The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-05-14
PRIMARIES HOLD
CAPITAL INTEREST
DEMOCRATS TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF BITTER FIGHT IN RBPuB.
L1CAN RANKS.
BY Ernest O. walker.


nv rrnest a Uailrer
(Mah Special 10 Inc AdNeruserl
WASHINGTON Apri 9g.-With
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""ss''0""se''' ii"'", iee M '"'o'V,s
political topic Tor about TWO weeks
Washington is now looking around for
sometbing new in the wav of excite.
M, =, .,.,.
r'len'. Inc eianu oiu 'oi'.'oii"' ''''i'
certainly monopoli2ed attention IN
very grandiloquent and emphatic fash
inn while uncertainty M 10 its yer.
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uio' ias'eu' i"e pon'ie"ny srea' anu
the politically small talked about moth
ing else for quite while. elbow will
Massachusetts goqp. and "Wil the
vote of Massachusetts settle it for good
anu az as between sale anu hoose,
ouestions that were precipitated into
the air constantly during every living
6av at the canitalj
But what could he, exp.cted with the
President and ex.President both rang
inc the ancient commonwealth of
MSssacbnsetts saving harsh words
about one another and filing ears ALI
over the land with contradictorv asser.
tions about the nolitical stains. Did
ANYTHING like thai ever hammer before
in ALI t6is countrv,s bistoryY pres,.
dents have been attacked verbally for
their offeial acts Criticisms coma in
ON ovaloncbe ahon+ +be;r heads nv
Presidents have Joined in +be criticism
of Presidents bnt in nearly every case
in every case of more modern times
-sncb ex.presidential criticisms have
been abont Presidents who we're NOT of
their own marty. And the criticism has
always heen temnered Inv dignity and
moderation Rnt Roosevelt hammered
or,o,, ~ Toft ,,,;+bo,,t aos,,ro .,,5
1vhen Toft fnoll,, "tIet co,, and snni,a
b;o ,,,;,S abo,,t Booso,,olt - ,,aa naI1,,
nnrestr;cted Ard botb sro IF tbe
sara ,,ol;t;ool ,,ar+ri
Wants Speeches Printed.
Be sure the country has not heard
the last of those speeches. Senator
Reed of Missouri has asked that the
speech of President Taft at Boston, on
tne nlght Oh thursday, April 70, be
printed as puonc eocuinene; ultto
Ine sPeeeh VI e%-ireslIeht hooseVelt
d. Worcester, Massacnusetts. lmme'
osaIely IheIea,t 1ogether Win some
VI rresiGent 1ait retorts:
ana Ine meaning Oh that request,
which tne senate haa 10 approve as
matter Oh souruesy,.is tnat lou OF val,
1aple DemocIatalc campaign Haterlai
oecolnes aVaiiaole LOT lrahhing pur-
POSES; hat hooseNeit said ABOUT iait
VIII oe sent out IN pig PACK type TO
TN iour quarters oI tne compass, II
alt Is IehoilihateG ana wee versa. In
saniiia. way huen OF the Vltrlone
SUN Whlch mas peeh d proauct OF tne
nepuphcan campaign Ior 1he nomina-
.ion mas oeeI ga1hereu up ana mace
reauy Ior peliio q, cohsumption-
ine hepupiicans WIN naVe 10 smart un-
uei Ine enpailasshenI Oh thelr pm
ma, eahpdisns AL through Ihe summer
anu a a lney Wouiu pe mignty
l"u 70 le.ile lai se volumes oi thls ug
eonve e. anu uhiriehuly pat
Nm u.tei"hce, pu. ol course the
peiii 0. oie.nieh SIMPLY VIII hoS
Pefhni' phen 10 40 anything OF the KIND.
Other States Now.
Anyhow, now that Massachusetts has
voted and let the country know which
of the two leading aspirants for the
presidency she prefers. ewes are turning
to other States. There is no likelibooj
that there will be much of a let mn in
the interest over presidential nomina.
lions till well toward the end of Nav
and perhaps NOT then. The struggie
will be carried right into New Jersey
and then into the States of the West.
particularly Ohio, in the hone of hui,
initiating the President at home.
Both sides appear to be well supplied
with money, which fact alone will as
sure the fight being kept up as long as
there is a ghost of show. There has
been Arrangement that so much good Re-
publican money could have been raised
for primary battle, especially that
Colonel Roosevelt, heading cause
which did not show much promise of be.
ing successful, could Command sucb
large subscriptions. His managers prob.
ably spent $4,000, perhaps as much as
$4,000, in the State of Massachusetts
alone. where the primary fight was the