The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-27
REPUBLICAN,
MEETING
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unuer the administration OF mckinney
and the administration of Roosevelt
that the United States Government
has left its old position of isola-
ton among the nations and has
become one of the foremost of the
leaders. We have left our mainland.
we have gone beyond your islands, and
We are in the Far East. We are now
digging the Panama canal, that great
artery of commerce that is to connect
the Atlantic and the Pacific and make
the stream of commerce flow by your
very doors. All these things have been
accomplished under the Republican
administration, and that Republican
administration has been constantly
looking to the welfare of the greatest
number of our people. These steps. the
result of the Spanish war and the
opening Of the Panama canal, have not
been taken merely for the benefit of
private interests or merely for the
benefit of party gain, but they have
been taken for the benefit of all the
people of our United States, and there
fore the Republican party again comes
before the people of the country this
year and asks for a vote of confidence
in the work that it has been doing in
international affairs. We come before
the people of the country, and say our
record is clear. Every step. year by
year, every session of Congress, the
enactments made and the enforcement
of the law by the Executive, all these
are plainly to be read in the record of
our party, and we ask again that there
should be a vote of confidence in our
leaders and in our representatives.
Now. in internal affairs, how are the
people of the Territory interested in
the success of the Republican party?
The officials who are appointed by the
President are those upon whom you
must rely If your welfare, Territorial
ly, is to be cared for wisely and well.
In connection with the internal rela
lions between the Federal government
and. the Territory, your Delegate TO
C.ongls S. if he be out of touch with.
the majority of the members i'll Con-
gress. will not be able to do what your
present delegate has so we'll done dur
ing his term in office. (Applause) If
you desire to have things done for you
in the halls of Congress you must send
there a man who will be in close polit-
ical sympathy with the Administration
and with the majority of those in tha
House with him, and 1 think it safe to
assure you that the next Congress viii
again be Republican and the next Adj
ministration will be Republican, with
a man at its head who will take no
step backward in the policies of the
present Administration. tApplause)
Your Territorial officials since your
annexation have been men Republican
in principle, Republican in action, men
who have been keenly alive to the in
terests of your Territory and yet wise
" informed as to its relation to the
Federal government. They have been
men of the highest integrity, men or
high standards of individual righteous
ness, of individual life and of public
honor They have been men who have
filled their offices with honor to them
selves, with credit to this Territorial
government, and / wish now to eX-
press to you the appreciation That
have of the relationship between the
present territorial officials and the In
terror Department. l found in your
Governor man upon whom L could
rely at any moment and at all times.
(Applause.) His advice upon conditions
in the Territory, his suggestions as TO
what was needed. and his recommend
alton of what should be done | have
been able to follow, because / found
him wise, honest and having in view
the best interests of all the people OF
this Territory. (Applause) Now, II
you wish to continue those conditions,
if you wish to make it possible for the
Representatives in Congress to under
stand what your conditions are and
act upon the advice given, if you wish
to have Territorial officials continue
of the class that you have now, then
by all means you should desire the re-
turn to power, or the continuation in
power. rather. of the Republican Ma
tional administration. (Applause)
Let me for a moment call your at
tention to some of the special things
that this administration has done, and
the special things that 1 desire to
bring before you tonight are those that
have to do with the matter of in
dividual citizenship, There has never
been in the history of our own party
any President who has so en-
phasized the need of a high civic
virtue as has been emphasized by
President Roosevelt, and that civic
virtue that he has preached and has
same principle of individual honesty.
of individual decency to commercial
honesty and to commercial decency.
He has demanded that the great cor
porations should be cared for by their
directors exactly in the same way that
the individual would care for his own
private affairs. He has demanded that
the great transportation companies,
both on land and on sea, so far as they
were under the jurisdiction of the Uni
ted States government, should do away
with all discrimination, should do away
with dishonesty of management and
should be open to all who wish 10 ship
over their lines. (Applaue). He has
demanded that the great corporations
to which large powers had been given
and great privileges granted should
recognize that those powers must be
exercised for the benefit of the people
as a whole. and that those privileges
should not be used simply for private
gain but should be understood 10 be |
held by them as trustees both for their |
and for the public with |
whom they deal.
l,aay, n IN /