The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-16

nomlHaiion aa on independent ehndi
date tor ihq Presidency
This Hind of feaethlhe j not iouhdod
80 The political dchralf that She Hepuh
lieaBa are bound 20 yea q liehihg any
way at a presidential cluctiou and that
Il might us well come ncxt ycar, 90
that The party can return 10 ita old.
time sOlidity. One Of these prcaideu.
tinl advisers, at least, argues that IN
such detection, as matters stand
now, seems 10 be President Taft q
brightest prospects Tor reelection.
corrailing Radicniiun.
"senator La Toilette, as an indie.
pendent Republican candidate for the
Presidency said this Republican,
would corral the radical vote. lie
would get as many Democrats as Re.
publieans. Tho Wisconsin Democrats
have kept La Toilette in public life.
IL the Democrats should nominate Gov
ernor Harmon of Ohio, whom Bryan
docs not approve of, La Toilette would
get an exceptionally large Democratic
vote. II the Democrats nominate GOV.
/ Woodrow Wilson, radical, whose radi-
lcalism is likely to seem more offenslvs
to conservative Democrats as the can't
paign wears on, Democrats of this con.
sentative type vial be driven TO sup.
port President Taft for another term.
II the Reppblican factions compose
their differences, it looks to me as
4 though President Taft has mighty little
chance of being elected. The radical
Republican vote, which is called In.
surgent, will not be cast for the Presi
dent, but in large part for the Demo.
cratic nominee, whoever he might be.
Accordingly, as 1 see il, La Toilette
can help us by keeping up his fght and
some time within the next fifteen
months getting out of the party and
taking his following with him. He will
thus make our campaign next year
easier and give us lively hope OF
keeping our President in the White
House for another four years"
! Headed for Secession.
Whatever merit there be in this Tea
soning, opinion grows at the Capitol
that the Insurgents are heading al
surely for secession from the regular
organization as did the Free Silver Re
publicans in 1896. 1t may or may moi
find its climax in dramatic Withdrawal
i from the national convention, as hap
pened in 1896 at st. Louis. Ex-senator
Fred Dubois of Idaho, one of those whS
twalked out of the st. Louis conven
tion and afterward became a Democrat
while in Washington year ago, saiC
with some bitterness, because of hi
own experience, that it was inevitable
the Insurgents should be driven from
Republican ranks.
Just now, however, the senate In
surgents will not listen to any sucl
suggestions. They participated in thu
Republican caucus of the senate .ant
are maintaining stoutly that they ar
, Republicans. But they approach di
; viding Of the ways when they demand
!, recognition of their number as an OF
! ganization within an organization. TIL
Republican party, Of course, will no
| recognize any inside group.
La Follette's Boom Booming.
Meanwhile the propaganda for Sen
) ator La Toilette Is nomination in 19l
2 proceeds apace. The foundation ha
r been well laid and the work of gather
ing in delegates will begin early, prof.
ably before the vanguard of Taft boon
ers has started ont among the people
Some commentators have been urgin
Q that the Insurgents were losin
c strength because of their Antagonist
to tariff revision. But while that ma
Z. or may not be true of the status anon
: the voters, there is no question of tn
. aggressive virility of the senate II
!. surgent group. They seem more cage
| for the fray than ever before. Th
., notoriety that comes from vigorous COZ
Z flict is most welcome. From all al
Q pearances they intend to make til
Y extra session one of tremendous hilarit
+ in the senate and to make their activ
ties at the Capitol the groundwork Fl
very lively campaign out in Il
States. They have faith in the
. ability to capture the regular Repu
II lican organization before the shindy
10 over, to make the denomination Of II
j. President impossible, and, going befol
e the country with an Insurgent nomine
is continue the party, reorganized and 7
h formed, in charge of the government
g Thus they would do in the nation VIII
n they have already done in sever
8 States.
a a CHINFSF sCAOOI Finn