The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1914-07-21
CARTER SWINGS
AROUND CIRCLE
And Tells People Of kanai All
About The Bull Moose
Party

half of the Progressive Party III
Hawaii, has been addressing small
Kauai audiences and making what
is sometsmes called a house to
house" canvas here since last We'd
nesday. In his own VIC IDS he has
made speeches wherever he could
geta crowd which extended from
th$steps of the pl autation store at
Makaweli and the roadside near
the Hanapepe bridge to the more
pretentious Social Hall i'll Lihue.
Meetings were held at Waimea
last Wednesday III g h t, kekaha
Thursday afternoon, MakaWeli
Thursday evening, Hanapepe Fri
day evening, Lihue Saturday even
ing, Kalaheo Sunday afternoon,
Koloa Sunday evening and Kapaa
last evening. Tomorrow the form
er governor will appear at Hanalel.
Mr.. Carter's s campaign on Kauai
has been vigorous in only one par
ticular- the work of drumming
up audiences. He has written let
tiers to the more prominent peoplc
at every place he has visited, soli-
citing the.r presence at his meet
ings, and has used the telephone a
greass sieal for the same purpose
His Aleches, have been, apparent
lv, Sxtemporaneous, and i'll the
onini on of many have lacked CAM
paign fire and earnestness, have
been half-hearted, if you will. A
commendable feature has been the
absence of abuse of other candl .
dates.in fact though his entire tour
Mr.. Carter has seldom referred to
anv candidate or official by name,
'ii,e meeting in Lihue Saturday
!, evening was fair sample OF all.
There were exactly AZ people
present, including the governor 6
party of four aud number OF Ia
dies, 1t is safe to say that every
vote present was pledged, sealed
and ready for delivery to Chas. "A.
Rice-a fact which probably sug-.
pested itself to tn e Progre ssive
candidate. At a same time Mr..
Carter was listened to with due
respect and earnestnes.
In opening, Mr.. Carter reviewed
the causes which, to his mind,
made the Progressive Party neces-
sary, and then took fall out OF
the system of paid runners, free
booze, etc., which he considered to
be one of the curses of the other
parties. He had it figured out that
therAwas chance for the Progress
siyeFa1ty to hold the balance OF
power in the next Senate, and, i'll
consequence, it might be good
thing for Hawaii to play in
with that party. He / d he
Bought there was still chance to
influence President Wilson on the
right side in the matter of sugar
legislation.
Here Mr.. Carter referred to his
father as having So ccessfully nego-
tiated tn e original reciprocity
treaty, and said that it.would give
him much pleasure to be the means
of saving the sugar industry from
disaster at this time, as his father
had done years ago. Being a Yale
man, and also having been govern
or of the Territory, would give
him a prestige at Washington of
importance.
He enumerated the distinctive
principles of the Progressive Party
as follows; First, a belief in true
Democracy. The Democrats have
talked about it for sixty years, but
have never achieved il.
Second, More humanity,
Third, Do not agree that labor is
a commodity.
The Progressive Party was the
first 10 adopt a statehood plank i'll
its glatform, and since that time
the Republican party had adopted
13 out of 81 planks of the Progress
size platform
SThe Progressive party believed
IN courts oi reconciliation, the OBJ
iect of which would be to settle
disputes, particularly between poor
and rich, aud thus avoid expensive
litigation and oppression.
Woman suffrage was advocated
The Progressives believed that
20 the artesian water supply Of the
Islands should be condemned and
become an asset of the people.
In regard to sugar, ne believed
that the proposed removal OF the
duty was too abrupt.