Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-25
sWTIAT CANDIDATE SHALL 1 SUPPORT ?''
NO. l. THE DELEGATESHIP

Candidates for territorial and county office
have now declared themselves; the filing OF
nominations is complete; the various tickets
are before the electors of Hawaii for action at
the polls on September II, under the new direct
primary law.
The Star-Bulletin from day to day will dis
cuss various candidates. and candidates in an
endeavor to place before its readers fair esti-
mate of the character and ability of those who
seek to hold public office. Efficient working of
the direct primary law depends upon the voters
themselves; good government is now more than
ever up to the individual citizen; every man
who goes to the polls must be prepared to use
his own Judgment as to what candidates he
can place reliance upon, what candidates are
well equipped what candidates are really pub
lic-spirited, what candidates are able to inter
pref the wishes of the people and to represent
the peoples best interests. Now, more than
ever before it is the province of a newspaper
to place before the people an estimate of those
who ask public support.
In discussing these candidates and candi-
dacies, the Star Bulletin has no personal pref
erences; it views the matter from an impersonal
standpoint. Some men with whom those con
nected with this paper are personally friendly
are not'regarded as the best available material
for the Offices they aspire to; but in speaking
for or against any candidacy personal friend
ship should Influence no newspaper devoted to
the general good.
1t is hardly necessary again to repeat that
the Star-Bulletin cannot and will not support
Delegate Kuhio for reelection One reason,
however, for repeating this, lies in the fact that
since June 10, when his candidacy was first an
nOunced his entire campaign has added to the
objections previously made against him. He
has abandoned Washington and Washington
affairs entirely to do politics here. He has
given not the slightest evidence that if re
elected he will pay any more attention to his
work than he has done IN the last two years.
Consciously or not, he has allowed his cam
paign to be waged along lines of prejudice and
Misrepresentation. His political lieutenants
and henchmen have raised an issue that is at
once insidious and false. The Star Bulletin
has not heard Kuhio in so many words urge
that all candidates except those who support
him be put to the knife, but his managers and
fellow-campaigner are allowing this situation
to arise; their attitude is encouraging it. As
a result the entire political campaign and par
ticularly the municipal campaign on Oahu is
SO inextricably tangled up with the delegate
ship issue that Kuhioism is rampant every
where.
These are some of the reasons why Kuhio's
campaign has given the thinking progressive
independent men of the Republican party no
reason to line themselves up in his support
Indeed, his campaign is of such a character as
to justify fully the belief that if returned to
Washington Hawaii can expect no efficient or
thorough service from him. And Hawaii needs
at Washington for the next few years the most
energetic, Woodworking, progressive and per-
sonable man this territory can send.
Senator Charles A. Rice's campaign has
been notably clean. He is fitted by nativity
environment, local experience, ambition and
ability to go to Washington and there repre-
sent Hawaii as Hawaii should be represented
First of all he will be ION the job and he will
be responsive to the wishes of the people who
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