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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

I take no part in the New York State
campaign which was then opening for
the election of a Governor and com
plete State ticket Within few days
Senator La Toilette turned up as a
visitor at Oyster Bay. This was con,
sidered extraordinary at the time for
the reason that President Roosevelt
In the convention of 1904 was directly
instrumental in having the La Toilette
delegates at large from the State of
Wisconsin elected from the conven'
ton, and during all of the four years
between 1905 and 1909 Roosevelt in
the White House gave little or no
heed to La Fo'lette's suggestions
either as to policy or patronage.
Senator La Follette's friends ex-
planned after his visit in June, 1910, to
Oyster Bay that Roosevelt suggested
to La Toilette that inasmuch as he
was bout to make tour of hte coun-
try he would go into the State of Wis
consin and help La Toilette to be re-
elected to the United States Senate,
and that La Toilette courteously de-
cIined the ex-Presidents offer, explain
ing afterward that evidently Roose-
welt had discovered that the Progress
sive policies advocated by himself and
Senator CumminS and Senator Bris-
tow and others had become popular,
but they had no use on their band
wagon for a convert no matter how
jealous he might be. In fact La Fol-
lette and his friends were rather sus-
picious of Roosevelt, the latter day
convert. However, Roosevelt went on
that Western tour and preached New
Nationalism and stirred things
nightly
Garfield Turned Down in Ohio.
Although considerable friction had
been brought about between President
Taft and ex-President Roosevelt be-
cause James Rudolph Garfield was
not reappointed Secretary of the In
terror by Taft, there has never been
satisfactory explanation of Mr.. Gar
fields conduct at the Republican
State convention he'd at Columbus
Ohio, in the summer of 1910. Mr.. Gar
field turned up there with a platform
of progressive principles and was met
by several astute Republican politi
clans, notably eX-United States Sen
ator Charles Dick. Somehow Gar
field obtained the impression from the
Dick people that he was sound avail
able Gubernatorial timber If he woul'
only recant his public criticisms o
the Taft Administration, This mi
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

Secretary of the Inferior and advised
that the re8ppointment be made on
the ground that it would give the
Roosevelt people no excuse whatever
f0r causing friction in the Taft Ad-
ministration. 1t has always been I'M
derl TODD that Taft had been informed
by Roosevelt's friends that Garfield s
reappointment was not positive y de-
sired by Roosevelt himself, on the
theory or statement that Garfield was
not up to the place and that Mr., Tai
so informed Mr.. Sherman. However
that may be, Taft did not reappoint
Garfield. Taft selected Richard A. Bal
linger of the State of Washington.
While at Augusta Taft received
word from an authorized representa-
tive that President Roosevelt desired
E place in his Cabinet for his secre-
tary, William Loeb, Jr., and the
President. elect declined to make that
appointment, but added "Pll give
Loeb the next best place outside of
the Cabinet, Collector of the Port of
New York" At the same time the
President-elect appointed President
Roosevelt's personal friend George
Won l.. Meyer Secretary of the Navy.
Mr.. Meyer had been Postmaster-Gene.
raj in Roosevelt's Cabinet. Also, Taft
appointed Mr.. Hitchcock to be Post
master.General.
There seemed to be no ground for
friction after these selections had
been made known, but fortunately or
unfortunately the President-elect turn
ed up in Washington nearly month
before Inauguration day. Immediately
the army of office-seekers sought the
rising sun and neglected the setting
sun in the White House. The Presi-
dent-elect thus failed to appreciate the
Roosevelt temperament which could
brook not the slightest evidence of a
desire to take the center of the stage
away from him.
Then too came the quick announce
ment that the Storers were to return
to Washington, were to reopen their
home in that city and to engage again
in its social life. The Tafts had never
broken with the Storers. All of these
facts nettled, it was stated, the re
firing President. Outwardly, though
there were no evidences Of dissatis
faction with Taft. 1t wGs still "Will'
and Theodore"
/ T. RS Friends Make Trouble.
Yet on all sides there were whisper
ed murmurs. Trouble was brewing
The Republican national platform OF
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

excellent work in any cal ing, and this
is especially true at the Navy cloth
ing factory, for some of these gentle
faced widowed women are exception
al y neat in their sewing.
After the suits have been cut rach
one is examined to see that every
piece fits together correctly, the ecc5-
sary trimmings such as thread but
ons, braid, etc, are added. TIL, are
then done up in bundles rea, for
the women who come for work each
morning. These women have a private
entrance to the factory and begin to
arrive between nine and ten o'clock
bringing the finished work as well.
Each article is carefully inspected by
a man who is rigid in his rules, and
it is surprising how few pieces are
condemned. The women are given
slips as the work is passed and pay
days occurs twice every month. On
receiving the unmade clothing the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

tEry, it is declared, appeared pos
haste from Washington bearing a let
ter from President Taft in which the
President wished Roosevelt, happy
safe and hea.t hful trip, enclosed {
gold foot rule rs a memento as wei
as for use, and closed the letter by
saying in substance:
81 owe my nomination and election
to Charles p Taft and you and l shall
never cease to be grateful"
Ex-Prelident Roosevelt read the let
ter and then, according to Republicans
who tell this story, waved it aloft and
cried in his highest falsetto tones.
g"Good Lord. He puts money above
brains, does he"
All this was repeated to President
Taft, who seemed to be sensitive and
hurt over Roosevelts resentment at
the mention of Charles P. Taft as a
factor ahead of Roosevelt in Tafts
nomination and election.
Meantime Clifford Pinchot and James
Rudolph Garfield and their friends, all
Roosevelt adherents, remained on the
lookout in Washington. The prosecu-
ton of the Standard Oil Company and
of the American Tobacco Company,
instituted by Roosevelt and carried on
by Taft's Acknowledgement, went on
apace and came to an eventual con-
cluslon.
Roosevelt Out of Jungle, Joins Pro-
gressiVes.
Meantime Roosevelt once out Of the
African bushes, had that friction with
the Vatican at Rome. Meantime also,
he had met Clifford Pinchot abroad and
had learned of the troubles created
for the Taft Administration. Then
followed President Taft's appointment
of Roosevelt to be his special repre-
sentative at the funeral of King Ed
ward VII. But the Roosevelt clouds
were over all the Taft Administration
Roosevelt onlceholders had been
= compelled to give place to Taft Office
holders. Most Of them turned in their
troubles to Roosevelt, and with many
of them Roosevelt sympathized to the
egtent of forgetting that inasmuch as
during his seven years in the White
House he had his own oflceholders &c
represent his Administration Taft was
clearly entitled to his own ofIicehold
ers or those that could be given tC
him through the civil service.
On Roosevelt's return to this coun
try in June, 1910, Senator Lodge
Senator Root and others, it has beer
authoritively stated, advised him t.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

Carrie d at first vehemently declined
to do, but final y he issued q type
written statement Withdrawing all OF
his previous critical utterances, and
The Dick people and their followers
thereupon promptly nominated for
Governor Warren G. Harding and gave
Mr. Garfield exactly three votes for
Governor.
Mr.. Garfelds enunciation of princi'
pies met a similarly disastrous fate.
Now Mr.. Garfield is back in the Roose-
vet camp and is again matchmaking
the Taft Administration.
Victory at Saratoga, Defeat at Polls
Meantime the New York Republican
State committee had selected Vice
President Sherman to be temporary
chairman of the State convention at
Saratoga. There has always been a
difference of opinion as to whether
President Taft at Beverly was con-
suited as to the selection. In moment
Gus affairs of this kind in State poll
tics it is customary to consult the
President, the titular head af the
party.
Roosevelt decided to oppose Sher-
man. President Taft wrote a letter
which, if not calculated to do so, did
actually humiliate Sherman in the
eyes of the Republicans of the State.
Roosevelt himself became a candidate
for temporary chairman. Then came
the fight for delegates to the State
convention.
At the meeting of the State com
mite at Saratoga the night before the
first session of the convention vii
liam L. Ward, Republican national com
mitteeman for the State, publicly de-
cared that President Taft had been
consulted concerning the selection OF
Vice-President Sherman and had not
opposed it. This statement was pub
licly combatted by Herbert Parsons
Lloyd c. Griscom and others in the
New York Republican county com
mitiee
Roosevelt defeated Sherman by
narrow margin, all of the Fedora
omceholders with but few exceptions
voting with Roosevelt against Sher
man. Roosevelt nominated Henry l.
Stmson for Governor and named the
remaining places on the ticket, enunci
ated the platform which was as mile
as his Csawatomie speech had beef
strong, and campaigned the Stat'
from one end to the other for Slim
son. Incidentally he took a run out t
Indiana to help out Beverage, whom
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

I, is the custom for a Presidential
nominee to name the man who is to
be chairman of the national commit
tee during his campaign. Immediately
after Taft's nomination he conferred
in Cleveland with Harry S. New and
Elmer Dover. Mr.. Dover had been
Marcus A. Hanna's secretary and had
been influential in Republican national
politics during the McKinley-HanAa
years. 1t was gathered at this con
ference that Taft would like to see
both New and Dover occupy important
places in the management of the cam
paign.
Taft Immediately sent his resigna-
ton as Secretary of War in President
Roosevelt's Cabinet. Later it became
known that President Roosevelt and
his friends believed Frank R. Hitch
cock should be made chairman of the
national committee, and his selection
was finally scquiesced in by Taft.
Hitchcock's selection was an affront
to New, who because of Hitchcock's
conduct at Chicago in entering the ma
tional committees room with four
proxies had dismissed him as assistant
secretary of the national committee.
Hitchcock, when he became national
chairman, retaliated by refusing to re-
appoint New as a member of the exc
nf
mittee, and for the first time in many
national campaigns Indiana was with
out a member of that important COM
mittee. The Indiana Republicans in
turn retaliated on election day when
Taft carried the State by a narrow
plurality and Marshall, Democrat, was
elected Governor.
All during the Taft campaign there
was friction and trouble, and finally
Senator Crane visited Mr.. Taft at Gin
cinnati, the idea being that Crane
should practically supplant Hitchcock
in the management of the campaign.
Taft consulted with President Roose'
welt on many occasions, and visited
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, But there
were jars here and tingles and tangles
there all the way up to election night
These differences were more marked
than in any Republican campaign since
1892.
Taft, Not Roosevelt, In Stage Center
In due time the Presidentelect jour
neyed to Augusta, Ca, for the purpose
of framing his Cabinet. He was there
visited by Vice-President-elect Sher
man, who suggested the reappoint
ment of James Rudolph Garfield a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

workers signs for it. About a dozen
suits are taken out at time. Sev-
eral women who are expert embroid-
erers are kept busy embrodering the
stars for the collars and the insignia
for the rating badges. Even in the
dull. season one hundred women are
kept regularly at work. Besides the
cloth suits the white working jumpers
and trousers are made. Last year
over one hundred and sixty thousand
of these white cotton suits were turn
ed out.
The above mentioned figures will
give some idea of the vast amount
of business of this factory, for added
to these articles were the b,ue flannel
overs hirts, white dress jumpers, blue
cloth trousers, overcoats, baseball
suits, clothing for petty officers, mess
attendants. Caps of various kinds
were also manufactured, including
more than one hundred and thirty
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27
REAL STORY OF THE TAFTROOSEVELT RUPTURE :.

Taft had set aside as temporary chair
man on the national convention in
1908.
Beverage in his effort for ree'ec-
ton to the United States Senate OPP
posed the Payne-Aldrich bill, thinking
by that opposition to elect a Repubn-
can Legislature. Instead a Democra-
tic Legislature was .ected and Beve-
ridge was retired to private life. slim.
son was defeated, but eventually
President Taft appointed him Secre-
tary of War.
Arbitration Treaties an Issue.
In the present war that Roosevelt
has been conducting against Taft his
fundamental objection up to short
time ago was to the Presidents arbit-
ration treaties. After consulting with
Beverage Roosevelt took this stand
against these treaties which were de-
feated sevral days ago in the United
States Senate. Now Roosevelt de-
clares that the Federal officeholders
apd the power of Republican machines
in all the States are working overtime
for Taft; that if he could only get
before the people in direct primaries
he would defeat Taft for renomina-
ton by an Overwhelming plurality He
believes, however, that, no matter
what the outcome of this fight is, by
1916 every State in the Union will
have declared for a Presidential pre-
ference primary.
AS If to make up for the disaster
which followed his Akron speech in
1905, President Taft has appointed ex-
Governor Myron T. Herrick Ambas-
!sador to the French republic.
In an effort to repair the damage in
Indiana in 1908 caused by the setting
aside of Harry S, New as member OF
the executive committee Of the ma
tional commtte the latter body at its
recent meeting in Washington, acting
in conjunction with President Taft
and despite the opposition of Mr..
Hitchcock, appointed New to be chair
man of the subcommittee OF arrange
ments for the approaching national
convention at Chicago. For several
months before this action Taft and
his advisers had made New preemin'
ent in the distribution of Federal pat
ronage in the Hoosier State
Continued on page nineteen.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27
TzNcZEeS AN:S
CLOTHING 81
Z4cTORY2/0

Few people are aware that Uncle
sam runs an up-to-date clothing fac
tory-one that is conducted on the
same business principles as a private
enterprise, and with as much if not
more economy than any frst-class
clothing mandatory in the country.
The establishment occupies a large
building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
and here all the clothing worn by the
forty,seven thousand sailors who man
our great fighting machines is manu-
featured. The cloth used is selected
with much care and by men who are
experts in their knowledge of woolens
1t is generally purchased from the
large cloth manufacturers of the coun-
try but only after the samples have
been thoroughly tested, for the ma
terial must not shrink after it is made
up. 1t must be durable and not affect
ed by different climates. The goods
are brought to the factory in huge
rolls and sent to the sponging room
on the top floor where it is put
through a thorough sponging and
made absolutely non-shrinkable even
though it has already been sponged
for a sailors clothing which would not
stand water would be a useless thing.
This process over, it is sent to the
room below, where it is spread on
large tables and the cutters begin
their work. Here again economy is
used, for the cutting is done by the
aid of an electric cutting machine,
and in this manner a dozen suits may
be cut at the same time. An expert
mechanic handles this machine, and
there is rarely a miscut. There is, of
course, a regulation style for the
clothing worn by man-o-'war's man,
but this does not prevent the designer
from making improvements for the
better in cuts and shapes If possible.
There must be plenty of room for
free actiorrain the sailors clothing, yet
he must be neat in appearance, and
the baggy clothes worn by some OF
the sailors of European countries
would not go for a moment on our
battleships. The American seaman
has long been regarded as the neat
est dressed sailor man in the world,
yet few persons realize just how much
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

and last year over one hundred thou
sand pounds of plug tobacco was sent
to the ships. Jackknives, too. TO the
extent of four thousand were passed"
1t is well known that the men do
their own mending on ship-board and
the purchase of sewing implements
was another task of those in charge
Of the factory Nearly three hundred
thousand handkerchiefs of cotton and
silk also passed through the Brooklyn
factory for the sailors.
Gigantic as this task seems every
things appears to move in the most
perfect order, and there is harmony in
all departments. The woTkmen and
the women who sew have a scale OF
wages which seems to satisfy them,
and Uncle Sans factory has been free
from strikes and labor disturbances.
Good material and good workmanship
and living wages to the worker seems
to be the motto of this big industrial
enterprise which is carried on by the
United States Government for the pur-
pose of equipping our sailors with the
very best and most comfortable cloth
ing-something well deserved by the
brave boys who tread the decks OF
our great bait 'eships and who stand
ready at any time to defend the flag
even IN death
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27
CuIkInS Tie c4ZIafg C1SkhL7S
H.ILIz Electric CLLILen

clothing was found to be perfectly dry.
A plentiful supply of clothing is
kept on all the battleshipg AMI as
space is an item the compress ma
chine is especially useful.
a Great care is used in keeping out
moths, for hundreds of suits are al
ways held in the storeroom, and to
guard against the ravages of this in
sect careful inspection is made of
the entire stock each week
Besides the manufacture of gar
ments a hundred or more of the nee
es5ary articles used by the men on
a battleship are purchased by the Off
Ger in charge of the clothing factory
and thoroughly examined before they
are sent to the ships. These include
hear brushes tooth brushes, combs,
net underwear, towels, soap, etc. All
the shoes worn by the sailor men pass
through this factory, and last year
nearly thirty thousand pairs of high
shoes and over twenty thousand low
shoes were passed" for the ships.
The sailors shoes, too, must be of a
certain cut-neGt, yet heavy enough
to keep out water. Over half a mil
lion pairs of black stockings were
among the articles looked after at the
factory Even the tobacco used by the
men is purchased and examined here,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

thousand white drill hats, service
@tripes, rating badges, Els for win
hing gun crews and good conduct stars.
All the finished suits are inspector
~ three different persons before they
are prepared for the compress. This
work IS especially interesting, and the
method used in this factory has been
copied by several European countries.
Indeed, the workings of this machine
is one of the sights of the Navy
Yard when foreign dignitaries pay our
Navy Words a visit. Admiral Togo,
the hero of Japan, who recent Wis
tied this country, was much impressed
with its mechanism and the compress
wheel was turned again and again in
order that he might thoroughly un.
derstand it's workins. After the last
inspection has been passed the suits
are nicely folded and tied together
in { canvas covering. They are then
placed in the compress machine, a
wheel is turned and the pressure of
one thousand pounds reduces the hale
to nearly one-half it's size. Heavy
oil-cloth is then wrapped about the
bundle so that it is absolutely water
tight. One of these bales was thrown
overheard recently to test its resist
ance to water and was fished up the
following day, and when opened the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

A three-llne want ad." In the
classified" page of The star will
cost only 80 cents a week. Can you
beat ~
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-13

son why except that, like Topsy,
she has just CROWD that way.
In a simple, one-piece dress,
dove-grey, short sleeved and low
collared. with her hair parted and
drawn down to the nape of her
neck, she appealed to me as the
ideal 10th century Priscilla,
She has dreamy eyes and long,
slender fingers which suggest.
poetry and painting and Oriental
ism.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-13


By Gertrude M. Price, The Day
Books Moving Picture Expert.
Witches, gnomes and COLLINS,
Oriental women and aged charac-
tiers are the favorite roles of Mary
Fuller, the chief leading woman
in the Edison moving picture
company at Bronx Park, N. Y.
She is only a slip of a girl and
looks like a picture out of an old
book.
She seems to be the personi6-
cation of happiness. But she
makes the astounding. statement
that she is a1hopeless pessirnist.
And she doesn't know any rea-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-30
QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED.

mash or a mash composed of one
part corn meal. one part shorts and
two parts wheat bran with some
meat scrap and charcoal mixed, and
feed them twice a day on grain
feed such as the ordinary scratch
feed sold on the market Do not
give them any soft mash feeds more
than twice each week and it should
then have some good condition pow
ders in 1t. Every day until they are
better put a half grain tablet of
permanganate Of potash to a gal
lon of water to drink and to every
Is chickens give tablespoonful of
sulphur on Tuesdays in their wet
mash and on Fridays a like amount
of Epson salts in the same way.
Chickens Will often absolutely re-
fuse drinking water with salts in
1t and will suffer bad effects from
it afterwards. The better way is
to always give salts in a mash.
However, one should use Judgment
in giving both salts and sulphur
and not feed in such quantities as
to cause their systems to become
lax.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-30
Gov, Wilson on the Stump
Cheered by Pennsylvania

A6y AeSOoieteu Ere8S.)
HARRISBURG, Pa Aug Ex-Governor
Woodrow Wilson did a little stump
speaking today in spite of himself. Not
intending to make any but scheduled adj
dresses, he was greeted by such big
crowds at both Lancaster and Harris
burg that the candidate found himself
making speeches from both ends of his
car, shaking hands with hundreds and
waving his hat.
Il am very much more interested in
you than you are in me- said the gov
ernor, because the interesting and de-
lightful part of campaigning as I have
found it has been that the country is
witnessing an uprising of the people. A
crowd like this means business. You are
discovering not only that the govern
ment ought to belong to you but that il
you only hump yourselves it will be-
long to you.
~''I don't mean to stir up passion OF
feeling 1 simply mean that we must get
together again. That is what am in
terested in; and the reason said 1 am
interested in you more than you are in
me is that I know the strength of
public man Is in proportion to those men
who are gathered with him"
The speech was cheered.
The governor also was greeted by a
large crowd at Harrisburg where he
stopped only a short time on his way
to williams Grove.