The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-19
By Ernest G. Walker.
[ail Special to The Advertiser.

BEVERLY, Massachusetts,, August 7.
Days that are big with political and
administrative business are passing off
the midsummer calendar at the summer
capital. Lookerson stand agape as one
political event succeeds another and
ask one another what next?' For
the President is trying at last to put
his political house in order and there
are summary proceedings to that end.
This happens after numerous confer
ences of note with the big men of the
regular wing The Vice President, upon
whom the President relies in politics
more than upon any other except Sena-
tor ". Murray Crane. of Massachusetts,
has come motoring this way. Likewise
National Committeeman ". L. Ward,
of New York; Senator Crane again,
and so on. Some deep plans have been
evolved, the full purport of which has
not yet been allowed to reach the pub
lic
And almost every day some new
political visitor comes chugging down
to the waterfront at Burgess Point.
These visitors always come in automo-
biles. If they have none of their own
one of the many owned by the govern
ment and used by the President and
his officials are pressed into the service.
No one sees a visitor to the President
these days jogging along in a coach or
a carriage. A horse is a lonesome crea-
ture along the aristocratic North Shore.
Crane and Ballinger
The great mystery Of the hour seems
to be whether Senator Murray Crane
has succeeded IN dislodging Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger from the cab
met. In spite of denials and tergiver-
sations, it ultimately developed that a
scheme was abroad to throw the secre-
tary to the wolves. This would be a
sop to the insurgent sentiment of the
West. The rumblings of that sentiment
have been coming Beverlywards for
weeks and burst out into roar as the
news from Kansas came. However, the
movement for the tightening of the
Republican party for the campaign pre-
coded the Kansas primaries.
To See Ballinger.
When Senator Crane and Secretary
Ballinger happened - to be in st. Paul
on the same day and practically during
the same hours, the secret began to get
out. When it was known that Senator
Crane had been dispatched West on a
mission the facts We're established
that the original purpose was to send
him TO Seattle. That is the home of
Secretary Ballinger and it was sug
gested that his errand might have some.
thing to do with the secretary of the
interior This was stoutly c0ntroverted
in the executive Offices. A few days
later, however, when officials there were
confronted with the st. Paul dispatches
it was admitted that the mission was
to see Secretary Ballinger. And from
perfectly authoritative sources it was
admitted that Secretary Rallinger
must 90.
Load That Sticks.
There has been a very peculiar situa-
ton, none the less 1t has been much
impressed upon those who have been
seeking to dig ont the news regarding
this ousting OF a cabinet officer that the
President is having nothing to do with
the matter. It has been iterated and
reiterated that the President will not
as much as lift MS little finger against
Secretary BaIlinger, will never ask him
to resign and intends to stick by him
to the bitter end.
But. on the other hand, it is iterateG
and reiterated in authoritative quarters
that Ballinger is a heavy load for the
party to carry, and that Republicans
want him to get out before the Novem-
her elections are held. The inference
is that politicians in whom the Presi-
dent has confidence are undertaking to
persuade Secretary Ballinger that it is
has duty to resign. They are pressing
the "|welfare of the party is more i'm
portant than any one mans ambition
argument to persuade him to step down
and out.
A Funny Situation.
However, it would be anomalous in
deed if the President friends were
going ahead and getting members of hi:
cabinet to resign without his knOwl
edge or acquiescence. The members OF
his cabinet are members of his otficia
family, and are, in theory, closer tC
him than any other officials Of his ad
ministration. Then there is reason fOl
believing that the step toward the Dust
ing of Secretary Ballinger was takeI
after extended conferences with tbs
President. The presumption is that h,
simply took the ground that he would
not himself move in the matter; woul'
do nothing to terminate Secretary Bal
linger $ tenure, but if others, like Sen
ator Crane, could persuade Secretar,
Ballinger to hand in his resignation
then the President would be willing t.
accept it and name another man N hi
stead.
Secretary Standing Pat.
Secretary Ballinger, however, on hi
side Of the fence, indicates an inten
ton Of standing pat. Senator Crane i
expected hack in Beverly before man,
days 10 make report upon his miss on
Whether there viii he further develor
ments thereafter Is a matter of con
lecture. If Secretary BallinUer insist