The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-12-10
OPPOSITION To-
FREAR HAS COME
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No Occasion to Worry.

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upon being informed of the cireum.
stances, take this view of the matter.
No Occasion to Worry.
Meanwhile there is no occasion for
either the Governor or the Secretary to
worry, even should the senate fail to
confirm their appointments. TAe Or
ganic Act provides in each case that,
"he shall hold office for four years
and until his successor shall be APP
pointed and qualified, unless sooner re-
moved by the President
If the Governor and the Secretary
had received recess appointments the
case would have been different for the
Constitution of the United States pro
vides that such appointments expire at
the end of the session of the senate I'M
mediately following the recess in which
they were made.
AS neither the Governor or the Sec
rotary have such short term commits
sions, they will in case the senate
should fail to confirm continue in office
until President Wilson names their sue
cessors, which event, it is said will
scarcely be possible or probable before
next September.
The warmth of the fight waged by
the Democrats against the alienation
of federal patronage is indicated in
mail advices from The Advertiser s
Washington correspondent. He says:
Patronage for Democrats.
"The great overtowering topic for
the moment seems to be federal pat
ronage. Hardly day passes that some
Democratic patriot does not break into
the local prints with passionate out
burst about the injustice of allowing
Republicans to hold Office after that
Ied-letter day in the party calendar
March the fourth. Do not blame the
Democratic congressman over much for
his zeal in demanding fourth class
postmasters and other federal places.
He ought to be sufficiently high-minded
10 resist, but the pressure upon him is
unprecedented.
''The Southern Democrat is cater
wauling most loudly at this iuncture
and with excuse. 1t has long been gall
, and NORWOOD politically to Southern
folks to have their mail taken care of
by Republicans. There is an unpleasant
social element in their postal phil.
osophy. 1t has been repressed some
, what in the recent years of Republican
, supremacy but now that a Democratic
President is coming ina Southern,
born man, too-the cry of their hearts
is for postmasters, internal revenue
, collectors and deputies, district attor.
neys and so on of their own kind.
, "And already Southern congressman
are springing fercely to the proposition
of ripping the blanket of civil service
5 off the fourth class postmasters. They
are condemning President Taft for put
=. ting these Southern postmasters under
the civil service recently, and urging
that President Wilson, as soon as he
:, lgets the authority, suspend the order
s even as President Harrison suspended
a somewhat similar civil service order
made by President Cleveland The
: South is very determined upon having {
j few cuts of pie very early in the ad
ministration. Perhaps it will get them
But if the way to the counter is mad,
open, there can be no question abou
u the terrific rush. The spectacle of wha
! would happen is likely to deter Presi
. dent Wilson.
a Many Long Termers.
"Probably ninety per cent. of al
federal officials, nominated by the Pres
ident and confirmed by the senate, hav
commissions that will not expire befor
1914. This is not from any political de
sign. Presidents have such a burdei
T of patronage problems that time is re
| uuired in the solution thereof AS in
! cumbents hold on till their successor
qualify, it has happened under Repuh
lean administrations of the last six
teen years that very many men hav
% served considerably more than fou
If years. Consequently the dates of tn
D. new commissions were moved forward
r. as must be done, to the time that tn
1t senate voted confirmation.
20 'ENow shall Democrats cut this pre-
in cess short, GUST encumbents forthwith
and put their own men in having al
surance that at least four years of sci
vice is ahead of them2 1t is rumore
from Bermuda that Mr.. Wilson fee
disposed to let senators and represents
tives do as they think best about thi
u as far as pertains to the offices file
| ordinarily by their endorsement, an
] that he will follow his own judgmeI
about general patronage. Democrat
are praying fervently that this prove
true. In that event there would
e. mighty few Republican postmasters
n, the South who would survive the fir
ed sixty days of the Wilson administrator
r. cit is confidently expected that Il
re- campaign for patronage will be atten
hit ed with thousands of complaints again
e. Republican officials, Woe to those wi
tn are unpopular in their own commu
tiles. The mails to Washington will
burdened and the department files vi
speedily be filed with letters, urgI
that long suffering constituencies
given relief. Unless the spells n
turned over TO the victors right away
Al which is unlikely--the resort TO III
~ method will be very general, The hei
u men of Mr.. Cleveland s administratii
found their time much occupied wi
such cases