Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-02
PRECkELS NOW
Fighting GRAFT
Heads National Association
and Lands on Capitol
Jaw.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dee. 49,
Into the capital city>a few days ago
came Rudolph Spreckels of San
Francisco. The magazines have
made Spreckels widely known. Just
now he is at the head of the social
ed "Anti-Graft Association of the
United States" OF course, he is hor-
ribly handicapped by the family
name, for the name of Spreckels is
very intimately connected with the
sugar trust, which the administration
is going after this year with great
vigor. The younger Spreckels has
nothing to do with the trust except to
draw certain dividends from the stock
he owns in it. But If he keeps on
fighting what he calls graft, but
which is as a matter of fact politics,
with which the administration is not
wholly out of touch, he may find trou-
BILE in his trust affiliations. 1t Is
a hard handicap for him, bearing the
name of Spreckels, to make the fight
he is making, and yet in my judgment
he is striving in good cause.
Spreckels a Sincere Fighter.
People as rule do not know the
individual. They don't know the
young Spreckes. They think of the
Spreckels who was identified with the
sugar trust. They look upon the
young man for he is moderately
young, as being merely the represen-
tative of the trust and of his father.
Instead of that he is a man who has
thrown his whole heart and soul in to
the fight for better government, first
in San Francisco and then in other
cities. That he has with him here
Fremont Older, who was kidnapped
by the men who tried to break down
the reform government in San Fran
cisco, is almost enough to prove how
sincere is his endeavor to carry
through the ideas in which he be-
lieves. 1t may be doubted whether
there are any two men in the United
States today who are doing more for
the reform of municipal government
than are Spreckels and Older.
His Connection With Folk.
But Washington is not a place out
of which comes municipal information
or suggestion for good municipal gov
eminent. A short time ago it was as
serted that back of Mr. Spreckels' ma
tional organization was the purpose
of pressing to the front the candidacy
for the presidency of former Govern
or Folk of Missouri. asked Govern.
or Folk about that nearly two months
ago and he denied it vociferously
Within two or three days asked Mr.
Spreckels the same question and met
the same denial, although | must say
1t was not quite as strenuous. II
should judge that there Is something
in the story that is current in the
newspapers about the alliance be-
tween Spreckels and Folk, although
in all probability 1t is not a definite
one, but merely one that may posi-.
Wy duFdnCc TIE lltcTeSlS OF FOLK with
a perfect understanding that Folk in
his turn will advance the interests of
the Anti-Graft Association
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Tickets sold by the steamship COM
pany were composed of coupons for
every stage of the trip. including the
stay at the Volcano House and this
was great convenience to the travel
ers.
AS Manager Demosthenes Lycurgus
stood on the step of the hosiery bid
ding farewell to each party as it left,
he was told by everyone that it had
been a great stay and each would
send his or her friends to the Vol
cano House. bI
The return trip was uneventful from
the time Hilo was left behind. and the
party arrived back in HONOLULU at an
early hour this morning,