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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, May 30, 1900, Image 2

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THE INDEPENDENT
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EDMUND NORBIE Editor
W HOKAOE WKIGHT Aasiotant
Editor
Realdlnc in Hiinolnln
WEDNESDAY MAY 80 1900
THURSTONS MAJORITY
We have boon earnestly and
honestly endeavoring to obtain
information in regard to tho mnutu r
in which American politics are be
ing conducted We have admitted
our ignorance of the intricate
methods used by tho profession
als and we have been told that by
joining the Republican party we
would be enlightened and happy for
evermore It was stated that in the
folds of that great party majority
would always rule and the grand
motto of by the pople eto
would be paramount and yet the
maohino organ says this morning
that the delegates from tho other
islands must remember that the
Oahu delegates represent only a
minority and it publishes the fol
lowing puzzliDg but choice Tours
toninn morsel
Let us say to the delegates from
the other Jslando that the majority
of Oahu Republicans thoo who
voted down the machiue program at
tho drillshed sevon to one are but
partially represented in this conven
tion How it comes that a small
minority got tho most nf the dele
gates need not ba retold in these
columns Anyone who is curious to
know may easily find out The
simple truth is that six sevenths of
the Republicans of Oahu will not
have muoh more than a one seventh
voice in this convention though at
the polls in any general election
they could bury their factional op
ponents if so minded a mile deep
We want to attend that burial of
the majority and wo may even be
willing to aotjas a pall bearer But
why the Hawaii an a should join a
party where minority Irules is not
clear to us Minority bas run Ha
waii during tho past seven years and
it is time that majority gets an
in nings
TOPICS OF THE DAY
To day is Memorial Day one the
saddest most mournful in reminis
cence and yet the happiest in con
ception of all our national holidays
It was probably originally adopted
from the French anniversary of Ic
jour des morls when thousinds on
thousands proceeded to Fere la
Chaise and other cemeteries in
Paris to decorate the graves of their
beloved death with wrpatbH of im
perishable immortelles and beauti
ful flowers In the United States it
was adopted after the close of tho
great civil war and to day tho com
batanta in that war match side by
aide to decorate the graves of tbo
honored dead a grand thiug for
liberty
Our local yellow journala have
taken pains to resurroct an old
old story about burglars who want
ed to rob tho Custom House of
tinswhieh
have been coized and confiscated by
the police authorities and tho ever
vigilant Custom House guards The
new reporters have located the burg
lars and state in yellow language bow
they the- burglars got hero and
how they left us a few days ago
without rubbiug tho opium vault or
even cricking the safes of tho
saloon owners The gag is exactly
ten months old and the fake was
tjgta
W3Cf tv i
exploded at tho time It bas helped
however to fill spare in the Star
and the Advertiser but we thiuk our
esteemed contemporary might have
Kivtu credit to The Independent for
i 1 9 scoop of ten months ago If
Mr Strateuieyer is correctly quoted
in the Advertiser ho might bIbo have
givnn credit for tho knowledge of
the atrir to the police department
When wo are Miy of matter we will
unfold all opium tain which will
surprise our yellow contempor
aries
Justice Frear of the Supreme
Court delivered a very able and in- J
terrsting lt nture on Territorial gov
ernmeut last evening at the Y M
C A Perhaps tho most gratifying
seutimentstotho amour projtre of the
Hawaiiaus are the following para
graphs
The United States has left the
control of the laud laws in the hands
of the Territorial Government
That is another thing never before
granted they have always hereto
fore rested in the control of the
National Government We are to
control all tho revenue derived from
tho public lands of Hawaii
Further all the officers aro to be
aoleoled from among persons who
are bona fide citizens nf these isl
ands That is a provisiou ngainst
carpetbaggtng Tho President is
not going to send a lot of men
amnug us to bob what they can
make out of us
I want to remind you that this is
the most liberal and most advanced
Territorial Act that Congress hn
over pasRod It brings us nearer to
statehood than Congress Iiab over
tnado possible to any other acquired
territory Tho President Congress
and the people havo taken an uu
usual interest in Hawaii and it he
hooves us to maintain a puro and
efficient Brnvernmpnt a government
we can take prido iu and wo will
Prove to the people of tho United
States that Hawaii isv worthy of
statehood
The Thurston Dole organ is of
course entitled to express its opiuion
but we fail to see why the Portu
guese colony should always be made
the butt of the sarcasm of tho
organ The Portuguese pBy their
taxes as well as their millionaire
neighbors and they contribute in
directly to every public function
and yet they havo to submit to slurs
which are uncalled for and insult
ing but which we hope will bo re
membered as coming from the
Kapiolani
Kentuckys famous JessBe Moore
Whiskey unequalled for its purity
and excellence On sale at any of
tho oaloons and at Lovejoy Co
distributing agents for the Hawaiian
islands
WATER WATER
Jelly Jelly
Glasses Glasses
A Special Sale of Water
and Jelly Glasses at 25
cents per dozen
AT
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Solo Agents for
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only organ of the Republican
party iu Hawaii Ll all Poitu
guess voton paste the following
paragraph from this mornings Ad
vertiser in their hats
A supper for two thousand will be
oproad on the evoninx of InaiiKiira
tiou day and we tnut guarded un
til tho invited guests can net a blto
of it At the memorable Palaco ball
of the revolution
on the fir 1 anniversary
volution most of tho banquet dis
appear while dauoing ws going
on and found its way in irunny sacks
to the festivo slopes of Punchbowl
Lot us hope that no such catas
trophe will mar the memory of the
14th of June
Memorial Cay
Hon Harold M Sowall will de
liver tho Memorial day celt brat ion
at Nuuauu cemetery this afternoon
and Col J II Fiehor will act as
grand Marshal of tho procession
which forms at 230 p m on King
street near Fort The officers in
chnrgo of arrangements aro Pofrt
Commander W L Eaten Adjutant
Jss T Copeland Officer of tho
Day E A- Strout and Chaplan E
Cook
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