The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-22
TRUE AND FALSE REPUBLIC
ANISM


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Every time Republicanism has fallen
into evil hands it has suffered in pres
tige, in votes and in opportunity for
public service. The same is true of the
Democratic party save in the city Of
New York where no matter what the
ringleaders may do there are people
enough of their kidney to see them
through with it nine times out of ten.
Once in a while the rascals are over
thrown but not often. Elsewhere in
the Union their overthrow is never diff
ficult.
There are many examples to prove
how well it generally pays either party
to keep its methods clean and put it
self in the hands of its most unselfisn
leaders. The Democratic party of San
Francisco is now uniformly victorious
in municipal affairs. Why? Simply be-
cause it has turned away from the
bosses and ballot-box suffers, accepted
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 PennsyI-
Vania Democracy strongest when if is
led by Pattison and why is PENINSULA
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 a hoss
NO spokesman is great enough TO
keep his party united and successful
Roscoe Conkling, the chief of the ma
cnlne Republicans of his time. went To
the wall with his party because
MS methods were bad. The national
/ defeat of the Republicans in the State
elections of 1882 was due to the stigma
or machine politics brought upon them
/ by Conkling, Plat and Arthur-ma-
chine politics which, in their final ana
lysls, had produced a Guiteau. who
/ called himself Stalwarts of the Stall.
/ warts. We lost the Presidential election
OF 1884 on the same account. Cleveland
was believed to be anti-boss. anti-ma.
chine and anti-spoils and witbal 2
strong proponent of civil service re.
form. on that account even the power
and prestige of Blaine could not pre
vail against him.
Inc history of the Republican mart,
since the second term of Grant proves
that the moment that party acquire:
oossism it invites and secures defeat
lake up New York again with refer
ence to the career of Boss Platt. Ever,
nominee he has forced on the partv FL,
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.
peat or caJole. On the Democratic side
David B. Hill was more successful:
put finally his methods strangled his
leadership. and retired him from public
lie. His party shared, in a. measure
his disasters.
Here is Hawaii there is already the
development of a Republican machine
and an illustration in stuffed ballot
boxes and col9 nized 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 il 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 Strines the
people are determined upon pure
politics and safe government. They
rlsked their lives in the past for such
J possessions and they will not tamely
surrender the ground they gained
Ihey can be held by honesty and fai,
play; they are ready to work with any
one who cares enough for the Repub.
mean party to keep it clean, but they
VIII not condone chicanery and fraud
lhose who have come here to intro.
duce such devices may as well get OH
OF the party for the majority will have
none of them.
IL is a matter of inquiry, which will
soon be settled, whether the change in