Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 188, 7 May 1891 — The Spoils to the Victors! [ARTICLE]

The Spoils to the Victors!

The navigating Mficers of that old dowager pontot>n, f he P. C. Ad~ rerti*( r, aftcr a remari:ably long. pemnl «f editorial coilapse, suddMi!y llare up like a new līalemoinnnu, and, aftc.r having called our v nII hands en deck" for help, laboriouB3y briog forth a cente]>«delike and misty . dirge in favor ®f tiie defunct Po?tinaster General. one's friends when they are in need. is certainly the most cred'table thing that any man ean do. as it is a rare. particularly rare virt'.ie in the Adrertiser's crowd, we wis!i to give them spccial eredit t'ur triis unique occurence. moi e; had we the means, we woul(I cause the fact to be recordelon a golden ])late over the Adv rt i*er } H street- <loor. ' But our admiration for that 110ble. though exceptional deed, entitle us to be a triiling more Bevere--011 a coīitemptible and weak, very .weak vdefect īn the Advertisers conscience r; that distorting the truth with a colossal u naivete, sV and of uncharitably attacking the Leo, who seems te play on the nerves of those poor journa'.istic rusty navigators and their variegated crew, the part played by ared rag on a wild bull, that is to say Bietaphorically speaking, for the Advertisir has nothing in it of the bull, very far fr®m it.

After fitating fhat the eleeieion in the mattcr of Mr. A\ r im.denberg, had \>(: 'u t'dkcm „by the Minister of Kinanee at thc request of®H. M- tlie Queen, the Advertiscr oes on tosav: •*lt is rnorc likely to have been ta!itJi f.: the instanee of Mr. Bueh. who in thf K a Lko has rnade frequent allusione not very (•onipiimentaiy to the Minister for hife diiatoriness in not removing all 'the oM oftieerB of the government. To the victors l>eiong the spoils sueh is oke of the a:rticks oj'faiih ef the Ka Leo. ln c,onsequence of thefie frequent attack,«, the iemovai of this otlicer (P. M. G. has been looked for, and probably <'t!ior.~ will follo-.v, not from any w#rit oi < '»niDeieucy on lus or their part, bnt n»lely to pacify llie crowd of ollīee K"ekerK." \Ve £re thankful that the popular ini}K/rtance and power of the Li;<. «houkl be supposed and recogni.~cd by aV".late and self-assuimd'author-itative paperas the besu'*<i ns t') i,,!!ueiiee tne aelion of the Qneen or lier cabinet, or at leastw*orthy of being ]istened to, Unforts]nately, we niust denv thatthis is- the ea«( j : f .ve do try and wili alH'ays trv to do our duty asr tlie Vuh:° of thft Ka Leo o Ka La'iui,. — hi fearlessly letting the liigh pov;ers of the land know what the peor>ie wish and think; but we liavu been yery poorly listened to as is ehown by the innecent admission of ihe itself,viz.,that too often the necessities of the BĪtuation have f us to' frequent allusions fiot very comp!irnentary to,the Cab.inei.". .We do cotisequentlv ext*nse tho mistake as regarcfs Mr. Bush s influenee.

But \vh;"it \vo <1 » pert;niptorily dcay y j'b that the Li:o h«is ever £F«vi (] for thc roiiiovr»l of ail thf o;<J onh.* ?rs of (x<>v*?rnMcnt, and cq-jal'y deny thit u one of our

articlcs of is*that "to the victors - bel©ng the spoils !! What we do asuine, is that to tbe viators be!ongs the nny the (hiiy of requesting the dismissal of one or two rotten oQicials such ae the P. M. G., and it is the uaost iinblushing audacity thut will warrant a paper like the A/Ivertiacr, —the unscrupulous organ of the unscrupulōus RevolutiTmary Reforn Party, —to talk ab©ut "spoils IV Doesn't ex-minister Tburston (who is said to wr:te *'occasionally" īn the Advcrti*crj, know, abaut "giving the spoi!s to the victors," a good deal more than anv other uaan in this country ? Qn the contrary, all the articles of the Leo on the subject of governments appAintn:ent, shows that we want merit bef«re par\y or nationality as the motto for appointments, just as mueh as Hoh. A. -MarquesV* "Civil Service" Bill showed. in the leading and honest portion of the Hational Party, the desire of putting our puhlie olhcials entirely out of all political inHuenee. In fact, it was onlv a fow days ago, that the Lko published the foilowing : We never ankoil, as the Reform Party did for their friends. but all the sup•portera ef the !\ational Reform nhouhl be provided with offices, nor even that some of them phoukl obtain eituationK for whieh they be unfit, butwe dō ask that raerit and capaeity be made the leading rule for appointmentB . . . . ihe Leo never intended to blame the lievolutionary Governnient for any men of merit and eapacity thev mav have appointed-—[ae t?poiis 10 the vietors|. etc....... Don't you know how to read, neighbor ? or do you fall?-undeT"fhe hihlieal class of "none so blind as those who will not see ?". ... Therefore we challenge the Advertiser to sliow where and when the Lko did utter the two faets nforesaid f tlsely attributed to us; and, to render the* task easier, a full file of the Lko will cheerfully be furnished to the Advertiwr, if desired. But we expect, from our contemporary's christian assumpiions and pro(.estritions *>f impartially, a fuil r(;traction of the said charges mado iu its issue of May the sth.« Failing whieh, .we shall procced to quaiify tbe Adveatiser according to its deserts: Look out for the squall, captain, and beware of reefs a head ! ! •