The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-24
LINK"
ON MAUI
MAUTS NEWSPAPER DOES NOT
APPROVE THE NEW DEMoCRA-
TIC PROPAGANDA.

Inc Maui News says edttorially:
Link McCandless is touring the
island Of Maui in the interest of his
expected campaign as q candidate for
Delegate to Congress this fall and is
making many extravagant declarations
to the electorate in the hope of win
ming them over to his cause.
THAT he is an able and impressive
speaker is admitted and it is said that
he is as fluent speaker in the Ha-
waiian tongue as he is in English.
1T is reported from the other side
of East Maui that he is roasting the
Governor and Land Commissioner j.
w. Pratt and urging the people to vote
for the Democratic candidates on the
ground that the only hope of their get
ting lands is through the Democratic
party
'He says that it will be but short
time until the electorate will be so
overwhelmingly Chinese, Japanese and
Italian that those who now control the
elections will not have a voice in
choosing the officer nor shaping the
government of the territory. He has
maps of each island showing the
amount of land that is still owned by
the government and statistics showing
the disposition and on what terms the
government has made of all of the
lands it has disposed of.
1T is said that he paints in lurid
colors the awful conditions confronting
the people and points to himself as the
Moses that will lead them from the
wilderness.
"All of this is doubtless good cam
paign material and we can hardly take
issue with him for using such meth
DDS for his personal interests.
But let us see what will the result
of sending a Democratic Delegate to
Congress be.
I'm the first place there is hardly
the remotest chance for the election of
Bryan and the betting on the issue in
the great money centers is ten to one
on Taft, The Republican party is
united and under the Republican adj
ministration there has been a long
| period of unprecedented prosperity
which will add much to the certainty
of the election of the Republican no
minee
THE Republican party stands for a
sound protective tariff that will mean
continued prosperity for the islands
and all living within it's borders.
1.-The democratic party is divided and
it is certain that Hearst's Independence
League will take many thousands of
votes from the democratic nominee.
The awful financial conditions that
existed during the administration of
| Cleveland in 1893 to 1886 inclusive are
fresh in the minds of a great major
ity of those who will cast their votes
this fall and it is not possible that
they will vote for a renewal of condi-
lions where untold thousands of able
bodied working men were walking the
streets and public roads begging for
| WOTh dC any wage.
mot a single democratic state or
territory has Jared so well as Hawaii
has and just why we should turn down
Kuhio after what has been accomplish
ed in Washington and support an I'M
tried neophyte is more than can be
explained.
There seems to us no good reason
why any member of the republican
party should vote against the satisfac-
tory conditions that exist and have
existed for years under republican rule
for the unknown conditions that will
be in vogue if the democrats get con-
troll. The only criterion we have
by which to judge what the conditions
will be is the history of what the con-
ditions were when the democrats did
have control in the past and that is
none to their cerdit.
with a Few exceptions the men who
are at the head of the democratic
party on this island are not of a class
to inspire confidence and until a great
er number of responsible men take an
interest in the local party there is no
hope that the democratic party could
accomplish anything for the good of
the community