The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-23
POLITICS Of YESTERDAY
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z. Each size TO De represented bS
three speakers. Speakers to alternate
The Democrats to open and the Repub-
Iicans to close.
3. No candidate to take part IN the
debate.
f. The debate to include local as
we'll as national issues. No PERSONAL
ties to be INDUCED in.
s. Expenses of the debate to be
I equally divided.
The following gentlemen will act as
a committee to arrange such further
details as may be necessary with a like
| committee to be appointed by yourself:
George A. Davis and A G. M. Rob
| ertson. Yours truly,
H. E. MURRAY.
| Chairman Republican Co. Committee.
THE DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE.
Honolulu, T. H, Oct. %. 1906.
H. E. Murray, Esq, Chairman Repub-
| lican County Committee, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge re-
ceipt of yours of even date relative
| to joint public debate between repre-
| sentatives of the Democratic and Re-
publican parties. Without commenting
now upon the conditions that you have
submitted, L desire to give you notice
/ that the following gentlemen will act
as a committee for the Democratic
party to arrange details of the debate
/ to wit, Messrs. w. A Kinney and r.
/ H. Trent. Yours truly,
| H. J. MOSSMAN,
| Chairman Democratic Co. Committee
THE STAR ON MURRAY.
| The Republican party, which by all
sound political considerations ought to
! be successful in the coming election,
and which in spite of some of it's nom
nations would be successful, ordinarily
! is now in grave danger of defeat 1t
will deserve defeat if a radical change
, is not made in the management and
! conduct of the campaign.
! The first thing to be done is to make
a change in the head OF the county
campaign committee. Harry Murray,
whatever his personal good qualities
may be, is not the man for that posi-
ton. He does not command the con-
fidence either of the men who furnish
the funds for the campaign or of the
public at large, as the man for that
important position. The conduct of the
campaign has not been such as to in
spire confidence in his management,
nor in the party under such manage
ment
The scandal of booze orgies as the
finale of campaign meetings is entirely
in consonance with Murray's ideas of
campaigning by going from saloon to
saloon spending money over the bar in
payment for drinks for every Ioafer
who will respond to a loud and re-
peated invitation. The rank and file of
the voters from whom the Republican
tu itc a
prove of such methods.
There is d growing suspicion among
candidates on the ticket that Murray
is not capable of a party disinterested-
ness that is equally anxious for the
success of all the men on the ticket
or that if he is, that he is capable of
recognizing the fact that his free beer
and down the line expenditure of
money policy is not considered as
favorably by some candidates who have
a right to be consulted, as it may be
by Others
There is a good precedent for
change in the manager and the man
agement of a campaign during the prog
ress of the fight. During the last coun
ty campaign, Lorrin Andrews, against
whose mana gement there was not near
Iy as serious objections as have been
urged against Murray, and with whose
generalship, grasp of events, political
sagacity and resourcefulness Harry
Murrays are not to be compared, even
by the partiality of his friends, gave
place to another, and the Republican
ticket, where not hopelessly Handicapped
from the beginning, was successful.
Andrews political ability was more
widely recognized than Murray's is.
yet he gave way in Difference to the
sentiment that called for a change in
the men and measures of the campaign.
Harry Murray can prove his devotion
to the party and the success of all the
candidates in no more striking way
that by making room for someone else
at the head of the campaign who viii
inspire more confidence in the sources
from which success must come than he
has.
What is needed is a man who has the
confidence of the public; a man whom
conscientious contributors to the cam
paign funds will have confidence in;
man whom all the candidates will
have confidence in; a man who has
sufficient political acumen and force of
character to direct and control the
course of campaign meetings, and not
let them degenerate into wild competi-
ton of irresponsible promises of ex-
travagance of public expenditure, or
into disgraceful scenes of drinking and
drunkenness.
What is wanted is a man of sound
and practical sense, who will use the
money placed at his disposal in effect
i've and reputable campaigning, and
will carry on the campaign on a plane
of orderliness and good sense that will
justify sane hope of success.
Let the party justify success by or
ganizing for success. and make start
by putting new man at the head of
the campaign.