The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-11-01
CAMPAIGN DAYS
ARE STRENUOUS
Concentration Of Efforts Made
by Candidates as Fatal
Day Approaches.
By Ernest G. walker.

BY Ernest g. Walker.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser)
WASHINGTON, October 19.--Only a
short while now before it will ali be
over. There comes next Tuesday, then
another Tuesday-that is the great and
decisive date. Thereafter themes and
discussions about politics and govern
ment will narrow down and feverish
preparations will pertain to the winter
and to early March. In other words,
the end of the memorable presidential
campaign of 1912 will have come and
passed into history.
Meanwhile patience and steadiness.
Bear with the harangues and the bulg-
ing campaign appeals that crowd your
daily mail and the powerful articles
that fill up the available space in your
favorite newspaper. Soon, very soon,
all these things will be relegated and
the American people can go about their
occupations in perfectly normal way
for a while, without being pestered so
much with politics.
The long period of lethargy seems to
be vanishing. There are signs of quite
an awakening for the very last stages
before the voting. The captains have
been calling and the ballot sovereigns
are giving a modicum of attention to
what the final words are. 1t is the sum
ming up to the jury.
As almost invariably happens in
presidential contest, no one is feelng
quite as sure that his side will win. 1t
is easy enough to have great confidence
in September or early October. The
DAYS bring opportunity for effort and
assurance of the future. But the in
fighting becomes risk when November
is within sight. There is tendency to
be scared. If candidate realizes he
can not be elected he is ambitious to
poll the largest possible vote to have a
respectable showing.
Agonizing Efforts.
IT NAV have been said again and
AGAIN that all have made up their minds
what to do and yet the agonizing efforts
at the very last to convert wavering
ones and also to work political interest
mn to such pitch that the voting popu-
Iation will come out on election day is
worth while That is a more economical
method of handling would-be stay-at-
homes. All the candidates, national
and State. are working as much to
arouse interest as to make converts
Some interesting odds and ends OF
work are being done at the very eleV-
enth hour to have everything in the
best possible order. In almost every
presidential campaign some one arouses
himself to the necessity of scanning the
lists of nominees for presidential elec.
tors. The lists ought to be scrutinzed
before the men are nominated, because
l. III. hISnnAll-
God for service as electors. The CON
stitption saws that emo senator or rep
resentative or person holding an oihce
of trust or profit under the United
states shall be an elector,' That bars
all federal Office holders absolutely.
Nevertheless there are so many RAM
1ications in federal officeholding, thai
no presidential campaign passes WIN
ont the discovery that somebody mas
baan mt no for elector whose name
must be pulled down. 1t has been rulec
shat officers and directors of nationa
hanks hold can office of trust or prom
under the United States" and there II
always caution not to name as electo'
anv man who comes within that classl
6cation. However, up in intellectual
Massachusetts the other day, the nam
of ex Gov. John l.. Bates had to be tax
en- from the list of nominations 10
nresidential elector. He is not a BAN
president or a bank director, but he i
. receiver for a national bank IN th
city of Cambridge. Mr.. Bates is a.
able lawyer, but his lnenSlDlny ul'
not occur to him at the time OF ms nom
ination by the State convention. any
how he could not serve, even hau ~
been elected, and down his name comes
Changing Conditions.
There has been decided change o
late in the tone and character OF tn
campaigning. The old stories by tn
orators had become a little threadpart
Conditions had become quite apparent
The managers and the orators ar
adapting themselves to these conditions
In numerous States, within few days
there has been very much oil a chans
in efforts to save the local tlcKets' IN
possibilities of Bull Moose Progressive
supporting Roosevelt for Presideht an
stopping right there, giving thelr SUI
port to Republican candidates LOT ioc9
Offices. are recognized. 1t makes a hal
way stopping place, enables iot
Rennblieans with Roosevelt tendencie
IN vote for Roosevelt and yet salV
their consciences with the idea tina
thew are Republicans. Did they no
vote for Republican candidates for gov
ernor and the legislaturef Yes; me
they can still claim to be Republican,
And although, earlier in the can
paipu. an effort was made by Colone
Roosevelt to draw the lines very STREE
Nv and TO have third party tickets non
mated, il seems to be failing MATERIAL
in some quarters. The inevitable rsa'
tion from the enthusiastic and zealou
activities of the first months or IN
Roosevelt uprising has come, II wa
SO apparent that Republican manager
have been working TO the utmost 20 81
courage II. They have been trying |
get as many Of the Progessiyes as poi
sible clear back into the fold and hay
been working 90 get the Others, VIII
xvonld not come clear back, 20 com
part way and support the local ticket
In some States this enterprise ha
been directed largely 20 saving the SCI
nioTial seat Massaehuaetis iH an exam
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