The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-07-31
HARMONY VS.. HONESTY.

A great deal is said in organs OF
''the push" about the need of harmony
in the Republican party of Hawaii at
any cost; but the conscience of a good
citizen naturally rebels at harmony
with any man Of shady civic reputa-
ton or with an object which Is mer-
cenary or predaceous. 1t would be
easy to have a harmonious world about
us IL honest men were content TO let
bad men have their way. and to ac-
cept at the behest of political and
other conspirators the worst policies
which might be Matched among them.
But world of that kind would be
bad place to live in. Agitation and
combat are purifiers. The sea is pure
because It is never still: the air is
pure because Of the storms that cleanse
It; the earth produces the best fruits
when It Is stirred up; and II Is criti-
cism, 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 Repub-
leans are after in Hawaii, has already
cost the party and the Territory sad
experience and great price. If 1t had
been accepted when first offered 1t
might have given US Sewall for Gov
ernor. In the first Territorial conven-
ton 1t gave us the wide-open primaries
which have been a curse to the party
organization since: it gave us legis-
lative ticket made up, in large measure,
OF the enemies of the substantial and
taxpaying Republicans: 1t accepted for
Rulers had named against 1t. All was
done in the name of harmony-but
what did the Territory or the Repub
lican party get out of it that was worth
the having? We elected a so-called
Republican legislature last year and
now we have to live its record down.
Wouldn't 1t have been wiser to have
put in our best efforts to elect an hon
est and genuine Republican legislature
even IL we had failed at the polls?
1t seems to the Advertiser that the
chief duty of the Republican party Of
us the services, in q responsible post
of government of VIM. H. Wright and
James II. Boyd: and in the second con-
vention 1t gave us n legislative ticket
quite as offensive and disadvantag Gus
to the Territory as the one the Home
Hawaii is TO keep itself clean: to set
an example here Of really high class
cies If the aborigines win against
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 identi- |
fled with misrule. Assuredly they |
ought not to have a chance to COM
NIT their folies and crimes in the Re- |
publirar name: most assuredlv 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 vet accounted for the
loss Of public funds in their charge
asking high donors of the Republican
nartv and expectirP to get them for
harmonv's sake. We have other men
nreparinp to raid the primaries 50 as
funds into their own itching Mains and |
to nominate n ticket Of their own
stripe: and for harmony's sake the
tavnavinp Republicnns are asked to
keen their hands off Are thew going
to do so? Arc they going to settle
down now ara take ~ out in ",''oL-
ing" ar1 hewailirr things afterwardso
Or are thew going into fieht for pood
with all their stra,p
rathnr than NJ evne1iarcv and doir~
roth'rc for harr,oov thot 's 1ilsalv. in
the 1o-u rur To mako thair nartv
sno-e'h1n fnr wore embezzlement and
nal-adrinistration?