The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-28


sumo 10 endorse for postmasters ant
other federal offices men who will fur
Their with heart and soul the anti. Taf'
propaganda.
Fight 10 a Finish.
The President thinks il is now n
good time TO fight to a finish this bat.
tie inside the Republican ranks. He
expects there win be decisive victory
long before the congressional elections
| are held in November and that the
vanquished insurgents will then be in
frame of mind to turn right about
and join in the onward movement
against the Democracy. Militant ac-
ton often stirs the Republican party
to its greatest virility. The President
has faith that it will be so in the
present instance.
A great educational campaign has
been given impetus from the party
leaders in Washington and it is TO be
prosecuted vigorously from this time
on. As the country has opportunity to
see what he and his administration
! really stand for, the President believes
that the ranks of the insurgents will
rapidly thin out. Republicans East and
West applaud a President who dares
to risk acombat. There is no disguis
ing that Taft is now in warrior role.
Committee in Line.
The Republican congressional com.
mittee, in charge of the next cam.
paign, has fallen in promptly behind
the President. Its officers, taking the
sign from the President, have issued
their proclamation of party regula-
larity and instituted proceedings to as.
certain who is who. They will allow
no quarter to insurgentism. A band
of Western malcontents will not be
allowed to rule the Republican party.
If they want to accept the doctrine
of secession well and good. But they
will not be permitted to appeal to the
voters as Republicans with any &C.
quiescenee in their action from Wash
ington. They must pitch their camps
outside the Republican enclosure.
Shaping the Issues.
With such clear-cut pronunciamentos
ringing forth, one can easily imagine
with what zest the champions are
springing to the call. The issues of
the campaigns are to be shaped up in
Washington. Senators and representa-
tives must take their positions for or
against. 1t will be disastrous times
for straddlers. There will be debates
of moment in which the orators will
forge the arguments. There will be
votes in senate and house as tests of
insurgentism and the records so made,
with the reasonings therefor, will be
spread before the public. The Presi.
dent and his friends in congress say
such action has been made imperative.
No other course could be open to them.
Whatever the result they are cordially
willing to force the fighting, now that
the insurgent war is on in earnest.
Memorable Friday.
Nevertheless it will be known as
memorable Friday, all through this
winter and, perhaps, for many winters
to come-that Friday when President
Taft and his cabinet threw Forester
Pinchot out of Office and the Demo
Gratis and Republican insurgents of the
house overthrow your Uncle Joseph
Cannon. 1t was not a. black Friday,
such as the fnanciers and stockgam-
blers remember and fear, but red
letter Friday, at least to the politicians
and Others who feared Washington was
becoming stale and might not be an
interesting place of residence because
of the prevalent dullness.
The events of that Friday, January
Z, were like claps out of the clear sky,
They demonstrated how, with all the
shrewd planning of the leaders, pro-
grams can not always be definitely ar
ranged even under staid and steady
Republican administration. No one
expected the insurgents and the Demo.
Gratis were likely to make a winning
combination. Least of all did any one
dream that two such men as Repre-
sentative Butler Ames, of Massacm-
setts-son of ex-senator and Gen.
Adelbert Ames and grandson of old
Ben Butler-and Representative Hamil-
ton Fish, likewise the scion of a fam
Gus family, would turn the trick which
makes for the discontinue of the Pres
ident and of the speaker more than
any otner happening of the admins
tration. Both have been old line Re-
publicans, with no faint of insurgent-
ism, but both are warm personal
friends of Pinchot and wanted the in
vestigating committee made up of men
who would give Pinchot a square deal.
No one thought, as Congress came
together again, that President Taft
and his cabinet would for a moment
have occasion to eliminate the chief
forester. And they would not have
thought of such action with all its at,
tendant embarrassments, but for the
pert letter which Chief Pinchot wrote
to Senator Dolliver.
Changed Aspect,
Those two incidents, however, have
changed the aspect of things In Wash
ington. They have made big dent
in political calculations. In short, they
have made what Washington calls a
situation There is situation
in Washington every season, and some
times two or three situations, as big
fights and issues take shape. But there
has been no such situation as now pre-.
walls for a long, long time. There has
been nothing that approaches it since
the days of the second Cleveland adj
ministration 1t is too early yet to
say whether the Republican party is
TO be threatened with n faetionnlism