The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-29
Sound Republican Doctrine at the
! Meeting of the Young Mems
Republican Club.
District Attorney Breckons the Only speIlbinder
: Absent Robertson Makes Good Talk.
The Candidates Heard.

bringing up a fight against my oppo-
nent am not doing so.
THE Home R.ule party tells you
you should not vote for any man but
a Hawaiian, and then they put up two
white men. I can get along without
the job of county clerk. I don't need
it for my support, but ask you to
give me your votes as by voting for me
you vote for the Republican party.
The gentleman on the Independent
ticket for clerk is very capable man,
no doubt, but he has no backing. The
reason the convention put me on the
ticket is because they thought me
capable. If 1 was not the friend Of
every man in the convention was the
friend of the majority. and I believe
that for that reason I am entitled to
your votes.
ROBERTSON HEARD.
A. G. NJ. Robertson was given an
ovation as he stepped forward. He
entered at once into discussion Of
the organization of the government Of
the United States and its relation to
Hawaii, and made some apt SMILES
on the political situation.
Suppose two yachts were coming
down the course to engage in a. race
said he. Their tall masts, great
spreads Of canvas-they have the same
water to sail In, they have the same
breeze to blow them along All other
things being equal that yacht will win
the race which is best handled. the
crew of which has the best organiza-
ton. The crew that more readily
obeys the commands of the officers of
that yacht, will win the race. Here
are two vast armies met face to face
on a great battlefield. That army which
is best disciplined, is the best organ
lied will win the fight. That army
whose rank and file is most obedient
is the army that Will gain the victory.
This is no strange principle. It is
a law of nature and applies with full
force to the science of government
what we call politics. This has been
clearly demonstrated in the history of
our country. When the American
Colonies gained their independence
from the mother country they formed
confederation. That confederation
was an absolute failure. Why? Sim
ply because there was no one in COM
mand. Each colony represented it's
own rights which made it impossible
for the nation to make any progress.
There was no executive that had the
power to command"
Mr.. Robertson then explained the
principles upon which the government
was founded. until he reached the point
when he said that the very nature of
our government demands the forma-
ton of great national parties through
whom and by means of which the will
of the people may be expressed.
Without party organization, said
he, lit would be absolutely impossible
to maintain any party worthy the
name. There must be party obedience
and fealty. The whole government is
really government of and by the
party. Then there is the convention,
the voice of the people to which dele
gates from all the precincts are elect
ed. The voice of the convention is
the voice of the party.
1T is i'll for any man to express any
discomfort with the will of the con-
vention. It is his plain duty to follow
his leaders and obey their commands.
The voice Of the party must necessar-
lily be the voice of the majority, and
he who holds his own ideas out
against the majority of his fellow
members. there must be something
wrong with him.
when the Republican party places
in the field full ticket of honest and
capable men II is your whole duty
to support that ticket from one end
to the other. If this is done there
should be no doubt as to the result
of the election next week (applause).
ANY Republican who scratches the
ticket commits three wrongs. The
first is to the man he scratches Off the
ticket. The second is an injury to
himself, for he does not know that
some day he may be nominated for
office and when he secures a nomina-
ton there is no doubt that he will ex-
pect the support of the whole party
and such thing as scratching win not
be acknowledged by him as permits
sible and in doing the scratching him.
self, he therefore cuts his own throat.
The third is the injury to the party at
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