The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-11

harmony" in the Republican par
| ty here by giving power to those who
| want il for revenge and spoils, viii
| arouse his indignation when he knows
| the truth. The case runs on all tours
! with a proposition such as might have
| been made when the Good Government
| party in New York was fighting Tam
many Hall, to surrender TO Croker for
| the sake of peace. Hawaii has its
Tammany element, including an ex-
heller of that corrupt faction; and
Governor Dole and his friends are all
that stand between it and scandals as
great as some of those which were I'M
earthed and exposed by Lexow.
Let us review the situation in a few
plain words: When the present Dole
party, for the sake of honest govern
ment here, struck down the monarchy.
it naturally incurred the hatred of the
monarchists. These were in a major
ity, and when Congress made this land
a Territory, they became the majority
voters under the American system. In
revenge, they sought to compel Mr..
Dole's retirement. This effort, as might
have been expected. brought profess
sional job-chasers here from every part
of the Union. These men saw. as did
the carpet-baggers vino went South in
1878, that a wly-enfranchised alien
race. casting a majority vote and in
tent on getting control of affairs, yet
unfamiliar with the methods of politics, |
would be easy to lead, and that the lead
ers might get power and plumber. So all
hands started to do" politics. Their |
first and vital success was to capture |
the organization of the Republican par
ty through colonized primaries. The |
aborigines who made no pretense of
being Republicans aided them and the
Dole party, though in an actual Re
publican majority, were swamped at
the polls. Having the primaries, it was
easy for the plotters to control the
and defeat a resolution linn
ting Republican primary votes to
members Of the party bearing that
name. And thereby came the appear
ance of Harold Sewall, an ambitious
md wholly interruptions politician, as
committeeman from Ha-
vail. The entire outfit-mona rchists
.arpet = baggers and machine polite
ans, with an alien race-alien of
bought and alien of speech-behind
hem, constitute the anti-Dole party of
hese islands. Let conservatism be
hrust aside and Hawaii will see things
n political disagreement that will
eem like Tammany Hall and the rule
f the Southern carpet-baggerS COM
ined-things that will hurt the Roose-
cit administration and give the policy
an expanded Union much to explain
way.
In the meantime, what? Certainly
here will be no peace in Hawaiian pol
les. Our party of good government
ill not yield to the worst elements to
ct harmony. There can be no har-
.ony with corrupt men in power. The
istory of Theodore Roosevelt shows
lat the most appreciated and useful
ervice public man can render to the
tate is to wage war, and to keep wag-
g war, upon the enemies of good gov
'nment. To that duty the most I'M
.lfish men of Hawaii have been COM
tilted for sixty years and they are not
kelly to abandon it when their Ter
tory is menaced by a system of rule
ssides which the government of Ali
aba and his Forty Thieves would
EN- respectable.
There can be no peace without hon
,; and the acceptance of carpet-bag
lie in Hawaii would mean dishonor.