The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-30
STIRRING REPUBLICAN MEETING
AT WHICH SECY. GARFIELD SPEAKS

| you are finding that your great har
bors will hold the fleets of the world
i you are finding that commercially you
Territory will be one of the creates
provided you maintain the propel
relationship to the Federal govern
ment and provided you make the mos
of the opportunities that are now with
in your grasp.
But for a moment let me call you
attention to what the Republican ad
ministration has been doing these las
years for the purpose of solving som,
of these problems that you are so di
rectly interested in.
In international affairs it has beer
under the administration of Mckinley
and the administration of Roosevelt
that the United States Government
has left it's 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 arc 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 we'll
In connection with the internal rela-
tions between the Federal government
and the Territory, your Delegate to
Congress, 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 well 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 the
House with him, and 1 think it safe to
assure You that the next Congress will
again be Republican and the next Ad-
ministration will be Republican, with |
man at its head who will take no |
step backward in the policies of the |
present Administration. (Applause)
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
ly informed as to its relation to the |
Federal government. They have been
men of the highest integrity, men of
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
and l wish now to ex-
press to you the appreciation that l
have of the relationship between the
present territorial officials and the In
terror Department. l found in your
Governor a man upon whom 1 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 l have
been able to follow, because 1 found
him wise, honest and having in view
he best interests of all the people of
his Territory. (Applause). Now, if
you wish to continue those conditions,
f you wish to make it possible for the
in Congress to under
stand what your conditions are and
act upon the advice given, if you wish
% have Territorial officials continue
If the class that you have now, then
1y all means you should desire the re-
urn to power, or the continuation in
power, rather, of the Republican Ma.
ional administration. (Applause).
Let me for a moment call your at
ention to some of the special things
hat this administration has done, and
he special things that 1 desire to
,ring before you tonight are those that
lave to do with the matter of in {
lividual citizenship. There has never ,
,een in the history of our own party
my President who has so en- ,
1hasized the need of high civic !
1irtue as has been emphasized by
President Roosevelt, and that civic I
1irtue that he has preached and has {
,ractised has led him to apply the |
anne principle of individual honesty, I
If individual decency to commercial I
honesty and to commercial decency.
lie has demanded that the great cor ,
,orations should be cared for by their
directors exactly in the same way that +,
he individual would care for his own
private affairs. He has demanded that
he great transportation companies,
10th on land and on sea, so far as they