The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-30
HARMONY VS.. HONESTY.


"tbe push" about the need Of harmony
in the Republican party CT Hawai- al
any cost; but the conscience OF goou
citizen naturally rebels at harmony
with any man of shady civic reputa-
tion or with an object which Is mer-
oana-v or predaceous. 1t would be
easv to have harmonious world aooU'
ne IL honest men were content 10 ie'
had men have their way, and 10 ac-
cept at the behest of politlcal anu
other conspirators the worst polcles
which might be Matched among them'
t,u, a World of that kind would be
bad place to live in. Agitation anu
combat are purifiers. The sea Is pure
because it is never still: the ar -
nure because of the storms that cleanse
II. the earth produces the best fruits
when II is stirred up; and it is crltl-
cisnn. and the knowledge that other men
are ready to pounce upon any dere-
LECTION. which keeps civilized men rom
reversion to the original brute type.
Harmony of the kind the spoils-
seekers who call themselves Repup-
1icans are after in Hawaii, has already
cost the marty and the Territory a sad
experience and great price II II hau
been accepted when first offered II
might have given us Sewan Tor Gov
ernor. In the first Territorial conVeh-
ton II gave us the wide-open primaries
which have been a curse to the party |
organization since; it gave us a legis- |
Iatiye ticket made up, in large measure
Of the enemies of the substantial ana
taxpaying Republicans; it accepted Tor
us the services, in a responsible post
of government of VIM. II. Wright ana !
James II. Boyd; and in the second con-
yention it gave us a legislative ticket
ouita as offensive and disadvantag Gus
to the Territory as the one the Home
Rulers had named against it. All was
done in the name of harmony-but
what did the Territory or the Repuo-
Hcan party get. tout of it that was worth
the having? We elected so-called
Republican legislature last year ana
now we have to live its record down.
wouldn't it have been wiser to have
nut in our best efforts to elect an hon
est and genuine Republican legislature
even If we had failed at the polls?
TT seems to the Advertiser that the
chief duty of the Republican party OF
Hawaii is to keep itself clean; to set
an example here of really high-class
nominations and admirable civic poll
Sf
these, well and good: all the sooner
they will cook their goose" at WASH
ington where the policy of expansion
is not going to be deliberately identf-
fed with misrule. Assuredly they
ought not to have a chance to COM
nit their follies and crimes in the Re-
publican name; most assuredly decent
Republicans, even in the sacred name
of harmony, should not abet them in
it.
Today we have the spectacle of men
who have not yet accounted for the
loss of public funds in their charge
asking high honors of the Republican
party and expecting to get them for
harmony's sake. We have other men
preparing TO raid the primaries so as
to put the county campaign and its
funds into their own itching palms and
to nominate a ticket of their own
stripe; and for harmony's sake the
taxpaying Republicans are asked to
keep their hands of. Are they going
to do so? Are they going to settle
down now and take it out in kick
ing and bewailing things afterwards?
Or are they going into a fight for good
government with all their strength,
making the issue one of principle
rather than of expediency and doing
nothing for harmony that is likely, in
the long run, to make their party re- /
sponsib1e for more embezzlement and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.?