The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
col. ASNf0Rn's REPLY.

ERROR BuLLEtiN The mild de
scription which Mr.. Wilder applied
to Mr.. Rosa ut the Reform mass
meeting has evidently classcd the
former among the latter's "disturb-
ing clement" Ii "dis,urbs" peo-
pie, sometimes, to bc told the truth.
IL is TO the credit of the class of
citizens TO which Mr. Rosa belongs
that Mr.. Wilder described him truth
fully when he said lie was a "misera-
ble specimen" OF that class. This
is proven by the letter of Mr.. Rosa,
in your issue of the Dist, which
contains more cowardly inslnuations
and absolute falsch0Ods than any
campaign document of equal length
yet produced during the pending
contest. So far rs it refers To me,
and my completely with Mr.. Wilcox
in any revolutionary scheme either
before or after or upon July 30ih,
the writer knew when he pcnncd the
charges that he was writing an I'M
qualified falsehood. 1t is true. from
Mr.. Rosa's standpoint, that there is
a "disturbing element in this com
munity. # disturbed" Mr.. Rosa
on June 3Oth ny uncercmoniously
kicking him out of number of
offices of State, including Acting
Lieutenant-General, Quartermastcr-
General, Governor Of Oahu, Major.
General in immediate commapd of
the Forces of the Island, Kings
Chamberlain, Attorncy-Gcncral, and
number Of other public Offices too
numerous to mention. Yet with all
tins "pride of place" in his favor,
the "disturbing element ignOmn
iousIy kicked him out: and, to add
insult to injury, they refused after
ward to give him the Registrarship,
which he begged the present govern
mcnt to do. Had they done this,
Mr.. Rosa would now probably he an
ardent supporter of Mr.. Wilder and
the administration.
But unfortunate indeed is the party
which has to carry man whose entire
political stock-in.tradc consists in
waving the bloody shirt. This, Mr..
Rosa has always done; but 50 long
as only his individuality was con-
cerncd, no one noticed him, because
| il ever "the streets of Honolulu rar
rcd,with the blood of foreigners,
rs tins man with the many fcrocious
military cx-titlcs has always sale
and still says they must, We all know
that Mr.. Rosa would be q long wa,
out of range. But when he an
nounces this as the acting Presidcn
of the Hui Kalaiaina, it simply put
him in the place of Mr.. Gibson il
1887, when whites without regart
to political sentiment arose as on,
man to stfle cry which, If persist
ed in, must surely end in the eX
tinction of the native race. Hun
dreds of men now in the Mechanics
Union were of that party who "dis
turbed' Mr.. Rosa in 81. Hi
speech at the Armory has openc,
their eyes TO the fact that the vipcl
was scotched, not killed, on Jun,
Both. They are now realizing tina
if Mr.. Rosa had any "say," the en-
tire "disturbing element" of -
would have to go or fight and tina
Mr.. Rosa is now directing all hi
eight" against those particular in
dividuals of that "element" who
for reasons best known to himself
are specially distasteful to him-an'
hoping, if successful, to. thereb,
strengthen himself for the compile
ton of the task.
The whole job, Mr.. Editor, is
campaign lie-as stupid as it i
dirty-and has already brough
upon its originator the anathema o
the thinking members of the part.
which for the present is obliged L
carry him; and resulted in the de
sertlon, by many, of a cause for tn
support of which self-styled leade
insists that the (to him) "dlsturb
ing element must go, even If i
driving them out the streets of lilo
nolulu will run red with the blood q
foreigners"
VoLNEY V. ASHFORD.