Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 10, 21 January 1890 — THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAY.

Tlie government party hokl a mass meetii]g las( iiight iu the Armorv, There were about four liundr«d peope preseut,affidiig ?;erc less than forty Hawaiiaus. Tn numbers the meeting eompared very uufavorab!y witii the ratifieatiou mectitig liekl in the same plaee o short time ago bv the national reforin party § when there were five times as many 6lectoi , s present } over half of whom were n?.tive H&waiians, Tt is a sig?ii 4icant fa<*t that the governme;\t ticke?

will roceivc no support from nativos, save wbat litt!o folldwing one or two of the can<lidates oil *hat tioket will bo āb!c to draw aftbr thcm perBonal or monied ijiflaence.

Nexi iii iißporiunqe io ilie absence of nuiive Hawaiians and tho indastriūl classes of Honolulu was the speech delivered bv Hon. W. C. VVilder. This speech clcarly em]>hasizes the a\ready well known fuct t!iat the govemmeni hnsdropp( d principles Q"it oi s ; ght and is now maktng its poliueai fight euiirely upon, and c«tof'the personal abnse of naiiomū rcforrt) i:,f, 4.mi -I:XUVH> I>J Wlll UUO f besides personal abuse, whieh I>Tr. Wilder atteinpted to make: viz., that thc old regime was rotten f>nd that i the memb6rs of the goverumcut party are the ouly honest uien in the eo.untrv to wlioiu the goveinment ean be yaie]y enliUbted. iVJr. Wikler scL-n-s to miss ihe fact ih.U ihe people of th I kitxgd<im are quite as greatjy fied. with the prescnt regi:ne as t!iu governiiient p?trty wj, s with the o]d. T(ie dif!<!re!ice bcifig that in this case a change of poliiieol siiid iiation.itl pO/icy is to be broiiglu aboūt constitutionaily aud h j gc«i!y. >vhere beiore ii was doi;e and uncoustitutionany.

Mr. Wilder, is c]aito rigLt in statiifg th?it if t-he governvoent party is not allcwe.d to carry on the eam» paigii a& a pt rsonal %ht tliat there no other way iu whieh they c;jj; keep up a bravo front! This statement is unfortunūtely too trae. ( But we fear that Mr. "\Yilder has raade a puiitical imstake m cunfoandiiig ths teraa politic īl with thot rr.ore eominon political weapon eaileei : 'polxtical modthrowing/ > We bolieve that tbe people wlio vute aiv pretty w,ell cleterrnined th d [>rineipl<3s and men shall go tngether in this campaiga. If political "maellhrow ing f * was to be made the pol:tical weapon of the national reform party to the exclusion of the prmciples underlying ehosen anel piedged eaiulidates> mnre political mnd eouM be thrown m a day against the government canciidates than Mr. W. C. Wildor could bny with his brother's moncy and haul in his brother's lumbcr T*agons in a weēk. Besides . .W :1 der's personal reputatic*n ,> juld be the first to suffer. Proof y proof woald be forthcoming.

It is a* noticeable f?<ct that Mr. Wilder's 4 is as Mearly as possible confiued to the fureign candidates on the national reform ticket. Perhaps the re ;j ,- -n for this will H 3fc be ha.nl to find, Mi\ Wilder r<iu ioi iii ISHB ii Mi. Kaulakou. Native Haw : ans were opposed to Mr, Kanluk< « , 0 some of their newspapers. On the other hand Mr. Wilder's party friends mostly voted in fa vor of Mr. Kaulu* koa fur good rcasQns. But as tiic natives outvoted the foreigners Mr. Wil* der was elected over Mr. Kanlukou. Therefore Mr. Mudthrower Wilder M leUdowneasy" on the native Hawaiian caiididates in hopes of getting some moie votes. The native Ha.\vaiians however are at present imited and the mudthrowhig open« ed by the brother 01 Sam Wiiuer will

more than 1 ikoly resnlt in adding now foreign votos to'ihe solid native vote on the fl!th of ne\t Fēbrnary!