The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-03
SCRATCHING DANGEROUS.

sonal feeling rather than high sense
of duty to their country and their
| friends and neighbors, will fall short
! of the measure of the highest citizen
ship.
Good government is the aim of one
party in this Territory. progress is the
end toward which the men named by
one organization urge; reaetionary poll
cies and obstruction alone constitute
the ambitions of the other party, and
between the two play few independ-
ents hoping to gum shoe their way to
| office. Between the Republicans, who
sentiment for advanced administration
that has been put forward in this Ter
ritory, and must be regarded as the
men to whom the citizens shall look for
the accomplishment of reforms, and the
Home Rulers, whose every act and
word has been insincere or inimical TO
business interests, there stands no COM
parison in the minds of business men.
There are those however, men with
material interests, who see that it is to
the Republicans that they must Look for.
reclamation from the present i'll con-
dition of our governmental affairs, but
who illogically are jeopardizing the sue.
cess which seems at hand. by talking
of scratching the names of Republicans
from their tickets that they may vote
for men who are personal friends,a
tough on other tickets. In the present
condition of affairs there could be no
more dangerous procedure than to take
from the Republican ticket the name of
stitute therefor the name of man
nominated by the misfit Democracy,
the rump convention which deliberately
placed the head of its ticket in she
hands of man who has ever boosted
of his friendship for and approval of
the Republican Presidents he has
known.
There will be no scratching by mem
bers of the Home Rule party That
vote will be cast solidly, and every
time a Republican takes from his list
the name of one man he is ieopardiz-
ing the success of the entire ticket,
The point is that in cutting down the
vote of the man for whom he has the
least affection among the Republicans,
the voter without doubt has selected one
who has many friends. The next
scrat ching voter will cut out some
other Republican to give place for his
favorite among the hybrid racers, and
if the practice is carried to any extent,
the result may be the loss of suf-
ficient number of votes, to cause the
regular nominees to run behind and
fail of election.
There is a corps of hammer WELD
ers," so called, who have spent their
time recently, about the streets, making
politics. They always begin thus; II
am as good a Republican as any one,
but l cannot vote for --." From
this the argument tends to the ag-
grandizement of some particular man
on the hybrid list, and ends with the
prophecy that he will win by "hnn
dreds.' The runners of these hermaph-
roditic candidates are making their fight
by trying to break down all ideas of
party loyalty, and spend more time in
crying that there is no place for party
feeling in a local election, than in howl
ing the particular brand they repre-
sent.
Every citizen should remember that
good government is at stake. 1t is not
a time to compromise with danger in
any form. The men who are seeking
election which they know can come
only through betrayal of some party
candidate, are pledged to a platform
which stands for all that the Republic
can platform has avoided, are attached
TO and supporting the Home Rule dele
: tive policy, are on the stump endeavor-
ing to keep alive the very feeling of
race distrust which the genius of Re-
pub1icanism will lay for ever, by giving
to every man opportunity as his talents
command To vote for man who is
| running on the nondescript ticket
simply because he is good fellow
or that he is seen enjoying himself and
making others do the same each after
noon or evening, is making poor use of
the right of suffrage. Political rights
coming from the country, should be
used for its@good. If there ever was a
time when the people demanded a leg
isiature which would have a purpose
and that purpose the enactment OF
proper laws it is the present There
is not a voter but is certain where he
will find every man on the Republican
ticket when a question comes up af-
fecting the rights and prosperity of the
people. Will you know where the men
on the other tickets are to be found
/ Will they not be in opposition te
Progress" as typified by Republican