Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-09-21
IN CAMPAIGN ISSUES
Tendency Of Parties in Coming Con-
sreSSiOnal Elections.
Democrats Make a Feature Of Lack Of Ship
ping Republicans on Hawaii
War and War Bonds.


Now that hostilities with Spain
have ended, interest in the ap.
preaching Congressional elections
will increase. The effect is no
ticed already in the increased
number of letters asking for cam
paign literature being received at
the Republican and Democratic
headquarters in Washington.
Both parties are later than usual
10 lining up on the issues of the
campaign, and the indications
point to short and sharp fight in
most of the districts of the coun-
trc. Issues growing out of the
war will figure largely in the cam
paign, aud the silver and tariff
questions will be thrown more or
less into the background, though
the dem )crats will build one of
their principal issues-lhat of the
financial management of the war
on their ideas of free silver aud
green backs, as brought out in the
Chicago platform and in the de
bate on the war revenue bill IN
Congress. They will clillcise the
republicans for the bond issue
aud for the war revenue law,
which they claim weighs more
heavily on the poor than on the
rich. A vigorous attack will be
made on the republican policy in
dealing with the merchant marine,
which, it will be declared, has
fallen away to such an extent IN
der the restrictive policy Of the
republicans that now when new
and undreamed of opportunities
for commercial expansion are
op Mug up before the American
me chants and manufacturers the
country has not sufficient mercan
tile shipping to enable it to avail
itself of the opportunities.
SILVER PUSHED ASIDE.
At the Republican Cougression
al headquarters the indications at
present are that here will be little
discussion of the silver question
unless the democrats force 1t to the
front. Few demands are being re-
ceived for financial or tariff litera-
ture, and most of the applications
are for documents relating to the
war and to Hawaii. The republic
ans are managing the literary part
of their campaign with considera-
BILE shrewdness, and most OF the lit
erature that they are sending out
to attack the democrats is made up
of quotations from democratic
speakers in Congress.
Thus, on the subject of Hawai-
ian annexation, their strongest card
is Senator Morgan's scathiug ar
raignment of the obstructionists in
the Senate, chiefly on his own side
of the chamber, who SO long delay
ed vote on the annexation resolu-
ton. On the question of bonds or
greenbacks for carrying on the war,
the only literature that has been
printed consists the arguments of
Senators German, of Mary land,
and Lindsay, OF Kentucky, aud
Representative Cummings, Of New
Yolk, against the position assumed
by tho majority of their party in
both h uses IL favor of greenbacks
rather imam bonds. A document
has also been compiled bringing
together all the instances of demo.
cratic opposition to measures re-
cessary to the successful prosecu'
ton OF the war.
REPUBLICANS UNDECIDED.
The issue of territorial eXpan-
sion will not figure as prominent
ly in the campaign as might be
expectation two reasons. The
first of these is tina: the republican
administration has not yet clearly
defined it's policy any further
than as to the retention Of Porto
Rico, and has not, therefore, Civ
EN- the democrats al opportunity
to take issue with them. The
second reason is that, while the
republicans are tending toward a
policy of expansion and the re-
tention OF ali the territory taken
from Spain, the democrats hest.
tate to take the opposite course,
The indications are unmistakable
that too many of the rank and file