The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-25

The one afrHmpni used in llif ~
naiivce Into The Democratic party :.
that Cleveland tried ~ restore th'
queen }, comes Win bad grac, from
our old -llne local Democrats who, llk,
Dr. McGrew. we're vigorous and crec'
tive annexalionists. hui q ls the best
argument In hand and Is used for more
than 3, u worth
n Is true that Cleveland tried to re-
store the Queen and 1t Is equally true
that he did not do It and probably a
fact that he ala not want to do It after
ne had heard from the Democrats in
| Congress and from Democratic Min
ister willis here. There is some reason
to think that at the last he instructed
Wills to find him a way out OF bad
mudde But granting that Cleveland
was a sincere friend OF the Queen, that
did not and does not make the Demo-
cratic party friendly to her and her ma
dive followers. Cleveland was long ago
thrown overheard by the Democrats.
They turned their backs upon him al
most unanimously, but they did not
turn their backs upon Senator Morgan
and other annexation champions IN ms
class. These men are retained In pow
or and the Democrats of Congress join
ed the majority in framing the bill
which forever destroyed the hopes OF
the Hawaiian monarchy; and they also
voted against giving Liliuokalani
pension or vesting in her the title to
crown lands.
There is nothing in the sentimental
Ia * about Cleveland. If the Democrats
should win the next general election
they would not do anything for hlh'
Every native should know that CleVe-
lands day is past. The Democrats
they will have to deal with now care
nothing about them or their queen ana
If they succeed in forcing the black
men of the South away from the polls
they will next turn an evil eye on the
brown men of Hawaii. In last Lesies
Weekly wherein that great Democratic
leader, Senator Tiliman, tells How
the South Suppressed the Negro Vote
winch he says was jusutlaDiy done
by fraud and force-appears this spe-
cific threat against Hawaians:
What will be the outcome of the at
tempt to govern our new possessions OUT
SIDE the Constitution, and whether the
la, luNr nm ~
Congress is bound to respect, is left TO be
decided by the American people. In the
South, where the race question IL best
understood, there il little difference OF
opinion as to not wanting any more col
ured people added to our population, or
adding territory inhabited by them. one
result is confidently expected-no political
party can retain hold on power which
faces both ways. There will be no tolera-
ton of n policy which demands one
course to be followed in the South and
another In Hawaii and the Spanish ISL
ands. THE Stars and Stripes will mean
the same thing in Porto Rico and the
Philippines 1t does In the United
States" or 1t will be hauled down" by
order of the American people.
In other words the South will not
let the negro vote and SO as to be con-
sistent 1t does not want any other man
of color to vote. 1t wants, as Senator
Tillman practically says, to put the
Hawaiian on a level with the negro.
And the South, on all race questions,
governs the Democratic party.
The natives owe nothing to the Dem
ocratic party but they have much to
fear at its hands. The safety of the
ballot which a Republican Congress
gave them, depends upon the RepuD-
lican party; for it was that party |
which, alone and slngle-handed, gave
the suffrage to men of color in the
South and 1t is the Democratic party
alone which deprived them of 1t. In
every Republican State of the North
men OF color freely vote. In every
Democratic State of the South no color
ed man can vote except by white per-
mission. II a Hawaiian native citizen
should move to Massachusetts or Ohio
or any other Republican commonwealth
after June 18th, he could cast his ballot
and have 1t counted; but If he went to
the Southern Democratic States he
would be classed, as Senator Tillman
classes him-with the political and So
cial outcasts of the African race.
The Hawaiian, if he is wise, will stay
with his political friends; not ally him
self with the political enemies of every |
American citizen who is not white.
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