The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-22
ID BE WATCHED.

ELECTORS may receive DeneuJ from
watching the course of the Govern
ment satellite. A week or two ago
that journal reached stage of oc-
cultation in the present campaign,
allowing the desperate situation of |
the Government to obscure all the |
other objects of its existence. Its
leading feature began to be made
up Of long strings of editorialettes
under the heading of Campaign
Notes" These notes are evidently
meant to be written on a quadruple
sharp cleffed staff, but the COM
poser has for the most part pro-
duced minor symphonies in scale
of flats. eve do not vouch for the
accuracy of the analogy on the
musical side, but are certain the
description fits the campaign notes).
Those productions are fiat, stale
and unprofitable-except where
they may be of value as a terrible
example of what selfish zeal without
conscience will evolve from ductile
imagination and fragile moral
nature. The advice just given the
electorate is designed to make them
note just how relevant or otherwise
the campaign ebulltions of our con-
temporary are to the issues before
the country. Let them mark the
copious flow of diction--or, as that
sort of writing has been described
by an eminent pundit, "the ever
lasting stream of wish-wash "-em-
ployed in discussing airy nothings.
See the avidity with which the pre-
tentious scribbler gibes at the man
ner when he fears to grapple with
the matter of opponents. Then per-
ceive his poverty of resources.
After having so soon exhausted all
that even partisan could say in
the Governments favor, he has to
show his dependence upon opposing
journalists for themes on which to
ply his labored banter. Thus, he is
angry with the BULLETIN for allow
ing correspondents the usual privi-
leges of public journal, because
thereby he is deprived of just so
much material to carp at, in the
proportion of a column of his weak
badinage to an inch of our fact and
logic. When the notist ventures
beyond his safe limits to deal out
spiteful charges against majority
of the business community, involv-
ing the most important foreign in
terest of the nation, and this journal,
aware of the mischief his diatribes
may work abroad if allowed to go
forth unchallenged, does not regard
space in repelling the pernicious
ISLANDERS, nor is ovcr-careful to have
it done in tine-spun rhetoric so that
the truth Of the matter is presented
in the hour at disposal, then OBJ.
lection is taken by our dilettantt
literary friend because his nonsense
took too strong a breeze to dissipatt
it, and the remedial information was
given with but moderate drair
upon photographic resources. Vair
fellow, to strut about as he does
plumed with the egotistc fantas,
: that not the good and patriotic re
pute of those having among thu
t largest stakes in the country, blu
: his unmitigated nonsense was tn
. occasion for the two column demon
4 stration into which his habit of eX
a aggeration made him stretch on
I much shorter article. or course h
c is not aware that it takes more tim
o and labor to build up than to pu
: down. Let that point remain i
!. allegiance, however, while the IA
d yertiser's due apology is awaite
If for slandering many of the leadin
d firms of Honolulu, and that at Oh
IS risk Of irreparable injury to tb