The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-08
SUMMER CAPITAL THINKS
ROOSEVELT WANTS A SCRAP
President Patiently Bears With GrowIs From
Oyster Bay, Although Friends Acvise
Him to Slap Back.

tates to come out against the man who
was responsible for his elevation to
the high office he now holds He is very
DESTROYS Of a Republican victory in No
vember and is willing to 90 any rea-
sonabIe lengths to further that end.
Colonel Roosevelt has provoked him
tremendously but he has borne it pa
tientlv. The men who found themselves
out Of touch with the Taft administra-
ton have been shown marked favors at
Oyster Bay. EX-Seeretary OF the In
terror Garfield and ex-Forester Clifford
Pinchot are conspicuous examples
Colonel Roosevelt has not praised
them III direct words to the public but
in scores of little ways, of which he is
master, he has furthered the impress
sion throughout the country that he is
decidedly with Garfield and Pinchot.
His attitude in the last two or three
weeks has been distinctly that of
man who is looking for an opportunity
to make trouble for the administration.
Furthermore tales have been borne
from Oyster Bay to Beverly. which con
firm such a conviction. His private
conversations with the newspaper cor
respondents at Oyster Bay have been
50 frank in denunciation of the Taft
administration that two-thirds of the
reading public. not familiar with Col
onel Roosevelt s methods, would prob
ably refuse to believe them true.
Expects to Pick UP the Pieces.
The sum and substance Of Colenel
Roosevelt 5 attitude, as gathered at
Beverly is that he expects the Republi
cans to suffer defeat at the polls this
autumn. After the wreck has been ac-
complished. he expects to be in bet
ter position to assume actual leader
ship of the party and to guide its des-
TIMES III 1912. The newspapers are al
ready full of talk about his candidacy
for another term. Some Of his friends
still persist in believing that he will
be content simply with party leadership
and that he is not seeking another nom
ination.
None the less his activity is interpre
ted among the rank and file as pointing
decidedly that way. President Taft
has shown no intense interest in run
ming for another term but his friends
naturally resent bitterly anything that
savors of an effort this early to crowd
him out Of consideration. They resent
it especially because it comes at a time
when the party is having hard time
getting into shape for the State and
congressional campaigns.
For the present the President and the
ex-President are nominally together IL
the New York campaign. The Presi-
dent has fully endorsed Colonel Roose-
! velt's demand for clean government
and direct primaries in New York
| State. The Colonel has announced that
he Is willing to be delegate to the
convention and the fight has been
started between him and the upstate
leaders for the control of the conven-
ton. But this has shaped up so as to
place President Taft in secondary po-
sition, although he has been asserting
that he would not mingle in the con.
! tentions over local politics.
! Discouraging Outlook.
These and kindred developments are
{ disheartening. While they have pro
! ceeded, campaign managers have beer
coming TO Beverly with discouraging re
ports. Were it not for the fact that
it is darkest Just before dawn. one
might infer that the party was going
to the bow-WOws IN the Forthcoming
election. The President was told a few
days ago that Maine promises to elect
a Democratic governor and one Demo
cratic congressman, for the first time
IN quite thirty years. Although that i:
a great Republican stronghold, the
canvas Of the voters in the Pine Tree
State indicates that Col. Frederick "
P1aisted. the Democratic nominee fol
! governor, viii probably be elected
There is ray of hope in that there
are many silent voters, who will no
declare their intentions but who NAV
Vet decide to vote the Republican
ticket
As has been often explained th
Maine election has influence upon th,
rest Of the country, because it come
September y, and is supposed to Civ
an indication Of the trend of the polit
zeal current Vermont holds an election
at about the same time and dise0ura Q
ing reports are brought from there
i Not that Vermont is likely to 90 Dem
ocratie, for it IS an overwhelmingl
Republican State. But the Renubli
cans have nominated an unpopular ma
for governor and the prospects are tina
the Vermont majority may be the small
est for years.
Trouble Throughout New England.
| Strangely enough party troubles pre-
vail this year in practically all tn
New England States, except Rhod
Island There is danger Of a Demo
cratic governor in Massachusetts. a
though the Democrats are now in
fine and Characteristic quarrel over tn
selection of a candidate which quarrt
may prevent their winning at the poll
The Republicans Of New Hampshir
are in a fractional scrap and Connect
cut Is bad in spots, chiefly around Ne
Haven where Democrat NAV win f
congress.
New idea Faction.
Governor Franklin Fort and Repr,
sentative Il. {. Loudenslager. both c
New Jersey have been here during th
past week, to talk over the troubles
that State. The New Idea men
Jersey are fomenting factionalism an