Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 12, 23 January 1890 — Page 2
Ma ke Kauoha.
Kakau Inoa o ka Poe Koho.
Mahele 2 Apana 5, Honolulu.
E noho ana na Luna Nana Koho Balota o ka Mahele 2 Apana 5, Honolulu, Oahu, ma ka hale kula o Keoneula no ke kakau ana i na inoa o ka poe koho i na ‘Lii a me na Lunamakaainana, a me ka hoopololei ana i ka papa inoa ma ka Poaono, Ian. 25, mai ka hora 4 a 7 ahiahi; Poakolu Ian. 29, mai ka hora 4 a 7 ahiahi; a ma ka Poalima Ian. 31, mai ka hora 2 a 8 ahiahi. E hoolaha ia ana no na halawai e ae ma na halawai maluna ae.
O ka Mahele 2 o ka Apana 5, oia no kela wahi o ua apana la makai o ke alanui Moi, a ma ke komohana o ke alanui e moe ana i uka o Kalihi. E lawe pu mai me na palapala hookaa auhau. W.L. WILCOX.
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The National Herald.
Honolulu, Jan. 23, 1890.
BOSS WUNDENBERG is not altogether happy—he is uncertain!
GOVERNMENT reform—broken promises! Government policy—new promises!
THERE is still another five hundred dollar retainer which was received, but for which no work was ever done! We have not as yet heard of its being returned to the government! What did you do with it Mr.-----?
MR. DILLINGHAM, we take pleasure in informing you of your nomination on the government ticket. Please let us know as soon as possible which element of the ticket you belong to—whisky, sugar or prayers?
THE “125 intelligent voters” on the government side, who met at the old armory last night, compare rather unfavorably with the 500 native voters, who met there a few nights ago to listen to Messrs. Marques, Lucas, and Wilcox.
IF the question as to what must be done about the Chinese question “cannot be deferred” and “delay only adds to the difficulty and peril” is true, as stated by W.O. Smith, the sugar man on the whisky tiket, why did his party coolly delay action for two years by killing the former amendment?
IT seems the government party convention in Honolulu played Messrs. Young, Schuman and Halstead the same poltical trick the Hilo government party convention did the Independent ticket in the island of Hawaii!! The Advertiser laments the “bolt” in Hawii, and hopes the “split will not prove a permanent one.”
IF Messrs. Young and Schuman had cast their lot with their rightful brothers in the National Reform party, their names would now be upon the peoples’ tiket and honorable victory would be their portion at the hands of the people. These two typical representatives of the industrial classes now unjustly suffer unmerited politial disappointed, as the result of machine politics!
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PLEASE, journalistic brothers, do not mix up you familiar devils so! At least kep the poor printer’s devil away from such bad company as the family compact devil, the Fort-street church devil, Mr. Bush’s devil and the old political devil himself in the Advertiser office!
AFTER fightling the very principle of amendment to the revolutionary constitution for two years past, and after killing an offered amendment on the Chinese question in the last legislature, now one of the government candidates for noble is out in print in favor, so he says, of amending the constitution in favor of the people’s interests! This is merely another political “promise” to catch votes. The vote of the government party on the “dead amendment stood 25 to 17!
AND now it appears that even Mr. W.O. Smith is not a sugar man. He owns no sugar stock at all. This is too bad, for it spoils their “whisky, sugar and prayers” cry ,- - Advertiser, Jan. 20 th .
· * *And allow me first to say that in P.C.A. of 20 th inst. You made a misstatement whih it is proper I should correct. You stated that I owned years I owned no such stock, but recently I bought a few shares .— W.O. Smith in Advertiser of 23d inst.
ACCORDING to the Advertiser Mr. Marques’ great fault lies in being on the wrong side and the weak side. Certainly, just so ; of course Mr. Marques is on the wrong side—every body in the government party says the same thing—but some of the independent “boys” are not so sure that he is on the weak side. By the way, good Advertiser and fair sir, Senhor Gonsalves, have you not both a faint remembrance of late events? Remember ye not good political knights! That the other evening Mr. Marques spoke to sundry 500 electors at a simple ward or district meeting hled in the old armory? Remember ye not, good sirs, that Sam Wilder’s brother threw political mud for the amusement of 400 government officials and sympathizers on the same evening at a grand mass meeting of the five districts! Good gentlemen, you are quite right; Mr. Marques is on the wrong side, from the government standpoint—he is on the people’s side!
ARE not some of our inspectors of registration a little too officious? It is presumed a man going to register as a voter is keeping within the lines of the law and is not to be treated by smart government goys as if he were on contraband business. No law, beyond his own courtesy, requires him to present his tax receipt. The law simply requires that the man’s taxes must have been paid. The voter’s oath would be sufficient as far as the inspector is concerned. An applicant for registration presented himself at the Pauoa store last night. He had no tax receipt. He was exempt by reason of having been a teacher. He had no certificate of such exemption with him but was willing to swear to the facts. But the gallant young inspector assumed to decide that he was not entitled to such exemption. Upon a sarcastic inquiry by the applicant whether the functions of his office included the more efficient administration of the tax department, the inspector said: “Well, you will not get registered to day; that settles it.” Must voters who have rights just hop around and dance to the whimsical pleasure of a pack of political dudes?
THE DAY.
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When the election law first came up for discussion some time ago we held that the worst feature about it was the possibility for the commission of wrong contained in its first provisions. This amounted to virtually placing the control of voters’ rights in the hands of the minister of the interior. At that time we declared in substance that if the minister of the interior saw fit he could do harm to the party opposed to the government. We also pointed out that much dissatisfaction was likely to speedily grow out of the political working of such a law. It needed no political prophet to foresee the result. The law has already caused and is causing grest dissatisfaction among the people even before the first election thereunder is reached.
It is unfortunate that the present minister of the interior has somehow overstepped the limits of a modest political propriety upon the very point where the law is defective. He has at least succeeded in blundering at the one place most likely to create dissatisfaction among electors, viz : in the appointment of inspectors. It is further unfortunate that the past record of this official, as a legislator interested in certain bounty schemes, is bad. These facts taken in connection with his course in relation to the new treaty negotiations, lately attempted with the United States, have been such as to weaken public confidence in the official integrity of the present minister of the interior. His questionable acts and appointments for carrying out the election law have , therefore, been narrowly watched and perhaps have not been too severely criticized when all things are taken into consideration. We further think the minister of the interior made a mistake in attempting a newspaper defense of his questionable official conduct. If he had merely carried out the letter of the law itself would certainly have been his best defense.
But it seems that the appointees of the minister of the interior throughout the entire islands have so acted under his direction and order that the distrust of all classes of voters has been doubled within a very short time. This is most unfortunate for boh the government party, which asks to be taken on trial for two years more, and for the law itself, which is on trial for the first time. The conclusion and comparison which forces itself upon the public mind seems to be that the present law, defective as it is, could have been more justly and satisfactorily carried out, if it had been placed in sterner and more upright hands. But even had the law in this first trial been so handled by and honest and capable minister o the interior as to have caused it to work smoothly without producing dis@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ friend and probable political @@@ whenever the temptation becomes great!
THE POLITICIANS,
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SOME POLITICAL POINTS ADAPTED FROM THE
ADVERTISER.
R. LISHMAN :- -I believe in refrom government and I believe we have a very good government considering what a poor start it made when it came in. I don’t say they have pleased any one, I know they have not pleased me much, but then we have better roads and owing to abundant rains an improved water supply. You know I took an active part in Chinese restriction but when I found out that the government was just as likely to go as the Chinese, I weakened. The government has never paid its employees decent wages. Still I should like to be elected on the government ticket.
E.S. CUNHA: There is nothing left unsaid for me to say, therefore, I say, I shall not unsay anything that has been said. I thank you for the nomination and would be more grateful still for election. I thank you again for not having misplaced your confidence in me.
R.J. GREENE: I have the Voice of the Nation issued everyday except Sabbath and Saturday. I, value it principally from its flattering mention of myself. It calls me a bragadier. This is the highest I will get during the election. Let us pause and contemplate the Taunton Engine. Suppose the flywheel should turn loose and knock the piston rod back through the throttlevalve would we abandon the engine or turn it over to any but the master-builders for repair? So, my hearers, this constitution is not to be entrusted to faul-finders to patch it up, but rather to those who love it in spite of its faults and will not patch it at all. I thank you for the honor of the nomination which I did not want and if elected to stay at home will be fully as much service to the country as if occupying a seat in the legislature.
S.M. KAAUKAI: Fellow citizens, you have done me a great honor in putting me up to be bowled over. As I look at you, you don’t seem to represent much. An old general led his troops to battle and found his enemies so thick he concluded to water his army. Those who drank with a knife instead of a fork were placed on one side and he took the residue into battle and was badly whipped. I don’t think there is much sense in this story or that it has much bearing on the campaign. This is a small assembly and I feel like the smallest man in it. I feel that if we win victory it will be ours. We have a constitution and record which are hard to carry. I am reminded that the jig is up. You will honor me with votes which will never elect me. I fear my own people will soon despise me—aloha!
HON. W.O. SMITH: Before coming here I tried to make a study of both platforms. I was already familiar with our own, but was unacquainted with the other whih was published a few weeks prior. My head is so arranged as only to contain one set of ideas. The short platform is based on deeds—and mortgages, bearing a high rate of interest. The members of the reform party have been devoted from the first to deeds. They don’t care a cent for empty promises but a deed of kuleana however small awakens to activity every drop of their patriotic blood. There are a great many good things stated in the long platform, but we have appropriated the gist of it for ours. Gentlemen, I will now make you familiar with a venerable chestnut. [Profound slumber.]
HON. M.P. ROBINSON: I feel honored by your nomination as noble, but I consider the title a minsomer. At least it will fit some one else better. Whoever is nominated on this ticket, I take it, represents the wishes of those who nominate him. I am not out for a speech make and will never make much of a politician. I have my doubts about doing much in the next legislature.
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He halawai aoao Lahui ke malama ia ana ma Holokahana i ke ahiahi o ka la apopo, hora 7. E hiki aku ana ka Moho R.W. Wilikoki malaila. E hele nui ae!
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O ka nui o na kanaka i hoopaa i ko lakou mau inoa no ke koho balota ma ka Apana 1, i ka la 17 iho nei, penei: kanaka Hawaii 23, Amerika 2, Pelekane 2, Geremania 1, kekahi ano lahui e ae 1 ,- -huina 29. A ma ka la 21 mai, kanaka Hawaii 6, Amerika 1, Geremania 1, --huina 8. Oi no ke kanaka Hawaii la!