The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-29

Honolulu, Jan. %, 1892.
An Open Letter to G. W. Ash
ford,
HONOLULU, Jan. %. 1892

HONOLULU, Jan. %, 1892.
SIR:-As candidate for the office
of Representative of this Kingdom
your qualities and fitness for the
honor sought by you are proper sub
jects of investigation for all citizens,
and the right is maintained and used
of addressing you thereon.
During the past few weeks your
language and views expressed in
your numerous speeches have been
mainly characterized by vituperation
and abuse, the "wash woman's"
argument, the argument of the law
yer with a poor case or of the incen-
diary communist. A persistent effort
to secure an honest and fair
reason from yourself for your
present political course has failed.
Perhaps, believing that your audi
ences. were densely ignorant and
more easily influenced by the Ian
guage of passion than the language
of reason, you have overlooked an
other class of voters, and possibly be-
Titled the intelligence of many of
your followers.
Grave charges are being circulated
in this kingdom regarding your past
and present political course, and
which, if unanswered when fairly put
to you, will carry forever with them
the conviction of truth.
You arrived here, it is believed, in
1888, about the same time with our
genial friend Neumann, whom you
term q "malihinin
By what greater right than Mr..
Neumann do you claim to be a "ka-
maainaW
You were born in Canada, and prior
to your advent here had lived for
some years in the United States.
l. Did you, or not, from the time
of your arrival here to the summer of
1889 frequently assert that the country
of your birth did not appreciate your
talents?
2. Did you, or not, during that
time also frequently and fOrcibly pro-
claim that the malevolent influence
of Sir John Macdonald and other OBJ
stacles had driven many bright and
ambitious young men like yourself to
seek home and fortune under the
welcoming folds of the Stars and
Stripes?
5. Did you, or not, from the time
of your arrival here to the summer of
1889 frequently and fOrcibly proclaim
your former fealty to and present re-
gard for the customs, laws and insti.
tutiOns of the United States, the first
country of your adoption?
You arrived here in the spring OF
1888, and before your first meal in the
Kingdom had digested you demand
To-
should be set aside in yOnr behalf in
order that you might be allowed tC
practice your professional right re.
served to the "Kamaainas," as you
well know.
At that time a residence of five
years and citizenship were legal pre-,
requisites to becoming legal practi
TONER
By the courtesy, generosity anC
hospitality of his late Majesty-quali
ties at all times too largely possessed
by mOnarchs of this kingdom-tht
law was set aside in your behalf, anC
you were received with open arms
not a small reason for your friendly
reception being the fact that yOI
hailed from the Gland of the free anC
the home of the brave"
4. Did you or not take an active
part in the revolution of 1887, which
resulted in establishing the present
Constitution?
You held the office of Attorney
General of this kingdom from the
PRONUNCIATION of the present Constitu'
ton until June, 1890.
5. Did you or not from the begin
ming of your term of office to the hour
of your departure for Canada in the
summer of 1889, act in thorough anc
complete harmony with your col
leagues on all matters coming before
you?
6. Did you or not from the time
that the proposed treaty with the
United States of 1889 was first men.
toned in your Cabinet to the time OF
your departure for Canada, always