The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-27
PRESIDENT FINDS PLAYING
POLITICS IS GOOD HARD WORK
The Summer Capital HUNS, While the Chief
Executive Connects With the Party
Live Wires.

would be tudt amos pAIdbIe 10 me Top
man in the upper Legislative branch.
The fine yacht O-we-ra went straight
up 10 that quaint old town Of Marble
head. Senator Aldrich ''piked ashore,
sought out telephone booth, called
Secretary Norton, and allowed that he
would be disposed TO call upon his old
friend. the President, the next morn
ing early.
The next morning early a launch left
the side of the O-We-ra. bearing the
naughty figure of the Rhode Island sen
ator. The guards at the little wharf
that serves as landing for the Presi-
dent : cottage bowed low and the sena-
tor stepped ashore He walked straight
up to the President 5 cottage, found the
family at breakfast at $50 a. H., was
cordially invited to come in and sit
down at the table and for an hour and
"a half he visited.
A lot was said before the senator
said farewell and boatei out to his
yacht to resume his trip to the New
England coast. There is nothing to
show that the President voiced disap-
prevail. In fact the reports about what
was said there have been carefully
pulling up anchor in the shallow har-
Dor of Beverly. an old friend had few
words with him and the senator made
some plain talk The purport of the
senator views were that Colonel
Roosevelt was sending the party to the
bOwwows by indicating a willingness
to take up the insurgent cause and that
probably the control of the next house
of representatives was irretrievably
lost to the Democrats.
Stay Home and Hustle.
The senator advised President Taft
not to 60 TO Panama. He thinks the
twenty days in November when the
President viii be away on the bound
ing main and upon the isthmus could
better he spent in. Washington, watch
ing out for the interests of the govern
ment there and making ready for the
exceedingly important session of con
gress that Will be Immediately ahead
of him. He dwelt much upon the trou-
blesome situation for the Republican
party and advised the greatest activity
possible to keep the administration
on even keel.
Time was not long ago when that
sort of talk from Senator Aldrich to
President Taft would have made the
President sit up and take notice Just
what the influence of it was upon him
at his summer cottage, where his mind
is filed with vacation ideas, has not
been disclosed. Secretary Norton. who
has been very active in trying to swing
the President around to the new dis
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during the interview. When it was all
over it was announced in authoritative
quarters, but not from the President,
that Senator Aldrich was only a mem
Der of the down and out club any wav,
and ii did not make much difference.
now that he had issued his statement
denouncing the Honorable Bristow.
Ihe elimination of Senator Aldrich
was the thing-according to this same
authority-and he had reiterated to
the President his intention not to stand
for reelection 70 the senate next
winter
Wedding Them Out
That elimination of the Rhode Is
land senator from the campaign. the
retirement of Secretary Ba!lingpr nv
I
ambitious schemes figure in the pro-
gram of the new dispensation. It is
announced authoritatively that Presi-
dent Taft is not an Immediate party
to this, but that his close advisers
propose to bring it all about and are
confident that they can. Then by the
middle of September heavy load will
have been lifted from the party and
10 !.
congressional race in November
Think West Satisfied.
Thus far no insurgents have been
coming to Beverly and there are no in
dications that they are coming or that
they are seeking interviews with the
/ President. The regulars, however, have
told him in much detail about c0ndi-
/ tons to the westward.
| The western people are pleased by
what the President accomplished in legal
/ ling the withdrawal of power sites, and
/ coal, phosphate and petroleum lands
/ As far rs he has gone in that regard
they have no criticism. But they are
now tremendously interested in ascer-
tanning what use he will make for the
nation of these vast resources. They
coal lands developed and they do not
! want this done in a manner that will
give the big corporations and capital
ISIS a strong hold,
st. Paul Convention.
i There viii be great gathering of
the conservation clans at st Paul in
early September. when the President
will make an address. He has been
told by an eastern congressman who
has Just been on observation tour even
to the Pacific Coast that he must not
: allow that opportunity to slip. The
= western insurgents viii he there il
= force in the hope of "getting him
) bat he must he prepared to outline II
g detail a policy for the use Of the ma
r tionaI resources. now held in trust fo,
, the benefit of all the people. And tn
70 President is assured that if he ear