Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-10-24

that this year could go before the
people, could tell them the reasons OF
why | am Republican, could show
to them to the best of my ability the
reasons why they should vote the Re-
publican ticket, but, gentlemen, there
has been made upon me by the morn
ing newspaper an attack--a person.
al attack-which think | can Justly |
, characterize as one of the most out
rageous, II not the most outrageous, |
In all the late history of newspaper
dom.
Two years ago we. most of us,
stood astounded and aghast at the at !
tack made upon A. NJ. Brown, but
the viciousness of that attack. vicious
as II was, compared to the ferocity OF
the way that paper pursues me, was
mere persinage. Now, gentlemen,
while 1t is not a pleasure, while 1t Is
ihumiliating to have to get up before
my fellow citizens and justify my
/ character, yet II Is due to the people
at whose hands am asking the suf-
frage. due to them. to explain why /
still ask at your hands your vote, and
/ welcome the opportunity that has
been afforded me to SO explain my
self. (Applause.)
My case Is not singular one. Can
didates before me, and ] suppose aft
ier me, will be attacked as ! have
been attacked, not, perhaps, with the
same savageness, but still their char
acter, their integrity, their honesty,
will be called in question. 1t has
been SO before. and to compare great
things with small let me recall to
your minds the Presidential cam
ipaigns of 1880 and 1884. In the
first of those campaigns the Repub-
lcan party presented to the people
la man who had served in the Union
Army with more than credit, man
who for many years had served his
country with distinguished honor In
the halls of Congress, either as Rep
lIesentative or as Senator, from the
State of Ohio. That man expected
that he would be able to conduct his
canvass on the broad lines of politics,
of fair and honorable politics, but his
opponents attacked his character.
questioned his integrity, denied his
, honesty, and he was compelled to
, abandon the course that he should
have pursued and to have spent the
, time that should have been devoted
9 to discussing the principles of party
politics, In defending his character
: from the attacks Of these newspapers.
| James A. Garfield was assailed and
- charged with dishonesty In the Gre
dit Moblier' and through the Nor
!, ley Letters" falsehood and perjury;
a and falsehood and perjury in that
A case, while it did not defeat him, ana
while he was elected, yet was UNI
4, doubtedly responsible for the bullet
y that was sent into his body by the
Il assassin Giteau.
-Four years later the idol of the
:, Republican party. the prince Of ora
, tors, he whom Robert Ingersoll de-
! scribed as the -"Plumed Knight was
q assailed in his private character, his
a honesty questioned. his morality ques
= toned, and through the long weeks
!, that preceded the campaign every
, day brought to his door some fou
Il Islander; but he, gentlemen, was also
, elected, although in New York City
/. and in Long Island City depravet
!, vote counted him out. Applause.
!, Now. gentlemen, when ] rfist learn
., ed that was to be attacked. | nat
urally supposed that the attacl
would be confined to some criticism
:, my official conduct. For ten years
- have lived in this Territory, for near!
>. four years was connected wi,a IN
Attorney G"ueral's Department an'
was Deputy Attorney General 10
~ nearly three. Two years ago you hon
ored me by electing me County Alton
J. ney. Between the time left the Al
~ torney Generals Office and the time
took the office now hold, was G..
L gagged in private practice. Not dul
n ing all these years had any wh.src
or of any dishonesty reached my ears.
I'd supposed that II ! had been gritty c
by any misconduct in my former o!lici'
IL capacity as Deputy Attorney Gel
e. eral or in my private practi'c as
lawyer before the bar, before I'll
lg courts of this Territory, that al leaI
he there would have been some intim
nd ton of It reached my ears. So coul
I'm only anticipate that in some parntuis
%. in which ! had conducted my otlie
IN there was dissatisfaction, such dissa
isfaction as would give rise TO chi
~ icism; but in that have beeA mi
,o taken.
mo- The enemy who attacks me has nj
yet said anything about my ofiici
-, conduct. The attack that they nal
49,. upon me Is based upon matters TIN
~ are old, hoary with age-nothing lat
w nothing new. And the fact that tho
!" are old makes them the more difiicu
's' to answer. Matters that ten, six
DIV five years ago were fully fresh in II