The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-02-02

Tomorrow Will be a decisive day in the
annals of Hawaii The two parties in Ha-
waiian politics meet at the polls, and
strong effort Will be made to get honest
and independentm men into the Legislature.
The two parties. What are they? One n
narrow ring whose thoughts are first,
self, second, self and third, self Who
care no more for the good of the country
than highwayman cares for the pursy
citizen whose money bags he appropriates.
Such Is the Government party Shame
less and brazen foreheaded to the end,
they have dared to come before the voters
of this country with list of candidates,
twenty SIX of whom are directly depend
ent upon the Government for the bread
they eat, while their other two candidates
are dependent men. What ticket this
Isl a herd of dependents who, if once in
the Legislature, will become the mere
tools of their masters. With such men in
the Legislature, the session will degener-
ate into mere farce; a mutual admira
ton society. Investigation, which the ad
ministration breads, would be smothered.
Measures for private ends would be passed
and instead OF our Legislation being for
the good of the greatest number, it would
be narrowed down TO supplying the greed
of rapacious few.
The Independent party, on the other
hand, offer men who do not represent any
marrow faction or clique. They are men
Of wide views who, when in the House,
will be true representatives; not mere
nominees of airing. not eager for the loaves
and fishes of official life Men who Will
keenly investigate the financial and exec
utiye acts of the present administration
who Will fearlessly expose anything that
has tended to 'injure either the credit or
honor of Hawaii
1t cannot be difficult for voters to decide
which way their ballots should be cast.
Even friends of the Government must see
the grave error the administration has
made in putting forward such men as they
have upon their ticket That the Cabinet
should wish TO have supporters in the
House, is but natural. but their supporters
should have been men untrammelled by
Office holding. They have overreached
themselves by wishing to have a House of
dependents instead of a LEGISLATURE of
REPREsENTATlvEsi
1t needed but this ticket to be put forth
and strongly supported, aye even by the
most corrupt means, To show to the Ha-
waiian born and the foreign resident that
the charges brought against the Cabinet
rest on solid foundation, that they dare
not meet free and full investigation
1t is not difficult to Judge what kind of
influence would be brought to bear upon
the members Of the Government ticket, if
elected to the Legislature, when we know
the methods by which their election is at
tempted to be compassed. Corruption
has been freely used, fraud IS to be resortd
to, but intimidation of every voter who
may hold little twopenny halfpenny bil
let, Is one of the strongest cards. A cor
respondent on Kauai furnishes the fol
lowing:
Government employee this Island. said in
conversation with the writer, ''kauluf IS. b. Dole
Is my choice for Representative and would vote
for him, but should lose my place. / must vote
| for the man that Puhiula (P. p. Kanoa) tells me
to vote for or he will turn me out and put some
one in my place.
If we have bare faced intimidation out
OF the House, what shall we nave in it?
But we have no fears The feeling
/ throughout the Islands is with the Inde-
pendents. The number of voters who can
be dragooned into supporting a greedy
ring, are few. and it is safe to predict that
next Saturday and Sunday will bring the
news of an Independent victory in almost
every district in the group. The reign of
ring and corruption is tottering to its fall