Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-21
Gov. HadIey and Other Lead
erS Say Time Must Heal
Present Wounds
LOOK TO FUTURE TO
POINT G. 0. P. PATH
Steering Committee Idea Aban-
doned and Sentiment of
People Awaited -.
BY C. S. ALBERT

ST.. py We 0s h-B6Itt
ESPECIAL Star-Bhlletin gorresp0ndencel
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Dec. 9.-eTle
reorganization OF the Republican
party may go hang. II should be re-
habilitated firse before there. is any
discussion OF reorganization. 1t is too
early for any steps in. that direction"
This was the unanimous sentiment
expressed This AFTERNOON by Republic
can senators. The views included all
kinds and degrees OF Republicans
Regulars, Progressiyes and Bull
Moose The opinions expressed ranged
all the, way from Crane Snd Smoot,
rabid .reactionaries, down to Borah
and Kenyon. conservative Progress
siYes, La Toilette, Bristow and lClapp,
radical progressiyes, and Poindexter.
the Bull Moosen
Governor Hadiey, of Missouri. as an
ambassador of harmony and reor-
ganization. visited the Senaee this
afternoon His. political reception was
more freezing than that of DR.. Cook
at the North Pole. He conferred at
SOME length, but at different times
with Senators BoraA and Kenyons
with Crane anu Smoot; with Gronna
and others who have varying ideas as
10 the future of the Republican
party. Each and all informed Cover
nor Hadley that nothing could be
done mt this time toward patching UP
the grand old elephant and rubbing.
him down in time for the next con-
gresionel race, two years nance, to
say nothing OF four years in the
future.
Esa.-E +.
Two different plans were set forth
by Governor Hadley. One was to
have a representative convention.
with delegates from all the states.
The other was to have sort of po-
litical steering committee appointed,
with one or more members from each
state That body would take up the
work or devising some plan for find.
ing common ground on which all
kinds of Republicans might creep
back into the fold without getting hit
over the head with a club.
The Regulars. Proaressives and
Dull MooseIs seemed to unite in these
replies to Governor Hadley: II is too
early for a discussion OF reorganiza-
ton: Time should be given in which
the bitterness OF the last campaign
may lie obllterated and the wounds
permitted to heal The bringing to-
gether OF the factions must be grad.
ual. A convention would not be rep
resentative at this time. The states,
districts and precincts would take no
interest whatever in selecting dele
gates to a body that will determine
nothing and accomplish little. The
convention would be sparsely attend
ed and no interest manifested
Steering Committee Impossible.
A steering committee to take up
the work of reorganization would be
a. joke. II would make fifty men the
new party. II would mean nothing
and the task must be adjusted in the
future without reference to what the
committee recommended.
No conference of any kind has been
held between Senators Cummins. Bor.
ali and Lafollette regarding the re.
organization. Mr.. Cummins is in
Iowa. He and Mr.. Lafollette have
not spoken to each other for months
beyond the most frosty of good morn.
ings. -~. 1872
More than dozen Republican gov.
errors and goyerners-e!ect assembled
in the New Willard hotel to discuss
the reorganization of the Republican
party. Governor Hadley reported his
visit to the leaders at the capitol. He
related his frosty reception and ex,
pressed the belief that nothing could
be accomplished for at least year
Put off TIL Later.
The governors mulled the subject
over for couple of hours and then
decided to abandon the work Of up.
building the old machine until some
later date when all factions We're in
more tractable and forSiving frame
of mind.
The general hammering of the get
together idea here seems to indicate
there win be little doing along tho
same lines. when the grand love feast
is held in New York month hence
The Regulars do not intend that the