The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-16

SEN. W. MURRAY CRANE,
The big man in Taft's fight for
denomination.
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things as pleasant as can be. They re-
gale him with accounts of the mighty
progress of the Wilson boom, touch
gayly upon the Watterson- Harvey in.
cident, get the visitor 81 facts on
straight-from their viewpoints
him what great help Marse Henry has
been to them, ha, ha, and then comes
the final touch in the melodrama. They
urge him to an interview for the news
papers.
Printers Ink the Thing.
The Wilson workers are strong on
getting the visitor committed, Will
he say few words for publication, as
to the Wilson sentiment back home,
which generally means his own indivi-
dual opinions about the qualifications
of Governor Wilson for the highest of.
flee in the land9 Perhaps he will. If
so, the pro-Wilson interview will be
promptly put upon paper, multi-copied
and the sheets distributed quickly to
the newspaper offices in town. The
visitor must be kept in good humor by
further attentions. If he is going to
New York-and most of the Wasl ing
ton visitors from affair at this season of
the year are going to New York--4peci-
al pains are taken to pass him along
to the Wilson bureau in Gotham.
Neither the Harmon boomers nor the
Underwood boomers are operating at all
actively in Washington, but the visitor
will surely encounter champion here
and there, who will assure him in re.
signed sort of way that Harmon or
| Underwood, as the case may be, is a
mighty fine man and would make a
mighty fine President. "All these
. other booms, that are making so much
fuss can not endure till convention
time.J
Very Gratifying.
Would not any Democrat visitor feel
puffed up at SO much attention. Natur-
ally. For in ordinary times, if he
visited Washington hardly anybody,
except his congressman, would pay
much attention to him while he sojourn-
ed in the town. And even the congress-
man might not be particular about call
ing him by his first name and making
small talk about local affairs. 1t is
little wonder with Washington being
such pleasant town just now that the
Democratic politicians want to "look
, in'' and see how things are going
Cannot Dodge Them.
But it is not so very different if the
visitor be Republican. He will have
to come in disguise and go to some
private boarding house to live if he
would escape the Republican boomers.
! The Taft folks have people by the
scores working alertly to make these
/ political visitors of their party feel
real homelike while tarrying by the
Potomac. The President has plenty of
official worries but, if a man of some
political Importance, gets into the local
precincts there will be no great Difficult
ty about his getting two or three
minutes of the President IS time. In
any event they will take him around to
with might and main in the President Is
political interests.
Some staunch Republican senators
have little organization of their own
for looking after newcomers. Any Re-
! publican who can pull pound back
home toward landing Taft delegate
is not overlooked. And in many cases
these Republican senators go even far
Their. They send out to the four corn
ers by telegraph or letter and ask the
man of local Importance to come down
to Washington for talk. Who would
not responds 1t appeals to his pride that
he should be of sufficient moment to
have call to Washington while the
battle RACES. 1t gives him a little
more prominence, perhaps, in his own
neighborhood and the people who go
down to see the trains come in stand
around and note the fact that he is on
the way down to Washington to help
the big and wise ones at their job of
picking out President for the next
four years.
"Strict Confidence"
Then what lot these little king
makers have to tell their friends on re-
turning. They cannot tell it all, oh
dear no. Some things were said in
strict confidence and are not to be di-
vulged. But enough is said to stir the
boys to take off their coats and go to
work for the candidate. 1t is rare
proceeding. There is really no harm
in it all and much good. Interest in
affairs is stimulated and that alone is
worth while.
Those who want to behold the hard
effective work that is under way to.
ward the denomination of President
Taft keep close tab ON the White
House offices There, sooner or later,
the lieutenants "show up" OF course,
there is the procession of people who
have some other business to transact
and of people who have no business at
all but some out of curiosity. But Re
publican senators and representatives
are moving that way daily in numbers
to tell the President what "a ,.yhat IN