The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-08-27
POLITICAL STAGE SET FOR
ENTRY OF ALL CANDIDATES
BY Ernest G. walker.
Iail special 70 The Advertiser.l

| WASHINGTON, August 10-The
presidential candidates. All, they are
all on their respective bases. They are
planning autumn operations. The coun-
try has its eyes upon them. But Just
for the moment all three are quieseent,
with no certainty as to just when any
one of them may become a veritable
buzz saw of activity.
Taft He is in the White House at
Washington, For the present he, is a
summer bachelor. All the spacious
apartments of the official residence are
at his command. The members of his
family are all away at Parametta, the
beautiful summer residence at Bever-
| ly, Massachusetts,, which he leases for
the heated term. He still has a queer
congress on his hands and dares not
stray far away.
Wilson7 He is at Seagirt, occupying
the little white house, which is the sum
mer home of the governors of New Jer-
sey. His speech of acceptance is now
at large before the public. The Roose-
welt organs are pouncing upon that
speech and declaring 1t most reaction.
airy. There seems to be method in their
denunciation. If they can establish
this idea in the minds of the masses,
they hope to prove later ON that Roose-
welt is the only hope of those who want
radical for President. The Demo-
cratic candidate, however, is keeping
tolerably quiet. He grabs up his hand
satchel Containing his pajamas and
toothbrush, presumably every now and
then, runs for the electric car and rides
over to New York in most democratic
style. That makes copy, for a squad of
ready reporters are always at his heels.
Secure at oyster Bay.
ROOSEVELT He is resting securely at
Oyster Bay, after having had the time
of his life at Chicago. He ran that
third party convention just as he chose,
fixed everything up to his liking, made
his 10000 word speech, wrote his plat
form, and returned East triumphantly.
Yet few days and he will be cat it''
again, hippodroming up and down and
across the entire country, iabbing and
gouging, hitting above the belt and be-
low the belt, hobnobbing with the pro-
etariat, whose only real friend in pub
lie life he claims to be. For the next
sixty days he promises to be "big
smoke" to all the land and never to
be lost sight of for a minute.
| Taft would away to Beverly and let
the campaign go hang for a while, if on
y he could get this second session of
the sixty-second congress out of town.
Those who have visited intimately with
the President do say that the satisfac-
ton of having defeated Roosevelt at
Chicago in June has not yet departed
from him. The President is not given
to glOating, but he has deep and abd-
ing buoyancy over the fact that he
put it over' his predecessor That
achievement will go down in history as
one of the happenings of his admins
tration and the President really would
have it so.
Hilles Mighty Busy.
| Not that the President will have no
interest in his campaign for reelection
He will. National Chairman Hilles is
over in New York sweating at tremen.
dous undertakings. The President is in
full sympathy with all that Mr.. Hilles
and lot of other faithful Republican
workers are attempting to do in his be-
half. They are at an uphill task The
President knows their difficulties and
Iembarrassments. BY and by (after
he gets this congress out of the way
for season, he will warm up to the
necessities of the campaign. But no
one knows better than the President
that it is little use to fuss and fume
just yet. Far better that the campaign
prospects should look a little dubious
now than two months from now. Much
of the labor the President might per-
form now in political way would be
useless for effect in October. The Pres
ident is conserving his energies. In
this he is probably wise.
The Wilson speech of acceptance, the
Taft speech of acceptance and the
Roosevelt confession of faith" are in
the mails. That was one stage of the
campaign. The senate printed the
speeches at public expense as public
documents. All that was to be ex-
pected, with congress in session after
they were delivered. They can now be
mailed at minimum expense of about
eight cents-eight cents, mind you
per hundred copies.
Political Progress.
Such an achievement is political
progress, is it mott There had to be
harmony in that proposition. The
Democrats and the Republicans and the
Progressives of the senate had to as
sent to the reciprocity before govern
ment money could be pulled out of the
treasury for this printing bill. Hardly
mere than two or three senators were
there to make the request in behalf of
Roosevelt, because most of the Progress
slve Republicans are not for Roosevelt.
But that strong toned Poindexter of
Washington State was equal TO the en-
terprise. lie is for Roosevelt for Presi-
dent and he made the request for the
printing of the confession of faith. >"
VIII the people read these accept
anecs and confession of faith for
all letters of acceptance by Presiden-
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