The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-03
REPRESENTATIVE Gardner, Repub-
hcah Advance Agent Of Pre-
Z pareuness Fot Colonel
SENATOR WEEKS WILL. ,
FIGHT PRoNuNclAMENTO
Meanwhile Friends Of Justice
Hughes and Cummins OF
IL. Iowa Are Active"
By RRNEsF Q, WALKRR
Mail speeial to The Adyerti,er

NAcHlNutON, FeDruAry lousy
when new. life is jumping through, the
government = body polite at Washing.
ton, great changes are boiog wrought
duly in. Republican nomination effortsi
The talk Of Roosevelt as nominee of
the party he once eOnspicuously; desert,
o,l has crystalRzed in certain sections
by active work toward electing con.
veut:on delegates in his behalf. The
Hughes boom has progressed to, the
stage whore all friends IN many states
are declaiming the judge has never
said be would not run il. nom mated
Opponents, even, are joining in this
crv on tho theory that, prsased sufi,
Gently, Hughes would announce he
would not accept u nominated This,
Of course, would be, in 4 measure, to
the advantage of all other Republican
asp rants. .t..gs
cardneT For Roosevelt .s..
, Massachusetts, for the moment. has
l. come the eynosnre of political eyes
! "nmsc Representative Augustus r.
Gardner, advance agent of preparedl
rcss, hastcned forth the day Roosevelt
sailed for the Indies with announce,
mcut that he and three others were
ont as Roosevelt candidates for dele
gates at large on the Bay State Re.
publican ticket, There are pe'Fons
Who say that Gardner and his asso-
ciUtes. will sweep the state and thus
Ut Roosevelt early on a high pima,
Gle among Republican candidates. II
this should happen the Republican
party in Massachusetts, one of the fonr
or five most pOpulouss, states. in the
ION, would be completely under
P1nseyelt thumb and Gardner wonld
J h'gh cockolorum in Bay State Re.
publican councils. ..s
weeks. Will Fight Srheme :
Senator Weeks, as fav0rite son Of
I, six northeastern states. will fight
the Gardner pronunciamentO.. He can
do nothing else, unless he wishes to
"'''t in the face Of the foe. He un-
donbtedlys will have plenty Of fight on
his hapds but whether Massachusetts
be enthusiastic or not about. the
Weeks eaadidaey, there may be unI
certainty whether Massachusetts. Re-
Iublieans will hump themselves 20
Gardner s domination. The hitter IL
tremendous self-adyertiser. He spends
money in politics with scientific aehI
men, knows what he wants and goes
after it like ton of bricks. But Mr..
Gardner is an aristOcrat of aristocrats
and loves the dear people as an i'm
strumentaity under a dem6cratic form
of government for boosting himself in4
to office. He was the worst defeated
Republican nominee for governor, that
ever ran in Massachusetts Formsr
Lieut., Cow Ggaft0n B. Cushing, who
arranged the Roosevelt coup with Gard
ner. is disgruntled because, of, his de-
feat for the Republican gubernatOrial
n"pinati"n Last year. -.,,s.
Dihicult For Governor Mccall ..r ~
"A somewhat similar story applies. to
the others of this would be big four,
Tho are proI ably more Interested in
getting an upper hand in the man,
R"ement OF the Republican party in this
state than in making a Republicans
P"""'dent Incidentally, in the view OF
politicians. they are, certain TO sDlib
the Republican organization wide open
a"ain and make it more difficult for
Governor Samuel W. Mccall. himself
apparently nursing presidential aspiga
ti"rs to get reelected next November,
The Weeks boom probably win 20
ia tb" Massac hnsetts fight, W tn out,
ode support Now Hampshire. Repub+
hans viii PIert delegates in March and
they will be Weeks men. Two Weeks
delegates have already been elected In
Missouri. Considerable support for
him is expected in the South. InGi-
deutally, if reports to Washington can
he believed, southern Republicans are
knocking the Frank II Hitchcock en-
terprise for cOralling delegates into a
cooked hat. ~. 49,.
sopthernsrs Want once ,
il IL not 50 easy to grab and hol.l
Republican delegates in the. SOutb
whom none Of them is commissioned
from Washington as postmaAtsrs or
other federal officials. This year Mr.
S1Ethern Republican rs concerned about
getting an office under a new admin
istration, an against retaining an Office
u09er an administration that is..
Pie staying qualities of some, of the
Republicans presidential Blooms will be
TiIt TO tests shortly. III Weeks holds
his own in the South, it will encourage
his boomers at home. If Hughes says
nothing more. the chorus Of demands
70" him will be enforced by assertions
that he surely will acrept If nomin,
at"d. Meanwhile the Cummins boom
is lifting its head proudly in the West
aud IL the lOwsn gets the delegates
in nnesOta, who are to be elected
soon. his boom will be expanding into
other states. Recently there has been
not o little eastern comment about
CUhmins and il has been somew ha :
more enthusiastic than of wore. . o., He
II native of Pennsylvania and there
has re"n discusSiou about trying, to
get Cummins delegates there in spite
% ~h"' Senator Penrose may think
about it. .,,,.
The need Of some Republican hsg,
monv is emphasized nv the. manneF
i" "hih npmorra's ar" getting to
pe'h PesilrH W lsnn seems, to be
20" ing political strength hourly The
Democrat. factions in Congress are