The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-19
COQUETTING.


quoting among the mass of voters
Those who are honest republicans and
those who are out and out democrats
are really few and far between. The
many new citizens which Judge Estee
has been making for Uncle Sam are
very much in the dark as to what they
are. Unfortunately our elections are
held in November and the results of the
great elections on the mainland cannot
be known down here before our own
election comes off. Had our elections
tam place in December or in January
there would be no difficulty about many
of the free and Independent voters maxi
ing up their minds. The dominant party
whatever it might be would be good
enough for them, and they would yell
as Justify for BRYAN and free silver as
for Mckinley and the gold STANDARD.
When many voters are in this state of
mind it is very difficult to predicate
what the outcome of the election may
be. A certain section of the Hawaiian
mind has run anti-haole, calling itself
Independent, which it certainly is not.
The position of an Independent is that
of a man who sees good on both sides,
but does not desire to ally himself with
either because he also sees evil in each
side as well. The so called indepen-
dent in Hawaiian politics sees no good
in either of the great parties in the
country and fences himself into little
place of his own, bowling that this and
this only is the earth.
Upon such people argument has no
effect. They are too prejudiced and too
piSheaded to see how foolish and how
suicidal is their course. Like the dom
key in Esop's fable, they will dash
themselves over the precipice, no mat
ter how hard friends and bystanders
may try to save them, and the only
epitaph which can be written upon
Thorn is the moral of the same old fable
"a willful beast must have his own
way" even if it leads to his destruction.
Having their own way may bring an
EN- to folly the sooner.
Eut, however, one may see the Grass
fol Y of the so called Independents. how
ever suicidal to themselves and their
hoped for object their attitude may be,
they are none the less a force to be
recEoned with, and it behooves those
of us who desire to see the territory
progress to stick firmly together and
try to defeat or if not to defeat, at
least to restrain in a great measure
the vagaries of a set of people who have
no moral objective as to building up
the territory into a state, but are mere
1y actuated by greed for power which
few will known how to use. and those
few will use purely for their own mate
ria, advantage.
II is now clearly laid out before re-
publicans and democrats and the mass
of those who do not know whether they
ave republicans or democrats that it is
no use coquetting with one side or the
other, but that as far as local politics
are concerned there is a distinct issue
upon which they can and must join for
ces. A campaign by party which dis
tinctly announces that it is anti-haole,
must be met by a campaign which is
probable, irrespective of political par
ties on the mainland united front
will be quite capable of exercising
strong restraining and even a control
ipg influence But it must be united
front,
In politics The Star is Republican, but
1t can recognize the honesty of opinion
an ong the democrats. When dead set
against the views and progressiveness
Of American institutions is made, when
rarity starts into being with the avow-
ed intention of undoing the America
nj ing that has been done, and even
t. rs of restoring the monarchy, impos-
sible as we all know that feat to be, it
is nigh time for both republicans and
democrats to sink party differences and
70 stand in line upon the platform of
Americanism pure and simple, for the
advancement of which both parties evil
IDENTIFY wish.