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

Ex-Governor Carriers interesting but inaccur-
ate statement published in San Francisco pa
per and reproduced in another column of to-
days issue will not be received with much
3 weight by those i'm Hawaii who know his pOliti-
cal leanings and the extent to which his politi-
scaI affiliations prejudice his explosive utter
{ ances. -, ~..
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-BUILEr1N- does not propose to allow to go
Hnchallenged.
So far 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. Its 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-BUILETTN believes Mr.. Roosevelt's
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 Roosevelts methods
has not prevented the STAR-BUILETIN from ex-
pressing admiration for his courage and politi-
cal sagacity.
One of Mr.. Carriers favorite allegations, DUR
ing the time when he fondly imagined Bull
Moosisln sweeping into Hawaii this fall, was to
fell fhaf tlo nj,
Roosevelt a square deal At one time Mr. Car
ter issued in pamphlet form an extract from an
article in 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 STARBUIAETIN respects those qualities
of energy, enthusiasm and self-cOnfidence with
which Mr. Carter is endowed perhaps as liberal
ly as his distinguished chief. We recognize also
that Mr. Carter must have had some of that con-
fidenCe a trifle shaken when his Bull Moose
movement here flashed in the pan quickly
Perhaps, on the whole, his San Francisco inter
view was as good an outlet for his injured feel
iDgs as could be found and with this charitable
view of a schoGboy attitude, he may be 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 "suppressed".
For our part, we are too apprccaive of the
value of our Ex-Governor as newS-aSSet to de-
sire his suppression. He and his thirteen fell
low Moosers now. alas, dwindled to three or
four, added to the JOY OF life her" for Il brief
span, and may yet, as Office-hoderS, with Teddy
wearing the emperors purple, add still more to
the days news and amusement