The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-30
OUR CANDIDATE?

The Bulletin asks: Does the Ad-
vertiser want President Dole for Gov
ernOr?"
We have assumed, since the annex
alton took place, that President Nc
Kinley designated with little delay, the
person whom he deemed fitted for the
place, and therefore the appointment
was not an open question. Perhaps we
are in error.
If he has not made the appointment,
our position is that President McKin-
ley has not shown himself incompe-
tent to administer the affairs of the
country, and can be trusted to desig-
mate some excellent person to fill the
Office. If we are not grossly misin-
formed, he knows something about our
men here, and he can readily obtain
definite information about our politi-
clans and statesmen from many men
about him.
In making his selection, he may look
rather to the interests of Greater Am
erica, than to the local interests of this
little bullet just rising out of the
ocean"
Besides the President owes nothing
to any political party here. If the
Republican party on the Mainland has
a candidate, we presume he may re-
gard it's wishes.
Mr.. Sewall may be the Presidents
choice. If so, no one doubts, we pre-
sumo Mr.. SewalTs capacity and fitness
for the Office. If the President prefers
Mr.. Sewall to Mr.. Dole, he has excel
lent reasons for it, as he is not work
ing in the dark.
We like to tell our younger readers
that when the great Republic was
created, over one hundred years ago,
the wisdom of the Fathers was that
General Washington, as President, and
his successors, should choose, and be
responsible for, the persons appointed
to office And it was not the custom
to run the machine under Washing
toms political nose, seize it, and pull
il about. The President was deemed
competent by the Constitution Chow
stupid the Founders of it wereD to
select the persons who should hold
office.
But in the course of time, it be
came the custom, the outgrowth of de-
mocracy, for the party which elected
the President to dictate to him the
men who should receive office, and so
the Constitution was in it's spirit multi
fed, excepting as the Civil service laws
affect the appointing power.
Practically debating to the Presi-
dent was in the practice of both poll
tical parties, for many years.
Out of this practice came the APP
pointment of United States Commits
sioner Borden to these Islands in about |
1860, who once entered the office OF !
H. NJ. Whitney, editor OF the Adver-
tiser. and attacked him with a bowie |
knife. but was prevented from doing |
him harm by the vigorous interior
ence of lawyer Jas. w. Austin.
If the doctrine, Ito the victOrs be
long the spoiIs" is now the rule here, |
we do not see why Mr.. Dole, or Mr.
Damon, or Mr. Cooper, or Mr.. Smith |
are not just as much NlcIorS d9 Ci0
Central Committee.
But before we get down into the
mud of common politics, and we shall
get there fast enough, the Advertiser,
and some of it's readers, would like, |
after the manner of the Cinnamon, to |
worship their ancestors" and humbly |
the virtues of the great |
Founders, who made no provision for |
the machine" in the Constitution.
After that, and in due time, we may |
as practical politicians, the
directions of the many other gods,
which are as numerous in public life,
as they are in a Chinese JOss-hOuse.
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