The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-10-15
ABANDONING THE CARPET. DAGGER

President Roosevelt, In the matter OF
reconstituting the Republican party in
the South. is doing what Grant should
nave done-makipg the party accept
able to the best elements in that as
in other sections Of the common cOun-
try. The original policy was to sustain
a horde of northern carpet baggers in
the South, who should lead the negroes
I and exploit the country, the whole out
| fit being protected at the polls by Fed
| eral bayonets. The result was to so
ALLEVIATE white men, the natural rulers
of any and every Anglo-SaXon COM
monwealth, that they ranged them
selves solidly against the Republican
party and succeeded in defeating it
twice in "A Presidential contest. OF
course in time the bayonets had to be
removed. and then both the carpet
bagGers and the darkeys disappeared
! from State and Congressional politics.
Since then as President Roosevelt has
discovered. the Republican party of the
South has been merely a collection OF
job -chasers, white and black, intent up
on the Federal patronage. They can
not win elections; they cannot build up
an effective party organization; they
are simply appetites and grabs. SO
long as they are supported by Re
publican President the South will go
Democratic.
1t is now declared that President
Roosevelt will turn his back on the
spoilsmen who use the Republican
name to general party disadvantage
and give the progressive men of the
u lao, 70 got m
the administration. Clark Howell,
Senators Morgan and McLaurn and
others of that class will have the way
opened. If they can be convinced that
Republicanism no longer means the
rule of the negro and the carpet-bag-
ger. they will, perhaps. see their way
clear to work for the economic protec-
ton and the new foreign markets for
cotton which the South demands
through the political agencies which
have protection and expansion as their
objects. That would be a consumma
, ton we'll worth the while.
But let President Roosevelt not for
get that there Is another place in the
Union where the carpet Dagger, usine
an aboriginal citizenship which hate:
the men who paved the way for en-
neyation, is doing his best to ruin th'
good name of the Republican party
That place is Hawaii. Let him bewar'
lest conditions here finally call for in
reference like that now demanded b!
the South. The danger is Imminent
the more so because the most corrup
carpet dagger of them all has lately
by means of falsehoods which, by som
strange mischance We're left unchal
II lenged at Washington, been exon
', Grated" by a deceived administration.
Much of the political trouble in Ha
;, wall is caused by the fact that Con
- gress gave us an un-American votin
franchise. This is the only part or tn
>, Union where the sole knowledge %
y foreign tongue is among the qualifica
" tons of suffrage. BY that token
~ vote, ignorant even of the speech O
Americans and blind to the political o
= other literature of the country in whie
il is cast, becomes the arbiter, at tn
u polls. of Territorial destinies. 1t is tn
u vote especially relied upon by dema
u gogues and carpet aggers, to ammo
and harass the Territorial Republica
administration. If Congress ever es
poets to cement good government her
and Americanize the native race,
to must have but one language qualihcs
p ton for voters and that one which wi
he imply their ability TO understand II
" constitution and laws when they he;
them spoken or see them in print. :
I'd things We're left by Congress the al
e. cient views and prejudices OF Il
~ aboriSine have simply secured the risI
of to apply themselves to American pol
Mt tics. The result is before us in II
ed record made by the first Hawaiis
yo Legislature,