speech he has in con
temptation. 1t will be delivered in
Massachusetts in behalf of his closest
and most esteemed friend in public life,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Presum-
ably it will be delivered in Boston.
There have been numerous efforts to
obtain political utteranees from the ex-
President. 1t has even been definitely
reported that he was to appear before
political gatherings, including the Ma
tlonal League of Republican Clubs.
When this report reached Colonel Roose-
welt ear a few days ago, he took
occasion to deny it as emphatisally as
he could. The addresses he has prom
lsed to make in the West are to be Of
nonpolitieal character.
The engagement to speak in Massa-
chusetts, however. is authoritative. It
IS the big card which Senator Lodge
has to offer in the coming Bay State
campaign where he will not only be
the party leader but a candidate for
election to a fourth term of six years
in the upper legislative branch. 1t is
understood to be the only engagement
of the kind which the ex-President has
yet made and may be the only one he
Will make between now and next No
vember.
Any political or semipolitical speech
by the ex-President will naturally at
tract notice beyond the confines of Mas
sachusetts. Under the circumstances,
this is likely to be the case more than
ever. Republicans and Democrats from
Maine to California will scrutnize his
words for light upon his attitude be
tween regulars and insurgents
The time and place, and the outline
or the speech as ven, are yet 10 DC
determined. It may be that, apart
from championng the reelection of Sen
ator Lodge, the ex-President viii en-
deavor to make his effort national in
scope All this, however, will be ar
ranged at the meetings which Colonel
Roosevelt and Senator Lodge are to
have during the next three or four
weeks.
The senator now plans to go to Oyster
Bay, shortly after the arrival of the
ex- President in this country. The
promise to make the speech in Massa-
chusetts was given several weeks ago
Gc,,ral tho cnrrpCnnnIpn1p he
tween the two men following Colonel
Roosevelt's arrival at Khartum. Soon
after Senator Lodges visit to Oyster
Bay. Colonel Roosevelt is going to
Cambridge to attend the commencement
exercises at Harvard University and
during that period as already an
guest at Nahant.
Undoubtedly Colonel Roosevelt's line
of argument, in his Massachusetts, adj
dress, will be Influenced by Senator
Lodges representation of the political
situation in Massachusetts and New
England and also by the numerous con-
ferences which the exPresident plans
to hold with different leaders of the
party Immediately after he sets foot
on native soil.
Sound the Keynote.
The Massachusetts, Republicans are
highly favored by this decision of
Colonel Roosevelt to sound a keynote in
their campaign. For, while Massachu-
sets is the fourth or fifth largest Re
publican State in the Union and while
the party there is more or less dis.
organized, quite as forcible arguments
could be made for the exPresident 8
appearance upon political platform in
New York. He has run his own public
career there and is probably to assume
the State leadership soon after his re-
turn. At the time he wrote Senator
Lodge of his readiness to speak in Mas
sachusetts, he had made no plans to
speak in New York.
1t may be premature to draw infer