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

XIX.
pnign. lie keeps his temper. Is most
happy IN the choice Of words and knows
how TO frame q reioinder so ns 20 mako
the generality Of folks take notice Of
It,
Colonel Roosevelt announced boldly
at the very start that Governor Wilson
was mistaken, that Governor Wilson.
II he would give serious thought TO the
subject Of regulating trusts must know
that Roosevelt had consistently advo
Gated the regulation of those organiza
tions, just as the railroads have been
regulated, and all that. But Governor
Wilson has been coming right hack.
day after day and planting some new
sentences in Colonel Roosevelt 3 way.
He told delightfully."- out in the trans
Mississippi country about some of Col.
onel Roosevelt s tactics in handling
the pure food question. As usual the
Governor phrased his responses in
fashion that avoided personalities and
demonstrated his purpose to keep the
argument on high plane.
No Donnybrook Fair.
''This is no Donnybrook fair, ~ said
Governor Wilson the other day at st.
Paul, in the course of his daily reioin.
der to Roosevelt. 81 have got my
shillalah, but l am not hitting every
head ! see. l have selected the heads
and if They'll only engage in little
hard thinking underneath the endan.
gered craniums, they need not be hit at
all. -
Some of Colonel Roosevelt's affec.
Tomato friends have been warning him
that Governor Wilson is dangerous
man in campaign argument. 1t may
be very interesting for Colonel Roose
welt to waggle his fingers at the Indi
ans ont in Arizona, but friends who
have seen Governor Wilson in action
during a campaign tell the Colonel to
beware of crossing him, unless he is
mighty sure of his cause.
Drawing the Line.
| The merits of a partisan contention
! do not always count most and, whatever
the merits of the trust cures may be,
/ Governor Wilson seems to have had the
hest of this long distance argument
with Colonel Roosevelt to date and is
not disposed to let up. Colonel Roose.
welt, ON the other hand, as he has been
emerging into the East, has been bear
ing down lightly upon the Democratic
nominee. The exchanges between them,
however, have served to clear in the
popular mind the distinction between
Democratic and the Progressive parties
on the trust question. Roosevelt would
legalize the monopolies and regulate
them. Wilson would seek to keep the
way open for competition. He would
employ governmental forces to legalize
and regulate monopolies.
A new phase of the campaigning
against Roosevelt is emphasis of the
idea that he is ''bad loser.' Adam
Bede has chrystalized the sentiment on
that subject into one sentence, which he
is using as he swings along to the towns
and cities where Roosevelt has spoken
"The plain people are saying: Thou
shalt not steal, and when beaten in a
convention Of your fellows, thou shalt
not squeal, - is the way Adam puts it
That is the kind of sentence which
starts auditors to thinking and helps
drive home the statements Republicans
have been making ever since the Chi
cago convention adjourned last June
that it was an honest convention
Roosevelt entered the contest before
that convention and employed the same
methods that the Taft men employed tc
obtain delegates. That is putting il
fairly and one need not dwell upon the
charges that Roosevelt went even far
Their and tried to employ even more
desperate methods than the Taft people
would countenance.
Swinging Heavy.
Out in the Western country Bryan
has been fitting at Roosevelt. That ha.
, increased the gayety in the West. Bryan
has been propounding questions for th'
, Third Termer to answer and these ques
tions seem to have stuck, because Roose
welt felt compelled to answer then
while he was speaking in Colorado.
1t is claimed that some recent vot
ing at Western primaries can not affort
, Colonel Roosevelt comfort. Gov. Adolpl
C. Eberhart was nominated there tn,
other day for another term as Gov
ernor, much to the Colonel's disgust
The primaries happened only few day
, after Colonel Roosevelt has toured tn
Twin Cities and at a public function
. had swung his fist under Governo
/ lEberhart g nose and denounced al
, those who did not come out for tn
Progressive party as friends of tn
= bosses. Governor Eberhart has the OF
a position of Progressive Republicans an
, lyet he won out handsomely. The Pre-
! !gressives are asserting that they Wi
: carry Minnesota for Roosevelt but
does not look altogether that way, sine
the primaries in the North Star State
were held.
I The Progressives in Minnesota ar
d not altogether united. That may hav
e something to do with the defeat whic
n they sustained in trying TO nominal
It men of their own kind to the Reput
N lican offices, just as the lack of unan
d nifty among the Progressiyes in Cole
= RADIO may be responsible for the do
It feat of Progressives who were put u
d for the state Offices in Colorado. TIL
e purpose in no small part, of cours'
e was to appropriate the Republican o.
e ganization, just as has been done b
the Progressives in Kansas and Cal
,, fornia.
e. AS Colonel Roosevelt goes into qua
Is tiers at Sycamore Hill now, for a Ii
N lie, after his long and strenuous ives
:. arm tri, ha will ,ipInu lfa1lv nlan