The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-03-07
REGULAR REPUBLICAN
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
X A.
ARTFUL DoDGING.

He who writes under the nom de plume of "Artemas' in New
Freedom is skilled in the art of lodging, even of lodging through
things to this paper in an early paragraph of his last carnations
he makes the confession, that what he attributes to Maui News
has not appeared in it. However, there are one or two points
that Artful pardon, Artemas) makes that may be commented upon
Will ARENAS please inform the readers of New Freedom since
when delegates to congress became privileged to participate at will
in the debates on the floor of the house of representatives, He'll
be giving them votes next.
a delegate to Washington not a member of a brass band nor a
speaker on a Chatauqua circuit so that wind and words DOM count
for so much. If he will look over the records of the members of
congress he will find that the great workers, the men of achievement
have more often been the members who were important in committee
than those who have shone in debate or filled columns of the Con-
gressiOnal Record with bombas, If ARENAS will look INTO the
record of Senator Baldwin in the territorial Legislature he will see
that the Maui senator has done his most important and valuable
work in the committee rooms and not on the floor OF the house
What Hawaii is to achieve in Washington must be through depart
ments and through committees and cannot be secured by flowery
rhetoric, whether grammatical or ungramatlca, spouted, II oppor-
tunity be secured, on the floor of the house. Does he seek to picture
Link swaying the members of congress to his will by an oratory
never equaIed by William Jennings Bryan or "Silver Tongued"
Grady? A pretty picture, that requires vivid imagination.
Records of the past 30 years will show the most influential
delegate to congress in that time came from Arizona and was a
man who, despite the fact he had no vote on the floor, was made
a member of some of the most important committees of the house.
He served not only his constituents as their delegate but was of
real service in his committee work to the nation Is a whole. 1t is
only necessary then, to remind ARENAS that Baldwin is essentially
a committeeman by training and by preference, a man of deeds not
of words.
If ARENAS had the issue of Maui News of July 80, 1920, before
him he would not have made the false assertion that Senator Baldwin
said Maui had been doublecrossed by John Wise. In an interview
at that time he specifically said John Wise had admitted making
PROMISES and had also admitted his inability to keep them because
of the actions of others during Wise's absence on the Mainland.
ARENAS is mixed in his data on that point as well as on others.
AS to misstatements as to Baldwin's attitude on votes for women
the senate journal of 1919 shows thata Baldwin and Artemas' CO.
Democrat, NJ. C. PachecO, presented a report favoring the extension
of suffrage to the women of the Territory to be effective July 1,
1919, and that their report was adopted by the senate, Baldwin
voting for the report and later for the measure. Nor does ARENAS
remember that in the last session of the legislature Senator Baldwin
introduced a resolution requesting congress to amend the Organic
Act so as to extend the right to hold office to women, the resolu-
ton upon which is based that other resolution which was passed by
the recent Republican convention.
ARENAS has written a perfectly good article eXcept. that he has
not bothered about such nconsequential matters as facts,