The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-08-22

the party, arrogating to itself the
dictatorship thereof, if the party has
not vitality enough to cast off the
usurper then ii has forfeited its right
to existence. A noisy faction, that
beclouds party principles in the dust
of claims to selfish recognition, is to
be treated as an eXcrcscence to be
ruthlessly severed from the main
body that otherwise it will eat the
life out of like cancer.
Such faction as that described is
dangerous not solely from its own
original material. As a nucleus of
foreign matter in pool of water
draws to itself the scum and every
thing foul that floats therein, so re-
calcitrant and presumptuous knot of
malcontents IN a party attracts all
the nebula of discomfort, treason,
failure and fraud from every party.
Thus in the capacity to be disagree
able and disturbing the faction SEEM
ingly becomes quite formidable. 1t
is only so in appearance, however, if
the party under whose name it mas
querades has life ana energy enough
to throw the fetid mass off. Allowed
to work its desperate and treacherous
schemes unchallenged, it is as certain
to involve the party in ruin as that a
gaDgrenous limb will kill its pos
SCISSOR if not amputated. To come
to the point, the faction that is now
maintaining the paper ka Leo by
private contributions of good coin
and bad English, in default of pub
lie support and respectable literary
assistance, will do serious damage to
the party under whose banner it has
asserted itself, unless that party un.
reservedly and unfiinchingly re-
pudiate it and discover it from
it's nominal connection. A faction
including legislators, two or three,
who have been tried and found want
ing in practical ability to serve the
people; faction comprising ingrates
who stab former benefactors in the
back; faction that has attracted
men from other parties who upon
their new-found vantage ground are
belying their protestations of princi-
pie at several past elections fac
ton whose watchword is "spoils,"
and whose "spoiIsmen" have forfeit
ed their claim to public and private
confidence in positions of trust
such is the faction that takes license
to-day in Hawaii to villify everybody
from palace to cottage who declines
to give it's members undeserved re-
cognition.
Considering the close result of last
election as between the two contest
ing parties, the National Reform
Party has reason to be proud of its
platform on that occasion. The
principles embodied in that platform
have been wonderfully recognized III
most of the legislation of the session
of 1890. There was nothing in the
platform, however, to which the agi-
tation intermittentIy attempted in the
paper Ka Leo can be reconciled.
Nothing at all in favor of republic,
with its hideous suggestion to such Il
mixed body polite as ours of South
American abortions of government,
but quite the reverse is to be found
in that platform. 1t never promised
offices to adherents for attending
ward meetings or shouting them
selves hoarse at mass meetings. Not
a traitorous word did it contain about
selling the country to a foreign
power and forever FORGETTING a large
proportion of the rare advantages of
the Kingdoms central position in the
Pacific. Anybody to read an issue
of Ka Leo at random would judge by
it that the party platform was wholly
composed of such obnoxious deliver
ances.