The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-11-06
THE CRY OF FRAUD.

As might have been expected. the
Bulletin attacks the integrity OF the
late elections in the hope Of doing
something for its friends, the Home
| Rulers, with a mock expression of
political loyalty 1t declares that the
Republican party, standing for free
ballot and an honest count, cannot
pass over lightly" the wealth of char
ges pointing to corrupt practices in
handling the ballots" And 1t adds:
1.-THE people are satisfied that up to
the day of the election every act in
dealing with the ballots was strictly
STRAIGHTFORWARD. The vital doubt Is
connected with election day events"
All this is a mixture of humbug and
treachery, based upon desire to force
Republicans out of Office IL possible
and put Home Rulers in, who Will give
their printing to the Bulletin. More
unfounded charges against Republican
methods were never made than those
which the Bulletin thinly wells as an
appeal to the conscience of the party.
Instead of wealth of accusation
there Is nothing but the usual acid
blast of epithet from embittered and
perfectly irresponsible men. Ashford
was defeated, hence Ashford yells
fraud George Markham, with his
prophecies all estray, thinks there
must be something wrong" Jimmy
Boyd, with whom the Bulletin was
wont to divide, and whose career OF
official .blackness was whitewashed
daily by that paper in humble expecta-
ton Of more printing favors, also de-
nounces Republican dishonesty
Charley Wilcox Is in the same frame
of mind, and John Wise, hand-in-glove
with the spy whom the Bulletin has
kept for years about Republican head
quarters, Is sure that he was counted
out instead of being voted out, as he
was And 1t Is the empty billingsgate
of these soreheads which the Bulletin
pointing to corrupt practices in hand
ling the ballots" wealth indeed!
AS If anything valuable as testimony
exists in the windy maledctions OF
corrupt and defeated hui, the principal
members of which have never succeed
ed in getting elected to anything and
To- l.
ways passed along from toe to toe of
Republican boots until they vanish in
the valleys looking for mud to lie in
and then throw.
Since annexation the mere prospect
of defeat has started the cry of fraud.
When Wilcox, the first time he ran,
found that he had lost Oahu, he dis
covered offhand that he had been
cheated out of his rights and announ-
ced, the next day, that he would make
a contest. When he found that the
other islands had elected him he for
got all about fraud" and never mem
toned his important developments"
again. Last year it was the same way
and there was more talk Of dishonesty |
at the polls-a wealth" Of hot air
took no notice of what they regarded |
as Home Rule consolation talk" and |
the vaporing came to an end. Pre-
cisely the same phenomenon is occur
ring now, but the Bulletin alone, for |
its own indecent purposes, tries to
dignity it into legitimate complaint
of Republican methods. Nothing |
would suit 1t better than to induce the |
managers OF the party to publicly con-
tives and practices by proceeding to
investigate them. That would be the |
strongest kind of card for the Home |
Rulers to whom the Bulletin long ago |
sold itself for drtier money than the
thirty pieces Of silver which corrupted |
it's patron saint
If there is any investigating to be
done-and we are talking now to the |
leaders of the Republican party--let !
1t go to the Grand Jury where 1t be-
longs. And let those who make the |
charges press them. 1t is not the |
business OF any Republican to do 1t,
for that would be an insult to the |
party. to common sense and to the
principles OF justice. Home Rulers
and their friend the Bulletin say there
has been fraud. Let them prove 1t, II
they can.