The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-04
Australian Prime Minister Wins
Great Personal Triumph In
Mother Country
CALLED MOST INTERESTING
MAN OF YEAR IN LONDON
Urges War, To Hit With Germans
On Battlefield and
World Marts

LONDON, July 10.-Seldom in the
'ecent history of English speaking poo
pies, and perhaps never in the memory
OF Britain, has any politician almost
unknown to the general PuDh' made
So swift a conquest in the imagination
and the enthusiasm of the masses as
William Morris Hughes, the Prime
Minister of Australia. NOnly the sud
den achievement of William J. Bryan
after his "Crown of Thorns aud Cross
of Gold speech before the Chicago
convention twenty years ago, gives Il
Larallel in America.
Last year Hughes was known to the
/ nitcd Kingdom as a colonial premier
one of list of overseas statesmen or
politicians, with Borden, Fisher, Lau
Der and Ward.-men whose names are
rnmmar to Englishmen, whose person
slities are merely vague SHADOWS in
the public mind. These colonial lead
RS always were treated with formal
respect when they visited the mother
cuntry. A few dinners and recep-
tons, perhaps a kniglthood dccOra-
uon and university degree were
gwen them. But outsid, trc "Tciat
world general who had CONNECTED
one of England "httle wars or an
'Xplorer who had Wi ten some new
.Ames across the map WAS more of =
t,CTsOnuge.
Wins Personal Triumph
Now the story OF Hughes is tn"
story Of the most interesting civillaL
# the year in England. The self
made Iankee-lIke Welshman, the self
'chooled workingman, PrOtectiOnist.
abor uRiOniSt, socialist, is now lPav-
Tug the old country after a visit OF
our months, and Is leaving n popular
oliUwing comparable only to that
commanded by another selfmadr
welsh politician, Lloyd George. The
)nly reason Hughes has not nude NOR
ublic speeches, attehded moe ban
Iuets ARA ngcd to do him honor, given
more newspaper intervic SIS, Errrrved
he freedom of more cities, addressed
more chambers Of commerce, and ac
opted degrees from more universities
,as been that his time was crowded to
he utmost with such functions, ami
that his voice and hrS frail body sue.
:umbod at an early stage Of the or
teal and compelled him to retire for
omc weeks to II Sanatorium.
The oratorical output of the Austral
an Prime Minister has compared fav
ra.lY with the efforts uf an American
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Of the mos
ler0ic stuff. The number If addresses
urge and small, which the newspapers
la\c reported stretch well ever a hun.
lrcd. At Liverpool, Manchester, Edin
Durgh and other great provincial cities
such crowds have welcomed his arrival
$ few public men in civil life have
cen since the fam0u~ piPctiOneerinE
tours of Gladstone during his most pop
rlar years. He has made speeches be.
fore every type of public and private
organization from municipal bOdie,
through the various strata of scholastic
and charitable societies. In the same
week he has responded to the bestOwal
Vt the freedom Of Il conservative munic
pahty thauded to him in "A gold cask
"t) greeted Sori"ti"~ It Wclshmrn. re
eiNcd degree from IA university
TIRED to enthusiasm a meeting of doc k
'uborrrs on the Thames, and g1ineG
lid-glON ed applause from committee
If pe"ressrs engaged in var work.
War To Hit
The Hughrs platform. roughly put
,as been this: "War TO the hit aga inst
he Germans both on the battlefield
nd in the field OF trHde Commercial
lnion within the British empire, and
loser union, with share for the col
1nics of making decisiOns on imperial
'urSti0ns that concern them.
The reason COLONEL statesman could
ecome leader almost over night in
he mother country was that there were
urr"nts of Thought and az; tations
"hich were waiting for leadership
hey wanted only u spokesman. They
al udN COATES in the newspapers, bu'
OF among the wrightv men in parla
nrut, or in public lfp outside West
uinst"r. While the war has enormous
changed end focused the work OF
he government, aud rallied and
brought together much Of the latent
power IN slow moving people, it has
Iot changed the tone of statesmanship
nor the conservatism with which the
'eavy guns Of tn" condition cabinet
hing I" what they deem tn" high ira.
iiti"ns of British public life. They
haNr denounced the present enemies OF
m" country. but have denounced them
with dignity. and With care to avoid
Whit they would consider exagguratiOn
MANY burning patriots accuse the gov.
"rnmrut of handling vital matters too
d"IIr"t"lV. Th" up.t" date newspapers
read hv millions, notably the North.
rlitf" press. assert that mysterious in.
hurnrrs work to shield German inter
eHtS in Great Britain. "Gingpr'
groups have been formed bv members
OF both parties in parliament. but those
groups have had Il" wrightrr leadership
than thar Of Sir Edward Carson and
Winston Churchill. both Of whom are
popularity rated ns brilliant but un,
stable guides.
lpTtNd To England
Mr. Hughes cum" t" England by in.
NhhlI"u IF tn" government to confer
on ",r matters. Australia and Canudu