The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-19
WAVES OF INSURGENCY
HITTING AT SUMMER CAPITAL
President and Advisers Are Having Worried
Time Listening to the Tempest as 1t
Grows Louder


has been making to him, the only way
to get him out viii be for the Presi-
dent to ask for his resignation. 1t is
matter of more or less uncertainty
whether the President can be persuaded
TO ask the secretary to resign.
The politicians who are in authority
around Beverly and who are in constant
touch with the President, saw none the
less that Ballinger must 90 and that
there are no two ways about IT, If
they know what they are talking about,
they must have assurances that. if all
other plans fail, the President will make
the request.
the President. as be is understood vir-
tually to have drafted Mr.. Ballinger
to the cabinet The latter was not anx-
ious to return to public life. He is
not a rich man and he wanted to take
up the practise of his profession at
Seattle in the hope of making some
money that he could put by for his
old age and for the support of his fam.
ily. He yielded after the President had
pressed him and had urged that his
acceptance would be for the gooi of
the party on the Pacific Coast. To
take him into the cabinet for the good
of the party and then to, put him out
for the good of the party, would. under
the circumstances. be an inconsistent at
titude for the President to assume.
ITO the Wolves
But party exigency has compelled
Presidents to throw cabinet officers to
the wolves more than once in the wears
which have flown by. The reports from
the West about political conditions
have been disquieting to Beverly. The
campaign out there has resulted in the
overthrow of one prominent regular
after another and the insurgent move
ment has come pretty near to sweep
ing everything before it. The regulars
at this iuncture are more impressed
than ever with the necessity of max
ing concessions to popular sentiment
and Just now they believe that the re-
tirNment Of Secretary Ballinger would
relieve the party of criticism that
threatens to lose many votes in Novem-
Der.
Alger an Instance.
President Mckinley passed through
very similar experience with his sec
itldiN bI WAL the IdIf huSNtiI A. Al
ger of Michigan Following the Span
ish War. General Alger was made the
target of much popular criticism. very
much of which. it was generally he
lieved. he did not merit. President Ne
Kinlev resisted the clamor for Alger s
political head and ii WAS said again
and again that he would not be retired
but one day an influential political
friend Of President Mckinley went to
Secretary Alger with statement Of
the situation and enlarged upon The
embarra ssment he was bringing to the
administration by remaining in office
The upshot of it all was. after many
denials and many assertions, that Sec
rotary Alger did resign and Mckinley
accepted his resignation. It was a SORE
disappointment to General Alger to thu
dav Of his death but he did not murmu
| publicly. He accepted the situation a.
a party exigency.
May Let Him Down.
| General Alger won some consolation
| in a subsequent election to the senat,
| which came to him under rather com
| plimentarv circumstances. Some ques
tion has been raised whether the Pres
| ident might not be able to break thu
| fall for Secretary Ballinger, He ha
several good appointments within hi
gift, especially TO the judiciary. H,
might nominate Secretary Ballinger a!
an associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court. as ne will have~a vacancy in the
retirement soon Of Justice Moody. H
might nominate Secretary Ballinger Il
a position on the commerce court, il
the secretary would be willing to ac
cept such a place.
It might be doubtful whether public
sentiment would be altogether friendly
to the placing of the ermine upon tho
shoulders of a cabinet officer VINO has
been unpopular. Conservation policies
upon which the criticism of Secretary
Balljnger largely rests, will ultimately
figure in big litigation to some extent
\ fight in the senate against his con
trmatiou might be expected. but
whether it would be successful is mn
certain.
The Pacific Coast already has one
| member of the Supreme Court in Jus
tIce Mckenna but it is impossible tha-
he will serve more than three or foul
wears longer He viii be seventy year.
IN poor health for some time will prob
ably retire as soon as he is eligibl,
to do SO on full salary There is NJ
| strong reason. however, why there
should not be two justices of the cour
| from the Pacific Coast. It is a larg,
and growing section of the cOuntr,
and is adjacent to that big eighth cir
cult, which comprises the Tntermoun
| tain States
| Voice Of the West.
| The recent action of the Iowa Re
| publIcans in their state convention
which the insurgents controlled. an,
! Of the Kansas primaries, which the in
surgents won overwhelmingly, promis
10 stimulate the activities Of the regu
lar Republicans in conceding somethin
| which will hold that section in line
They have been slow in doing this o
! the claim that the regular cause wa
looking mp in that section of the cour
try. 1t is from such States as low
and Kansas that the most voicefr
I ella NOR has mn fpY hp ret mn o.