The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-04

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Personally Colonel Roosevelt does not
show any sign Of a dragging campaign.
| He has been proceeding from eommun-
| ity to community, swinging from the
far Southwest up through New Mexico
and Arizona, into Colorado and Nebras-
ka and so on the way home. Every day
he has something new and interesting.
! No one can anticipate quite what it
will be except that il will be something
TO make good newspaper story. Thus
the Colonel has been splendidly adver-
tised as he journeyed day by day. He
is most versatile in doing things that
are interesting. There are dozen
newspaper correspondents on his train,
every man of them anxious for a good
bit of copy to put upon the wires in
due season of every twenty-four hours.
The Colonel is bound to cooperate in
helping produce the copy for this ad-
vertiser.ent is the breath of his politi-
cal nostrils.
Good Claim Anyhow.
The Colonel has been reiterating that
Taft is ga dead cock in the pit ~ and
has been making all his fight against
/ Governor Wilson, the Democratic nomi-
nee. Whether Colonel Roosevelt real
ly thinks that Taft is a dead cock in
the pit or not, it is probably good poll
tics for him to claim that. He wishes
to supplant the Republican party with
the Progressive party and naturally
would claim that he is doing it.
But there is suspicion that in
claiming Colonel Roosevelt has possibly
wearied the American people and led
them to question his sincerity. He
uses the personal pronoun indefatig-
ably; announces himself, by inference,
again and again as the successor of
Lincoln, although Adam Bede trailing
him (Roosevelt), declares that Lincoln
never told lie or threw friend; as
! serts that his remecy for curing the
trust evil is the only one, that all 9th
ers, dissenting from his cure, are
friends of the trusts and of the poiti-
cal bosses, and has an omnium list of
achievements in government, practi-
cally all of which he appropriates to
his own credit.
There is a well-known axiom about
the frequent use of personal pronouns
by eminent men. Their own conceit
about themselves is supposed to make
! other people take them more seriously
clude numerous examples. But the
: thing may be overdone in a political
campaign of these days, when democ
racy is seeking to crown itself instead
of it's leaders, and it becomes aues
ton just how long the voters will take
such pretensions seriously. 1t may BIZ
that they are already beginning to sus
pect Colonel Roosevelt of OVERRIDING
4 10.
seems to be a recession of interest il
his campaign.
Taft Campaign Awakens.
However all this may be, the Taft
headquarters in New York are showing
signs of life at last. The preliminary
organization work there appears tt
| have been completed. 1t is whispered
,about that some one has been able tt
smite the rock and that there are nov
enough funds in the exchequer to spu
/ up tagging cause. National Char
man Hilles is making something of
feature of the Roosevelt candidacy
Literature is being distributed to tn,
| discredit of the former President, anti
Roosevelt speakers are on the wing, al
instance of which has just been given
and more of them are to be sent out
But the Taft campaign is not bein,
waged solely or prominently as an anti
Roosevelt matter. The Taft manager
are beginning to make much of wha
the administration has accomplished,
very proper field of political industry
They are, spreading the information ia
and wide, and the gratifying featur
is that the people seem now to be in
frame of mind to consider what Taf
has done and to give him some credi
therefor.
People Thinking Now.
1t was notorious that in the pres
Dental campaign, talk about the goo
points of the Taft administration mad
no impression. The voters were not j
mood to deliberate about that, bu
preferred the lighter mental pabulul
which Roosevelt was giving them. An
when the excitement of getting del,
gates died down, the popular intere:
appeared to center in the cries an
charges of fraud at Chicago and in tn
paraphernalia which attached to I'll
organization of the new Progressiy
party.
Bur that story about the fftheft
of the nomination at Chicago in Jun
which was not theft at all, h,
now been told and retold up and dow
the land so much that the people a
apparently wearying of it, even wht
Roosevelt himself tells it. An era hi
come for something new and the ear
: paign really seems to have enter,
upon such an era. There is less di
: position 10 listen to Colonel Roosevelt
I defamation against bosses and mo
: disposition to hear the other side
: the argument. The time was ripe f
that when the Taft managers began
= 'get busy" For after all there is
sense OF fairness among the people an
- when they have time enough for {
i the statements 10 be heard and for I
novelty of doctrines TO be exhauste
they are likely TO draw away aud i
fleet.
a Wilson'S Hard Hits.
H. Apart from the Republican attac
Is upon Colonel Roosevelt is the We
In effective work that Colonel Bryan a
of Governor Wilson are doing In the sal
all line tiainual naaaauaIt auaual u