The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-12-02
RECEIVERS FROM
BLOW AND ADJUSTS ITSELF
Already Discussing Effect Of the Democratic
Landslide on the Next Presidential
EICCtiOns-..ThC Possibilities.

ments they prefer. There win be much
Democratic comforting, Of high or
der. These conferences, which for al
number OF years have been of little
Importance because they carried small 4
weight In political and administrative /
circles, now will transcend the RCpuh.
lic0n conferences. Thus quickly does
the situation change in Washington,
after the people have registered yer.
diet that il should be 50.
Cannon and Clark.
Speaker Cannon has hardly yipped
since the election Neither has Rep.
resentative Champ Clark, of Missouri.
who in all probability will succeed him
as the wielder of the gavel in the ma
tional house, when the sixty-second
congress assemblies. Both men, of
course, recognize that it is inopportuue
for them to talk. The President, too
refused to give. out any statement about
the elections or to say anything toI
newspaper visitors which could be used
in the third person. As matter of
fact he was only in Washington part
of one day and he was too busy then
to see anyone, except officials who
came on pressing business,
But they will all talk later on, as of
yore. The Republicans may shy at the
election topic for while, although
| both sides have much TO say about the
future, That is throbbing with general
/ interest and will bring forward a
variety of vexing governmental prob
/ lens There will be more expectancy
than ever over the Presidents annual
message He win have. at least, a
rough draft of it in hand by the time
he returns to the mainland week or
ten days from now. 1t will probably
be worth observing how he tones the
document to meet the changed condi-
lions, INCIDENT to the Democratic vic
tory at the polls. Whatever he gets
in the way Of legislation during the
last half of his present term must be
by the grace of Democratic votes in
the house.
Ready to Probe.
Usually majority hostile to an ad-
ministration promptly inaugurates
many inquiries and Investigations. The
house has supreme authority in large
field of administration inquiry, because
1 it initiates, under the constitution, the
appropriations that are the very life
bibph VI NnC EON lutU butlt
\, is generally some political capital to
be gained by "opening the bouks.' 1t
would be remarkable if the Democrats
overlooked this opportunity, although
they can do little or nothing in that
direction this winter They can simply
spy out the places where they would
like to apply the probe.
The uppermost question of the hour
5 at Washington runs to presidential
' candidates. Primarily it bears upon
. Democratic candidates. For the Dem
Oeracy has now gained tremendous
' impetus for its 1912 campaign. Its
3 party leaders, as developments at the
S capital already indicate, will go forth
with into training for that contest.
A Sane Program.
n They reason, as the returning Demo
: cratic congressman set things forth
!. that the landslide has brought them
, great opportunity. The next two years
' will be period of probation. elf the
5 party does well in that time" said
r Representative A. S. Burleson, of Texas
who will probably be chairman of APP
! preparations in the next congress, cit
q we give an efficient administration, il
r we demonstrate our adherence to econ
4 omy and to reasonable revision OF
4 the tariff, we will be invincible in
& 1912. 1 believe the party will profit
J. from its past experiences and hold fast
r to sane program.
p For the moment, therefore, the talk
is of Democratic candidates more than
a of Republican candidates. An opinion
prevails that the Republican differences
are irreconcilable. The next few
h
10 party history is to repeat itself in the
II Punishment of Republicans from admin
is istration control, for term of years
IS as the Democrats were banished in the
y Dos because of internal discussions.
. Wilson Looms Large.
le East and South the name of Wood
10 row Wilson, the governor-elect of New
ID Jersey, promises to loom large. The
d talk of Washington is that way Just
N now. AS scholar and philosopher hi
III has an attractive personality. Hi
/. campaign in New Jersey is described
n as revelation. Every one hereabout
pl agrees that if Doctor Wilson "make
le good he must inevitably be leading
D. candidate in the next national conven
r ton of his party. Rising to the unusua
i opportunity before him IN a corporation
ridden state, Doctor Wilson would b,
4 almost certain, as a Democratic nomi
i nee, of the electoral vote of New
- Jersey. He would also appeal tremen
i dously to the large and Independent
= vote in neighboring New York.
lie is by birth a Virginian. 0thel
things being at all equal, the South vii
&c rally strongly behind him. His pros
! poets of delegate support from that sec
y ton would be enforced by likelihood
70 Of ability to carry border States, liki
s. Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky an,
IS Missouri. All these four States hav,
X shown Republican propensities in presi
II dental years While his political record
~ as far as the next presidential cam
y paign is concerned, will be confined t.
le two years as governor he has a recor,
'e of high achievements that will appea
II to voters, perhaps, as much as a loni
q career Of Office holding AS fOrme
president Of Princeton, he would hay
hold upon New England, with il
10 many colleges and universities II +
= argued in Washington that stronl
y movement IN his favor can be expecte,