The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-09-04
EVENING.
HAWAIIAN POLITICS.
OPINION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO
EXAMINER.

waii from which we make the follow
ing extracts;
''For about year past the Ha-
waiian Government practically has
been in the hands of five men-Da-
vid Kalakaua, the King; Walter
Murray Gibson, Minister of the In
terror; John M. Kapena, Minister OF
Finance, and Edward Preston, At
torney-General. Within the past
three months Mr.. Preston has re-
signed, and the Attorney-General-
ship pro TEN. is filed by Mr.. Gibson.
Mr.. Preston's resignation was os-
tensibly because the other members
of the Cabinet had broken their faith |
by granting a liquor license to ma
tive after refusing one to a white
man."
''For several years Mr.. Gibson
has been posing as a friend of the
native, in opposition to what he has
chosen to term a "white INVADER
His colleagues in the Ministry are
both half whites. Mr.. Bush is
crafty, shrewd and daring schemer
of no mean ability. Mr.. Kapena is
considered au amiable incompetent.
Mr.. Gibson was born at sea, and be-
lieves himself to be the scion OF
noble English family"
'''The opposition press OF the Is
lands have branded the existing Mi
nlstry as incapable, prohigate and
distinctly and sweepingly bad; and
most of their direct charges have
passed unchallenged. The chief
dread seems now. to be that the
whites, having minority of votes,
and being in no one thing thoroughly
united, will be unable to carry the
election next February, and that the
present Cabinet may continue in
power indefinitely. This would not
be if the gravity of the situation
were fully understood by the popu-
lation. 1t is not understood and
cannot be until the next tax levy
shall be made, which, considering
the rate at which money has been
squandered during the present Adj
ministration, must inevitably be
greatly increased"
The Enanainer then states " that
the King had better choose for his
Cabinet four such men as Colonel
George Macfarlane for Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Mr.. j. o. Carter
for Minister of the Interior or OF
Finance, Mr.. E. p. Adams for eli
ther of these positions, and Mr.. F
M. Hatch for Attorney-Genetal.
These four men would harmonize al
interests-the planters, the people
the merchants and the. natives
Another good Cabinet might bt
made up of DR.. j. Mott Smith, now
special Hawaiian Commissioner a
Washington, and Messrs. Mark Rob
inson, S. G. Wilder and S. B. Dole
But none of these gentlemen are a
all likely to accept office unless the.
could be more sure of retaining thei
positions long enough to formulate
and carry ont policy. All fou
have large interests at stake, al
though only one is rich.''
ga reasonable guarantee woul'
be required that their position
should be secure to them for at leas
two years. Unless some such move
ment is made-the names suggeste
being only among large number O
equally available ones-the interest
of every white man on these island
will be in jeopardy; and among tn
whites Americans outnumber a
other nationalities, with the eXceI
tion of Portuguese, who are at pre-
sent chiefly laborers and small trades
men,"
"The opinions expressed above al
not the opinions of the oppositio
only, but are CLEANED from conve
sations with the best men on all I'll
islands. Good government on I'll
Islands is of importance to evei
San Francisco merchant who dea
with them. The Chinese question
the leprosy question, the reciprocit
question, the monopoly questic
need to be in safe hands-in Il
hands of men who will carry out
the Sandwich Islands the principl
which the E1dnei1eer has always az