Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-02-09

pISE tyb ofHERUtSE
"Suip for the Eight of 1880 is a /
slogan Tor Independents,
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There Is mo- need of singing low
There s no use ot ",giug over pulled /,
milk II i, hahli,h to call names
The sentiment among business men
has been practically unanimous u favor
Of the election oi Mf Carter to repre-
sent Honolulu II WIS known that he
would represent the city adequately
Let there he citizens organization
iur tie campaign ct 1880 that shall be
"rn los men ot brains as we'll ls OF
integrity and that shall have nl the
money needed to run the campaign
cup TO the handle
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Let us face the issue squarcly All
that the Independent party demands is.
an honest. open, "ahoyc board admin
/ Nuaton The chance directly to helpsc
cure that SOFT OF agoycrnmcnt has been
denied to Honolulu during the next
session of the legislature Some OF Us
! who have lcf undonc some ot the
Things we ought have done will pethnp,
have good reason to reflect upon our
Jartlrssncss before 1880.
/ lctus hc grateful Tor one thing The
candidacy OF NIr Carter has helped
settle for the Independent party, At
least the ethics OF the employment OF
money at the polls There were oppor-
tunitics TO use money in the purchase
OF tax receipts which some Indcpcnd-
cnts tried bard To persuade themselves
was perfectly legitimate. There was an
infinite deal of talk about lighting the
devil with fire and that sort OF dan
gcrous commonsensc which needs al
way, to he well qualified. But the
nice sense OF honor which has made
Mr. Cartcr's name synonym for in
tcglity throughout the kingdom nipped
that tendency III the bud. and any
questionable employment of money
was done without the endorsement of
the party leader, or OF the best and
dominant element in the party
That more money might have been
spent, fairly and legitlmately, no one
now denies. That it will be iorthlom-
ing in 1880, every patriotic man hopes
Mr. Carter's uncompromising honesty
has put it out of the power OF any hon
est Independent to see white where
black really is, and the lesson of last
Wednesdays defeat has taught the
rest.
There is another lesson. The native
voters on the Independent ticket have
been taught the value of sticking to-
gether' There was more than one at
tempt at a split, fusion, a compromise.
But Mir. Carter Indignantly refused to
/, desert a colleague. He might be de-
fcated but he would be no party to n
reasonable victory. The result was a
disappointment but the losers retained
: right 10 their selt-respect There had
l been no treason the straight ballots
3 proved that We advise voters to put
= away the newspaper accounts of this
, election, and read them in the summer
. Of 1855. We ask readers of the Press
10 think upon the topics suggested by
e lsh yT
} dents who are not citizens to look the
situation in the face and decide for
> themselves whether their present duty
Z is not to the country in which they live.
i One good has been accomplished by
the late election. The Advertiser has
been reading its bible and has ascer.
n tanned that it was David who met Go
o !iah and not Daniel. Read on messieurs
5 of the Advertiser.
$ The flower OF the army, who in the
1 various meetings prior 10 the election
n well earned for himself the title OF
4 Baker the blasphemer," styles the
Q members of the government ticket
S the four angels. We have heard Of
c angels fallen from grace, but these are
Y evidently four who have yet to attain il
\ Inspectors of elections are presumed
in law to be wholly unbiased and i'm
;. partial in the exercise of their duties
( but when not actually on the board o.
t appeal, or experimenting the polls
4 what better service could an assessor
$ render a government that puts forth :
: ticket than TO engage actively in the
? canvass, especially whenits defeat meant
t exposure of the "V. S. l.. and "son
c in-law" too.
E Disputing the Hawaiian Monthly,
article WANTED "A Party the Adver
c tiser, as a would-be healer OF the troub
r les now existing, advocates a comprom
ise party. 1t recognizes 'two well
5 marked political parties here" but i,
= "thoroughly dissatisfied with the pfin
{ ciples OF BOTH Probably that accounts
/ for lis frequent attempts since lis repu
{ table proprietor went to Maui to strad
die the fence and to blow hot one da,
and cold the next, but each time insult
a ing the public intelligence, The diff
culties OF the situation would have beer
solved long since if there had beer
i fewer who were disposed to compromis'
/, with dishonest men for questionabl,
d ends.
. Compromise of principles is yer,
different from compromise of prefer
ences The Independent party cal
4 very well afford to make the latter. |
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