Honolulu Record, August 19, 1948, vol. 1 no. 3, p. 8
W. K. Bassett
The Strain on Advertiser Square
The Advertiser's editorial Monday morning, entitled "The Odds for Montie Richards," shows what a tough time that newspaper's editorial writers are going to have this year. It called for a lot of "blood, sweat and tears" to bring forth this mouse. It is quite pitiful.
"Montie Richards is a proven executive in business and politics" says the Advertiser.
His executive record in business is, because of the Atherton interests in Castle and Cooke, that he has risen to the exalted position, at 43 years old, of assistant secretary of that corporation.
As an "executive" in politics he made a clown of himself in the primary election in 1946 and his campaign had to be taken over by the Republican Party politicians for the final election.
"He has served two years on the Board of Supervisors." The Advertiser put a period right there, and well it should. There was nothing more to say. Montie Richards never did anything on the Board of Supervisors.
"He has profited politically from the experience of the last campaign" says the Advertiser.
Anybody else who had squandered $50,000 of his own and his family's money in a losing political campaign would have profited to the extent of not trying it again. It is certainly a dubious "profit" that inspires another flinging around of another $50,000.
"He has an impeccable record and youthful enthusiasm" says the Advertiser.
"He has an impeccable record" for what?
His still "youthful enthusiasm", at 43 years old, seems to be solely to be mayor, to which office he is signally unfitted because of his insignificance as a businessman, his naivete as a politician, and his recorded impotence as a member of the Board of Supervisors.
Richard Gladstein's Strange Bedfellow
You will notice that about every third day the newspapers in their reports of the Reinecke case identify Richard Gladstein, the Reineckes' attorney, as having successfully defended Harry Bridges before the United States Supreme Court when the government sought to have Bridges deported.
It is perfectly apparent that what is intended by the newspapers is to discredit Mr. Gladstein in the eyes of their readers because of his connection with the Bridges case.
In 1943, the government's attempt to take away the citizenship of William Schneiderman was argued before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Schneiderman was and still is an avowed Communist. At the time of the Supreme Court hearing he was and he still is secretary of the Communist Party of California.
The attorney who successfully defended. Mr. Schneiderman in this case and won the unanimous decision of the court for his client was— Wendell Willkie, Republican candidate for President in 1940.