Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-27
DELEGATES Fight FOR HAWAII
REPRESENTATION IN CONVENDAs
OF G.0P. MAY BRlNGRlIIIs


on an elevation and looNvn upon us
but rather that IL 5 down to
. cur, or better still. th& lifts US W
To its level. We do 4 ish to con
! front the situation whRill be pre-
scented when the Dethtic party
| here points with pr TO the fact
that it gives equal r entation &c
Hawaii, while the .Hlican party
does not. The Ha&t voter and
large majority OF yoters here
are Hawaiian-resenI Utterly even
an intimated or insiTth inferiority,
and when it exists, not always
look too closely into totiyes which
prompt the distincti In our fight
to uphold the princin 4 the Repub-
Iican party, TO ASST securing its
return to power, yo readily rec
ognize the effective jail which our
opponents would M II their more
indulgent treatment the Hawaiian
voter.
Now, senator, yoIst not under
stand me as sayi4|t we will not
be loyal IL the al committee
stands by its actioEe have plenty
of good RepublicaIpwn here who
will remain good Mlicans, no mat.
ter what you mi Republicans
ready to back up eaders by faith
and works, finano and morally,
through thick anf|n Republicans
, who never sulk Ieir tents. But
We do appeal q in this small
matter, to aid a1Bist and encour-
age us; 10 allow say to our peo-
pie that the gre republican party
has not overlo0k|he rights of its
humblest, most Re members, and
that our intere1fe as much the
care of the grea,Hers of the great
party as those q most influential.
/ am also WI to former Sena.
tor on this BET and trust that
both you and hS see the justice OF
our claims
very lerely,
Territorial 0'han Single also
got in communion with Chairman
Hilles of the ahl committee, and
received from the following re-
ply:
larry 22nd. 1914.
Mr.. Robert Vhingle. Territorial
Central Comke. Cummins Build
ing, Honoluliawaii.
Dear Mr.. Shin
! have yo1iter of January 9th
and note thai le Kalanianaole will
present the dent for your com
mittee to Sei Smoot. Senators
Jones of Wasibn, Bradley Of Ken
lucky, Borah idaho and Jackson
of Maryland present at the re-
cent meetinghe national commit
tee in Washn as we'll as Com
gresham HaIof Oregon.
j AS / have dy said to Mr.. Rice,
this matter rfest in abeyanee un-I
til the next ling of the national
committed. III come up for final
considerable the meeting in De-
cember, 19i1ch will be called for
the purposei making an allotment
of delegafe5the national conven-
ton to be in the summer of
1916.
uincerely yours,
kRLES d. HILLES.
Replyine Letter written to him
by an ardlHonolulu Republican,
another I'll States senator indi-
Gates his ii0n of taking up Ha-
waits figh the following letter:
Wgton, Jan. 80, 1914.
MY Dear
/ am in pt of your favor of Sth
instant tritting a copy Of let
ter from Hawaiian delegate to
former Sd in reference
to MISREPRESENTATION in future
conyen.ioI the Republican party.
AS / Rand it, the recent ac-
ton az tipublican National Com
mittee afthe nature of a recon-
mendatid6uggestion and requires
the Attire action of a Republic
can nat convention before be-
coming
The hents presented in your
letter an that of the delegate to
Senator are worthy Of CON
sideratid at the earliest oppor-
unity confer with Senator
l--if possible with Senator
feference to the matter.