The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-10-28
rne INDEPENDENT plsrfoss.

'~hs Republican managers afe hoilinf
pfs,init meetings fof ihf ruffutp ~
| puiiiuF independent men ~ the VS.
ness stand and ofuass taminina ihrin
ne w. Why thny VIII NOT vote ihH
airairbt trkri. nui ffN ~ ihe upitnm-
fnrled voters attend and those Who do,
a., iino sa % rule. 10 enter into we're
bal controversy with the crowd ~ pole
ticiana about them. Their Hilenre.
however. h interpreted 10 mean mat
lhny ore simply pcryerse ana intend
10 split ther tickets more for the *
element than Tor any other cause.
Word s passed along the line that
they mean 30 vote against some oi
The nominees but don't know who or
why. that they ore mere disturbera OF
the peace whom level-headed men VIII
not support or follow.
The party managers themselves know
better than this. They are well aware
that Aylett. besides being one OF ku-
malae's men In the last Legislature, II
hopelessly incompetent. He probably
could not tell the difference, without
help, between a bill ana a resolution;
ne could not draw the simplest legisla-
tive formula; he would be In the next
Legislature n tool, as he was In the
last one. AS for Long he is an educated
man, but he also is "A tool, his mas
tiers being Colburn and Ashford. Ma
helona in the Fifth IL the che ia cam
didate. Opposed to these men are COM
petent. honest and responsible citl-
zens. belonging to an opposite party TO
be sure but having vastly more at
stake here, man for man, than thelr
opponents. Bad government would not
hurt Aylett, Long and Maheiona ana
might. indeed be profitable to them,
but It would do serious harm to men
like Campbell, Langston, Jarrett ana
Trent. For watch-dogs Of the Treas
ury the Independent voter knows very
we'll where among them TO fix ms
choice. Surely he would not pick out
Aylett, Long and Mahelona.
And watch-dogs of the Treasury are
what the people of Hawaii, who have
property interests at stake and are not
filled with a lively sense OF polltical
favors to come, demand with one voice.
Embezzlement is cropping up In the
most unexpected places. There Is the
spirit of plumber in the air. one may
hear in quiet corners the chink OF dirty
dollars. Now if ever the people need
I legislature which can be depended on
to make the laws against official mis-
doing more memorable. Aylett, Long
and Mahelona belong to the class thal
has always made the safeguards weak
err between greed and contamination
and the barriers stronger between
crime and punishment. The men VINO
are running against them are also run
ming against that theory of legislation.
They may be Democrats but they are
taxpayers and men of fixed problty'
they may believe in free trade but they
also believe in economy, retrenchment
and reform: they may not like Roose-
welt but they hate thieves. Surely II
less to us that they are Demo-
Gratis than it does that their so-called
opponents cannot be trusted
to keep the legislative rudder true.
These are reasons for Independent
courses in the coming election which
cannot be met by raillery nor over
come by the badgering of witnesses.
They are reasons which lie at the root
of all good government; and they are
reasons, we believe, which will bring
about such a political revolution on
November Sth as to convince all parties
that it is safest to make their political
tickets, hereafter, out of their best
material and not their worst.