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THE PACIFIO COMMERCIAL ADVEET1SES, HONOLULU, ' THURSDAY, AUGUST 26,
1909.
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THE PRESIDENT
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Republicanism m the South.
Missouri, one of the most populous
states of the Union, is now almost Be-
pubucan. It fcas votea twice lor a
Republican President but by" only very
narrow margins. The present Governor
is a Republican, but is elected for four
years. Xex; year in Missouri there will
he a battle royal for Congressmen and
for the election of a United States Sen
ator to succeed William Warner, Re
publican, who came in dn the Boosevelt
landslide of 1904. Ten of the sixteen
Representatives in the House from Mis- j
soun now are utuiuciais aou iuc m
gins are so small in some of the districts
that both parties will make very deter
mined campaigns next year both to holu
what thev have and to make some gains.
Ex-Governor Joseph W. Folk, Democrat,
is already out for the seat of William
Warner. So there is every reason why
the President should help the Missouri
Republicans along with census patron
age. Kentucky has a Republican governor,
because of Democratic dissensions in
tliat state. Of the delegation of eleven
Representatives in the House, three are
Republicans. Tennessee is the only
stae of the four mentioned, that elects
a governor next year. Two of its ten
Representatives are Republicans. North
Carolina has three Republican Represen
tatives, out of a delegation of ten. And
while it may be very improbable that
either Kentucky, or Tennessee, or North
Caiolina w-ill vote for a Republican-for
President in 1912, it is not unlikely
that Missouri will do so and it is not
unlikely that these southern states may
come close to having a deciding voice
as to the complexion of 'the next House
of Representatives. It is expected that
the Republican will lose several seats
in the West and unless they hold all
they have, in the East they may come
dansrerouslv near losinsr control. But
if Missouri sends six Republicans or
more and North Carolina three and Ken
tucky three and Tennessee two, which
makes fourteen seats where only a few
years ago the Republicans had but four
seats from those four states, the .Demo
crats will be handicapped just that
much.
Insurgent Activities.
With -'all the Washington buzzing
about census politics there is even more
about t"he insurgent activities in the
West. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, rap
idly becoming the recognized leader of
the insurgents, has served notice that
the campaign for tariff revision is to
be renewed, especially for a tariff com
mission. The dispatches "intimate"
that Senator Cummins may be a candi
date in" 1912 for the Presidency, al
though he asserts his loyalty to Taft,
who, 'he declares, did all he could do
to bring about a revision of-the tariff
downward. The Senator also wants to
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ehmmate the standpat leaders from
public life and put the party under the
leadership of more conservative men.
With such a battlecry Mr. Cummins
starts out to do the fag end of the
Chautauquan season, when the edge of
popular interest 'has been taken off by
previous speakers and when he must
have a few "thrillers," if he would
draw large audiences.
It is well understood that Senator
Cummins' protestations t of loyalty, to
Taft are largely formal. He wants to
fight inside the Republican party and
he hopes to be a Presidential nominee
if not in 1912 in 1916. For he will
still be young enough for the Presi
dential running in 1916, as will Senator
La Follette, who has had a lightning
rod up for years. But with all the rad
icalism, or progressiveness in the West,
there. is also a big following of old-line
Republicans, who would go back on
Senator Cummins should he openly dis
avow a Republican President.
All the same the line of discussion
the Senator is making before his Chau
tauqua audiences in the West bode3
trouble for the Republican party next
year in that section of the country.
Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, is
also out denouncing the tariff bill, as
is Senator Bristow, : of Kansas, and
others who voted against its final pas
sage. But about the time their season
on the Chautauqua circuit comes to a
close President Taft will be swinging
across the same .country and will be
speaking to people who have made the
audiences for. Senators Cummins and
La Follette. He will tell ftiem "bethinks
the tariff law a good one and will give
his reasons therefor. He will' descant
upon his program for the next session
of Congress and review the program
of legislation for the next twelve
months. There is much in this program
which the President 'has outlined for
himself that is warmly approved in the
West. These Chautauqua patrons are
likely to find something in the Presi
dent to their hking, if not by the time
that his train steams away into th
Roekies at least by the time that the
next session of Congress has adjourned.
The effect of the President's western
journey upon the progressives and the
outccme of the next session of Con
gress in reformatory legislation will
have a very important bearing upon the
next Congressional election and upon
the President s administration in gen
eral. The insurgent Senators talk rath -
er bit:erlv of the President in tneir
private conversations, but they will
have to be chummy with him on his
western trip. At least some of them
will. It is understood that both Sena'
tors Cummins and Dolliver will meet the
President in the course of his western
tour and will travel with him through
Iowa. That would be in accord with
the usual practice for (Senators of the
party to attend the President as he
meets their own constituents. It will
be interesting to note what course
Senator La Follette follows, because the
President the, other day abandoned his
engagement to stop at Madison, which
is the home of Senator La Follette, and
made arrangements- to stop instead at
Milwaukee, which is a much larger city.
When Mr. Taft, as candidate for the
Presidency, traveled in Wisconsin dur
ing tke4ast campaign .Senator La Fol
lette appeared with him, but wa3 re
served in his conduct and restricted in
the volume of his speech. It 'will be
little surprise if Senator La Follette
finds it convenient to be outside the
state when President Taft travels
through there in September.
In contrast with the cancellation of
the Madison date was the announcement
that the President had arranged to stop
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at Winona. Minn., to make a speech.
(That is the home of representative
, jamcs A Tawney the chairman o the
i House Appropriations Committee and
the first lieutenant of Speaker Cannon.
whom Senator Cummins 'has been at
tacking. Representative Tawney was
about the only Republican in the Min
nesota uelegation who voted for the
tariff bill, rlis political interest seemed
to be to vo.e against it but in the face
of unusual embarrassments he stood by
the President and the House organiza
tion. The state of Minnesota is polit
ically at sixes and sevens and the Be-
publicans are afraid they will get a
drubbing next year. Representative
Tawney iias already heard the rumblings
in. his own district. He had to fight
for a renomination last year and will
have to fight for a renomination next
year with the possibility that, if ho
gees it, he will be beaten at the polls.
He is good enough a politician to be
aware of the situation and is fortify
ing himself against the wrath to come.
Before the President left Washington
he wrote a letter commending Mr. Taw
ney for his loyalty and on top of that
the President now agrees to take a trip
to Mr. Tawney 's home fown and have
something to say face to face with his
constituents about the value of Mr.
Tawney 's services to 'the party and the
administration.
There were many Republicans
throughout the West, both in the House
and the Senate, who persisted in voting
against the tariff bill on its final pas
sage. Of course the President will have
little to say in praise of them as he
journeys through their states and dis
tricts. But as he explains and defends
the tariff law to these western people
he will be making the insurgency of
t'hose western Senators and Representa
tives prominent and will be placing
them on the defensive. Their troubles
are likely to multiplv, unless the wes
tern people have made up their minds
against the President.
Cabinet Members to Go.
Some good traveling jobs have been
arranged for members of the Cabine;
during the President's western trip. He
proposes to have some member of his
cabinet with him all of the time, so
that he will not be accompanied solely
by Senators and Representatives from
the localities through which he happens
to be traveling. This will enhance the
feeling of good will for the cabinet
officials. When the President goes into
the Northwest he will have with him
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
When he gets back 'to St. Louis in
October and starts down the. Mississippi
river Secretary of Commerce and Labor
JSagel will be with him. This is to be
a. picturesque trip down the great river
and during the voyage the President
will deliver several speeches from the
boat. When he arrives in Louisiana
Secretary of War Dickinson, of Tennes-
i1Tfti h:m arA L tha
see, will join him and will be with the
President during most of his visits in
the South. The idea isjregarded as a
happy one. It will strengthen the mem
bers of the cabinet in their respective
sections and will also be pleasing to
the audienees that assemble to see the
President. t . ' '
Reports have been revived of differ
ences between the President and Sec
retary Ballinger because of the admin
istration of western affairs in the 'De
partment of the Interior. They sSould
be accepted with Y great allowances.
Without question the President and
Secretary Ballinger are in full accord,
but there is a western problem for this
administration. Secretary , Ballinger is
giving his attention to it. President
Taft will also study it as he journeys
through the West and has opportunity
to gain information at first hand
The Forest Service.
The West is 'terribly in earnest about
the forest service and the reclamation
serviee and about conservation general
ly. uiflord Fmehot, chief of the for
est service under the Department of
Agriculture, and Jr.' H. iSewell, direc
tor of the reclamation service under
the Department of the Interier are
idols of the more radical western ele
ments. The new administration has
been putting on the brakes and admin
istering conservation work along lines
more strictly legal. The radical west
erners resent this. They reason that
the irrigation projects are suffering and
that the forest service is being injured
Dy tne new policies,
This is the season of the'vear when
there are several big congresses in the
western country. One of them is the
National Irrigation Congress which has
just been in session at Spokane. Tne
exponents of the more radical conser
vation ideas improve the opportunities
which these congresses afford for
forum, in which to exploit their views
and criticisms. The Spokane congress
was a case in point. While Secretarv
Ballinger was on the ground to defend
himself, ex-Gov. George C. Pardee, of
California, and Chief Forester Pinchot
were on hand to voice their own opin
ions. Gov. Pardee criticized the passing
of the Roosevelt regime, whose motto
was to do things and talk about them
afterward and Mr. Pinchot exploited the
operations of the waterpower trust.
secretary Ballinger is defending him
! self valiantly against these radicals
denying that waterpower dummies have
been busy in behalf of a waterpower
trust or that they have gobbled up any
or the public lands, which have been
restored by him to entry. Mr. Pinchot
is sceptical about those statements. Just
what the outcome of such unpleasant
differences will be can not vet be fore
casted. There seems to be little doubt
that the President will stand Sec
retary Ballinger, for the President be
lieves in a government of law. Perhaps
with the thorough discussion these ques
tions are having at the conservation
congresses in the West and at meetings
which the Senate Irrigation Committee
is holding as it journeys to and fro in
vestigating irrigation projects, the pop
ular sentiment, which now seems to be
rampant, will "ease down."
And yet the prospects arc for this
western question of the new adminis
tration to .bob up next winter to bother
President Taft, Secretarv Ballinger and
Congress. The friends of the forest ser
vice are likelv to press for legislation
that will allow the forest service to ob
tain possession of public lands whieh
it wants for the protection of water
powers-. The more enthu jiastie friends
of the irrigation of arid lands will want
Congress to legitimatize the conduet of
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upon land close to irrigation enterprises
can cug tneir own ditches and put water
upon the land from the government
canals. There are half a dozen compli
cated questions growing out of these
divergent views.
Director .Newell and Chief Pinchot.
who are the idols of the westerners,
sympathize with the more radical group.
They are very efficient men and mav
be able to adjust their administrative
work to the new requirements. That,
oi course, is necessary if thev are to
retain office. But a deal of friction
seems assured over this western Ques
tion, which, while of small interest to
the; East, is really of great magnitude
and vital importance in many western
A Statehood Program,
Not the least noteworthy develop
ment in national affairs of recent days
has been the President's declaration
for a flag of forty-eight stars and a
compact mainland of states over all
Federal territory this side of Alaska.
He bases this declaration of a definite
statehood program for his administra
tion upon the fact that "the platform
promised it." ,
Of course statehood fights in behalf
or Arizona and New Mexico are noth
ing particularly new in Congress.
Every year or two since Roosevelt en
tered the White House, Arizona and
iew Mexico have clamored for admis
sion into the Union. Bills have pass
ed the House two or three times in
that period but the barrier, has been
in the Senate. A law, authorizing joint
statehood, was enacted some three or
four years ago, conditioned upon its
acceptance at a plebiscite. Arizona
rejected the proposition by a big vote
and since 1 then little Has been heard
of joint statehood.
But now that the President has an
nounced his position the lines will
form for another statehood fight in the
Senate next winter. The bill will prob
ably pass the House without much de
lay. There is no particular objection
there to statehood. It would mean an
additional member from Arizona and
an additional member from New Mex
ico. In the Senate, on the other hand,
the obstacles are more formidable and
it is a serious Question whether a state
hood bill can pass there till after a
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long and hard fight. In all probability ( toma or a district attorney or any one
some pf the Republicans will become 0f several; other officials during a re
insurgents on the question and seek , cesg of Congres9, jtfanv such officials
to form a coalition with the Democrats I have to work aafmg the" recess of Con
against the regular Republicans who I rps, and blie business has to halt
wm oppose sxatenooo.
The West is sparsely settled and in
proportion to its population, has very
large representation in the Senate. Of
course it was intended by the framers
of the Constitution that the small
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states should have the same vote m
the Senate as the large states. But
New York, for instance, can not over
look the fact that her several mil
lions of people have only two votes in
the Senate. That population is more j
than the population of all the main
land west of the Missouri river but
that same section of the country has
about twenty votes in the Senate. Ari
zona and New Mexico as states will
augment this preponderance of West
ern inuenee in the upper legislative
branch, Arizona probably would send
two Democratic senators and New Mex
ico two Republican senators although
the possibility of four Democratic sen
ators is recognized. That makes an ob
jection from the Republican standpoint.
Then the larger the Senate becomes,
the more difficult it is to control and
the more insecure the position of the
leaders, who are all Eastern men, be
comes. The Western senators are as
sectional in their views as the Eastern
senators or the Southern senators. Just
now the Westerners are fond of fierce
warfare upon the Eastern senators, who;
they claim, have been unduly favored
in legislation. The advent of four
senators from the Southwest whether
they should be Democrats or Repub
licans or evenly divided, bodes ill for
the balance of" power as now wielded
in the Senate.
The Commitee on Territories, of
which Senator Beveridge, of Indiana,
is chairman, is hostile to statehood. Its
members are moved by the reasons giv
en and also by other reasons. There
are peculiar corporation conditions that
enter into the situation A new argu
ment against statehood, from the view
point of the East, is the proposed in
come tax amendment to the Constitu
tion. That has now been launched by
the required votes of both branches of
Congress and it remains for three
fourths of the legislatures of the
states to say whether the amendment
shall be incorporated into the constitu
tion. -
When Congress enacted an inherit
ance tax for the Spanish War period,
about nine-tenths of the tax was col
lected in New England. New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, strange
as tba't statement may seem. If an in-
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come tax is authorized it is quite prob
able that the burden in large part will
fall upon the same states and accord
ingly the opposition to the income tax
will be chiefly in those states. As the
roster of states stands now, thirty-five
legislatures must ratify the amend
ment. The opposing votes of 12 legis
latures would defeat it. But if Ari
zona and New Mexico are admitted to
statehood there would be forty-eight
states. Then thirty-six legislatures
must ratify the amendment to carry
it into the constitution and thirteen
legislatures through adverse votea or
failure to act would be required to de
feat it. As Western states Arizona and
New Mexico would be for the income
tax amendment and consequently their
admission would make the task of de
feating the proposed amendment all
the more difficult.
This complication assures a pretty
fight; for probably the big thing in poli
tics next year will be the action of
numerous state legislatures upon the
constitutional amendment. While some
sections of the country are -very en
thusiastically for the Federal power to
tax incomes in support of the govern-,
roent the opposition is tremendous. It
is, of course, the influence of wealth
and will have the sinews with which
to conduct its campaigns before legis
latures. It is recognized that the. fight
will be close and therefore no advan
tage will be overlooked. w
Apart from the census supervisors,
the President is shaking the tree' of
Federal patronage as little as he can
this summer during his absence from
Washington. He has leen urged a deal
of late to fill vacancies on the jreaerai
bench. There is one at Chicago- and
then there is an authorization for a
customs court of appeals of five mem
bers. No money, however, has yet been
appropriated to pay the salaries of those
five judges. But the President has tak
en a very firm position in each case.
He intends to make no recess appoint
ments of Federal judges., President
Roosevelt made such appointments and
got into numerous quarrels with the
Senate. Under the constitution the
Senate has coordinate power with the
President. He is to. nominate men to
office "byand with the advice and
consent" of the Senate.
As a matter of practise the Senate
does not grumble if the President nomi
nates a postmaster, a collector of cus-
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unless vacancies are filled. But most
of those officers are appointed for four
years, while judges are appointed for
life. Then' judges do not go to work
till the October term of court begins ;
and it is no great hardship if a place '.
on the bench is kept vacant for a few j
'months till Congress assembles and the ,
President has opportunity to consult
with Senators and ascertain whether
the Senate will confirm a given nomina- j
tion. 1
President Taft's attitude in judicial
matters is regarded as very -wise and
contributes to better feeling among
Senators. They have argued that when j
a President nominates a Federal judge
during a recess and the judge goes upon
the bench during the October term, it
is humiliating to the nominee if the
Senate then refuses to confirm him. But f
if the nominee does not enter upon his
service by the time his nomination is
forwarded to the Senate, Senators are '
free from any embarrassment in voting
tlfeir judgment of him and there is no
undue humiliation about defeating him
if senators think him an unfit man for
judge. j
The English Mission.
Ever sinee the President left for
Beverly rumors have been current about
the new Ambassador to the Court of
St. James, but one, who heard it di-1
rect from the President, says no name
has been seriously considered and no
appointment is expected for some time. I
The President is looking for the right
man and wonld be thankful if any one
could suggest a good nomination. Ex
President Roosevelt's friends have
brought bis name but President Taft
knows that is about the last office that
Mr. Roosevelt would ever think of for
himself. The ex-President could not be
persuaded to accept any such place.
Then a rumor was started in behalf of
Secretary of the Navy George von L
Meyer. Mrs. Meyer would not object
to her husband filling that office but
Mr. Mever has no idea whatever of
taking it. He is well satisfied where !
he is and wants to make a reputation
as a capable Secretary of the Navy.
Then President Taft does not purpose
to give the place to Mr. Meyer because
j he him of aj, -cabinet of
fioials, to remain where he is and have
a long tenure. A Ion? tenure is neces
sary at the head of the Navy Depart
ment to get things ship shape and to
encourage the highest efficiency.
Now rumor is running away with the
rsme of ex-Mayor Seth Low, of New
York as Ambassador to St. James but
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