The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
HAYES WARNS REPUBLICANS
AGAINST POLITICAL PANACEAS

actlonary,' is the other extreme. The
truth is that political wisdom, as a
rule, is not with either of these ex-
tremes, but somewhere between the
two. There are times when the advo-
cate of revolution may be a public
necessity, but as an ordinary propcsi-
ton, nations, as individuals and every
thing else in the universe, progress by
evolution and not by revolution.
Mr.. La Follette-What was the Re-
publican Party itself but a third party,
founded on the eXigencies of the time?
Mr.. Hayes.-The Republican Party
was not a third party. l have not
time to go into the history of that
time, but the old Wing Party had
gone to pieces and the Republican
Party was a reorganizat ton of the
Wing Party, also drawing to it's fold
many of the more progressive men of
The United States who had hither-o
belonged to the Democratic Party.
The Republican Party was no third
party. 1t was the second great politi-
cal party in the United States, the
Democratic Party being the other
Mr.. Focht.-Founded on protection,
the old Whig Party.
Mr.. Hayes-EXactly; the Repub-
lican Party followed along the same
lines, except in the matter of slavery.
The "Know-Nothing" Party, which at
one time threatened to become formid-
able, went down and out of existence
as rapidly as it came into prominence,
leaving behind but disgrace and oblo-
guy for all it's adherents. The Free
Soil and the Constitution Parties were
organized efforts to avoid the portenti-
Gus conflicts impending before the
Civil War broke out. They failed
entirely in their purpose The So
called Liberal Republican movement,
during the administration of President
Grant, while perhaps it called the pub
lie attention to certain evils in the
public service, was swallowed up by
the Democracy and left no permanent
or beneficial results behind. The
Greenback and Populist Parties were
nothing more than rallying cries for
wild and visionary theorists and the
disciples of failure and unrest, and
left us nothing but lesson which
it is we'll to heed just at this time,
viz, that We should be rather slow to
accept, at panaceas for all our political
les. The truth is, there is no room,
and there never has been room in this
country, for more than two great poll.
tical parties. And the man who de,
sires to work lasting political reforms
will work for those reforms within
one of the great parties, rather than
seek to create a separate and distinct
organization.
Fellow Republicans, shall history re-
peat itself? In the years 1913 to 1917
shall we live over again the awful
experiences of 1898 to 1897? God for,
bid! The responsibility of preventing
this is upon us. Some of us may not
like the generals in command OF the
Republican army, but let us remember
that the battle is not to be won by
the generals, but by the great voting
army of protectionists. Some Of us
may have just cause for personal
grievance or resentment. This is the
time to forget it, Some of us may not
like the minor things for which the
great army is fighting, or we may
think is should be marshaling for
something else. Drop that; there will
be plenty of time to fight out the diff
ferences among ourselves after neXt
November For fifty years the Re
publican Party has written the mos
glorious piece of history that was ever
penned. Like good soldiers, let us
close up the ranks, let US march tC
victory next November and write foul
years more of that same glorious Re
publican history. loud applause or
the Republican side]