The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-07-13
TALKS
TO REPUBLICANS
A SUCCESSFUL MEETING WAS
HELD AT THE ORPHEUM LAST
EVENING.


The Republican alohafest at the Or |
pheum last night was in every sense |
a success for the attendance was large |
the speeches, though few, were ex-
cellent, and the enthusiasm they
evoked was contagious. Acting Gov
ernor A. L. G. Atkinson occupied the
chair and, after a number of selections
by quartette, announced that the
dieting had been called to ratify the
results Of the late County campaign.
He introduced National Committee
man A. G. M Robertson who made II
thoughtful grafton in which he took
occasion to hand a few tributes to the
so-called Republicans who deserted
their party at a critical moment. He
inveighed against the old idea of per-
sons setting themselves UP as indie
pendent candidates, superior to parry
rules, and congratulated the party on
| the signal defeat which had attended
the efforts at disruption. He intro
duced the speaker of the evening Col
w. P. Hepburn, congressman from
Iowa in a few well chosen sentences
in which he reviewed the career of
that gentleman.
Congressman Hepburn was received
with a rousing burst of applause.
II am long way from home" he
commenced more than 1000 miles, yet in
Republican assemblage I recognize
| the fact that I am among friends.
| There is a wonderful difference be-
| tween the prairie and the sea, between
/ the plains of Iowa and the mountains
of Hawaii. 1t is more than 1000 miles
| to that prairie state, and yet Repub-
licanism is the same everywhere be-
| cause Republicanism is based upon this
great fundamental truth that we read
in the Declaration of Independence:
We believe that all men are created
equal and endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights, and
that among these are life. liberty and
| the pursuit of happiness Republi-
canism maintained these principles
/ when they We're assailed.
"There must be government i'm all
parties" continued Col. Hepburn 81
hear men sometimes say they are not
politicians, that they don't believe in
politics, that they have no time or in
clination for politics, that politics
means impurity and filth. Politics is
the science of government. and if poll
tees are impure, it is because the men
whose duty it is to see to it that the
science of government should be prose-
cuted upon right lines, failed in their
duty and neglected their public charge
There is not a government on earth
in which there are not parties-there
never has been. All governments of
Republican form have parties that gov
ern-not men. We talk about Lin
coins administration, of Grants ad-
ministration of Roosevelt's administra-
ton. 1t is the party that controls,
not simply the affairs of state, but
those men who administer them.
"The Republican party ought to be
continued in power. 1t is the party
that does things. 1t is the party of the
young man, the man who has red blood
in his veins, the man with hope in his
heart the man with expectation in
his vision, the man who expects to live
long among the blessings of govern
ment and who is intent upon preserv-
ing them. I say the Republican party
is the party that does things. Look
back over it's record, as it's wonderful
achievements. Ben as it was under
clouded skies; born as it was almost
within the sound of those rumbling
cannon that a little while afterwards
belched death and destruction over
thousands of battlefields; born as it
was to inherit a bankrupt treasury;
divided government, filled with treason
and with revolution with it's bloody
banners Haunted in its face, it took