Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 360, 5 January 1892 — Wire Pulling and Secret Voting. [ARTICLE]

Wire Pulling and Secret Voting.

i t : Tljer< 4 apprar>« to he von;-iilerable wirc-|)ulling on at pre»ent in j)olitics. This Ktvlc of runninß clectiou.s is a latc imp«rtation, and aini!? at inaehine politics, . mueh :tftor thc style of the Tammany Hiitg and Boss r»uckley. Fortuj iiatcly the llawaiian elemeni man- ! aged to work a bill through the last ! ī,egislatnre, whieh embodied the j votin£"in it. This great I hoon. wa.« ono whieh Unele Wide* niann and Hrother Cecil Brown i thought, in Coininiltee,'was not ne ressary. and whieh the latter en- ' dcavored to defcat when the bill eame j up for discussiou. Fortunately tbese I brethen were defeated, in their • * [ aims in thii* respect» and now the ( eountry and people ean thank the Hawaiian mombers of the House j for puehing the matter of j votinfc" to a BiiccesBful issue, so i that, wnc-pulling awl slave driving J at thc polls are things of the past.