The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-15

feet ~ any portion of the United
States 90 must not be- thought how
ever that victory will be- won over The
machine continually A wave Of inde-
rendence and determination to clean
out what was rotten in the municipal
administration, aroused an the best
elements In New York. both rich and
poor The scandals under the Tam
many administration had become too
rama, and none OF them probably told
more seriously than the ice trust This
touched the poor and undoubtedly af-
fectcd the poor vote The ordinary
political assessment was no crime, but
it was crime to make money out Of
the one luxury OF the poor and that
false move may be regarded as NOV
ing spring i'm the downfall of Tam
many.
That there will be an immediate
cleaning of the municipality a general
discharge of many employees is what
Mayor Low has Swallowed forth. Sweep
ing reforms, however, are hard to
make, and they frequently arouse a
hearty enmity which comes forward
with telling force at another election.
Upon the conservativeness Of the re-
formers will depend their permanence.
For though Tammany is overwhelm-
ingly beaten now, 1t will raise its head
again and will make bitter fight at
its next opportunity.
Another cause of weakness to the re-
form government will be its goodness.
When things are going well il is hard
to get people to come out and vote
for them. There is no pressure and
things are sure to come right in the
voter. So that an the next fight 1t will
be more difficult to marshal the reform
forces. Thus an organization like
Tammany may be often scOtched, but
is very seldom killed. However reform
and clean rule have been organized in
New York and it is to be hoped that
the clean rulers may hold their grip
for years. New York has been a poll
teal sewer for too long. and has been
an evil example to other municipali-
ties.
| In the San Francisco election it is a
curious thing that the man who was
supported by the great dailies failed Of
election and is a comment upon their
political foresight. The political power
Of the San Francisco dailies has often
been challenged, and various events
have shown that the challenge has had
some reason.
! 1t is a matter worthy of comment
that the only morning newspaper sup
port the successful candidate received
was from the Examiner which has
lately been and still is the subject of
vicious attack by some of its rivals
and contemporaries all over the coun-
try for its alleged recklessness and
"yellowness." This would seem to in
dictate that that the attacks on it have
not been effective enough to cause
any great stampede from a cause II
supports merely because it supports it.
The new Mayor Of San francisco
seems to be accepted as a possibly
conservative man, and the city offices
are distributed between the great par
ties. There has been no clean sweep
in any direction as there has been in
New York.
We shall have our own municipal
elections in the future and shall be-
come as excited over them as ever the
citizens of any other cities of the
Union become, but our elections will
only occupy a line of space in the
mainland papers. New York municipa.
elections are practically national cleo
tions, and form a sign post for the
great national elections. That sign
post, points to Republican victory.