The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-01


Gle on The Independent voter says:
I'VE glory in the splendid stand taken
by The Advertiser in behalf of the
principle of Independent voting. The
Republican party in these Islands has
stultifed itself more than once by
nominating unworthy men for office.
It is the one party which has most
to lose by catering to lower motives.
How are our Hawaiian, Japanese,
Chinese and Portuguese voters to be
trained in citizenship except through
a party which does not. subordinate
principle to policy? The Republican
party simply cannot afford to nomin-
tate inferior men. When ever it does
| this it deserves overwhelming defeat.
Every citizen who rebukes it by vot-
ing against it's unworthy nominees is
helping to teach these new, unframed
/ voters what true Americanism means.
Loyalty TO party at all hazards is the
worst lesson Hawaiians can learn.
Loyalty to right will make them de-
pendable citizens. They understand
full well such motives as loyalty to
! race, loyalty to graft, loyalty to self
interest. They do not know what 10y
atty to the public veal signifies. The
Republican party makes its appeal to
them as the party able to teach them
to subordinate self to the common
good. 1t points with scorn to boodlers,
grafters and men of that ilk. In order
to make its scorn effective it must
name for office the best men it has.
Then 1t can claim to be party repre-
senting principle in its nominations.
The Hawaiians Japanese, Chinese and
Portuguese can understand such teach
ing. They may not at first always vote
for the best men when nominated, but
they will in the end learn by expert
ence the value of SO doing The Friend
therefore is glad to endorse The Ad-
vertiser in it's plea to Republicans to
rebuke party managers by rejecting
at the polls every unworthy candidate.
Only thus can the party be made to
live up to its principles.
Scratch by all means
Theodore Richards contributes his
There was a man in our town,
Who was so wondrous wise,
He scratched-etc."
There's wisdom in scratching, even if
the authority of the above seems
doubtful We believe there is much
political sagacity in scratching espe-
cially in local affairs. Yes, Mr. Editor
Of he ficar
your contention that only good men
should get good votes here. In this
little Territory, where Republicans
ism" and other 'isms' haven't begun
to mean anything much, it is our OPP
portunity to make them mean some
thing by the standards we set up. If
the Republican party persists in put
ting forward it's piebald ticket with a.
lot of stuff worse than merely useless
on it, because forsooth, it can be elect
ed, let the party suffer till it learns
political wisdom. OF course it won't
appear to suffer while this pitiful
quackery of party loyalty domin-
ates otherwise intelligent men. So long
it may continue to elect it's candidates,
and the Territory will do the suffer-
ing. What the Republican party wants
it clear that there are enough clean
and capable men in this Territory to
require that sort of men on the tick
cts. Then, if there is all that differ
ance between a good Republican and
a good Democrat that some claim there
is, there will be the likelihood of a
hrst-rate alternative, if one wants to
vote either ticket straight.
To,.., &c +Lo+
cry that seems to end all criticism of
eandidates,-''Why don't you get out
10 the primaries ?'' 1t looks plausible,
inds that the "job-cha SER has pre-
'eded him at the primaries, and unless
ne is willing to force himself into
obnoxious prominence, he hasn't any
,hance of affecting the situation. But |
ais vote counts, and if the primary
managers got it into their heads that |
here were independent voters to deal {
With, not a lot of puppets, labelled |
My Party, Wrong or Right" there /
would be a different set put on the
icket.
Scratch, brothers. scratch with
are
What's this? s.The Governor can
manage this riff-raf element on the
icket." What security have the tax
ayers for that? He will have to make
t worth their while. What are your
x-thieves and gamblers in politics
or?
But. with all respect to the Govern
r, we don't want men he can man
ge. We want the kind of men who
an not be managed by him or any one
lse. Perhaps we are not quite ready
0 haYe our legislative body a meres
rm Of the executive, good as it is
Now we contend that a good deal of
his loyalty TO party talk Isl vicious.
here has been too much already OF
UGH as this,-"yop, won't get any at
ention to your pleas for good roads
III you come into our party. camp"
If you are to expect anything
the administration, you must work
Or a set of men pleasing to that adj
What plan could be better adapted
, the raising up of a host of syco-