The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26
TnE INDEPENDENT pLATFoRsl.


The Republican managers are holding
precinct meetings for the purpose o
putting Independent men on the wit
ness stand and cross-examihing then
Il as to why they viii not vote tn
straight ticket But few of the untram
meled voters attend and those who do
decline, as a rule. to enter into a yer
bal controversy with the crowd OF poll
tfcians about them. Their silence
however, is interpreted to mean thai
they are simply perverse and intend
TO split their tickets more for the ex-
| citement than for any other cause
Word is passed along the line that
/ they mean to vote against some OF
| the nominees but don't know who or
why; that they are mere dfsturbers OF
| the peace whom level-aeaded men viii
not support or follow,
The party managers themselves know
better than this. They are wei aware
that Aylett. besides being one OF Ku-
malae's men in the last Legislature. is
hopelessly Incompetent He probably
could not tell the difference, without
help, between a bill and resolution;
he could not draw the simplest legisla-
tive formula; he would be In the next
Legislature a tool, as BIZ, 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
heiona in the Fifth is the che ia can
didate. Opposed to these men are COM
petent, honest and responsible citi-
zens. belonging to an opposite party to
be sure, but having vastly more at
stake here, man for man, than their
opponents. Bad government would not
hurt Aylett, Long and Mahelona and
might indeed, be profitable to them,
but it would do serious harm to men
like Campbell, Langston, Jarrett and
Trent. For watch-dogs Of the Treas
ury the independent voter knows very
well where among them to fix his
choice. Surely he would not pick out
Aylett. Long and Mahe1oaa.
And waIch-degs of the Treasury are
what the people of Hawaii, who have
property interests at stake and are not
filed with lively sense of political
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 |
Legislature which can be depended on |
to make the laws against official mis- /
doing more inexcrable. Aylett, Long /
and Mahelona belong to the class that
err between greed and contamination
and the barriers stronger between
crime and punishment. The men who
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 probity;
hey may believe in free trade but they
also believe in economy, retrenchment
md reform; they may not like Roose-
velt but they hate thieyes. Surely it
matters less to us that they are Demo-
rats than it does that their so-caiied
opponents cannot be trusted
o keep the legislative rudder true.
These are reasons for Independent
courses in the coming election which
be met by raillery nor over
come by the badgering OF witnesses.
they are reasons which lie at the root
If all good government; and they are
reasons, we believe, which viii bring
about such a political revolution on
November sth as to convince all parties
hat it is safest to make their political
tickets, hereafter, out of their best
material and not their worst,
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