Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume X, Number 7, 18 February 1937 — FOUR MORE YEARS OF ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

FOUR MORE YEARS OF ROOSEVELT

The United States — including Hawaii, of course — will be under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the next foōr years. It remains to be seen wh€ther the Democratic party of Hawaii, believing in the principles and policies of their great ]eader, will follow in his footsteps or, like a bunch of sheep after a bell-wether, will stray off the reservation into other fields. The one lesson learned by the defunct Republican organization on the mainland, a.s expressed by Chairro#in J.D.M.X.Y»2. Hamihon, was that no campaign could ever be carried to a successful conc!usion unless the unil organizatiom were functioning. The situation outlined by Chairman Hamilton is exactly the position that holds good today in Hawaii. The foundation of the party—any party—-as Chairman Hamillon found to his dismay in the evening hours of November 3, is the precinct club, Wherefore, with President Roosevelt in office for four more years, it would behoove the Democratic precinct clubs in the Territory to begin organizing and tightening their ranks, for we haye another election ccming up in 1938—an election for munieipal o|fices as well as for the legislature. In the recent eleelion there were charges that the precinct clubs were not properly organized, that certain employees of a Democratic admmistration did not do their full duty at the po!!s, that they chose to go fishing or hunting or d«ncing or indulgin,g in some other pastime that was a great deal more pleasant than serving a few hours at the polls. There may be a great deal of truth in those charges, whieh now are being *ifted by the eenhal and county committees. The outcome of that investigation is not now known. However, it would appear that a person who holds a position by and through-a Democratic administration, naturally should be in full sympathy with the principles of Jefferson on whieh that party was founded. Xf he k not —-and perhaps there may he some in the government employ—they should either be given the privilege of resigning or, failing ihat. be disniissed forthwith. Otherwise, the Democratic principles and policies of President Eooseveral are very able to be distorted or maq,gled by some subordinate employe in Hawaii, as elsewhere in thē United States. Subscribe to Tlie Hawail .iineiieaii