The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-06-09

Intelligence which It's membership lists
could show.
You have called them unworthy"
he said. What IL tho rcaaong He
cause he "a unit. Is the report. IL we
adopt Tat report we are cowardly aud
unmanly. | would not treat a dog
like that"
Mr.. Richards returned 10 the fray
and asked Judge Humphreys whether
| or not when he went TO tne polls 10
vote for man, he decided the candi-
dates moral character was such that
he could vote conscientlously for him.
IL certainly was a difficult thing to say
a man was of 16-calibre or 1870. He
thought II an absurdlty. The Fedora
ton was clearing house to improve
the party tickets. 1t might not be n
1 very much improved ticket. but they
were not making attacks on candi-
dates moral characters. He hoped the
Federation would not discuss the
moral or immoral fitness of any of
the candidates.
D. l.. Wilmington thought Il n novel
proposition that when a committee re-
|
endorsed the candidacy of certain per-
sons (Which was certificate that the
organization regarded them as possess
ing the political qualifications for Of
hce) that 1t should be considered n
cowardly attack on others who were
not endorsed. He did not think that
was the character of the Federation.
He had voted with the committee in
] favor of Withholding the endorsement
] of Mr.. Booth.
Bis reasons were that Mr.. Booth had
changed his political faith three times
in five years and therefore he did not
| consider him reliable. He did not
think he was steadfast. That was a
reason which moved him to withhold
| his endorsement. That was no reflec-
ton on a mans moral character. The
qualifications which Judge Humphreys
had named were not the ones to be
brought before the meeting.
Judge Humphreys said that If those
We're Mr.. Withington's reasons he
would rest satisfied and IL all the other
members OF the executive committee
would put forth the same reasons he
would endorse the report.
Rev. w. ID. Westervelt supported
Judge Humphreys, saying he had
great deal of sympathy with his con-
tentions. He thought the Federation
ought to be very careful of the way in
which 1t said or did anything which
might put burden upon other men.
The Federation wanted to lift men up,
not pull them down. on the other
hand, he was alive to the fact that a
Federation's work was not so much to
attack a mans moral character, as to
say the best men should be voted for,
or to urge that better men be nomi-
] mated.
He said his idea was to strike out all
in the report that apnertained to the
unendorsed candidates.
| Judge Humphreys: THAT was my
idea
Mr. WesterveIt then moved to strike
the offending portions out of the re-
port. Judge Humphreys seconded the
motion, adding as an amendment to
endorse the candidates endorsed by the
committee. Representative Long also
seconded, the motion and amendment.
Senator Dickey favored the motion for
the reasons given. However, as
member of the committee he wanted to
give his reasons for making the re-
port. In the committee there was
e6hsideFetP nil hdpSb. 81 VI, that ,ga4ild~-be.
of the candidates. 1t was more mat
ter of calibre of the persons and their
fitness for the positions.
Mr.. Richards thought the Federation
would be brought into disrepute by
saying nothing of the candidates. If
silence was golden, then 1t might
weigh more against the candidates
than by coming out direct. He thought
it six of one and half dozen of
another"
Rev. d. Scudder thought the Fedora
ton was stultifying itself with regard
to two of the names already passed
, upon. He was of the opinion that the
Federation's silence would be as elo-
quent as anything that could be writ
| ten.
Let us be manly and say that we
withhold our endorsement. In look
ing over the list We simply say that
votes of the people,
Mr.. Westervelt said this meeting
should be the foundation OF the Civic
feueIation Worh uurlilb IT'S COMING IRE,
and it should be based on the selec-
! ton of the best men, rather than at
tacks upon individuals.
p. L. Weaver said he could not en-
dorse the report which would leave
J out the name of a man like Mr.. Booth.
He said the Federation was making n
mistake by endorsing one good man like
/ Trent and leaving out another good
man like Booth. AS to the latter he
had been educated in politics and his
I common sense had brought him into
! the right party.
| Mr.. Westervelt's motion then pass