The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-08
A DIRTY BIRD.

1T is a dirty bird that fouls its c9sn
nest"
OF all the dyspeptic, bilious-liveTed.
sour and pessimistic editorials which 1t
has ever been our misfortune to come
across, the single editorial in yesterday
mornings Republican takes the LEAD.
Blatantly proclaimed to be a Repuo-
lican paper, this editorial opens the day
after the Republicans by magnificent
work have carried the Island of oahu
for Parker and two-thirds of their SEN
atoriaI ticket in Wilcox's stronghold.
with a prophecy that Wilcox will be
elected to Congress.
After incidentally paying its respects
to Wilcox in few choice epithets. and
the intimation that his election Will re-
suit in the abolition of universal SUI
frage. ii goes on to announce that Re
publican defeat in the 5th District was
foregone conclusion, by reason of w.
J. CoeIho's candidacy, and thereupon
proceeds to denounce Coelho as a man
worse than Wilcox; charging him with
being a criminal and man devoid or
honor
Ii thereupon drags l.. A. Thurston in
by the heels, for no particular reason
except to state that he is more dis
trusted tkan any other resident of the
], rritory.
1t then draws the conclusion that the
.,sult is also owing to native hostility
20 "the missionary element announc-
ing further that many white men voted
against the Republican ticket as a pro-
test against the family compact and
close corporation rule
The editor pays his compliments to
the Republican Central Committee, by
saying that:
Never, in more than twenty years
experience in campaigns, has the writ
er seen money thrown about so freely
and wastefully by a campaign COM
mittee as it was thrown about by the
Republicans in this campaign, and
seldom If ever has it been thrown away
so recklessly and foolish1y by a party
committee as 1t was thrown away here
by those in charge of the Republican
campaign"
Having thus proved his party fealty,
the editor proceeds to dig up the buried
corpse of the Republican factional diff
ferences in the Fourth District and
gnaws awhile on it's decayed bones with
evident satisfaction; denounces the
Thurston-Dole faction" mouths over
the "insolent minority" and mission
aries, who would wreck the party"
He then draws the conclusion that by
reason of the action of the "insolent
minority nearly all of the best party
workers were alienated:" and states
that they were either coldly indiffer-
mated with one or two exceptions"
The editorial concludes with a snap
per for the old p. g." and a demand
for complete organization of the par
ty. with the alternative Of wreck and
ruin"
Among the foregoing varied assort-
ment of righteousness and spite. the
one grain of truth is probably that
which states that certain party work.
ers who were either coldly Indifferent
or openly hostile to the ticket nomin-
ated, with one or two exceptions" as
we are reliably informed that the ma
chine faction in the Fourth District.
instead of accepting in good faith the
ticket agreed upon by both factions.
proclaimed the virtues of the straight
ticket In their organs and then secretly
did everything they could to knife the
ticket with one or two exceptions -
resulting in the unnecessary defeat of
two Republican senators.
The above noticed editorial is doubt
less considered the correct thing in
Arizona, but the sooner the directors
and stockholders of the Republican
realize the fact that this community
does not need this kind of paper in it's
business, the better it will be for all
concerned.