The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-20
WATSON PUTS
HUGHES RIGHT

IN temperate language Dut decidedly
forcible, E. NJ. Watson, Democratic can.
didate for the Senate, last night re-.
futed statement attributed to John
Hughes, candidate for the Senate on the
Republican ticket, that he (Watson)
had called all the Republican cardi.
dates gamblers and tin.horn sports. j"
While Mr.. Watson said he did not wish
to enter into personalities in the cam
paign he felt obliged to make this one
personal refutation, but even then went
so far as to give Mr.. Hughes the bene.
fit of the doubt, in that he had either
been misquoted by the Bulletin, or Mr..
Hughes had been sadly misinformed as
to Mr.. Watson's correct statements re-
garding the candidates on the Repub.
lican ticket.
The statment at which Mr.. Watson
took umbrage appeared in the Bulletin Is
account of the Republican meeting at
Moiliili, was headed "John Jumps Wat.
son." Mr.. Hughes is quoted as saying:
=" 1 ask you seriously, have the Demo.
Gratis advanced any argument, why YOU
should vote for them. deprecate per.
sonalities. / have never before used
a name of a rival candidate, but |
must say that at the meeting of the
Democrats last night one of their can.
didates for Senator said the Democrats
were working for the laboring men and
that the Republican party was compos.
ed of gamblers and tin.horn sports. |
brand them as lies, and ask You as
intelligent men, is it not an insult to
try to get your votes by such meth.
odsi''
Mr.. Watson, in answering this at the
Pauoa meeting of the Democrats, one
of the largest and most enthusiastic
yet held in that section of town, said:
~ wish to talk upon matter con.
cerning myself. 1t is my desire and
the desire of the Democratic party to
conduct this campaign without any dis.
agreeable personalities, and we have
striven hard to keep out of this meth.
cd of doing politics. I was very much
surprised to see statement in the Bull
letin concerning myself and what Sen.
ator Hughes said of me. He said he
had never entered into personalities
but he wanted to call attention
to something said by Democratic sen.
atorial candidate at Moiliill. He said
that I said that all the Republican
were gamblers and tin.
horn sports, and he wanted to brand
that statement as false. He did not
mention my name, but the Bulletin
must have known that he referred to
me. 1 can only attribute his making
such statement to one of two reasons.
either he was misquoted or he was mis-.
informed as to what said. can not
believe Mr.. Hughes, whom / have
always considered an honest man, gull
ty of uttering so malicious a lie to ,,
injure an opposing candidate.
81 state in all honesty that l never
made such statement as the Bulletin
attributes to me as charged by Mr..
Hughes. Furthermore, l would not
make such statement as some of the
best friends have are Republicans and
are on the Republican ticket, but that
does not prevent me from expressing
my views about some of the candidates.
"What l did say is that the Demo-
cratic party has put up clean ticket
and we have no gamblers nor tin-horn
sports on it. / made that statement
before and / make it again, but / did
not make any such statement as attrib-
uted to me by the Bulletin, and as
charged by Mr.. Hughes. The charge
is false, foolish and absurd on it's face.
But | say again that / believe Mr..
Hughes was either misquoted or misin-
formed, and ] don't believe he would
deliberately falsify about me or my
candidacy.
81 thought it fair to myself and to
You to make this statement, and from
now on l will refrain from making
any personal references in my
speeches.
The remainder of Mr.. Watson g
speech was directed toward the differ |