Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-09
Inquiries Put to Delegate.
Honolulu, August 5, 1912.
II,n Eoloninnanla

G. VIII you run as an Independent,
If you fail to secure the nomination
of the coming Republican conven.
ton? u
d. VIII you kindly define what you
mean by "a more liberal administra.
ton of the Land Laws?"
e. What is your attitude. on the i'm
migration question? =.
f. What are your views and what
would be your policy IN Congress, II
elected, in regard to tariff changes?
Thanking you in advance for your
good offices, &c.. .. 49,. ...s>
We remain, Dear Sir. g.,
Yours faithfully,
J. M. DOWSETT,.
ALFRED L. CASTLE
Delegates Answer.
Honolulu, T. H., August -, 1912.
Messrs. J. NJ. Dowsett and Alfred L,
Castle, -...-.s.. -.
Subcommittee on Consideration Of Re
publican Candidates at Ensuing
Election, Etc. -s
Honolulu. A... -
communication of August 5, 1912, in
which you, acting on behalf of certain
business men in Honolulu submit to
me some questions concerning my po-
sftion on matters of public interest,
and request that answer them
l do not question in the. slightest
degree the right of the business men
to submit to me any questions con-
corning public matters. It Is right
which they have TN common with all
citizens. in the Territory through
whose votes any one may be chosen
as delegate from the Territory to Con
gress. have tlfefefofe no hesitation
in replying. In Weighing my reply,
however, I should like TO direct your
attention to the proposition that q
delegate to Congress is representa-
tive not only of the business cOmmu-
nifty, but of others, perhaps major
ity, who may not be properly classi-
fled as business men. While the in-
terests Of all are often identical. yet
there are at times apparent conflicts.
It should be the duty Of representa-
tive of all the people in taking q
stand on public: questions to bear in
mind all parts of the community; to
endeavor to reconcile apparent con-
f1icts in interest, and in the end to do
that which will work the most good
for the greatest number of people. II
any of the views / here express may
not meet with your entire approval as
business men, know you will be lib
eral enough to attribute such diverg-
ence to an intent on my. part to fol-
low out this principle.
Candidate as Republican.
While your letter doe5 not state so
directly, yet from the tenor of some
of the questions. submitted / am JUS
titled in believing that, as business
men, you are of the opinion that best
results can be obtained through the
administration of affairs by the Re
publican party, and that when you
state that your committee Of seven
"was appointed to undertake the, can
vass of available men for Office in the
coming Fall campaign, with view to
securing candidates who, il accepta-
BILE, could look for the political sup
port of the business community as a.
whole" you intended. to refer to can
didates on the Republican ticket II
l am wrong in this you may at once
eliminate the rest of my letter, az 1
am a candidate for the nomination
for delegate on the Republican ticket.
Your first question is as follows:
"Wil1 you agree to the entire elimin-
alton of the Frear-Kuhio controversy
at the coming Republican conVen-
tion?"
I have never asked the Republican
oPfU ri N 70 10 r.
Kuhio controversy; on the contrary,
have consistently urged that the par!
ty take no part in it. Many months
ago | urged the Chairman of the Ter.
ritorial Executive Committee to have
the committee do nothing whatever
about it, To my request that this
course be pursued, the committee re-
piled by actively entering the contest
in favor Of Governor Frear, thus in
sisting that the controversy should
not be eliminated as party question.
And when, in March last, left Ho-
rOIulu to return to my place in Con-
gress. did so in pursuance of an
agreement with a representative of the
business men, that in the then ap-l
preaching convention, the Frear-Kuhio!
controversy should be eliminated. But
you are aware how we'll that agree
ment was kept when upon the assem-
bling of that convention the "Busi-'
ness interests" at once insisted upon
pleacing Governor Frear at the head
Of the delegation to Chicago
Your next question is: viii you
support the ticket as nominated att
the coming Republican Convention,
regardless Of whether you are nom
mated or nOt?"
have said above that I am a Re-
publican, which means that | will