The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-30
MAUI STARTS SOMETHING

If the bolt of the Maui delegation at the convention last Monday
has the effect of shocking the republican party of Hawaii to a proper
realization of the deplorabe state into which it has drihed, it will be
the best thing that could possibly have happened.
YES we will 90 farther and include every honestthinking republican in
the territory-is glad that the pot has been thus unceremonioudy kick
rotten, but it is better to stand this discomfort than to go ahead stew
ing up a brew that must have discredited the party lrrevocaby..
With true facts exposed we believe that responsible republicans
will come out of their careless abstraction and demand that the party
house be put in order.
Both of the Honolulu daily papers support the Maui delegation
ed, the lazy indifference of the voters of the party who have been will
ing to stay at home from their party primaries and precinct meetings
and permit a small clique of men who are in politics, and in the party
solely for what they can get out OF it for themselves, to run the party
machine according to their own sweet will.
The Advertiser comments-"Yet it is quite fair to say that the
other voters have no one but themselves to blame. Only by attend
ance at the caucuses can they control their party
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Finish The Political Housecleanmg' says-"Control by the faction now
in the saddle is ridiculous, absurd and impossible and will not be count
enanced by men who believe in a square deal, honesty in public life
and a busnesshke constructive, torward-ooklng administration OF the
affairs of government"
Maui republicans should be proud to have had a delegation with
backbone enough to bak at the rottenest deal that has probably ever
been cooked up in the territory. They have in the past swallowed
some pretty awful messes, but this was the limit and to their credit it
didn't go down.
AS a result a writer in the Advertiser says-"The end was the
election of Lorrin Andrews as chairman, Senator John H. Wise as vice
chairman and o. P. Soares as secretary of the territorial central COM
mttee at a session of that body which was as glum and depressed as
an outing of undertakers in a health resort"
And again-"Responsbiiy and reflection have taken the smiles
off the faces of the winners and last night thew we're frankly discuss
ing among themselves what they were going to do with the offices and
power thew had gained. For a party machine without campaign
funds and without enough votes to win is about as useful as a cork
screw in a w. c. I. U. convention"
All of which is good as showing that the situation is clearly recog:
nized throughout the territory for just what is is. But the question
now is what is to be done about it.
There is one thing, and one thing only, that can straighten out the
that is a complete new deal. There can be no compromise with the
gang that won the sweeping victory" which now so embarrasses it
in its entirety into the discard and a new start made, with new dele
gates properly named, and a lew convention that will be really repre-
sentative of the republican party in Hawaii.
Will it be done? Maui will not ask it. She has done her part
But it is the only way that the party in the territory can redeem itself