The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-19
ADMINISTRATIONS FOES
TERRITORIAL EMPLOYEES WHO
FIGHT DOLE,
What an Illinois Politician Thinks of
the Situation here-Comments on the
Sewall Crowd of Bolomen.

Sewall Crowd of Bolomen.
Il have learned several new wrinkles
in politics since l have been here" said
a Republican, recently from Illinois
! when l go back, as l expect to do in
time to vote for Mckinley and Roos'.-
welt | shall have some political stories
to tell That win simply astound the
cornfed politicians of the sucker state
who think that Governor Tanner, Billy
/ Lorimer Doc Jameson, Congressman
Cannon and Senator Cullom know all
there is to be known about politics.
Just take the situation as you find
it here. These Islands were little mid
ocean republic. a Republican congress
and Republican administration an
neXed them and then made a territory
| of them. That was all congress had to
do with them and they were turned over
to the administration to be properly
handled, and the administration took
/ them in hand
The first thing the administration
had to do was to decide which element
of the voters out of which the Republi-
can party in the new territory was to be
composed should be recognized and
put in command. There were two ele-
ments as everybody knows, those who
supported Dole and those whom Sewall
had rallied to his support and guidance.
President Mckinley after considering
the matter fully, chose Dole and turned
Sewall down.
In any other part of the country that
would be recognized as equivalent to
the administration saying, that it had
recognized Dole and those who acted
with him as the administration Repub-
licans and that he expected Republi-
cans to work with and through that
leadership in all matters of party or
ganization and party supremacy; that
! he expected especially, all Republi-
, cans who received preferment or office
under the territorial government to
work heartily and cordially under that
/ leadership and in that way support the
administration.
"But what is the fact? Why the
cabal that supported Sewall and took
their cue from him, whom the Presi-
dent turned down, are fighting the Pre-
sident and his administration by fight
ing Dole and the element ne represents,
the man and the element the admins
tration distinctly recognized, and for
which it as distinctly turned down Sc
wall.
"Of course any Republican has a right
TO hght Dole If he wants to and follow
Sewall If he wants to- But no where
else in the country would he be consi-
dered to have the right to hold office
under the administration through the
administration appointee, and then
uBHl DOtH the administration ana the
administrations appointee. In other
words no where else would they be con-
sidered to have the right to hold office
under Mckinley and Dole and then
fight Mckinley by fighting Dole.
Il was here the day the Republicans
held their primaries. and l saw some
thing that even Solomon would ac-
knowledge was new under the sun. The
fight on Dole and the element of the
party he represents and the element Of
the party which was recognized by the
administration in appointing Dole
was being carried on almost every
where by men who We're holding office
under Dole. At one precinct the men
who carried the precinct for the oppOsi-
tion to Dole, were Board of Health en-
ployes, | was told. | know that one of
the men elected is a Board of Health
employe. At another precinct an en-
, ploye of the Department of Public
Works was carrying it against the ad-
miniStratiOn and Dole. At another pre-
cinct another employe of the same de-
partment was fighting the anti-admi-
nistration battle. And when you size
IT up you find that the anti-Dole
or Sewall faction, whatever you have
mind to call it, got a large
part of it's strength and success
through the work and efforts of en-
ployes and Office holders under Dole.
OF course these men will say they are
; good Republicans and good Mckinley
men. ! don't say they are not. But you
couldn't make anybody anywhere else
in the country believe they are good ad-
ministration men when they are fight
ing the administrations appontee.
Anywhere else than here they woU n
lose their jobs so quick they WCul,i
think a cyclone had struck them. It's
nothing to me, l am only Interested ir
i because it is something new in poll
] tics when l come from q state that is
supposed to have known and practiceJ
all the successful things in politics that
ever We're invented.
81 judge from what l hear that the
= natives have a possibility of carrying
: the election that it isn't an absolute
J cinch for the Republicans. Then what
l does DOle's administration mean by
letting some of its employees go On fight
ing him and thus weakening the party
Don't he know that Mckinley and tn,
Republican party expects him to carry
{ the territory for the Republican party
!, If it is possible?
{ almost anywhere else a man II
|, Dole's position would give it out colo
u that all jobs would be vacant the da!
{ after election If the Republicans didn'
= win. The least that would be done
: would be to have 1t thoroughly under
u stood that If any territorial employ'
= took any active part in politics he mus
l. take it in the direct line of supporting
the administration through the admi
nistration's direct representatives anC
appointees. That's the way they d.
politics elsewhere, and II will be
:, severe jolt to Hanna and the Republi
II can managers If the election here goe
;, against the party from failure to d.
~ likewise"