Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-08
SIDELIGHTS ON THE CAMPAIGN
ASSEM- FROM SAN FRANCISCO

YEAR because I'm an pptimist-but
I'm not enough of an Optimist TO be-
ileEe in good coming from their being
IN power. believe in two strong
parties, one in power and the other
watching il. | believe the Demo
Gratis make the best Watchers
And here's the other fist: '-Theo-
dOre Roosevelt wasn't within gunshot
Of San Juan hill when the battle was
on. and he hasn't been that near to
fact since. We've been electing him
on things that didn't happen"
Necessarily all speakers dwelt on
modern conditions. and back and
forth the buck flew as each party
tried to blame the other for the pres
ent pleasant condition where 1t is so
easy to enjoy one'sseif at a high cost.
Everything was touched upon from
antOmobiling to living in highs priced
hotels where luxury has taken The
place of refinement.
Most Americans think today that
il they buy an automobile the govern
ment ought to make the repairs.
Many an American pays more for
gasoline than his grandfather did for
groceries. Don't ask for civilization
On the half shell and then complain
of the cost"
Naturally it's impossible to have
any political fracas and omit the wo.
men. They'll ''fracas' whenever the
opportunity offers. They got up a
political debate and rally in San
Francisco for women. and the latter,
far bolder than mere man, put a re-
preventative of each candidate on the
platform and right then and there
everybody had it out.
Oh, Gertrude!
Gertrude Atherton, the authoress, a
opined thusly: "The rea-
son Woodrow Wilson is not under
stood better is that he is not always
using the pronoun Y; and secondly,
because he writes so we'll. ! hope ]
will not be tempeted to call Mr.
Roosevelt liar, but | would suggest
that as the distinguished founder Of
the Ananias Club it is now time for
him to assume the presidency of that
organization. Roosevelt, at so odd
years, looks like cave man; Wilson
has a clear-cut, keen, civilized face. "
Mrs. Calkins Brooke, the Socialist
speaker, declared that Roosevelt
asks women to forget the seven
tragic years of his reign; to think
of him as a creature fresh from God,
with eyes newly opened to behold-a
woman. Do not go to the polls like
an enfranchised Trilby and vote for
any one of the three capitalistic Sven
gals, but vote for the cooperative
commonwealth, the kingdom of
heaven on earth" ....
One Woman's Epierann. s.r.+. -
Here's an epigram from the speech
| of Mrs. Alice Prescott Smith, the. Re-
publican speaker: THE average wo-
man looks upon the tariff as some
thing that she has inherited, like a
pug nose and black walnut furniture. l"
And here's the trusting statement
of the Progressive speaker, Mrs. Ida
Finney Maekville: The Democrats
have only q man. The ProgressiVeS
have both the man and the platform
"a definite, sacred covenant with the
people. Roosevelt is one of the great
souls who prepared the ground for
woman suffrage"
Just the speaking wasn't the whole
thing in that convention-not by a
long shot.
Men were served with due notice
that the day of the spell-binding and
baby-kissing politician was past. Wo-
men might be swept off their feet by
temporary emotion, but underneath
was woman's clear sense and firm
faith in righteousness.
The women themselves admitted
they were all idealists' and progress
ives. They differ in remedies, and
they seek a sane, practical house
wifely solution of the immediate
problems. '...
Despite all arguments, they innate
ly hold some things are right, and
they demand that these things be
done.
They haven't. according to them
selves, sunk so low as the men, who
will spend most of their time scrap
ping about what particular man will
60 all these things-and it really
looks as though the women were
right.