Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-06


make to swing the country's vote.
Aside from his San Francisco speech.
es ii was not as eolorless b. any
means as some of his opponents tried
to make out. At San Diego, for In
stance, he spoke before 5000 people.
and Southern California Is well salts
fled with him. ..... ,.-....
But 1t was not until he got upon
the Adamson bill that he began to get
IN the telling work. Abroad in the
country. in the Middle West particu-
larry. there was much of the too
proud to fight feeling, the tide Of
prosperity and the keep us out OF
war talk made a tremendous burden
for candidate to go against. He had
to wake the people up. and they did
not want to wake up on foreign af-
fairs. -. .. ..s
But when the country began to see
what this Adamson law means, the
Middle West, where transportation is
q prime factor in prosperity, certainly
walked up. Why, in Chicago there
was complete turnover Of sentiment
In one week. .=:. *E
IF Wilson is beaten, as think he
win be. the eight.hour bill win have
done It largely. perhaps mainly.
There seems no question of a bar
gain with organized labor whereby the
labor vote was to be turned to VIII
son. But these four brotherhoods
which forced through the Adamson
bill are not popular with the labor
element at large-they are the aris-
tocracy of labor. It is doubtful how
much of vote the union leaders can
actually swing"
the workingmen In general realized
that the Adamson law has not helped
them and In fact may ultimately in.
jure them.
Hughes is not attacking the rail.
road employees on this issue, but he
Is pointing out exactly how this i'm.
portant piece Of legislation was fore
ed through Congress-exactly what II
means to the country that such q
thing could be done. He says. in ef.
feet j don't know whether the bro
therhoods had just cause or not.
Let JUS concede that they had--the
fact remains that they did not take
the right American way of getting
this cause before the people, or of
securing legislation
'As campaigner he is a distinct
success. He has good sense sof hu.
NOR, he makes his points well and he
fmpresses every audience with his sin.
certify Of purpose"
Mr.. Wilmington is inclined to at.
tribute Hughes failure in San Fran
cisco to the fact that he was trying
to avoid some troublesome factional
situations and acted under advice Of
Republican managers In letting alone
subjects they thought might have
"eome-baeks.n
Hughes cant do that sort of thing
He must speak his mind, as he Is
doing now, or he makes a failure Of
speaking"
The Maine election results Mr..
Wilmington considers a distinct Re-
publican victory, and hopeful aug.
ury for November. He points out that
the Republican vote showed a large
gain, the total Republican vote be-
ing the largest in the history, OF
"a oAHS coSC III 1oSO, WHEN Tie 6Ouuu
money" Democrats voted the Repub-
lican ticket, and being only 1000 votes
short of that; that the Democratic vote
showed loss, and that the Republic
can ticket was successful in spite of
Q badly-managed campaign and in OPP
position to Democratic campaign
superbly handled by Col. e. NJ. House
Of Texas, the Presidents personal ad.
wiser, and the Maine encouragement.
He says the Democrats had q remark
ably fine ticket and that Col. House
himself admitted he had plenty Of
money to spend in Maine. In spite of
all this the Republican ticket showed
the power of the party, and Mr.. With
ington believes is of significance as
showing the hold Of the national, tick
ct on the voters.