The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-10-16
THE wlcox POLICY or lNfAsy.

The men who wrote the Independent
nominating pledge and asked !. o..
Carter. ~ 6. Macfarlanc aud Jemca
Quinn 20 sign II, now any they had
nothing TO do with 10. Denying that
they took the pledge themselves and
even pretending not tn know who hand
ed II officially Go the three haole poll
| tlclnna. the signature az one Of whom
wap obtained and aled these dissem-
bling leaders would have the public be-
licve that they are n flock OF innocents
who have been imposed upon by bad
men.
And yet the sentiments of the pledge
are precisely what the Wilcox people
have been processing for months back.
our readers will remember that, during
the time when Mr.. Tesla had reason to
think the Independent party would re-
ward him for the advocacy OF Its prin-
ciples, his candid and vigorous paper
declared that the turning down Of Gov.
Dole's appointees was one of the car
dInal tenets of the Independent faith.
In commenting upon this threat the
Advertiser argued that the Legislature
could do no more than to keep the Dole
whereupon Mr. Testa's paper said with
emphasis that II the native Legislature
was to be baked of it's purpose by the
reappointment Of unconfirmed nom
inees, 1t would cut down salaries to a
nominal sum-a process, the paper said.
which would compel the obnoxious off,
cials to resign. This program was ap
proved by every Independent party
man with whom the Advertisers re-
porters then talked; and as soon as the
of haoles was proposed In
the late Independent convention a
pledge embracing a policy of eviction
towards the Dole appointees including
all whose titles are given in Sec. so Of
the Organic law, was at once handed
the aspirants to sign. Two of them re-
fused in terms which seem to have
taught the Wilcox men that publicity
for their plans had been unwise, hence
the general fun to cover of all con-
cerned. sa.5.e ttg
But though the letter of the compact
may be now concealed, the spirit re-
mains. Perhaps no paper can be shown |
to prove that the Wilcox native tnomi- |
nees have taken the disreputable pledge |
they tried to exact of Messrs. Carter
and Macfarlane and did exact of Mr..
Quinn but Is it at all supposable that
they are not bound by it or that they |
10 not intend, If Wilcox Legislature is
chosen, to embarrass Mr.. Dole's ad-
all they can? The object
IF the pledge when it made its appear
ince in convention was to test the 10y
ilty of the three haole favorites to In
dependent party principles. That the
Wilcox men, in n sudden panic, did not
insist on the pledge at the last extrem-
ty and in face of an indignant pub
ic refusal, does not prove their own
from 1T; the probable reason
$ that they We're so anxious to get
way from the color line issue that they
we're willing to take a few unpledged
laole nominees on their ticket, know
ng full well that, If they carried The
lay, they would have men enough of
heir own kidney to depend upon.
No matter what the leaders are
aught by new growth of cunning to
lfflrm, deny or evade, the fact remains
hat their program is one of chaos, re-
venge and plumber. They represent in
,ur politics precisely what Wilcox
wanted to do in his badly-planned and !
lbortive revolutions" Now Wilcox
kinks in his vicious ignorance that his
line to demolish things and to gloat
over the ruin of good government here
las come or is near at hand. He knows
10 more of the abysses in front of him
han he did in 1889 and 1895; nor does
lie know the strength of those who are
determined that Hawaii shall take no
"a plSWnr1 &c tn 60 9
hat he means to do all the harm he
an In the meantime is fact which no !,
Vasions and disclaimers can conceal. /