Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-19
A VIEW OF THE ELECTION.

publishing that no apologies are necessary for
giving it in full:
s'The Bull Moose has vamoosed. Mr.. Wilson,
lied upon as the prime credentials of Demo
cratic candidates, appears again in his actual
position as minority president These ineluc
table facts stand out to every eye in the cleo
Of mind of the electorate that the vote of Tues
day reveals!
From the beginning of the war The Sun,
In common with most of the rest of the Amer-
can press, has refrained from partisan stric-
lures, sometimes too we'll deserved, upon Mr..
Wilson. 1t has shared in the feeling of COM
prehensive and unselfsh patriotism which
united Americans The reflex of the European
disaster brought exigencies and responsibilities
and necessitated expedients of national scope.
Party. fences were broken down. A common
need required common effort. The admins
frRtion, protected by an artificial and tempo
rhry want of opposition, seemed stronger than
il was. But if the people and the press were
mostly silent, they had their opinions, ex-
pressed so vigorously on Tuesday. They have
not forgotten that when international relations
were most brittle and international questions
most momentous, the secretary of state, insert
ed into the cabinet and kept there solely for
reasons of political expediency, was but a
Chautauquan spouter, as ill-equipped as man
Vatican be for the high and subtle duties Of
MS post. They have not forgotten that the sec
rotary of the treasury in the midst of the grav7
est disturbances of the financial and CONNER
cial world was loquacious and cocksure anna
ieur with an explosive temperament. 4 ii
These gentlemen might be forgiven; but the
tariff, passed like most of the other important
legislation of the long Congress by the personal
Erection and voice of the president, made lean
the pocketbook of North, East and West parts
Of the country not always within the vision of
the Democrats at Washington. Factories nailed
llD; workmen without work; tariff for deficit
only; on top of the business depression war
axes net due to war, the offspring OF Demo-
cratic extravagances and tariff bungling.
1t Is the sage habit of the paladins OF the
only constitutional tariff to sheer at the emp
ty dinner pail" All the same, it makes full
Republican voting urn at times.
cold to the blessings of the new tariff, the whole
country, with the possible exception OF regions
Of the South which seek or receive special aid
from the government, is sick of the long, costly
war against business. The evil practices, once
not so regarded, that grew up in great corpora
lions have been abandoned The men whol
carry on as far as the federal busybodies will
lei them, the industries whose prosperity isl
vital to that of the nation are eager to comply
with the laws. Yet the spirit of persecution
still RACES against them. Business is still to
Sc boosted by "sending somebody to Jail. y
Remarkable business talent and success are still
!. crime. Mere malice ordains proceedings for
nd offenses or suspicion. The energies OF the |
government are still turned to the injury, and i
not the benefit, of business. In short, thel
Democratic party has not got over its Populist
Infection. ..->~. i
3. Bnsiness demands to be let alone, to make
money! lawfully, to go its way on its own IN |
-t;a4syre and without the everlasting injection
q federal interference. Politics has been kick
- bns;ness for wears. Business took its re-
90 nv kicking politics last Tuesday. Every
~, $ raady to do justice to Mr.. Wilson's ad-
...s4,la and noble qualities. But the work OF /
- = his work The renaissance of the
s, s,,nblican party proves that that work has
= fSs.t;sfed and has greatly dissatisfied, mill
-. a voters. And they are dissatisfied be-
's'S coo that with all this fine intention
- ri those fine words at Washington, it is
'''s = harder and not easier to make living