Nuhou, Volume I, Number 15, 10 February 1874 — A POLITICAL MEETING [ARTICLE]

A POLITICAL MEETING

We were pressnt at an assemblage of native people \vithin the enclosure of llie residqnce of Her M aj.es ty. The cro\vd inside was variously estimated at three to four hundred persons. Her Majesty spoke a few words of| aloha to the cro\yd. The principal speaker of the occasion \vas Pahukula, —the chief point of \vhose discourse vvas, that tlxough Her Majesty had no documentary fevidence. of any heirship to a Throue, or an estate, yet she had the evidence of. one or two perspns to show believed that- the King to nominate her. "The general expression of numbers of natives in the cro\vpl, as we talked freely with them, was that it was a very weak meeting ('' ua nawaliwali loa ka halawai. 11 ) *We know that sevqral iriends of the chosen chief, who were present, said in our hearing, this is too weak a q afīair for us to notice. On this oc'casion } we as friencls of this country, and dqsirous ,tomainlain its independence, \vere fillecl wiih sadness to see the Royal Authority oi the land, onee so sacred in the native minel, now heeome a matter for contest and squabble, as thougli we \vere engaged in some pal|try munieipal eleeii-on. Royalty in! Hawaii ;must sufTer, and in panieulai' the nanie oT the Lady Caiauidate must suffer. li it were possible that there shou!d be any oth£r issue to this. con.test than the one oi whieu we have ihe most assured conviction, and| that is the elevatioi> of Prince Kalakaua to the Throne oi this Kingdom ; still Her Majestys name must suffer, and she who \vas onee revered by all, ean henceforth only hope for the love of but a p-ortion of the people. ! A p:ip|r addressed u To the Public - und issued b|v the friends of Her Alajesty states that His laie Majesty failed to actually nominate Her Majesty Queen Emm i as buccessor to the Thrōne, u not because of any want of iliought upon the subject, or from aii un\villingness to make any noinination but because there was an absence of any r<ial confidence or sympathy between himself a;nd hi? chosen advisers/* Is not this a ladientable basls whieh to found a title of pretension to a Throne ? What should have preveuted the late King from declaring his wish at least, evcn if assured it would \ioi be eonfirmcd ? We onee heard His late, Majesty King Lunalilo say emphat!cally, that as he eame to the ThionfS bv will of pe>o r !e, ho actormiuo«j to loavo the siu\'ossion to a po|)ular choicej nnd thcrc is no evule'.K o that he ohanged his on ihat peitit. Must we consuler l'eitcluunber «ossiu as a title to a Throne ? i or Stcveus, is the espeoiai vocato, or month-pii\-e of Her Myjesty, aut proposbs a vote by l\\llot to-day, at wiūeh (womeu and childxen are to take a par [\\ iuu au L advocate, ( aud whae eieonoueeriu| at the resideuce of ,the " Candidate." 1

\V- i.a great inany LUiuuyiu j '- u- prlj.jted docurrients tOivn, whie! purport to be ia the intere?t of Her but ifc is evident Her Majesty badij advised in permitting sucli to be iisued in Her behalf. One of these in the rmtire aJO o J dressed to " I na hoa makaainaim," our fellow citizens, and whieh was issued froi.i the press of lolani College, under ilie comrui o: Bi"shop Wi!lis is a sad tjssue of rlgreiarō!; and misstatement. īt is said that this fooliīi; native effusion \vas printed at the cimrclpress as an act of "fair play,''because th:regular job offices in town refused to prinī for Her Majesty, How could such a statement have becn believed, \vhen it niust Lave been known to everv person in this tc\vi,. that the address signed by Her 3lajeity svas issued from the A<7noffice several days previous; and thig office has beeii doing all the vvork that was oSered, wheuie: by friends of Her Majesty or of Prir,c. Kalakaua. ' We noticed a!so a pnper entitled, •• He ali: piha alii," " a royal lineage," whieh is au instance of suppression of ihe truth in no: saying a word about the Englīsh sailor Johu Young. There are other papers, merely silly native compositions unworthy of noiiee.