The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-12


ranks grows larger and larger instead
of growing smaller. Though the Home
Rulers are whistling to keep up their
courage, and their windy chief is
vaporing about what will be done, 9TH
er people have not let the grass grow
under their feet. The Delegate has
said about Prince Cupid: Let him go,
it does not matter. l shall easily win
without him or his followers" But in
the same breath he is striving to get
the Prince to return to the fold, and is
willing to make concessions now that
it is too late.
The Prince is a problem that Wilcox
does not know how to handle. He was
terribly Jealous of him, and thought
that he could brov-beat him. From the
Wilcox point of view, if he could over
throw a motion in which the Prince
was known to be a prime mover, it
would show his strength before the
delegates, and the Prince from a pros
Pective leader, would become follow
er. He did not calculate upon the cool
-
cid not calculate upon the Princes po-
litical integrity. He has been playing
the game of tergtversation himself
and he has SO long deceived and
brow-beat the older Hawaiians, that
he could not conceive that younger,
better educated, broader-viewed ana
travelled Hawaiians had sprung up,
who would not be led into political dis
honesty and were sincerely anxious to
train their fellow countrymen in the
enlightened methods of the United
States. They wanted free and un-
trammeled voter and they wanted the
voter of the country districts to have
the voice in the nomination of mem
bers and senators that they We're en-
titled to, they did not believe in having
only lot of Wilcox nominees.
So Wilcox played his little farce of
accepting the Princes measure at
night and then turned completely round
the next afternoon. The Prince did not
accept such political methods, gave his
opinion and left the convention. The
Prince has the nomination for Delegate
very much in his hands now. At last
election Wilcox won by 4 very small
majority, a little over two hundred
votes out of a total of 5000 votes cast.
1t will not take so very much 10 beat
him in fair, straight up and down
fight.
By getting himself nominated as
Delegate in a packed convention of mis-
own immediate followers, he has cut
himself off from the support Of the
Prince and his party. 1t was his in
tense jealousy of the Prince which
made him hasten up the nomination
before the breach was healed. The
Prince will have nomination n. his
command, and it is certainly not like
ly to be Robert Wilcox, or rather an
endorsement of Wilcox. Many people
OF other parties would be willing to
back the Prince were he be nominated
for Delegate. But he says he is too
young for the position, which is GER
tainly very modest, and that he does
not care to undertake the duties If
he will not accept the nomination, he
can have his party nominate a candi-
date for Delegate who would be ac-
ceptable here and in Washington. Such
a nomination, if the Prince will not
allow his own name to go up, is now
being agitated and the nominee will
be Republican in all probability. If
this is so there will be a great Access
sion of strength to the Republican
party.
Wilcox had been calculating to hand
over the Home Rule party to the Dem
CCrats, or posing as having done so be-
fore certain Democratic friends in the
Senate and House. But it was by no
means a handing over of the Home
Rulers to the Democrats in Hawaii that
he intended. He was going to absorb
the Democratic party into the Home
Rule stomach. He has been coquetting
with the Democratic party in Hawaii .
but he never intended that the Demo- |
Gratis should have any say. They were |
to vote for himself and his henchmen, |
whom he himself would pick out. He
gave himself away the moment he was
nominated as delegate, The Democrats
might join the Home Rulers and help
overthrow the Republicans but who
was to be nominated for Delegate was
not their business at all.
Miscalculauon at home, and the rec
ord of an empty slate at Washington
certainly should not make the Delegate
remarkably popular with the average
voter. There are some who will be
Blinded still, but large number have
had the bandages torn from their eyes,
and win be blinded no longer.
CONSUMPTION OF TEA.