Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 437, 21 ʻApelila 1892 — The Electoral Law. [ARTICLE]

The Electoral Law.

. Tkt fiuinre of in attempt to a ReprMentative for Hamakua ear« ries with it a leeaon for the people who§e interesU are being trif)e<l wlih bv one or more unprincipk<l trickBters. That there wa« a tletermine4 piot on the part of Ricnni — when he fouud hie nomination p«perti arrived iaie — to in *»lidat»' the eleeiion ia a part of a weli groiinded belief as to that getitleman'B methods. We exonerate thw xsinißter and officiaU of his department from anr complicity m ihia i!iyaflAl bnsißMB and truat thiit

a ]>ariiaintrntary. HHiuiry wiil Uauthorize(l whieh wiil rt>veal al *otue'of tUc hiddon Bprlngs of ;«'• tio i : .not forgettine the larj?o o.in*igr;mont« of liquor whieh ■w.eni forvvard to Lnupahoehoe ami oth«'r ports, and to whom thcy . were a<l dresst»d. The obvious reraedy against a recurrenceof such methods in future olcctions īa to throw the entire responsibility of registration and the j general conduct of the eleelion oti thfc principa! government oOleiala in eaeh districl, such as the SherifF !or his deputy and the District cr Poliee Judge or School teacben Such men are expected to be above pctty ] tricks and any glaring violatipn of trust should b4 deemed a penal oflenee for what no mere money -fi.ne could condone. It should be well understood; or better, expreB»ed by law, that such officialB should not be rcmoved except for good cause. in tact.our eleotoral law is the nfT-| s*prißg of, and oniy Fuccessful in countries wJiere thc eivil Fervice officia! <an adu)ii:ij-ter its prf-vi-i sions witli iiiiV)artiaUity r.nd Ftrirt integrity. uml such ean on)y -U* liu ' ea*e whvro ;;overnnjc-nt eiKniov<M-> , ,irc ni»t the erentures cf i.