The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-27
TALLY KEEPERS
SCORE RESULTS
Taft Managers Making Strong
Point OF Uplift Movement
White House Confident.
By Ernest q. walker.

By Ernest q. Walker.
(Man Special to The Advertiser.) |
WASHINGTON, February lo.-The
tally keepers of the fart campaign now
have a column of results. They are add
ing to it day by day, rs returns come
in. II has now become sufficiently i'm.
posing to make strong "tall1ing
point.'' That is why the word of tho
Taft uplift went broadcast a few days
ago. It explains why so mich Repub-
lican confidence exists at the white
House and in congress. The tenor of
political conversations at Washington
has changed accordingly.
This is the season when city and
county committees are meeting. Their
deliberations are on the whole quite
important because they are the first
steps, in most States, for the choice of
delegates to State and district conven-
tions that will have the naming of
delegates to the Chicago convention.
The chairman of Hoosier county
convention, that met the other day,
lsent the President a distinctive mes.
sage. 81 had time,' he wired, "to
take three drinks from the water pitch
er, while the convention was cheering
at the mention of your name"
Very Favorable.
The lining up of these county con.
ventions, thus far held, has been very
favorable to the President, 1t is said
to indicate that the booming of opposi-
ton candidates has not proceeded out
of deep-seated popular enthusiasm, so
much as out of the wishes of disap-
pointed politicians. This was notice
able in the one-time pivotal State Of
Indiana, where a new State committee
has been elected within the last few
days. That congress is now pro.Taft
and presumably stands in considerable
measure for the Republican sentiment
. of the State. While it is true tina,
politicians can manipulate these State
= and county organiza dons at this sea
| ison of the year, the fact remains that
| committees so chosen and pledged, be
: come very strong factors in "a candi
I, date s favor. Consequently these early
! steps, taken 80 successfully, mean s
a great deal toward the Presidents re
r nomination.
Pi : New York Safe.
This preliminary work has been dom
f Fin strategic points, More importan
h than Indiana in that regard is New
o York. Leaders of the Taft campaign
s who are in close touch with. the Whit
i House, have been emphasizing the re
,, ports of the chairmen of county com
s mittees in New York State to Bos
-lWiiliam Barnes that Republicans with
a-Einl their respective bailiwicks are TO
l. another Taft term. That, of course
= has been supplemented in noticeable
1, manner by the declarations of the New
l. York county committee and the King
e County committee for the President
All this has paved the way, as well a
could be done, for the choice of Tai
p delegates. 1t is the best kind of pre-
4 liminary effort. AS far as the lp.stat
q Organization in New York is concern
# ed, it has been we'll enforced by th
4, public announcement a few days ag
E. from Vice-President Sherman that h
lie is for the President. Mr.. Sherman
s. very strong with the upstate Repul
K hcans,
IN Cook County Too.
J. OF course New York, with votin
20 strength of almost one hundred in til
IL convention, is one of the big strategi
e. points in this pre-conventi0n campaigl
1t will have more moral influence upo
5: the voters elsewhere than the actio
u of any other two States. But the Coo
e. County Republicans committee, inclu,
re ing Chicago, has also declared for Tai
10 The South, too, is big strategic poir
e and it is worth noting that the foundi
y ton work for Taft delegates in tn,
70 quarter has proceeded well during IL
- :, last ten days.
SIS Maryland In Line.
in The Republican State committee
Maryland has just met at Baltimo
e. and declared for Taft and all its mer
O. fbers were present. This means Ia
Ut The city committee of Richmond, vi
~ dent support. Two or three Virgin
n, cities and one Virginia county hav
ct within a few days, elected Taft del
no gates to the State and district conve
IN ton. These all mean that Virgin
re will ultimately elect twenty-four del
s. gates for the Presidents renominatio
ed tSeveral other. Southern States, inclu
w ling Alabama, where some local cor
as mittees have been meeting, are no
y, nearly "sewed up s,
I I No "Solid South" Yet.
@. A solid South vote at the Chical
be convention is not yet assured, but ma
it tiers are tending that way. North Car
is lima is one of the "bad spots" L
D. President Roosevelt has been Airti,
ks With some Of the Tarheel leaders ve
III recently. They may be sufficiently