The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-23
This Has the Right Ring!

This Has the Right Ring!
Mr.. EDITOR: Your leader of this
morning regarding the independent
for Mobiles has given much
satisfaction, if what 'they say' in
the street is any evidence. No doubt
there was a feeling among most of
the Reform party of Honolulu that
without any specific ticket of their
own, their large and influential num-
bers would be regarded in the NOM
nations of the conservatives of the
National Reformers. But they were
disappointed and the bitterness of the
disappointment was only intensified
when the Sons of Hawaii put out
their ticket, for it was no more repre-
sentative of the general community
than the other. Many said at once
that they would not vote for Mobiles
at all, and if there had been no
change, there is no doubt that the
vote for Mobiles would have been very
small. 1t is also a fact that many
citizens have openly declared that
they would not even register.
1t was understood that influences
were ut work which would secure
nominations by the Mechanics
Union and it's allies that would COM
mend themselves to the large cOnser-
vative portion of the community.
When the nominations were made, it
was equally well understood that the
persons eXerting the supposed inf1u-
ences had missed their game and had
been hoodwinked and beaten. Under
the circumstances, it is right that the
Reform party should make no ticket.
1t is equally well that a spontaneous
movement in the community has
produced several Independent nOmin-
ations. Fortunately they are such as
to command universal respect.
Mr.. Robert Halstead is well known
as one of the most skillful mechanics
in the country, who by his energy
and good sense has earned for himself
competency. He well knows the
needs and desires of the mechanics,
and if elected is far better
fitted to foster and guard their
interests than Lawyers Peterson
and Neumann, for instance, or Mr..
Planter Cummins. He is a man who
has the deserved confidence of all the
community, and every mechanic,
artisan, laborer, merchant, farmer or
professional man in the community
ought to vote for him.
Mr.. WaterhOuse is too we'll known
to require comment. No one doubts
his absolute good faith and sterling
honesty.
| wish that the list of independents
was enlarged with the names of Mark
Robinson and Fritz Wilhelm; both
of them are well known and repre-
sentative men, who can be depended
| upon to vote right when the best in
| terests of the country are in jeopardy.
1t is not yet too late.
1t is folly to talk of defeat-of the
certain election of the Bush Wilcox
| combination by the candidacy OF
these gentlemen. Many of the voters
of that party will vote for some OF
these candidates, and l believe it to
be the duty of every man who
voted for the Reform ticket of 1885
to vote solid for these men,
If that vote can be centered OIL
such a ticket, for instance, as Hal.
stead, Waterhouse and Peterson
| Kaaukai and Williams, it will win by
a handsome majority.
Articles like this evenings editoria
in the Bulletin, which Mr.. Logan's
friends will feel sure he did not write
and the angry letter signed Reformer
do no good. They offer no argumen
to reasonable men. On the contrary
they simply show themselves to bt
the angry outburst of politicians who
see such signs of popular disapprova
that they fear n check, and partia
defeat. The naughty leaders anC
bosses of the political parties in the
United States occasionally go too far
and their masters and the people give
them a rebuke. Let it be so now
Let every voter see that his name il
on the list and poll his vote on tn,
Sd of February for those Independent
candidates and three other good men
REFORN1ER.
Honolulu, Jan. %, 1892.