The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-08
WILL HARRIS BE KNIfED7

r. WILL HARRIS BE KNlFED7
, Editor Advertiser:-whep I heard
that the machine Republicans were
pressing a nomination at this time up
on w. W. Harris, the ancient warning
Greeks when they come bearing gifts"
These very practical politicians OF ours
eager as they were to have an election
at-a time when no actual office was
at stake, were quite as eager also to
avoid putting one OF their own men on
the ticket. They wanted the honors to
go to some friend of Mr. Dole's. so they
went over to the missionary firm or
Levers e Cooke and picked out Mr..
Harris. a young man whose principles
in local politics are directly opposed to
their own. He is in favor of good gov
eminent and not In favor of county
and city government. Yet he is run
ming under the management of men to
whom city and county government.
with their multiplication of offices and
gratis. squares the circle OF desirable
things to have
In the meantime August Dreier APP
pears In the field with a platform
which states, with absolute precision.
all that the machine Republicans are
hoping and praying for. 1t is solid for
the subdivision of political authority 1t
opposes Dole and accuses him of mis-
representing the voters. II calls for
special session of the Legislature This
platform was first presented in the
Bulletin-in the office OF which L think
ifl may have been conStructed-and
published with August Dreier's pur-
ported endorsement Dreier says he
never signed the letter given in his
name, although he now accepts ii.
Who got mp the platform and letter /
have no means OF finding out, but as
they were first divulged In the Bulletin
and az they represent the sentiments
OF that paper and OF Mr.. Harris most
vociferous campaign managers. i must
infer that they are part and parcel of
q scheme to lay the Republican nomi-
nee low.
How so and why so? Well, I figure
this way. II Harris is showed under
as he may be X his alleged friends in
this canvass join the Home Rulers and
Democrats In voting against him, the |
fact will be used nt Washington to |
prove the unpopularity OF Gov. Dole !
and the weakness OF his policy. There |
will be hue and cry TO follow in the |
FIRST outgoing mail. 1t is worth more |
to- the Republican machine to beat a |
Dole candidate than to elect a man OF
its own The election amounts to !
rothing except as it gives a chance to |
play factional triclq and win a fac |
tional advantage. The anti Dole |
crowd are working with their custom
airy smoothness. They are in charge |
oI- TIE campaign ana ADVISE the I
nominee what to do; their friends OF |
the Democracy and the Home Rule |
party are getting in line TO vote for 1
Drefer and they are doing nothing to |
they count much on the indif- |
ference of business men to an election !
which leads to no office; they are get !
ting ready to shift the responsibility OF /
defeat upon other shoulders by say
ing that the Advertiser has been ad-
vising Its friends to stay away from |
the polls. Unless am profoundly mis- |
taken this Is the alpha and omega of |
the political situation In the Fourth. !
80 VINDEX.
on the correspondent of the Adver-
tiser Is right, and 1t can be said for
him that the subject was a matter of /
common gossip on the street yesterday
and came to the ears of some of the
officials OF the party. there is duty ,
which Is face to face with every Re
publican in the Fourth district More
than that, party lines must not be so
strongly drawn that the friends of good /
be they Republicans,
Democrats or mugwunps. shall fail to /
cast q vote for Harris. II the object
In forcing the party into show of
strength at the by-election OF tomor- /,
can be used at the Capitol. to indicate
that Governor Dole Is without friends
in his home District, to humiliate the
chief executive during his absence. an
event which has been OF so little i'm
portance that the business men of the
have not even taken the
trouble to subscribe largely to the
funds. assumes a greater
perspective Every eligible voter in
the Fourth District, who thinks OF the
future Of the country. every citizen
who believes that the Territory Is in
need Of high class government. such as
Governor Dole stands for In himself,
must turn out, despite the demands OF
business. Notwithstanding the claims
OF correspondents, even IL there are
things which demand the doing on
"wednesday. and cast his vote for Har-
ris- IT is no longer a matter OF an off,
Ger for an office which will never have
Importance. a representative who will
never sit, it is an endorsement of the
general administration OF affairs here.
a showing that Republicans stand to-
gether despite the attempts which
have been made by renegade mug
wumps TO lead them away from the
staunch support OF the appointees of
the head OF that party. II there has
been a time when the friends of good
government should come together IL Is
the present The very intimation that