The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-03-17
REGULAR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
HARRY A. BALDWIN
COMPARED

Shortly after Maui News announced the election of II. a. Bald
win as the nominee of the Republican convention and L. L. McCand-
less by the Democratic committee there came to it a letter from a
school teacher of Maui asking that the records o. the two candidates
be printed. Maui News has three times asked McCandless and his
managers to furnish it with the record, business, Legislative and social
OF the democratic candidate and promised full prominence to 1T as
it might be sent in, but none has been received. The Honolulu Adj
vcrtser has made a similar offer which has not been accepted.
The record of Harry A. Baldwin is too well known on Maui to
require being set forth in detail.
There is not material on Maui to compile the public and private
record OF L. L. MLcCandless. 1t would be a tedious job to go through
the house journals back of 1906 to secure his Legislative record and
at that time he was a Republican and the issues of those days are of
For the last edition of "Men of Hawaii" the data furnished by
McCandless says that he is a descendant of pioneers who settled in
Western Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary war, was educated
in the public schools of Pennsylvania and West Virginia came to the
Islands in 1882, joining his brothers in the contracting business here,
organized the firm of McCandless Brothers which guaranteed water
for irrigation purposes in several parts of Oahu thereby making
possible a number of agricultural projects particularly for rice and
sugar plantations; that he served in the legislature from 1898 to
1906 and has advocated changes in the land laws and government aid
to demonstrating. He is a member of the Oahu Country Club and
Commercial Club, which latter club occupies quarters in the McCand-
less building. His autobiography tells Of no important achievements
nor OF any prominence at the present time in civic Il community en-
terprises.
of the ladder by his own endeavors. He is a large land owner on
Windward Oahu, has a costly home on Alewa Heights and substan-
til real estate interests in Honolulu.
He has been the financial hacker and chief adviser of the Dem
cratic party and as such may be considered as responsible more than
any other individual for its territorial policies and actions. In the
defeat of Woman Suffrage in the house the six democratic members,
including Ahuna who was on the platform in Waikiki when Nc
Candless charged Baldwin with opposing suffrage, voted soidly
against the measure.
McCandless says he was responsible for the educational instead
OF the property qualification for suffrage because he furnished money
for Robert Wilcox to go to Washington others deny him the credit
or full credit. He says he was responsible for the '25 name clause
in the homesteadng provisions of the Organic Act. This Former
Governor Frear and others deny and give the credit to KuhiO.
McCandes in the past five or six years at least has not been
identified prominently with any important civic, community, e1emosy-
nary or charitable organization in Honolulu. The only prominent
part he has taken in civic and community affairs has been in opposi-
ton. He has opposed the Improvement Law under which street
widenings and pavngs were undertaken in Honolulu and opposed
projects under such'law, going into court to do so. In war days
he opposed attempted fixing of rice prices by the territorial
food administrator. To go into what has been published as to his
land holdings by the Honolulu newspapers would take too long. Dur
ing the war he was criticised for not making larger purchases of
Liberty Bonds and replied that his interests were largely tied up in
business partnerships and showed that large purchases had been
made by or in the name of Mrs. McCandless.
This would appear to be a fair summary of McCandless record.
In contrast with McCandhess, Senator Baldwin is foremost in
community endeavOrs. He is a member and director of the Maui
Chamber of Commerce, he is a trustee of the Maui County Fair and
is one of the board of managers of Kula Sanitarium, has been one
of the officers of Maui Aid, is prominent in Alexander House Settle
ment affairs. As a matter Of fact it is practically impossible to find
any community enterprise on Maui in which he is not interested. He
thing in his power to increase production, to make the Islands self
sustaining in food. He and the companies of which he is manager
or president and manager and he himself individually were large
purchasers OF war securities and heavy contributors to the Red Cross
and other war work. On the plantation Of which he is president
and manager there is a theater built by it, a dancing pavilion, club
house, etc. McCandless has nothing of the kind for his employees So
far as has been reported.
Senator Baldwin has been a leader for mothers pensions and
child welfare legislation, for support Of hospitals and similar insti
buttons by taxation, for tolls to help support territorial wharves.
McCandless has said that he, McCandless 'rose from the bottom
Of the ladder" Harry Baldwin started as a luna on his fathers
plantation. He worked his way up through the various stages just
as a stranger might have and II. p. Baldwin was no easy task master
for his sons while they were learning the business for he had many
hard knocks and an uphill fight himself He is a pioneer in branch
ing out into other enterprises in his sugar company side issues OF
which are fuel alcohol, lime, cement, thing and piping.
McCaTless has said that his experience as a contractor in irri
CATION projects makes him particularly qualified for delegate to
secure legislation for the Molokai Hawaiian Homes project. Bald