The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-21
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THURSDAY
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

The daily Opposition libel, otherwise
the tramp organ" has taken Messrs.
Hackfeld & Co, under its guardianship.
We are sorryNfor Messrs. Hackfeld & Co.,
for unless they shake off the libel sheet
very speedily they will get into trouble
of some kind, and as we have no quarrel
with that firm we should not like to see
them worried in any way. Touching
the impertinent comments upon our
reference to Messrs. Hackfeld & Co., we
have simply to explain, first, that the
outside pages of the ADVERTISER contain
ing the advertisement in question were
printed before the order of withdrawal
was given; second, that in conveying
such order the gentleman representing
Hackfeld & Co. gave a reason for it, and
it was upon this we based cur comments.
1t is unnecessary to say that it had no
reference whatever to correction of an
old advertisement, but had reference
simply and entirely to our remarks upon
the freight preference given to the Tea
landia and Australia, as an element OF
danger to the treaty. AS we have said,
we have no quarrel with Nessrs. Hack
field & Co., who have an undoubted right
to conduct their business as they please,
neither would we have noticed the with
drawal of the advertisement had it not
been for the statement of cause which
alone possessed any significance.
The men who have control of the
daily libel are concerning themselves
great deal about what may or may not
receive Colonel Spreckels' approval.
They may spare themselves anxiety on
his account. He did not worry in the
least when their entire strength, finan-
cial, social and political, combined
to injure his business and drive his ever
active and beneficent enterprise out of
the Kingdom, and he neither cares for
nor values their sympathy. He is not
bothering his head about their politics,
having other and larger interests to at
tend to. The ADVERTISER is quite Capa-
bic of running its own side of the political
campaign, and it proposes to give the
unprincipled junta which is fabricating
libels upon better men than themselves,
and sending them abroad through the
press, a great deal more to answer than
they have yet had presented to them.
So far as Colonel Spreckels and his inter
ests are concerned, they should save
their breath to cool their own pOrridge,
as they are only wasting their sympathy
on him.
A great deal has been said of late
about the gold law, and Opposition can
didates, among them Mr.. w. r. Castle,
have denounced the dishonesty of the
Government in not carrying out its pro
visions and enforcing payment in gold.
OF course, to be consistent, the members
of the Opposition party pay all lawful
demands upon them above SO in U. S.
gold coin, duty which is specially in
cumbent upon them when they happen
to be simply acting as agents for third
parties. That being the case we put the
question pointedly to Mr.. w. r. Castle,
Opposition candidate and lawyer: Have
yeu been guided by this rule of consist
ency and what you and your party desig
nate honesty? or have you, since your
campaign began, attempted to substitute
certificates for gold in a case when
the contract called for gold, and
when a gold check was in your
hands to make the payment? and did
you subsequently rectify your mistake,
shall we say, at the indignant remOn-
strance-perhaps it was your
elientP If you did not, you are certainly
lied against; if you did, have at least the
decency to keep your mouth shut now
and hereafter about the working of the
gold law, and the loss entailed upon poor
people by the neglect of the Govern
ment to pay in gold"
we really did expect better things
from the Rev. S. E. Bishop than to find
him lending his name to the campaign
lies which Mr.. L. A. Thurston and his
political partners put forward to influence
votes. There may be some excuse for