The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-01
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT ARE
NEAR THE BREAKING POINT
Roosevelt Believed to
Be Withholding Dec.
laration of War for
Better Occasion.
By Ernest G.. Walker.

21.-The summer capital is stiIl on the |
crescendo. Politicians are humping
Themselves almost every day for ad
vantage, and the President 5 cottage
is frequently the scene Of consultations
that have more or less TO do with the
fate of the party. Oyster Bay is re-
spending merrily to all these activities
in fact is largely responsible for
them-and OCCASIONALLY messengers be-
tween the two big men pass this way.
The fact that lines of commuEica-
ton are still open encourages the opin-
ion that there is still hope for the olive
branch. Colonel Roosevelt continues to
be in war paint and is prancing around
outside the reservation. Up here at
of dignity and of peace. He reasons
that the Oyster Bay sachem misunder-
stands recent developments and that a
complete understanding would bring
calm and more perfect contentment.
For the moment VicePresident Sher
man is the bone of contention. When
the State committee, few days ago,
by a vote of twenty to fifteen desig-
mated him as temporary chairman of
the New York State convention, which
is to meet at Saratoga, in preference
to Colonel Roosevelt, who had allowed
himself to become a candidate, the lat
ter's rage knew no bounds. Denu2cia
tions and COMBINATIONS and promises
of vigorous figures upon the Warpath
began to vibrate over the wires from
the erstwbile capital on Long Island.
Therefore it is that Beverly has been
waiting breathlessly for the daily Ovs-
ter Bay product but remaining oml-
nouslv silent For several days the
President refused to believe that his
predecessor in Office was pranclng
around Sycamore Hill, waving toma-
hawks and threatening the extermina-
tion of the administration. He pre-
ferred to believe that Colonel Roose-
Welt was possibly being misunderstood
by the newspaper correspondents as
signed to duty there. But knowledge
that Colonel Roosevelt consults very
freely with the correspondents and
ntips them off, to about all he is up
to in this connection, as was his wont
in Washington when engaged IN a
political contention, and the fact that
private ~advices have confirmed the
newspaper stories, have brought the ad-
ministratIon to recognition of Colonel
Roosevelt's serious state of mind.
Couldn't Avoid Trouble.
IT, e. oil 10
to divert public attention from any pos
sihilitv of quarrel. He has insisted
from the beginning that there was no
plot for Colonel Roosevelt s undoing,
as far as the President is concerned.
He has abstained from comment abso-
lutelv. Right when the situation was
piping hot and word from him would
have made the fractional breach in this
campaign irreparabIe, he suddenly mo-
tored away to Milford to stop over
night with Governor Draper and to
spend a picturesque day visiting the
home of his fathers in that vicinity
But while the President was peacefully
motoring back from Milford to Beverly
shying out of the road to get around
bfg loads of hay. herds Of COWS and
like distractions. Colonel Roosevelt was
pouring defiant story into the ears
of the Oyster Bay correspondents anC
putting it down as a sine qua non fo1
a cessation of hostilities that Vice
President sherman must be thrown tt
the wolves. He would force the Presi
dent to demand that Mr.. sherman de
cline to serve as temporary presiding
officer at Saratoga and that the Presi
dent disavow Mr. Sherman generally
This was decidedly a new departure
Before the President motored away *
Milford Colonel Roosevelt had an
nounced that he would retire to hi
tent and have nothing to do with The
State convention or the New Yorf
campaign. unless he should choose late
on to jump in and see what he coulC
do toward eleeting a ticket. He ha,
decided upon that course as preferable
to making a fight for the support o
the delegates and trying to overturl
the choice of the State committee 70
temporary presiding officer. That wa
grave enough to those who had beer
striving for party harmony. The col
onel' s asseverations on that subject ha
filed the leaders with forebodinrs o
November reyerseS.
Sherman Will Stick.
President Taft will not throw Vie
President sherman over He could no
consistently do SO if he would. Their
are several reasons The President ha
allowed it to be known again and aga
that he was taking no part in the Ney
York fractional fight, beyond pleadin
with the leaders to 20 into the Sara
t0ga convention in n spirit of harmon
any Of readiness to compromise thei
differences. He claimed that his cor