The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-05-31
REPUBLICANS NOT
ALONE IN KNOCKS
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS
CALL EACH OTHER NAMES.
BY Ernest G. walker.

BY Ernest G. Walker.
(Mail Special to The Advertiscr.)
WASHINGTON May l3.-It may be
all very well to look on with amaze.
ment at the fashion IN which the great
candidates for the presidency are rend-
ing one another, but what about tho
campaign that will begin in July, af-
ter both the national conventions have
adjourned1 And mention is made of
"'both the national convention" be
cause President Taft aud ex.President
Roosevelt are not the only candidates
for the high Office who are biting and
gouging one another There are large
and gaping wounds which the Demo
cratic aspirants have inflicted upon one
another and which will hardly heal dur
ing July aud August, while the forces
are resting for the autumnal struggle.
OF course, as soon as the Chicago
convention has adjourned there will be
an unprecedented demand for large
quantities of healing balsam. 1t will
the nominee of that convention, and
there are hopes that during the few
weeks elapsing between the nomination
and the hard combat for electing n
President for four years, the balm will
be more or less effective. Some of the
terrible things the Republican candl-
dates have been saying about one an.
other will be forgotten or will seem
less ugly in retrospect, when the cry
is onward against the common political
enemy.
Bourbons Also.
But the Baltimore convention will
be unable to adjourn without an almost
equal demand for great quantities of
healing balsam. The biting and goug
ing in their camp has been quite as
animated and bitter, but it has not at
tracted so much attention from the
country, simply because the Democratic
+, biters and gougers have been men of
less prominence. The things that the
| Champ Clark headquarters have said
about Governor Woodrow Wilson, of
New Jersey, will make excellent Re-
publican campaign documents three or
four months from now il Wilson IS
nominated at Baltimore, which il be-
coming less and less probable.
And the way the Woodrow Wilson
headquarters have sailed into the
Champ Clark folks is n caution. 1t has
mostly been put down in typewriting
and files of the product have been kept
by the Republicans for future reference.
OF course, William J. Bryan has been
much out upon the stump denouncing
Governor Harmon and Oscar w. Under
wood, both of them presidential asplr-
ants, and Harmon and Bryan have got
ten into a white hot controversy al
most as pointed as that between Taft
and Roosevelt.
Good for G. o. P:
Perhaps congress will remain in SEES
sion for month or two after the con-
ventions have adjourned 1t may not
be altogether a bad thing for either
party if it is so. 1t may be especially
good for the Republicans if this hap.
pens. The Democratic house will con-
tinue its struggle for doing things to
catch unwary voters, and, with the at
tention of the country no longer upon
the presidential nomination contest, it
will not be so difficult to focus public
sentiment upon the peculiar perform
ances that are in progress at the south
end of the capitol.
One of these is the investigation Of
the "Money Trust" as to which the
country has been hearing much. That
investigation however, promises to be-
come feature of the presidential cam
, paign. Mr. Business Man in every
State of the Union will probably want
to know all about what the Democratic
house means by this investigation. For
instance the committee on banking and
currency sent out requests, which
amounted to demands, that every ma.
tional bank furnish the committee with
information about all its loans, the Sc.
curity therefor and the names of the
borrowers.
Gives More Power.
TO be sure as soon as his was we'll
under way it was discovered that the
house of representatives did not have
authority to do that, The comptroller
of the currency has, but now bills have
been introduced to give congress or
either of its houses authority to look
into the books and records of national
banks. When those bills come up for
dicussion and consideration, as it is
quite probable they will, the Republi.
cans propose to pass some questions
and put some emphasis on what the
Democrats are proposing to do.
The business men of every town and
city of the United States will not take
very kindly to any project for making
public the amount of loans they have
mt their local banks or otherwise with
banking officials. Such procedure will
naturally arouse the ire of the business
world And just why the Democrats
should rush into such fool procedure,
from their own standpoint is not easily
understood. But Bryan has been clam
oring for such an investigation and he
seems to be having his way about a lot
of things, although Democrats say he is
not running the party any longer.
WOMAN Is HURT.
Chief Yeoman o. Cornelius Of the