The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-05-22
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Every lime Ropublicanism has fallei
into evil hands Il has suffered In pres
tlee. In votes end In opportunity 10
public service. The same Is true Of th'
Democratic party save In the city o
New YORK whore no matter what thu
rngieaders may do there are peopl,
enough Of their kidney to zee then
through with 1t nine times out OF ten
once IN a while the rascals are over
thrown but not often. Elsewhere II
the Union their overthrow is never diff
1cult,
There are many examples TO prove
how well 1t generally pays either party
to keep its methods clean and put It.
self in the hands OF It's most unselisl
leaders. The Democratic party Of Sar
Francisco is now uniformly victorious
in municipal affairs Why? Simply be.
cause 1t has turned away from the
bosses and ballot-box suffers, accepted
the leadership of an honest man and
thus won the esteem of honest people.
Why Is Hazen S. Pingree so strong at
home? The reasons are the same as
those which apply to Mayor Phelan.
Despite Tammany Hall the New York
Republicans carried their State in the
last local election. From what did
they derive their strength? Was it not
from the public confidence in Theodore
Roosevelt man who had fought
machines and bosses all his life? An
other question: Why Is the Pennsyl
vanla Democracy strongest when it is
led by Pattison and why Is Pennsylva
mia Republicanism weakest when it is
led by Quay? Clearly because Patti
son is reformer and Quay a spoils-
man. Why was Addicks turned down
in Delaware? Because he was boss
No spokesman Is great enough to
keep his party united and successful.
Roscoe Conkling, the chief of the ma
chine Republicans of his time, went to
the wall with his party because
his methods were bad. The national
defeat of the Republicans in the State
elections of 1882 was due to the stigma
of machine politics brought upon them
by Conkling, Plat and Arthur-ma-
chine politics which, in their final ana
lysis, had produced a Guiteau, who
called himself a Stalwarts of the Stall
warts. We lost the Presidential election
was believed to be anti-boss, anti-ma-
chine and antl-spoils and withal
strong prepayment of civil service re-
form. On that account even the power
and prestige OF Blaine could not pre-
vail against him.
The history Of the Republican party
since the second term of Grant proves
that the moment that party acquires
bosssm 1t invites and secures defeat
Take up New York again with refer
ence to the career of Boss Plat. Every
Governor was beaten at the polls. the
only Republican nominees elected were
those who, like Roosevelt, were known
to be men whom Plat could not brow
beat or cajole. On the Democratic side
David B. Hill was more successful;
but finally his methods strangled his
leadership and retired him from public
life. His party shared, in measure,
his disasters.
Here is Hawaii there is already the |
development Of Republican machine
and an Illustration in stuffed ballot
boxes and colonized polling places of
the influence OF political crooks and !
their desire to rule or ruin-we might !
say rule and ruin. What is to be the
outcome? Can we doubt that it will
differ from what it has been elsewhere
in the Union? Can we so discredit |
our decent Republicans as to as
sumo that they will patiently endure
what the Republicans of the Union,
from Maine to California, have never
endured long? That is not the way
of Hawaii. Here more than in most |
places under the Stars and Stripes the
people are determined upon pure
politics and safe government. They
risked their lives in the past for such
and they will not tamely
the ground they gained.
They can be held by honesty and fair
play; they are ready to work with any
one who cares enough for the Repub-
lean party to keep 1t clean. but they
will not condone chicanery and fraud.
Those who have come here to intro
luce such devices may as well get out
If the party for the majority will have
lone of them.
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