The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-03-14
REGULAR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
HARRY A. BALDWIN
ANOTHER CHARGE REFUTED

L. l.. McCandless and the other three Democratic campaigners
who travelled Maui with him took occasion to charge Harry A. Bald
win with ingratitude and unfriendiness towards the late Prince Ku-
hio kalanianaole because he did not favor endorsement by the legis-
lature of the Prince or any other person for governor. The charge
woman suffrage and this is a fitting time to refute and dismiss the
charges of mkindness and mfriendliness once and for all.
Senator Baldwin opposed endorsement of ANY PERSON for
governor by the legislature and he had the best OF reasons for doing
In the American form of government there are three branches,
the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. 1t is their province
to coordinate and at the same time be one a check upon the other,
each running in and combining itself to its own channel, none inter-
ferng with another. The American people have ever displayed the
strongest determination to preserve jealousy the boundaries separat-
ing the three branches of government and have resented any effort
on the part OF any one OF them to usulp the rights or prerogatlves
of another.
The executives duty is to execute the legislation that has been
enacted, some times to advise the legislature and where necessary to
check i~nadvisable legislation through his power of veto. Baldwins
stand was that it was improper for a legislative body to name or even
suggest the person IN whom should be vested the executive power.
If legislature took part in the naming of the governor, the executive,
it might equally well name or take part of the naming of the judici-
airy, the justices of the supreme court.
Now the province of the judiciary department of the govern
ment is to interpret the laws passed by the legislature and to deter
mine whether or no such laws are valid. If the legislature assist
ed in naming the judges it would be selecting the persons who should
pass upon its actions. For the Legislature in any sense to control ap-
pointments of the executive and the judiciary would be for the law
making body to abolish every check upon its own powers, to make it.
self supreme over the other two branches.
A pretty farce would it be if the legislature were permitted to
name the head of the executive department and the judiciary. So
selected the executives independence would be nullrfed so far as
likelihood of using tba voto noyor was concernod and bo would no
the subServient tool Of the law makers. So selected the judges would
merely put their o k on whatever the law makers did, be the abject
tools of that department of the government.
The resolution endorsing Kuhio for governor, as would have been
the endorsement of any other person by the Legislature, was an at
tempt to establish a most dangerous precedent, a procedure to en-
danger the fundamental principles Of The American system. Presi-
dent Harding or any other president would have had good cause to
resent such attempted interference upon his pIerogatives.
Those facts Senator Baldwin recognized. On the floor of the SEN
ate he stated his reasons for opposing the resolution of endorsement.
1t was not a question of friendship for Kuhio whom he had known
since boyhod. 1t was a question of upholding and maintaining
the ideals and the purposes of the form of government under which
the United States of America was founded and has grown and flour
ished.
Kuhio himself understood. He did not regard Baldwin's vote
as one of unkindness nor unfriendlness toward himself. Afterward
and no later than last fall, the Prince showed that nothing had come
to break an almost lifelong friendship for he was an honored guest
for about a week in the Baldwin home. The action Of Kuhio, his I'M
Outstanding of the motives which led Senator Baldwin to vote "No'
on the resolution stulify the assertions of McCandless and the demo-
cratic campaigners that Baldwin was Wfaithful to a friend.