The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-01-16
THEIR RECORD AGAINST THEM.

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EpIToE BULLETIN In the =. G.
Advertiser of the 18th there is u
''howl" (the word "howl" is appro-
priated from the =. G. A.) of self
gloriIicaton Of the Administrations
pure and honest record-of its clean
hands and so forth. Well, they
ought to expect that the people
would he surprised il they were
habitually found with unclean hands
or faces either, as they have all the
control of the water supplies and
water funds also. They have fre-
quently declaimed the maladminis-
tration and corruption of the former
administration. The people have
not forgotten all that nor are likely
to. And there is still more that the
people have not forgotten, and that
is the frequent attempts of the pre-
sent Administration to handle and
appropriate the peoples money to
their sweet will and quiSotic pet
schemes, and their persistent efforts
to twist about the laws to justify
their intentions. And the people
don't forget, either, how nearly
they succeeded had it not been for
the faithful and sturdy attitude of
the Audtor-General. If this is not
true, then what did the Auditor
Generals Report to the Legislature
amount to, or the cool and brazen
statement of the Minister mean,
when he asked for the discOntinuance
Of the Office and offered as reason
that it impeded their duties. This
request for the dlscontinuance of
the office was made to the Legisla-
ture as q forlorn hope, when it was
found that the incumbent would not
tamely resign at their asking or pro-
misses held out.
Did not the "Lion from Molokai"
do his best in getting laws pass ed in
previous Legislatures for the pro-
lection of Appropriations? Was not
that one Of the loudest howls they
could raise against Gibson-the
misappropriation of Appropriations!
Yes, but consistency, you know, is
not agreeable to remember by the
present crowd.
1t is not true that disappointment
and dissatisfaction arose from the
partition of spoils except at the par
tilion of the Canadian treaty fund;
but it is true that discomfort and
disappointment supervened on the
discovery Of broken pledges and
falsehood on the part of the leaders
of the League of 1887, for, as soon
as they felt that their necks were
safe, they laughed in the faces OF
those who but short few days be-
fore they relied upon to see them
through their undertaking at all
hazards. They shut them out from
any further deliberations or voice in
their secret meetings, by reorganiz-
ing another Committee of Thirteen,
and taking into that committee from
Merchant and Queen streets those
who before the crisis refused to join
them or run any risk of conse.
quences. No wonder these additions
of loud-mouthed Reformers created
suspicion if not disgust.
Was it disappointment at the parti'
ton of spoils that made earnest and
sincere men wonder within them.
selves, when it became rumOred that
their reward was to be shadowed by
employed henchmen, whose business
twas to report to their Bosses all they
heard and more too OF those who
had manly independence enough ant
respect to express freely their views
and ideas upon passing events, ant
could not believe that such treachcry
existed until the suspected hench
men gave themselves away by th'
knack Of dropping revolvers from
their persons as If by accident, wheI
spotting about billiard and ba
rooms, and the scandal got so openl,
talked about that the said supposed
hcnchmen became more obscure? Il
was more than disappointment wheI
these men got employment in place
Of those who did not come the seas
across with cloudy record. Yes
there was and still continues dis
appointment at the cowardly, rude
aggressive, and disrespectful de
meanor toward those whom accldcn
has put in their fancied power
Anyway, change cannot result il
anything worse than broken pledge
to the people and a disreputabl
political record. The safety of thu
country and confidence in it from
I abroad is from itself-its own peo
, ple-and not from cabinets or al
. ministrations.
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