The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-31
FROSTY WEATHER.


The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow
blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick
upon him:
The third day comes a frost, killing
frost"
The tender leaves of hope are pref
ty well ripped and the killing FROST
of the third day has reached the polit-
ical career of Wilcox,
The poet says 1t is better to have
loved and lost than never to have loved
at all" Not so the politician. After
having gained place and power, it is
gall and worm-wood to have both slip
ping away, and to know that another
is being chosen to fiji the place and to
WELD the power.
Wilcox has defeated himself, for that
he will be defeated unless his oppo-
Hents play an egregiously foolish
game, goes without saying, The policy
of Wilcoxism was personal greed. 1t
appealed to the worst side Of human
nature, strove by its theories to de-
baunch the minds Of its constituents
and the voters at large and dazzled
them with promises which it knew
perfectly we'll could not be fulfilled
There never was any true patriotism
in the policy of Wicoxism. 1t talked
glibly upon the point, but it was moth
ing but hot air. 1t was a plant with
out any root, and it dried up and with
cred. "'
The frost which has struck Wilcox
ism has been very noticeable even be-
fore the attempted Kauai campaign.
When the Delegate arrived from Wash
ington he al once spraH.g upon the plat
form and began to roar against every
one here. He apparently divided the
Territory into those who were the
slaves of his will. and into those who
were not. If the first We're subservient
enough, they were all right Those
who were opposed to him We're black
hearted" and could be painted in every
term that a imperative tongue could
seize upon.
But there was a surprise in store.
The slaves of WilcoXism would be
slaves no longer, they ventured to have
an opinion of their own, and when it
was proposed to put all political power
Of the party into the hands Of two or
three irresponsible men, there was a
kick, the framing Of a new constitution
and a split, because Kalauokalani and
Wilcox promised one thing one day
and did exactly the opposite the next.
This was Tar more significant than
many thought at. the time. Ii was err
roneous to think that the Home Rule
party was entirely broken, it was not
but confidence in the leadership was
broken. Not only was it broken among
The boilers, but it was broken among
those who remained within the pale.
Mere windy rhetoric can no longer re-
store the confidence which has been
lost. 1t has gone, and gone for ever.
The Wilcox Kalauokalant campaign
on Kauai has shown this. Though the
Delegate who seek reelection has re-
turned with a smiling face, he knows
in his inmost heart that he has prac-
ticauy lost the Island of Kauai. In
stead of meeting with enthusiasm he
was met with apathy, and when the
usual windy promises We're made they
were laughed to scorn. The forty-acre
promise of the Kealia and Kapaa lands
was not treated seriously by the listen
ers one of these pointed out that the
same aggregation had promised ten
acres apiece to the Hawaians, and
these had not matertalized up to the
present The same feeling was ex-
pressed when public improvements
were talked over. Kalauokalani point
ed to the appropriations which had
been voted by the Home Rulers and
clear headed Hawaiian remarked that
as to the appropriations the Senator
was correct, but he had only supplied
hot air to carry them out. The remark
was in the vernacular and was ex-
pressed somewhat more coarsely.
This all goes to show that there is
a reaction against the. present Dele
gate. He has returned so empty
handed and his excuses for so doing
are so threadbare, his policy, or lack
of policy, has been so weak that even
his most devoted followers. :. see the
bloom is off the peach and those who
only followed in the ruck begin 10 won
der why they followed All this is the
Delegates own doing and it is going to
prove his undoing.
In replacing the Delegate with rep
resentative and an able man, the great
est care must be taken as to choice.
The Republican party has the ball
nearly in its hands, The duty of the
Delegates who will meet. in September
viii be very onerous, Upon their vote
will depend the nomination of the can
didate, If a good and a popular can
didate is chosen, there will be no diff
Guilty in electing him, but if a mistake
is made it will be as fatal to the Ter