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 il was not as eolorless By any
means as some Of his opponents tried
ito make out. At San Diego. for in
stance, he spoke before 10000 people.
and Southern California is well salts
fled with him.
But 1t was not un:ll he got upon
the Adamson bill that he began to get
IN the telling work Abroad in the
country, in the Middle West particu-
larly, 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 az
fairs.
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 a complete turnover Of sentiment
In one week.
"If Wilson is beaten. as l think he
will be, the eight-hour bill will have
done it largely. perhaps mainly.
There seems no question of bar
gain with organized labor whereby the
labor vote was to be turned to VII
son. But these four brotherhoods
which forced through the Adamson
bill are not popular with the labor
element at large they are the aris-
toeracy of labor. Il Is doubtful how
much of vote the union leaders can
actually swing"
He tells of incidents showing that
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 il
means to the country that such
thing could be done. He says, in eff
feet, I don't know whether the bro
therhoods had a just cause or not.
Let us 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 of hui
NOR, ne makes his points well and he
impresses every audience with his sin.
cerity of purpose" ~: 1..~.
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
'.come-backs /"
Hughes can't do that sort of~tEsng.
He must speak his mind, as he is
doing now, or he makes a failure of
speaking" i. -
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 large
gain, the total Republican vote be-
ing the largest in the history of
Maine save in 1896, when the Sound
uOu6y DeuOCTdIS NOtSu TIE hepuD'
lican ticket, and being only 1000 votes
short of that; that the Democratic vote
showed loss, and that the Republi-
can ticket was successful in spite of
a 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 a 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. r.. +.