The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-01
SOME GOOD EDMICE.

thousands of votes does not count for
much, If it starts to vote for ITSELF but
if it joins one of two opposing parties
it will sometimes count for a very great
deal 1t may help to roll up the ma
jority when will bring victory, or it
may help to strengthen the minority
and give it heart to continue the fight.
This has been the position here. The
absolute necessity Of affiliating with
the great parties has not been under
stood by the voters. 1t has been to the
interest of a leader like Wilcox to keep
his followers ignorant upon such a
point. His aim has been clear, it has
not been the good of his fellow citizens,
but it has been the good Of himself and
a few of his friends. He would keep
the mass of the people ignorant as to
the path they should follow, and he
has in measure succeeded, but his
success has reached the point where it
is apt to reCoil upon itself. And this
will be the political history Of the Ter
the principles Of the great parties
which must be learned and fol-
lowed, and not tLeir own set Of prin~
ciples or lack of principles which are
to be maintained.
The Republican party here, the Star
believes, is far stronger than the gem
crafty think for 1t needs, however,
every vote that it can get. But it had
better go down to defeat as a strong
minority than sacrifice it's principles
and put up any one who is not pledged
to its principles. The delegate, who
goes from here, if the Territory is to
gain anything in the way of material
and political progress must be a Re
publican. He might be a Democrat
and do some good. But the Democrats
by themselves could not elect a dele
gate, and to help to elect delegate by
means of being swallowed by another
party, would mean nothing. a Home
Ruler, and Independent or what not,
though he might have the endorsement
of the Democrats here, would not be a
Democrat in the House, any more than
he would be a Republican, if endorsed
by the Republicans. The delegate from
here must stand upon one or other of
the great platforms. To stand upon a
pin-head platform of his own means
retrogression Sprobably and most GER
tainly stagnation. If our voters can
learn this they have learned a most
valuable lesson. They have been told
it by their fellow citizens, they have
been told it by one of the foremost
political thinkers in the United States.
If they will not hear, the fault lies with
themselves, and they must abide by it.
For the Republicans there is but one
true course, to stick to their princi-
pies. They must be Republicans first,
last and every time. The members of
the Republican party are not working
merely for their own personal good.
They are working for the good of the
Territory and of every person in it.
The Republican aspirations are not
local. they are national. They are the
aspirations of a great country, a coun-
try which is dominant in civilization,
in commerce, in mental activity and in
arms. These are not narrow aspira-
tons, groveling in selfishness. We
SHALL by following the Republican as
pirations, reach true American citizen
ship, and American citizenship, as
Senator Thurston says, is the high
est patent of nobility the world
has ever seen. 1t is greater than EN-
peror, King, Queen, Earl, Baron or
Count. 1t is the patent of nobility of
the true freeman of the world