Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-04-06
EVERY VOTE NEEDED.

Republicans OF the Fourth District
have an electoral battle on their hands
well worthy OF the best effort they can
summons for polling the full party
strength.
Rallies of the Home Rule Party held
Saturday afternoon furnish proof posi-
tive that there is little difference
among the rank and file of that polit
zeal body. 1t has been said OF the
Home Rulers that they are always
ready to do politics. Certainly they
can turn out the crowds and II the
showing made by the meeting amounts
to anything 1t establishes the fact that
the Republicans cannot afford to have
any stay-at.homes on election day.
Every Republican voter of the
Fourth District who fails to cast his
ballot for w. w. Harris on Wednesday
next is not only assisting the opposi
ton parties in this election but in the
fall campaign as well. Lack of inter,
est in party success, refusal to support
the party nominee, sneering attitude
toward Importance OF bye-election
all furnish ammunition for the enemy,
and discredit the party not alone IN
the house of its friends but cast a
harsh reflection upon the loyalty and
honesty Of purpose with which party
principles are presented to the voter
Even this short campaign has
brought out voters who have had
enough of the Home Rule party. They
see in the Republican organization and
tenets of faith a closer approach to
their ideas of good business-like gov
eminent and strict adherence to the
promises made the voters. They have
come to know the Republican party as
a fixed quantity always to be depend
ed upon. These men the party needs
for the special election. They must be
held for the regular fall campaign
What will be the effect upon these con
verts, II, when election day comes
they find men who have hitherto pro
claimed their everlasting confidence IL
all that Republicanism stands for, re
naming away from the pons, allowing
some petty spite, a difference on part,
management or the Interpretation o
the Organic Act to cause them to with
draw from the support OF the part!
candidate and the party platform
whose good qualities they fully believ,
in. What will be the effect of the
stay-at-home politician upon the polit
ical convert?
Not alone are the converts to b,
thought of. There are voters in tn,
Fourth District, life long Republicans
who state that their vote will be infiu
enced by the attendance or non-attend
ance Of members of the party VIII
huNt uppullSh SOHltWHul CTlllCdl att
tude, to say the least, toward the earn
est endeayor of the majority to uphol
party integrity in the contest that /
now on.
The stay.at.home bids fair to chang
the complexion of the returns In NOR
ways than one.
The man who has so much impol
tant business on hand next Wedne!
day that he cannot go to the polls an
register his vote for the Republica
candidate VIII thereby materially al
sist in creating a landslide for tn
Home Rulers and Democrats.
No voter prompted by fair degre
of honesty can contemplate such
course for a moment. Every vote
needed. There can be no excuse wha
ever for failure to be present and vo
Ing" Good citizenship, good govern
ment, good Judgment and commo
sense demand the presence OF ever
qualified voter of the party. The fraI
chise may be privilege, 1t may be