Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-27
FORESEES ELIMINATION Of ALL
PARTISAN AND PETTY POLITICS
Charles R. Frazier Tells Kauai
Meeting More Reform Is
Territory'S Need

! Greater endeavoCs for territorial re
! forms by the organizations which
make up the civic convention were
urged by Charles r. Frazier OF the Ho-
! nolulu AID Club, responding to the ad
dress OF welcome at Lihne yesterday.
TO the AID Club has been given the
J high honor OF responding to the ad-
dress Of welcome" Mr.. Frazier said
! and as chairman Of the Ad Clubs
| civic convention committee the pleas
! ant duty has devolved upon me OF try
ing to express TO the people Of Kaua'
, and more particularly to the members
| OF the Kauai Chamber CT Commerce
some measure Of the great joy we
| feel on account OF your whole-hearted
and most hospitab!e welcome. Kauai.
! we thank you for the way you have
greeted US and we honor you for
your enterprise in bringing the fourth
civic convention to your beautiful
Garden Island /
"Eesides this endeavOr to express
appreciation for the manner Of our
reception. ii is also appropriate to
state briefly why we are here. e
The fourth civic convention finds
men assembled from all parts of the
Territory with a sDeci&l purpose elo-
quently and suggestively expressed in
two words-'civic righteousness,
Il believe no man in Hawaii can
fail to be impressed with the prog.
ress these conventions have made
from the general to the concrete
from somewhat abstract ideas to very
definite and constructive things which
we have found necessary in carrying
out those ideas.
Pleads for Civic Righteousness.
I'VE have come to the realization
that the basis of all progress is per
sonal and individual character aud eff.
ficiency. There can be no civic right
eousness unless the citizens who con-
troll the government are righteous
There can be no civic efficiency unless
the men who cast the ballot and who
hold office are efficient and demand ef-
ficiency Of their fellows in public life.
Public business is no different than
private business in this respect.
When this community and every
other community in the territory de-
mands that its public servants pro,
duce honesty, energy and ability as
their qualifications for office then we
shall have a militant and constructive
civic righteousness.
I'VE are getting 1t already. Harm
fulspartisan politics and petty faction
alism have got to be eliminated, and
they are being eliminated. More and
more the cities and towns and coun-
ties are demanding real service Of
their employees and are looking at can
didates for office more carefully than
ever before And, let me add, it was
Kauai that set the first eyamnle.
We have had some shocking les
sens in ineficiency, incompetence and
misuse of public funds. Empty county
treasures and inadequate public con
veniences and utilities have resulted
Through these weshave fe,t the weight
Of civic Hnrighteeusness.
Sig interests Scored.
in the past we have seen some OF
the big interests tacitly supporting in
competent candidates fer office and
contributing to their campaign funds.
Until the men and corporations OF
wealth in this territory make it &C.
lively, openly and Enthusiastically known
that they will not support candidates
for office who cannot deliver the goods
of efficiency and common honesty, the
fight for civic righteousness must go
forward slowly, even though surely.
But the big interests have seen
the point. Big-heartedness and toler-
ance on the part of some of our lead
ing citizens have led them to the
error OF leniency in politics. Let this