The Daily bulletin., 1889-12-05
A KORA KITE.

EDITOR BULLETIN AS Tie pOlitl-
cal caldron is now on the boil for
next general election, a good deal of
froth may be expected to rise to the
surface and it will he well if the
voters evince sufficient intelligence
to know what to do with all frothy
matter. The electors of much abus-
ed Kona, Hawaii, have just been
treated 10 rather sensational exhi-
bition of the froth producing ele-
ment. Mr.. j. II. Waipuilani, in
the Pae Alma of the 9th instant,
thrashes himself into u high state of
Indignation about certain alleged
popular outrages which, if perpe-
trated, would certainly prove Kona
to be fruitful of "goings on that
would make your hair stand on
end" The doings complained of
and elaborated by that gentleman
with much gusto of affected virtu-
Gus indignation, were first known to
the people only when they evolved
themselves in the Pae Alma from the
protoplasm of Mr.. Waipuilani's
Imagination. If, as is generally
understood, the gentleman is spread
ing himself for votes at next cleo
ton, he must be under the impress
sion that Kona is eager 10 confer
legislative honors on some colossal
slanderer who can supplement his
exploits in mendacity with buga
boos of the mist and whose bones
are well covered with fighting meat
so that he can pose successfully in
pugilistic encounters with the ap-
partitions of his own calling up. But
the Kona electors are not all fools,
and the intending candidate who
bids for their support must not think
to prove the mettle of his pasture
as worthy representative by Civ
ing free exhibition of his prowess
as misrepresenter of simple
facts.
The correspondence in the; Pae
Alma to which refer charges, spe-
cifically, (D that the government
physician of the Kona district held
a medical diagnosis of leper 'sus-
pect," on board steamer and in
view of all who desired to be spect-
ators; (2) that he held public e1-
animation of sundry suspects" at
Kailua, on the public road; (3)
that said government physician is in
the habit of diagnosing persons sus-
pected of leprosy, in public places.
Enquiry elicits truth, and the truth
relative to the above is; (D that q
native woman was examined in a
stateroom of the steamer in presence
of precisely two persons, one OF
whom was the husband Of the patient
and the other, the Indispensable in
terpreter; (2) that the alleged pub
lie examination at Kailua has not
taken place and is not likely to, at
least until Mr.. Waipuilani becomes
Representative Of Kona or perhaps
Chief Justice of the Kingdom; (3)
that no examinations such ss those
described by him are held on
steamers, roads or anywhere else.
The object Of Mr.. Waipuilani's
hullabaloo is evidently to strike :
sympathetic chord in the hearts o.
the native Hawaiians TO the tim,
and tune OF which he hopes to dance
into the legislature of 1890. Blu
it won't do. The representative tina
Kona needs now is one who can raisi
something more substantial thai
froth. IL the Kailua gentleman Sc
out to advertise his peculiar abilities
with a view TO taking the field as .
candidate at next election, he vii
find that he succeeded admirably il
convincing the constituency that hi
services can be most profitably dis
pensed with. 1t will be bad da,
for Kona or any other district whel
even 'corporaI's guard" o
voters can be found idiotic enough
to cast ballots for any man who's
mental and moral calibre is gaugeC
for such display of mendaciou
kite-hying as that to which Mr.
Waipuilani invited his countrymel
in the aforesaid Pae Alma news
paper. SCRUTAToR.
Kona. Hawaii Nov. 27. 1887.