Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-11
The MAYORALTY.


of the city and county Of Honolulu?
The STAR BULLETIN believes in recognizing
|mcrit in office when rlrcton-imr comes, ;nC
worth alone should count with the voters This
is year when merit is going to count and wher
no man can expect the support Of the voters I'M
less he can back his appeal with proof of his
ability, his progreSSivrneSS and his fitness fol
public office during the next two years.
Mr. Fern has had two terms in the mayors
chair He has had four years in office What
has he to show as a record?
What progressive measure has he initiated
What piece of legislation has he suggested anC
{. carried through? What has he made Of his OPP
portunty?
:. Year after year the same excuse has beer
made for Fern,-thc excuse that he did not have
a majority of men on the board of his own pOlit
zeal faith.
The voters of the city and county are now
confronted with two sets of candidates, Repub
lican and Democratic, and it needs only glance
at the Democratic nominees to decide the aver
age voter that it's impossible to pick a Demo
cratic majority from the seven men nominated
and insure Honolulu two years of progress
There are some good men on the Democratic
ticket The ARBUILETTN has already stated
its belief that Petrie and Markham deserve con
sideration at the hands of the voters. But this
paper does not for one moment believe that the
entire ticket deserves support.
Mayor Fern, if reelected, will not have q
Democratic majority on the board. The board
will be Republican in complexion, and Fern will
again face the unsympathetic sentiment which
he has faced for four years past Does Homo
lulu wish two years more of the factional fight
ing that ruined the work of the board now going
out of office? Emphatically not
Ferns recorder lack of a recOrd-has not
however, been so largely due to a Republican
majority on the board as to himself. He simply
has not measured up to thesjOb'.
The years 1913 and 1914 will be great years
for this city. Honolulu is already in an era OF
rapid civic development. The city is spreading
by leaps and bounds There are business houses
and residences going up on all sides; there are
streets laid out and still to be laid out; there
are questions of lighting of paving OF garbage
improvement-great questions The next legls
lature will be asked to turn over to the city the
water works and the sewer system. These are
but few of the many great functions of govern
ment that are pressing more and more heavily
upon the governing powers of this municipality
The internal development of the city demands
a man of calibre at the head of the city's func-
tons, and a man who can surround himself with
capable advisers a man who will surround
himself with petty politicians.
The external relations of the city are to be
considered. The tourist tide already is setting
this way as prophecy for 1915, the year of the
Panama Pacific exposition. Honolulu must
have a man who can worthily represent this city
-worthily in the eyes of the world. We must
not blush for our official representative; he
must not be a source of derisve laughter.
With all of these things confronting Homo
lulu, what has been Mr. Ferns record as a
mayor? What has he to tell the people as he
asks their support again?
Col Sam Parker has won the regard and the
esteem of many of the men who lead in Amorl-
can affairs today. He will not be haraSSed III
office by a hostile board. He will be surround
ed by brainy men, he will have the advice of
responsible men; he will bring lot of common
sense to the solving of the city's problems
And he will certainly lend picturesquencSS
to the office He will be mayor worth having
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