Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-27
CHARACTERIsTICALLY CARTER!

Ex-Governor Carriers interesting but inaccur:
ate statement published ina San Francisco pa
per and reproduced in another column of to
days issue will not be received with much
weight by those in Hawaii who know his poiti-
cal leanings and the extent to which his pOiti-
cal affiliations prejudice his explosive utter
anees. - f%
Mr. Carter tells the San Francisco public
that the press of Honolulu has concealed the
truth about the Bull Moose movement He
talks of the "strict censorship of the Associated
Press dispatches maintained by the pro-Taft
papers" published here. This is the kind of
reckless and absurd misstatement that tbs
STAR-BUfLErIN does not propose to allow to go
unchallenged. III =.
Solar as this paper is concerned, it has print
ed all the news sent by Associated Press. 1t
has never suppressed line of cabled news,
whether such news favored Taft or Roosevelt or
Wilson It's own Washington correspondent
has repeatedly written lengthy articles upon the
seriousness of the split in the Republican party
and the strength of the Bull Moose movement,
and these articles have been published.
The STAR-BUIIETIN believes Mr. Roosevelts
present campaign is good example of oppOr-
tunism, and has SO stated editorially on a num-
Der of occasions But the fact that this paper
does not agree with all of Roosevelt's methods
has not prevented the STAR-BULLETIN from eX-
pressing admiration for his courage and polti-
cal sagacity.
Oneyof Mr.. Carriers favorite allegations, dur
ing the time when he fondly imagined Bull
Moosism sweeping into Hawaii this fall, was to
tell people that the local press would not give
Roosevelt square deal. At enc time Mr. Car.
ter issued in pamphlet form an extract from an
article lip the New York Evening Mail, the only
big New York paper which favored Roosevelt.
This article was an attack on Taft and the first
Chicago convention. Over his own signature,
Mr.. Carter wrote, as he sent these pamphlets
out: ''Our papers don't care to publish extracts
like this" AS a matter of fact, he had never
Offered this extract to the editor of the STAR
BULLETIN for publication, and his assertion was
as irresponsible as the interview he gave out in
San Francisco the other day.
The STARBrILETIN respects those qualities
of energy, enthusiasm and selfcOnfidence with
which Mr.. Carter is endowed perhaps as liberal.
~ as his distinguished chief. We recognize also
.
fidence trifIe shaken when his Bull Moose
movement here flashed in the pan so quickly.
Perhaps, on the whole, his San Francisco inter
view was good an outlet for his injured feel
ings as could be found and with this charitable
view of a scheolboy attitude, he may he forgiven
for the mistake often made by the politically
unsuccessful,-the mistake of believing that in
some mysterious way news of themselves or their
cause is being 'suppreSScd'.
For our part, we are too appreciative of the
value of our Ex-Governor as news-lSSet to de-
sire his suppression. He and his thirteen fell
low MooseI~, now, alas! dwindled to three or
four. added to the Joy of life hrr' FOR a brief
span, and may vet. as officc-hoderS, with Teddy
wearing the emperorS purple. add still more TO-
the days news and amusement