Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-10-31
W.0. Smith
JO|tS
m'C|anahan
HONOLULU, Oct. 81. 1906.
T.. b. McCLANAHAN. ESQ. Demo.
cratic Candidate for Delegate to

Sir:-ln reply 10 your open letter
IN this mornings p. c. Advertiser. I
would state:
Jhe first ] knew Of your remarkable
contention In favor OF your candidacy
was the statements which you made at
an Informal meeting of gentlemen just
prior to your departure for Hawaii.
and after that | heard little OF what
you were doing until last Sunday
mornings paper gave what purpor,cd
10 be your address at the Aala Park
meeting the night before.
This published statement was YOU
first public utteranCc before the vo
tcrs of Honolulu, and | had intended
TO make reply at the Republican meet.
ing to be held ut the same place on
Monday evening, although suffering at
the time with severe cold.
On Monday forenoon It becoming
evident that I could not attend the
meeting, ! dictated from the bed the
Grief statement which was read at the
meeting.
So far from devoting three weeks
to the preparation Of written argu
ment, II has been difficult for me In
this matter to take you seriously.
Your argument. after being divest.
ed of uncertain glittering generalities,
amounts to this:
% There Is danger OF Cuba being
annexed to the United States.
t2) II II Is annexed II will be by
the Republican parry.
l3J The Republican party favors
the annexation of Cuba.
"a The Democratic party Is op.
posed to the annexation Of Cuba.
90 Hawaii should now abandon
Its loyalty TO the Republican party,
ignore all sense Of obligation and
throw down its Republican Delegate
and elect Democrat as protest and
rebuke and to educate the American
people upon the subject Of Hawaii's
interest.
As to the first proposition which,
IRON your tone and attitude, would
seem to have come To you In u sudden
and startling manner. | endeavored to
point out the danger of annexation or
Of tariff concessions to Cuba as mat.
ter which has been before the COmmu.
mites both OF the mainland and ia.
wall Tor the past eight years. You
either are unaware Of. or else ignore
the persistent efforts which have dur.
ing this time been made by those rep.
resenting the great cane sugar inter
ests OF the South. beet sugar of the
Northwest, the tobacco of the South
and the Connecticut Valley. and the
sugar Of Hawaii to prevent action
which would give Cuba tariff benefits,
and the results which have been at
tanned.
Your statement, that the Republican
party as Il party fayors the annexation
of Cuba. Is an assertion unjustilied by
the facts and history of the past few
years.
But II, for the sake OF argument, /:
should be admitted that the Republican
party, the great party of the United
states, Is inclined to favor annexation
how absurd II would be for little tla-
wall to attempt to influence that party
by being treacherous to II and should
snow base ingratitude for the great
benefits and blessings heretofore re-
ceiyed and shake its puny little list
and defy II.
This powerful party has been and 70
true friend to these Islands and tho
evidences of this friendship have been
manifest and abundant.
The fact Is that the question of the
annexation OF Cuba or Of granting free
trade relations is u commercial ques-
lion and favored In certain quarters w
those having large interests in Cuba
irrespective of parties, and will have
to be fought out mainly on commercial
lines, that n. the great commercial IN.
terests Of the Mainland us against the
interests of those having commercial.
interests in Cuba. The political policy
Ut the government as to Cuba and other
Spanish-American countries has been
repeatedly announced and recently was
again affirmed at the notable congress
at Rio do Janeiro.
your nIon may taxa with tbouyhtIess