The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-08


delegate. SO much depends upon him.
We require a,delegate who is of the
same party as the majority in Con-
gress. Therefore our delegate must be
a Republican,. There is a Republican
majority in Congress and there is a
Republican administration. If a rising
Territory such as Hawaii is to obtain
assistance for her public works for her
harbors, for her coast improvements,
she must get them through the Repub-
lican party, and the Republican partJ
is not going to listen to a delegate who
is a Home ruler.
The Home Rule which the DELEGATE
and his party represent, is not even
true Home Rule. 1t tackled on to its
name the addition of the dominant
party in Congress, and proceeded to
call itself Home Rule Republican. IL
was purely a name and the party con-
tInued to thwart the Republican nom
inees most earnestly. 1t wanted to be
Home Rule and subversive of Repub-
hcan policy on the Hawaiian Islands,
and it was quite Willing to call itself
anything in Washington. That the
Home Rulers and their delegate were
playing a double game was soon recog-
nized by those, Senators and Repre-
sentatives whoitooll. an interest in Ha-
waiian affairs and was as soon recog-
nized by the executive branch OF the
government. AS a =, consequence the
delegates influence became absolutely
nil, and we might as well have had a
wooden man in Washington as the
Home Rule delegate. .r.'
When Delegate. Wilcox first went to
Washington there was q kindly dis
position to help MIN. Any one who has
followed his career in that city will
have noticed how he was gradually
dropped. A true Republican would
not have been dropped But the game
that was being played and is now being
played was easily seen through. The
Republican party wants true Repgb-
licans in it's ranks and not men who
oppose the Republican spirit while
processing to laud it,
At the outset of the present cam
raiGu the Home Rulers have made an.
other bad break They have been told
something about mainland politics and
the calculations of the great parties.
They have run off with the idea that
the elections in November will run
Democratic. Now there is no such
landslide going to take place. The wish
IS father to the thought among the
Democrats, but figures can be and
have been shown in these columns,
which give the Democrats all they
claim and still leave the Republicans
with a strong majority.
1t is very unwise at this stage of the
game for Home Rule leaders to throw
themselves into The democratic arms
as their mouthpieces have urged them
to do, and as they are perfectly willing
to do. 1t is not. the business of the
Republicans to teach the Home Ruiz
leaders wisdom, indeed'it would be Il
hopeless task. But it IS not a hopeless
task to open the eyes of their dupes,
the voters, who have been misled in
the past and who are likely to be mis-
led in the future.
1t would be better for the Home
Rulers, however unMse it might be, to
become out ana out Democrats, be-
cause these men would understand
where they stood, and the parties
would recognize them. Now they are
neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red
herring" They are as ready to call
themselves Homsl Rule Democrats as
they are to can themselves Home Rule
Republicans. 1t is into this course that
Delegate Wilcox and This coadjutors
followers should, adopt, TO have i
chance to follow up this plan, and to
avoid main issues the party issue is
being put tOrwaVd as depending upon
Governor Dole. Governor Dole is not
en- issue of the clmPaign. If we We're
a state Governor Dole would be a very
large issue but we are not a st.7e.
We are a territory and the Governor
is appointed from Washington, and is
not elected by the people. Such is the
American system. The Governor is no
issue. OF course if the Home Rule
leaders choose to devote all their ener-
giles to wrangliug with the Governor,
should they be elected to the legisla-
ture, they will only be- wasting their
own time and the public money. The
country has already been put back a
good two years by such tactics in the
legislature of 1901, it, ought not to be
put back for four years.
What we do need at the present
crisis of our affairs IS an efficient Re
publican Delegate in. the next Con-
gress. That is a sine qua non, a prop
osition which cannot be gafnsaid. Then
we want efficient meb, men Of thought
men of broad views in the legislature