Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-25
Delegate to Recent Convention
Takes Exception to Star
!, Bulletins Comments
Kailua, Hawaii. July "a.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin. -s

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir: IL seems to me that your edf
torial criticism or the Republican plat
form adopted by the convention last
Monday Is rather sweeping.
This platform isn't perfect: no hui
man document is; but think IL meas
urably meets the needs OF the party
for the coming campaign. ......=
IL was formulated after careful con-
slderatiOn and discussion Of the differ
enees and agreements OF the members
Of the platform committee.
As a member / objected to some Of
the included clauses, just as other
members objected TO some for which
stood sponsor.
1t is manifestly impossible TO
| draught a paper of this sort which will
suit every member of a committee of
15-and it must finally leave their
| hands an average expression of the
opinion Of the committee as a whole.
II, in it's essential qualities. IL CON-
mends itself to the majority of the
delegates to the convention. and by
| any large measure meets with the
needs of the party in its general and
local issues, il should satisfy any rea.
sonable Republican who is nornyper-
critical.
The preamble. surely is in accord
with the principles enunciated by the
Republican and Progressive parties in
their specific declarations. and due
| tributes to both Mr.. Hughes and Col.
Roosevelt are in order.
I see nothing reactionary in the
platform A political document
draughted in short space by varieties
of delegates having only few hours
| to work In cannot we'll be free from
phrases, and, possibly, whole clauses
| that might have been bettered; il
could not possibly be a constitution Of
the United States which. even. has to
be amended.
At the present stage of progress 1t is
only the minority of platform com.
| mittee that would express disapproval
Of a useless plank put in as molasses
to catch flies"
| As a whole, consider the article a
rather strong declaration Of principles
and needs which time and unforeseen
conditions have made essential; quite
1ypecfff1 enough as TO local requires
ments
The reference to orr governor Is
relevant and the praise generous, and
while the demonstrating plank Is not
| in accord with his recommendations,
i it is not so bad on the face of 1t.
/ Certainly an import on foreign COT
fee has long been called for by the
demands OF local trade.
i 1t is not a mere district issue" as
| one has said. 1t affects large strip
Of land IN Kona first, the whole island
of Hawaii second. and the ISLANDS az
whole very much, third.
Two cents on coffee would mean the
upbuilding and settling OF large dis.
| tricts on all the islands by American
farmers who would not need free
| homesteads from the government but
who could afforl to lease or buy their
lands and live LIE Americans.
| l am sorry that your criticism was
| so general. casting reflection upon
/ the whole platform, and leaving the
reader 10 determine the special cause
OF your objection.
If you baked at the reference to our
/ delegate in congress it might be wen
i to remember that politically as well as
otherwise We must deal with things
4 as they are.
j The desired may not always be the
| wise ana practicable.
/ AS Mr.. Roosevelt sees now. his fight
| for better political methods In 1872
4 was brought too soon upon the arena;
1t put Woodrow Wilson and Bryan In
office.
/ If Kahio wants to run again we must
elect MIN with the biggest majority we
i can muster. We must take no chances
in the fight. We must make the best
of the situation, however weak and I'M
i representative it may seem. 1t is Ger.
tainly critical, and the election OF MT
McCandless or some other ayallaDle
Democrat may lie in the unwise actlon
of our political factors.
Home Rule and Statehood
1t is not always blameworthy TO
tell our dreams, and there is nothing
worse In this plank than a dream oil
i statehood.
| The reference to the appointment
of nonresidents is exactly in a line
\ with the relevant and the judicious-
if it doesn't suit everybody
Woman Suffrage :.--
| That the editor did not approve oil
this plank may be due to the fact tina,
serious consideration of the subject
:, often induces laughter among men.
am not in the least ashamed OF
my support of the plank before the
committee. II was not my plank.
1t elbows the recommendations Of
men like Roosevelt, Taft and Hughes;
it. is Republican doctrine and along
the lines of religious, ethical and
scientific world-movements toward
broader and better civilization.
| And it Is reflection upon oui
civilization that we who are superior
by virtue of a force which prompted
our ancestors to grab woman and
carry her off-are here TO discuss
whether woman shall or shall not
have her mere individual rights.
Tariff gtr .sts-s-ss ..-.-.-s- ~
Surely all sound, and quite on the
side of interests in Hawaii which it is
the duty of every resident to encour
age and support. I'll a