The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-09

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 go any rea-
sonable lengths to further that end
Colonel Roosevelt has provoked him
| tremendously but he has borne it pa
| tiently The men who found themselves
out of touch with the Taft administra.
| tion have been shown marked favors at
| Oyster Bay. Ex-Secretary of the In
terror Garfield and ex-Forester Clifford
Pinchot are conspicuous examples.
Colonel Roosevelt has not praised
them in direct words to the public but
in scores of little ways, of which he is
a 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 conviction. His private
conversations with the newspaper cor
respondents at Oyster Bay have been
so frank in denunciation of the Taft
! administration that two-thirds of the
| IeduluB pNDuC, nOJ 1dhllluI Win Nul-
| onel Roosevelt methods, would prob
ably refuse to believe them true.
Expects to Pick Up the Pieces.
The sum and substance of Colenel
| Roosevelt s 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 q bet
ter position to assume actual leader
ship of the party and to guide its des-
TIMES in 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 viii
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 time
when the party is having a hard time
getting into shape for the State and
congressional campaigns.
For the present the President and the
ex-President are nominally together in
the New York campaign. The Presi.
dent has fully endorsed Colonel Roose.
welt IS demand for clean government
and direct primaries in New York
, State The Colonel has announced that
j he is willing to be a delegate to the
I convention and the fight has beer
! leaders for the control of the conven
ton. But this has shaped up so as tt
2 place President Taft in secondary DO
! 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 been
, 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 few
, days ago that Maine promises to cleo
r a Democratic governor and one Demo
/ cratic congressman, for the first time
) in quite thirty years. Although that il
great Republican stronghold, the
g canvas of the voters in the Pine Tree
State indicates that Col. Frederick w
t Plaisted, the Democratic nominee fol
governor, will probably be elected
= There is ray of hope in that there
r are many silent voters, who will moi
v declare their intentions but who may
s yet decide to vote the Republican
$ ticket.
D AS has been often explained tn,
Y Maine election has influence upon tn,
t rest of the country, because it comes
: September IL, and is supposed to give
+ an indication of the trend of the polit
Q zeal current. Vermont holds an election
I at about the same time and discOurag
d ing reports are brought from there
: Not that Vermont is likely to go Dem
7. lOcratic, for it is an overwhelming,
= Republican State. But the Republi
cans have nominated an unpopular maj
. for governor and the prospects are tina
= the Vermont majority may be the small
= est for years.
}, Trouble Throughout New England.
s Strangely enough party troubles pre-
! vail this year in practically all tn
i New England States, except Rhod
+ Island. There is danger of a Demo
/ cratic governor in Massachusetts al
though the Democrats are now in
fine and characteristic quarrel over tn
t selection of a candidate which quarre
e may prevent their winning at the polls
j The Republicans Of New Hampshire
o are in fractional scrap and Conneeti
IS cut is bad in spots, chiefly around New
d Haven whore a Democrat may win 70
Z congress.
n New idea Faction.
Governor Franklin. Fort and Repre-
: sentative II. G. Loudenslager, both o
New Jersey have been here during th
past week, 10 talk over the troubles Il
y that State. The New idea men I
u Jersey are fomentIng faetionalism an
- there Is some doubt whether tho differ