The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-02
THE REJECTED CLAUSES.

A The only success boosted Of by the
machine is in striking out the clauses
IN the rules governing the Republican
Darty which were put there to secure
honest primaries. Two Of them are the
yital clauses Of every measure provid-
I'd by the Legislatures of the States
10 protect the purity Of the primary
Election; and opposition to them there
as here is confined to the professional
politicians who want to gain by fraud
what they cannot get by votes or de-
s,erve by moral worth.
y The two clauses referred to are as
Follows:
4 Section 4. After said permanent organi-
ation all applicants for membership
must attend at a regular meeting of the
precinct organization in which they re-
Hide. and sign an application for admis-
ion. In which said applicant shall state
hat he is a resident of said precinct. is
n sympathy with the principles Of the
Republican party. and he intends to vote
(. or It's candidates. Said applicant shall
AZ
hip. which shall investigate said appli-
ants eligibility and report thereon. A
y majority vote of the members present at
UGH meeting shall elect.
Further by requiring that registration
Tor party primaries close fifteen days be-
ore holding the election.
n Now what did these clauses mean
The first one meant that a man must
make 1t clear that he is Republican
before he can be permitted to vote at
u Republican primary. Is not that
Reasonable and in strict accord with
|party usage in every well-governed
community? In the States, men who
fgant to use a party to elect them
ielves and their fellow schemers to
*fice so they can plumber the taxpay-
rs, object to this clause and try to
substitute the open primary" but the
laces are now few and far-between
t'here such primaries are permitted to
.sxist. Even California baked at the
pen primary after a long experience
IA seeing corrupt Republican BOSSES
Yin In 1t with the help of Democratic
teelers loaned by corrupt Democratic
.Iosses, and the Stratton reform law
as the result. Such reforms are COM
non everywhere on the Mainland but
ane trafficking politicians who want to
govern Hawaii for their private benefit
IRE lighting tooth and nail to prevent
$1eir introduction here-and charac
physically they try to make a virtue
df their offences.
"a Inc second clause, over the fraudu-
Sent elimination of which the machine
Elen chuckle, is one of the most neces-
&ary safeguards of the honest primary.
'8he idea of closing primary registra-
sfon fifteen days before election is to
Unable Republicans to inspect the rolls
'Hor the names of Democrats, aliens
nd others who have no right to share
la the internal government of the
|sarty. By means of demagogic ap-
zeal to the natives, Mr.. Humphreys
Eyho Is becoming our most discredited
politician, induced them to reiec. tho
i lause.' That Mr.. Humphreys evidently
pants Is primary where any one NAV
{*ote without challenge, whether Dem
5fcrat, alien or nondescript, providing
{ze votes the Humphreys ticket. In
2ther words he wants a corrupt prim-
Try, knowing the machine can win in
/ 10 other.
81 1t is perhaps as well that the would
e bosses have shown their hands thus
'$zarly, ior 1t gives the Good Government
teople of both parties a chance to de-
band an honest primary law from the
Legislature. BY that means the stone
hat the builders rejected snail become
II ne head of the corner. The clauses
yin yet be enacted in statutory form
fpr the government of Fall parties; en-
c3cted by the help of native votes and
pr the one purpose of excluding fraud
rom the ballct-box Mark the pre-
4 iction!