Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-05
NO TIMB FOR PICKERING.

were settled with the close OF the pri-
mary ballot on Saturday are the Re
publicans about to fall upon themselves
and devour each other with charges
and counter charges of disloyalty.
Home Rulsm and goodness knows
what other pettifogging claims and
counter claims which can only bring
about dissension in the ranks?
II, as charged by some, Home Rule
voters dissatisfied with Wilcox and the
record of his party, have espoused the
Republican cause. are these men to be
driven back to the support Of their
former associates by an edict, thus far
unsupported by facts, that they are not
to be trusted but are in the party TO
make trouble or defeat its purposes?
The Bulletin trusts not and in ex-
pressing the hope that destructive tao
tics will not be taken up at this stage
Of the game this paper voices the SEN
timent OF Republican leaders, business
men, and the delegates elected to COM
mittees and conventions. These lead
ers, business men and delegates know
all too well that the Home Rule party
and its leaders are laying in wait for
and gloating over just such pickering
and innuendo as Is given expression
for the first time this morning. Wilcox
and his leaders and they alone look
upon such comment with pleasure.
for II is the signal for them to start out
and spread broadcast over the Terri
tory the campaign yarn that the Re-
publicans are at war with themselves;
that Hawaiians are not wanted in the
Republican ranks, etc, etc, ad lib. The
numerical force of Hawaiians through.
out the organization is very plain
refutation Of the Wilcox cry, but Re-
publicans cannot afford to discount
Delegate Wilcox's capacity to dwell
upon fiction and fancy and influence
votes as though he we're dealing with
facts.
Admitting that Home Rulers can be
found in the convention or on COM
mitees, no sensible, whole headed, hon
est Republican will for a moment after
going over the list of delegates, waste
his time worrying over or discussing
the possibility Of such an element in
fuencing the action of the party. There
is enough to do and more without
sacrificing breath or printers ink on
bugaboos which are nothing but food
for the enemy.
Good, live, energetic unity should be
must be the motive OF every Republi-
can. We want no storm centers in our
ranks. Experience has taught that tn,
zephyr of innuendo quickly gathers
into a whirlwind Of strife with a de-
structive power capable of defeating
the honest struggle to promote the en-,
thusiastic harmony that assures party
victory. Men differ on matters of prin,
ciple, capacity of candidates, but tbs
integrity Of the organization must moi
be attacked. The verdict of a majority
ballot must be accepted. The party
must go forward and to do this the in.
cessant gnawing at its yitals must
cease.
The business interests OF this Terri
tory-the prosperity OF the day labor
er, the contractor, the merchant, the
householder, the butcher, baker aut
candelstick maker-look to the Repub
lican party to reestablish confidence
and promote an era of prosperity. Thi'
party responsibility must not be hell
in such slight esteem that 1t will b,
even possible to allow wrangle owe
inconsequential details or personals
ties which are chiefly the result of al
Interior motive or personal spite Of
ignorance.
The party was never in better SHAPE
to successfully tackle the problems o
the hour than Immediately following
the Saturday primaries There is moth
ing to gain everything to lose, by snarl
ing over what this or that individual II
tends or hopes to do. II the men elect
ed atthe primaries are not loyal part!
mem capable of judging properly tn
sentiment Of the party and framing
policies accordingly, there never wa
and never will be such men in the or
ganization. What they need now j
steadfast, enthusiastic support an,
such as refuse to give 1t must be slate,
as knife wielders who have yet to com
to a knowledge Of what the interests o
this Territory demand