The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-10-01
SEAMMING PRESS
IS Amusement. OF /
I. Cop. CANDIDATES
Would-Be Senators and Repre-
Sentatlves Tell Voters Not To
Pay Attention To Newspapers
ADDRESS AUDIENCE "
At EMMA SQUARE
Corporations, Sugar ,Barons,
Bankers and Editors Come In
For Hard Words Of ,Aspirants

boHNSto . dHu buitVtS SOlttc VII
For Hard Words of kspirants
Slamming helpFess was the partieu.
lar amusement. in. which many Of the
Republican candidates for the senate
and House indulged themselves at the
Emma Square meeting last night, can
'didates who felt themselves aggrieved
hastening to tell the voters that editors
were 'hirehngs," their employers
wearing the collars Of corporate owner.
ship, and that the voters didn't need
to heed the advice, criticisms, or sug.
gestions Of the papers, anyway.
The newspapers wern't worth Q
whoop to-, a candidate, either, to. help
him or defeat him, said some Of the
candidates, who went out of their way
they didn' Y care, whether the news
papers were with them, or not. , ~
Those who mentioned the press,
either The Advertiser or the Star. .Bul.
lotin, included Char1es +. Chilling,
worth, T.. G. Peters, Lorrins Andrews an
James X. jarrett. None was mild in
the selection Of words and sentences to
convey the contempt in which he held
the press, while at times, some of them
rose to oratorical heights to denounce
any paper which had the temerity to
say that they were not fit material for
Legislators to be considered by the
voters.
There were some among the candi.
dates who merely arose and told the
audience who they were, what had been
their past service and what they could
do for the voters if selected at the pri-
maries next Saturday to be placed on
the ticket to be voted November s.
Didn't Mean It.
There were others who talked about
"slates" being formed which the
voters must not permit, for with the
latter, and those alone, lay the SOW
ereign right to say who should be the
standard bearers of the party after Oc-
tOber 5. Some slammed hard at the cor
pOratiOns and the sugar barons aud ad-
vised the voters not to send any man
to the Legislature who belonged to the
sugar interests or the corporations or
the bankers, and then out in the shade
of the big monkey pods remote from
the rest of the voters, they assured can
didatcs who might be considered as
corporation men, that they didn t
mean anything personal
o. p Soares presided at this meeting.
With the Island melodies of the Miller
Hawaiian quintet to soothe and lull,
and with his own excellent intrOduc-
tiOns of the candidates, who were nu-
fnerous, the meeting was a success. 1t
was ono of the largest precinct turnouts
of the campaign.
John Kamanoulu said he regretted he
was not a lawyer or farmer, but said,
however, he was glad to appear as a
candidate just as a mere printer, of
thirty years experience. Printers, as
well az lawyers, were essential to a sue
ccssful Legislature.
Charles h. King advised the voters
to forget auto joy rides and fishing trips
next Saturday and pay attention to the
business in hand of selecting legisla
tiv" cnndidatcs. OF all the candidates
who might have had whack at the
press for tho criticisms directed at him,
he made no comment.
Analyses Platform
George ". Smith, candidate for the
Senate, again analysed the Republican
platform and explained it's principles
ant what the party sto vi for in this
campaign, dwelling upon the necessity
of following the platform s suggestions
and riddimg the city Of the tenement
evil, and passing laws which will take
care Of Hawaii 5 soldier boys when
they return home from the battlefiel,is
and military service in other places.
f. G. Peters laudct the direct pri
mary rs one of th2 conspicuous acts Of
legislation passGd ny the Republicans
which completely eliminated the "poH-
tirian," and prevented advance deals
being made to select candidates and
not leave this duty with the voters
themselves at the primaries.
al represent no class and I am not
the selection of any class said Mr..
Peters. 81 90 not condemn the news
papers trying to determine who they
believe shall be put up for election.
AS far as the newspaper is concerned
with the editorial column, that is sim
ply the voice Of one man, You, just
as well the editor of that paper,
are Just us well able TO say who shah
represent you in the legislature as that
editor. I am neither the choice nor
the candidnte of class"
Begged to Rum
He then said that he went upon
the ticket at the earnest request of
lTnwaianS Of his precinct to take the
place not filled by A. L. Castle who
had gone to Siberia to do Red Cross
work. Personally, he had suggested
Judge A. G. NJ. Robertson to make
the, rnce, but the judge had declined
and he finally accepted after two
months hesitation. Therefore, he was
Il candidate by request.
81 am not going to 90 gumshOeing
around asking for votes" he said. 81
am not going to fly in airplanes ana
balloons and visit you. I am before
you now on this stand and ask you
from here"
Mr.. Peters gave an interesting talk
on the war work of the Portuguese ma.
tion, how it gave guns to Belgium in
1914 to aid the little country, and de-
noGnrPd the urts of the Germans in
trampling upon Belgium 5 treaty rights,
and how she had put big armies in the
field, and then concluded with re-
quest for the Portuguese to back up
those armies and those of the Amer
leans by buying Liberty Bonds and |
giving to the Red Cross
Banker Asks Votes
A.. Lewis lr. gave IL stirring,