Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-18
'INSIDIOUSLOBIY
EXPLAINED By
CARTER
B.. ~

1T was a protest against Hawafs
publicity campaign in Washingpu
that called forth the denunciationsot
fncidious lobbyists from PresidQt
Wilson," said former Governor 4eoHe
R. Carter during his address in troose
Hall, Young Mems Christian Asfoch-
ton building, last evening. The fha-
acterization of those who are today p
Washington attempting to be haeart
upon the subject of the tariff has tut
nished the press with many colunhn
of news and Governor Carter, givEnI
the sixth Of the series of ThursdGR
night lectures now being conducted
by the local association, told of the
Hawaiian campaign in Washington
and the part which he and his col
leagues had in calling forth this de-
nunciation irom President Wilson.
Immediately upon our arrival in
Washington, we found that it would
be practically impossible for US to Sc
cure a satisfactory hearing in which
to present our side of the sugar tariff
argument" continued Mr.. Carter. I'm
order to get our case before the legis-
lators and the people at large, we
bought space in two Of the leading
Washington dailies and ran display
advertisements. For some time we
could see no apparent results, from
this method of attack until, one day,
we quoted from speech of Secretary
Bryan. While campaigning in Penn.
sylvania, Secretary Bryan made the
statement that.'a legislator who VIC
lates the pledges of his party com
mits perjury, and we ran this as a
banner across the top of our adver.
tisement, following it with the pre-
campaign statements of Underwood
and other leaders that there would be
no interference with sugar. The next
morning in the senate chamber we
could see the senators reading this
and commenting to each other upon
1t, and we were both amused and
gratified at the result of the shoi
which we had taken at the Democrats
Immediately Secretary Bryan made 9
special call to the White House anC
we suspect that the sugar schedule
and our attacks. came in for theil
share of the discussion there.
President Wilson is now following
! plan of entertaining the newspaper
representatives, comforting with ;
member OF each newspaper staff one
afternoon each week, but with the
rule observed that no remarks of thai
weekly conference shall be for pub
LEGATION unless they are given tn,
representative in writing.
ct was on the afternoon following
the day of the appearance of this par
ticular charge in our advertisement
and the special visit OF Secretary Bry
an to the White House. that president
Wilson had his audience with tn.
newspaper men. During the converse
| ton the president vehementfy ldeciaT
ed that never before had there beef
so many highly paid men in Washing
| ton who were sent there for the pur
pose of influencing the legislation be
fore congress and that such business
| was outrageous and fundemocratic.'
But said one of the newspape
representatives, what good does it d,
| for you to tell us this when we ar,
not allowed to print it? Won't yo1
give US statement regarding the lob
! byists?
The president pondered momen
and decided that he would, where
upon he called for stenographer and
somewhat modifying his previou
statement, made the now famou
charge concerning the 'insidious lot
byists, which was at once proclaim
! ed in practically every newspape
throughout the country. Thus we al
tracted to our cause the attention tina
we needed and desired and got on
hearing before the senate, which er
abled US to present the cause of Fla
wall before the public"