The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-30
az THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.

The Republicans who are to meet in
to perform To elect delegates to the
National Convention is the thing of
least Importance; the main considera-
ton is to promote party harmony and
pr pare the way for future Republican
successes.
Let us say to the delegates from the
other Islands that the majority of Oahu
Republicans-those who voted down
the machine program at the drill shed
seven to one-are but partially repre-
scented in this convention. How it
comes that small minority got the
most of the delegates need not be retold
in these columns. Anyone who is curl
Gus to know may easily find out. The
simple truth is that six-sevenths of the
Republicans of Oahu will not have
much more than one-seventh voice
in this convention, though at the polls
in any general election they could bury
their faotional opponents, if so minded,
mile deep.
The Advertiser, as the leading Re
| publican paper OF Hawaii, now and in
future, does not want to see any bury
ing business on either side. 1t is too
deeply concerned for the welfare of Re
publ anism to wish that any man who
votes the Republican ticket should be
deprived of his party rights or oppor-
tunities. Least of all does it desire to
have bolt. Not so the Oahu men who
are laying their plans to control to-
days convention. These people openly
say that they might get the natives if
they could drive the original annexa-
tlonists into the Democratic party.
They would like, if they could, to force
the Advertiser there too, so as to obtain
all the party sustenance for the pulling
journalistic infants they have agreed
to raise. The whole scheme resolves
Itself to one of private advantage dis
guised ac political strategy; and it is
based on the superstition, which is
profoundly ..bsurd one, that the natives
have any more esteem for the mali
hinis who worked for the massage of
the Cullom-knox annexation bill than
they have for the kamaainas who
worked for the ratification of the an
neXation treaty. Both are on a level in
native estimation, though many natives
have been brave and wise enough to he
come Republicans in spite of it. More
Will come unless the Republican partv
Is made into hui of job-chasers; but
none can be tolled into the field by the
moldy corn of ancient prejudice which
few ambitious place-hunters are
throwing in their way.
If the convention wishes to form a
faction and not party it will take it's
ORDERS from the minority machine. If
on the other hand, it wants to form a
party and not a faction, it will see that
there is complete fair play a. Progress
Hall today. 1t will not attempt to dis
tinguish between Republicans; it will
not say to one element come" and to
another go" 1t will not make the
party governors unrepresentative: it
Will throw wide the Republican doors
10 the Republican citizen and insist that
the party is great enough and intelli-
gent enough to get along without ma
chlhes or bosses Such a course would
snow sagacity and breadth of view
worthy OF great party and to the con-
temptation of 1t, as he eats his break
iast this morning, we invite eyerv dis
interested and thoughtful delegate.