The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-18
THE WILCOX MASQUERADE.

After looking over the field and hear
| ing all that was said, Wilcox did not
,,a an omen alliance with Ia Ia
CAV -. 40 local Republican party. ln
tloi - oilers simply would not no ~
: Z! aonie nth the facile readiness ~
IT, turn which marks the nat.
lwis 80 sbifty demagogue, WheoN r.
OIL TIC t,,hr;d body called Tue
gaiiiAeu Home Rule Republican pc
loepehui.s ,,atforna of non-lntercoui .
/ ty' W., rae,,lar Republican orsahll
Win ene re ayowed object was Ct
tioh NJ Home Rule party IN iIs Of
for revenge and a
w asil l.s snaech wilcox MADE IL Pc D.
In iii' rad nothing at all lor
ina. ,.,;srn. that if the Denioo
p'ipiit .. ao1,ar at washington ne w.
Weie - ..r;sad an alliance with thdl Pc.
~ His whole desire was " h.d
for the time being with those 80, IN
favors to give and 10 oese Ne
case of their eviction from po rIic
! aid not try to conceal THIS Ino'i at at
cole plea was one OF expeoie NJ
nc call ourselves Republican an, -, ~;,,a
Kinley will remove Dole ne ,.;a
rs Statehood; we shail sel "pg
tions. but we shall not nave " I,,,+
anv of our cherished prlncipien
nav be as hostile to the Whi'e NJ
llicans of Hawaii as we please
in a nutshell. is the platform VI M
ldenendent Home Rule RepupiS",i
land II is about as absurd anu
MIA form as was ever bullt.
The seven Hawaiians d. eo,tl
|
in Wilcox's pledges were sehsioi Ti,,,a
Tbey remembered him Oh gu -
was when Wilcox PROMISED lne
autocratic power, began d -,
from, a gas tank, failed ana thea ",
tbe legal responsibility upon ehe
himself. Again he came OUT lo
inexation, pleading with the ia !" az -
70 come with him and then oeser.eo
- a,,se using arguments to justify
birnse1f which showed that his previous
a..o,,roen+s had been*fa false. He promls-
! od tbe ex-Oueen and her party restoise,
49, hv force and merely got himself
Iand them into jail Last year ne prom.
80. ;f elected to Congress, to get
mole ont and great appropriations III.
IDo,a &c st;1,, Governor and the Delegate
from Hawaii got no appropriation oiiis
n.
of Congress by his treatment OF lhe
eo;,aga hiI and became a mere moment
li+v inst as Congressman Hill iateiy
aesoribed him. Yet he comes back with
j ,,,ore PROMISES. Dole's removal ano
ls+atehood being among them. No won
dar that discerning Hawaiians, like the
i sayen who voted against his absure
lscheme. put no faith in such man.
wileox's new party. with its double
foced nlatform, will simply make 1t I'M
,,oseible for him to regain his Garner
standing at Washington. 1t sub1ect
him TO ridicule. His naive confession o
, intended humbug is already en-rout'
;, lto the capital and will not fail OF enect
No will return there as a branded time
server and spoil-seeker, no more Ike
nuh,ican now than he was an annex
, ationist in 1893 AS for removing Dol
he might as we'll try to remove the Ter
ritorial capital; and as for Stateflooo
nrobably neither he nor any one OF III
age who heard him speak on Iuesud
night will live to see 1T. 1t TOOK VA
: over forty years to acquire Statehood
8 New Mexico began seeking 1t In 100
/ and Arizona in 1868 and the boon is We
withheld. Is there a Hawaiian so dens
as to imagine that with such popula
0 tion as we have, and after the repre-
1 sentatives of the Wilcox party, l
e legislature assembled, have taken
much trouble to prove their childish In
e capacity, Hawaii win be erected Int
$ a State and given, mayhap, chance I
decide Presidential elections? If so
lis the veriest dupe of demagogues o
: Iof his own Imagination.
q We set it down here for Hawaiia
: voters to read ayear hence or ten year
hence, namely, that the Independent
: Home Rule Republican party viii Gu
no figure at Washington and will wi
+ mo trophies; and that the vital position
= lof Congress towards these islands wi
q be determined by the business interest
a Iof the United States and of Hawaii an
: not by lot of masquerading Royalist
who think that the American govern
= ment can be fooled into taking goa
! meat because it happens to be labele
= lamb.