Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-07

presses some very salient truths re- |
gardng public men and political ac-
ton, particularly interesting as Low
has been put to the fore as an advanced
political type.
"Egotism, self-complacent and con
stitutional timidity are not the ele-
ments to make a leader nor do they at
tract the love and support Of an Amer
lean electorate" is one Of the sentences
with which he nails the shortcomings
Of Low in the field of politics that takes
into account the people.
Called to task because his opposition
to Low seems based on the fact that he
cannot be elected, Jerome responds
DO not let us be deceived by any re-
finements about insulting the intelli-
genCe Of the voters Remember that
the popular estimate of MIR. Low has
been formed instinctively during twen-
ty-One months, and you are going to
remove this estimate in campaign Of
! a little over thirty days In other
| words Jerome expOunds the very hon
est and sensible teaching OF practical
life that 1t is one thing to stand pJr a
principle but quite another to attempt
to carry il out with impossible ma
erial.
Jerome also says something of the
American electorate as a whole and
the policy of "reformers" that makes
good reading and carries pointed les
son. particularly as he is a "reformer"
himself. He says:
Way down in my heart | am a
democrat. love the Plain people.
Some of the happiest moments in my
life were the moments passed in their
company, living amongst them. But
am no Jeffersonian democrat who
fakes respect on the platform and in
mis- public utterances for Their keen
Intelligence and delicate susceptibility
and in his clubs and political commit.
tee devises methods utterly puerile &c
endeavor to guide their errant steps.
The wholesome. honest instincts oi
an American electorate ere infinitely
better than their conscious judgments
They hate hypocrisy and shams anC
too often go against us 'Rclormers' no
because our principles are bad but W,
do not King true
Remember that while the creates
man our country has produced durinI
our span Of life has said that you can
not fool all of the people all OF tn,
time, he also said. you can fool all o
the people some of the time And how
; ever irrational, from your point .
view, 1t might be for the people not t
support Mr.. Low in the coming cam
r paign, standing, as he would stand, 70
; a good cause. yet they will, in m.
Judgment, be fooled enough by thei
= impressions of his character, formed
!: during the past twenty-O1c months. L
!: vote against him in spite OF our effort
+ to make them see that II would be
!: under the circumstances. AN insult Il
= their intelligence to put up some othe
+ candidate, toward whom they did no
= have an unCOnquerable antipathy."
= Jerome the refOrmer has analyze
: Low the rcformer and the result is
= conviction that learning. wealth an
+ even good intent cannot aCCbmplis
! much tor reform unless the refOrmer /
his administration appreciates that
81 Is the Ilain people he must satisfy an
e who finally pass Judgment on his worl
p Mayor Low and his supporters, prof
ably jerome among them, are no
hard at work endeayoring to disprov
II the jerome theory. The result wi
At have an added interest in consequence
ri OF the jerome prediction of what
going TO happen to the Low type Of pc
litical leaders.
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