The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-01
THE TURN DOWN.

the proceedings of the late Legislature.
The great aim of the Home Rule party
according to the statement of their
acknowledged leader was to capture
all the offices. The Home Rule party
had an idea that if all the nominees of
the Governor should be turned down,
the party would have the next nominal
tions in its own hands. The members
chung to this idea till towards the end
of the session when Delegate Wilcox
and some others contrived to open their
eyes to the utter fallacy of their posi-
ton.
But even when they were in the
heydey of their fools paradise and
thouOht that everything was in their
own hands if they thwarted the Cover
nor, and though they fully agreed that
to the victors belonged the spoils, they
could not agree as to who the particu-
lar victors should be. There were not
enough spoils to go round among the
victors, and this caused anguish of
mind. Every Home Ruler wanted the
highest salary going, he did not want
to be put off with any small place
The result was that any quantity of
states were flying round in the nightly
caucus. The popularity of these states
was their utter disregard for the
fitness of the nominees for the particu-
lar office they might be slated for. 1t
appeared to be anything for a slate.
Give us a slate that we can agree on
and the public service may go to where
it pleases. Any person who gets in
will have to pay a percentape, it was
whispered, but this was no more than
a whisper and may or may not have
been true.
1t never seemed to enter the minds
of these Home Rulers that the Organic
Act was so arranged, and the whole
American system was so arranged that
the power of the chief executive from
the President down to Governor was
to be checked, but was not to be ham
pered, while there was no intention of
giving the Senate of the United States,
or the Senate of the various States and
much less the Senate of an uncooked
territory the supreme appointing pow
er, and the complete overriding of the
Governors views as to appointments.
They could turn down his nominal
tions, but he and only he could make
other nominations.
However towards the closing days of
the session the dream of absolute pow
er, which the Home Rulers INDUCED
in, passed away like the fading images
of night. But there seemed to be some
hope yet, and they strove to make a
dicker with the Governor. 1t was an
insidious move, and had the Governor
yielded to it, he would have establish
ed a very dangerous precedent. The
Governor is the representative of the
Republican party the dominant party
in the United States. What his party
says he will listen to, but he certainly
would be recreant to his trust, and
the trust that the great Republican
party has reposed in him, had he dick
cred with a set of men whose principles
are directly opposed to the true Re-
publican spirit and know nothing of its
affiliations or it's aspirations.
Finally failing in this the nominal
IlOnS were taken llllO consideration
and three of the nominations and one
Board were turned down. Upon what
principle the majority of the Senate
acted one can hardly see. 1t looks to
the outsider as if it were either hap
hazard or personal. The Home Rulers
We're the majority and of course did
what they pleased.
49,
territory loses a capable and thorough
ly practical man and a very hard
worker. Mr.. McCandless never spared
himself He was bright and genial in
his manner and inspired his subordin-
ates with confidence and liking. Had
Mr.. McCandless remained in office, and
had sufficient funds been supplied him,
the public works of the territory would
have doomed in this territory for Mr..
McCandless is a hustler. He attends
to things personally, and knows wheth-
er work is being carried on properly
or not.
Mr.. Lansing probably was picked
out because the Home Rulers could not
distinguish between a depleted treas
uiy AlOiil H"tui al CAUSES anu " waste
full Treasurer. If they could not UNI
derstand their own position with re-
gard to the Governor. they could not
be expected to understand the position
of the Treasurer.
In turning down j. F. Brown the
Home Rulers did a good thing-for Mr..
Brown. For year he has been
wasting his talents upon an unre-
munerative office, and now he will be
able to bring those talents and the
special knowledge which he possesses
to a remunerative one, There is no
man in the country who has a better
knowledge of our land laws, or our land
patents or every ramiication of our
land system than Mr.. Brown. He is