Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 22, 10 September 1936 — Let Not Thy Right Hand [ARTICLE]

Let Not Thy Right Hand

EPI, editor and publisher of the advertising-fat Honolulu Ximes, is apparently losing his grip, judging by a weird juxtaposition of paragraphs that appeared in his last week's issue under the heading of "Our job/' that beiaig, of course, to elect all good Kepublieans to puhlie office. ' .. "On tfae other hand/' begins one par.agraph in this diatribe, "if Alfred M. Landon is elected chief magistrate of the nalioii, Governor Poindexter will go out, and there will probably be a elean sweep of his appointees and a complete reorganization qf the territorial governmetjt by the Eepublicalls.'^ And we h&ve ha«f it dinned inlo ©ur ear& ihat thc oaly reason the Republscans wish to get haek into off!ce i*—aot the greedy demc for po»itical jofes as pi-omised by the Time*—but a deep and §incere (sic) wish to serve puh'ie uiore efficiently, economically, and so on. In other word», it U perfectly ail right for the Republicans, whea successful at the elect!ons, "to sweep elean" all D«mocratic official&, .Wiut is virtue in the Eepubicans, however, becomes a viee in the DemQcrats when the shoe is on the other foot, accor.dingly to a paragraph 111 the next eolumn m the same screed, whieh says: "There will, no doubt, be some good men on the Democratic ticket but our experience of Dtmocrat goveniment, both national and loeal, the past tlu ee ha« not lu-eii such as to warrant placing any dependence on the Democratic party. Though some of its candidates, as individuals, mAy.be worthy of trust, they are bound by the ryles of their party—the first of whieh seems to be to reserve ali governmental f-or Denioerats— Alī of whieh sums down to—"Hooray~ for the Republicans when they win and make a eleaii sweep of all D<.m ocratic officiab to make way for deservhig Republicf i Damn the Democrats because thev would reserve all governmental jobs for Democrats when they are succēssful."