The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-01
WILL SUPPORT
STRAIGHT TICKET
HilO Business Men Pledge Their
Votes for Republicans in
the Field.

An outline Of the political career Of
L. l.. McCandless, since the congres
sional bee stuck him in vulnerable
spot, was given to the business men of
Hilo by Campaign Manager Carl Smith,
which is one Of the clearest summing.
ambition, picked the Democratic party
out of the political scrap heap, put some
of his dollars and cents into it (cents,
not sense), and became its candidate
for delegate to congress. Since then
McCandless has had but one idea and
has worked for but one thing. and that
is to crafty his own ambition. Nc.
Candies is no more a Democrat than
is a Chinaman who has Just landed here
and who knows nothing about the
Democratic principles. 1t means moth.
ing to him but a ladder to his ambition.
Vote-oatching Platform.
" He then built machine for that
one purpose. He has been working
twelve months in the year, and he has
been watching ever since the last cam.
paign for issues which will attract
votes, not citizens. He drafted the
Democratic platform, and has put into
IL what he considered vote -catchers.
He and his advisers figure that there
are Just so many illiterate votes in this
Territory-that is, men who do not
weigh in their minds ideas which are
presented to them-and then McCand-
less, though he is himself one of the
largest land owners in the Territory,
=. 4,
on cheap labor for the continuation
of his large income, sets up several
principles as vote -catchers. He has
been saying that the country is ruled
ups of the Democratic candidates IS posi-.
ton, motives and aims yet given. Mr..
Smith said:
Elm 1903 McCandless, as a Repub.
lican senator, millionaire "a fact that
is neither for nor against him. but
private matter of his, but which has
bearing which l shall explain), had
reached the point when he could enjoy
life, and he became politically and so.
cially ambitious. He got the itching to
go to congress to get further prestige.
The Democratic party at that time had
no standing in the Territory. 1t con-
sisted of men who had been Democrats
on the mainland, like E. NJ. Watson,
who is a southerner, and the number
of such men was small-so small as to
be almost a nonentity-and the party,
when it tried to forge forward under
the leadership of Prince David, re-
mained nonentity. In 1905 the Demo
cratic party was on the political scrap
heap.
"fThen McCandless, a Republican and
senator, desiring to satisfy his own
by plantation men and missionaries,
who have stolen all the iends-this
from Link McCandless, who is himself
one of the largest landowners. The
basis of his candidacy is the stopping
of immigration. McCandless is not in
terested in immigration. He expects to
get the cheapest labor possible on the
plantations in which he owns stock.
He has stopped to the worst political
trickery to put himself in congress.
He has attempted to stir up the worst
passions, especially of the poor. A
good many highminded Democrats,
some of whom are candidates on the
Democratic ticket, are men whom he
has placed there to brace his political
machine for 1912, for he can not hope
to win in 1902
Will Vote for Kuhio.
In view of this clear exposition of
the McCandless ambitions, it is not
strange that the Hilo Tribune should
report that:
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