The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-04

using the plea Of poor law merely
as an excuse for further excesses on
his part? Would any sheriff who aimed
to enforce the law come out among
these people and bid for votes on anv
such plea. Even the Sheriff admits the
presence of the men and girls in the
saloons. In his speech at kamehame-
ha he said
by that law, i. e liquor law. women
and young girls are admitted TO
saloons, the same as men and the po-
lice department is powerless 10 pre-
vent it
RESPONSIBILITY FIXED
The evils of the two years of free
liquor and lax administration of law
will not be cured by making a good
law and by putting in a sheriff who
VIII insist on an orderly and reputable
administration of affairs You can let
down the bars to vice far easier than
you can put them back again. and the
evil effects of the bad liquor law
coupled with a still more evil admin
istration of that law will be felt for
generation to come, and that is our
chief reason for demanding that the
Republican legislature which with it's
eyes open passed that law should be
held responsible for it at the polls.
They should be held to account for ii.
1t is not an atonement for them to
say. the law is bad and we will pass
good one to take its place. If such
pleas as that can be made with i'm
punity and the votes and confidence
of the electorate still be retained care
less legislation will be stimulated. We
have spoken of the decentralization of
throwing down the bars to vice. This
campaign illustrates this. Every man
who is acting against the law becomes
the servant of the police department,
its alder and abettor. The man who
comes before the electors and says he
viii enforce the law and must enforce
the law is at discount, and loses
votes by saying so. He subjects HIM
self to the hostility of every agent who
fiourishes in a wide open town. Brown
realized this when he pointed out Iau-
kea and said Look out for that man
he will enforce the law" And yet
he seeks your votes as well. Can
he incite and organize the vicious ele-
ment against a candidate standing for
law and order and strip him of any
votes in that direction, and then turn
to you the law-abiding citizens and
say vote for me on grounds that will
be handed out to You by w. o. Smith
and others more congenial to you.
AGAINST MACHINE POLITICS.
1t may be said the machine may
grow right up in the Democratic party
if il gets into office. That may be so,
that is very likely so, and that is why
Democratic party have committed that
party in its PLATFORM in it's discipline
and in our speeches a thousand times
irrevocably against machine politics
and against disregard of law and order
We want the party so committed
against machine politics that it Will
have to override thousand speeches
and a thousand declaration to the
contrary if it starts out on any such
lines. A primary law may and proba-
bly, will do much to cure machine poll
tics. but meanwhile it is up to you
there is any valid reason why
the independent vote in the Republican
party should justify the capture of the
primaries and the domination of its
by the machine by at last
the whole thing by voting
the straight ticket at the polls. The
entire drift on the mainland is towards
the smashing of machines right and
left with no evil consequences. The
prediction made by the straight ticket
advocates that the party that does it
will go to destruction vanishes in the
air. The smashing of the machine pu-
rifles the atmosphere, it promotes the
public welfare
LOOKS FOR INDEPENDENT HELP.
1t may be said that the foregoing is
merely a specious plea by a Democrat
% get Republican votes. It may be
asked, What concern have you in Re-
publican primaries or the differences
within that party? Your speech Is
merely a trap to catch Republican
votes Our answer is that We have
earned the right to look to the inde.
pendent voter in the Republican party )
'or support by putting up candidate
who stands inflinchingly for law and
rider which your own convention fall
ID and refused to give you. The inde-
pendent voter baked in his wishes and
convictions bv the road bOard-pOlice
convention called a Republican con-
yention has found the expression of
lis convictions and his wishes in the
made by the Democratic
party, and when the Republican cam
lldate sets the lawless element upon
aukea and the whole Democratic ticket
because he has unfinchingly stood for
aw and order Iaukea in return has
light to invoke the support of every
light minded man for his party, wheth-
T. he is found within the Republican
II the Democratic party. We offer no
pologies for urging every Republican
'oter, as well as every Democratic
otter. to establish next Tuesday en-
,hatically and conclusively that no
nan can appeal to lawlessness among
he voters without forfeiting the vote
f the law abiding. Iaukea has stood
o his guns for law and order even in
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