The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

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In Mr wiI,os NJ wiieos a M rosi.
iion 30 iudra. iof be- has bod enc arr1f.
unuy. re O. so. az h, saya. that there
are two great parties in Washington who
have the sole control. ana that nolnnT
can bc done without iolriur with ono ~
them. 10 seems like he must Ne firht tie
says that he went 10 the Democrats ana
they asked him what the people ~
Hawaii wanted. he told them that they
wanted Statehood and they said We
cannot help you. for We are IN the mi.
norlty You had better 40 10 the Re-
publican party. they are IN the majority
and they can help YOU Then Mr.. VII
cox went to the Republicans. and they
said n we would simply add the word
Republican TO our name they would
help US. and would make Hawaii a
state. do not know but II this T. 50,
| think II Is right to add that word
have the faith in MIR. wilcox to think
that It ls true. It Is either TO drown us
or TO succeed, and We must take that
risk. / have the faith In Mr.. Wilcox to
think IL will succeed. As | said l don't
see the point. but II Mr.. Wilcox says It
is the way to do, | believe We ought
to do It,"
Mr.. Makckau said that he was not at
the meeting when the name was chang
ed 81 see what Wilcox is driving at"
said he, but have no faith in the lead
ers of the Home Rule party. 1t might
be a blind to rope In the natives, and to
get them into the Republican party be-
fore they know It. 1t may be that 1t Is
such a scheme, and that the Republican
leaders are fooling Mr.. Wilcox. l have
absolutely no faith in those leaders, and
so / would be very doubtful of any such
plan, because 1t might be one of their
schemes to destroy the Home Rule party
by afflatng 1t with the Republican
party | do not say this is true, but 1t
might be. and 1 do not see any other
point in the movement. I know what
Mr.. Wilcox is driving at, as l said, but
1 have no faith"
Representative Emmeluth said that he
knew very little about the matter, as he
had not had time to inform himself or
to think about it, But said he, "as
I understand it, this changing of the
name of the Home Rue party is with
the object of attaining Statehood,
through afiiliating with the party In ma
iority in Congress. / don't know how
Mr.. Wilcox figures this out, but If he
counts on making a State of the Terri
tory simply through name, he Will find
himself mistaken. With the record made
by the party up to the present time, II
would not help them in this matter to
ally themselves with any party. l don't
think coalition at this time will assist
the Home Rule element in any degree to
obtain Statehood, If that is their pur-
pose. There must be coupled with the
proposition for coalition, a record by the
Home Rule party up to- If not above, the
average showing of legislative work ac-
complished by legislators of the party
they propose to affiliate with, in the
Legislatures of the Mainland. This must
be done to put them on level with the
party they wish to affiliate with, and to
give them standing. A record must be
made by the Home Rule party in legs-
lative work before we can expect to have
the question of Statehood even consider
ed, much less acted upon. l am totally
ignorant of the motives of the action ia
ken in changing the name. and am not
informed as to the policy of recent move
ments; for this reason / am not inclined
to discuss the question, but / Will say in
regard to the diplomacy of the move
ment, If there is thought to be diplomacy
in it, that If we had usea a little more
diplomacy at home we would have been
in a much better situation as far as the
future is concerned. Furthermore. If the
Home Rulers think to acquire Statehood
through merely lacking the word Re-
publican to their name, they will find
out that 1t will require something more
than a mere party alliance, or express
sion Of party alliance, to accomplish that
! The Home Rule party will find out also
that they will be judged, not by the name
they bear, but by the work they accom-
plish."