The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-20
AN ISSUE THAT WILL NOT
DOWN

The STAR has learned on undeniable
authority that the advice of the Annexa.
ton Club with regard to the removal
of Royalist hodovers in Government
employ has been approved in writing
by Minister Lorrin A. Thurston, Rev.
VIM. B. Oleson, agent of the Annexa
ton party in the United States and by
ex-Attorney- General Armstrong, now a
resident of the city of Washington.
Minister Thurston has written three
letters to the Government. in which he
points out-perhaps in memory of his
own experience in the Reform Cabinet
with ti-Reform subordinates - that
the public safety requires the displace-
ment of officials who are not active
adherents of the Government and loyal
promoters of its cause We are in
formed that Messrs. Oeson and Arm
stong in private letters urge the same
policy with great vigor and earnestnes SIS,
one of them going so far as to suggest
that the Government cannot expect a
cohesive support of the Annexation
party if it shall continue to turn it:
back upon its friends and give aid anc
comfort to its enemies. That this is 6
fact and not an inference, appears ii
the course of recent discussions of the
Executive Committee of the Anntxa
ton Club, and in the popular talk o
the streets Its significance would be
unmistakable if the subject of re-
movals should ever be canvassed at ;
public meeting of the Annex4tionis
rank and file, civilian and military.
1t is with full Difference to the ex.
perience and the good intent and the
conservative impulse of those members
OF the Government who oppose re.
movals that the STAR returns to the
issue and asks again that only active
supporters of the revolution and of the
administrative functions as they stanc
shall be placed or retained behind tht
breastworks and on the pay roll. 1t il
surely reasonable request, and VT
make it in good Annexationist com
pany. That such a move would not be
harmful in its effects upon public
opinion in the United States, we hav,
the word of three distinguished friends
Of Hawaii and its Government, residing
on American soil and close to the sea
of Federal authority-one in the re
sponsibleposition of Hawaiian Minister
For long decades the American people
have been accustomed to rotation il
office, and they have shown themselves
ready to suppress treason and sedltior
with the hand Of iron. They must re
gard the tolerance here of the friend
of Royalist pretender as hold overs il
office as an evidence Of administrative,
weakness 1t could not be otherwise
Conversely, they would accept TIT
prompt eviction Of the Royalists from
the Provisional camp as an indication
of confidence and strength.
Should the Royalsts, by some poll
teal miracle, reach power to morrow
they would make a clean sweep o
Annexationists, and they would do ST
for the best Of political reasons. |
would be their duty as well as thei
pleasure to put every possible Safeguard
about their cause that it might no
again be made a common football o
il.fortune. They could not afford t,
leave a spy at large in their camp no
to let dollar Of public money 60 t.
men who would use it or store it up t
be used against the tenure Of the rega
authority. So we say that what the.
would mete out should be meted t
them now, to the end that the Provs
ional Government may be wholly II
the hands of its friends, that its citade
may be altogether in the keeping of it
loyal adherents, that behind the sand
bags and cannon there may be no on
to desert his post in an emergency ant
that the men who bore the arms Of
January 18th may be preferred in Of
flee and responsibility to those who re
fused their service there because the
wanted the monarchy preserved,
May we not hope for some actio
now2 The Annexation Club has Oft
cialy asked for it, and Thurston, Ok
son and Armstrong approve. Is ther
any good reason which should delay
defeat so reasonable request1 If 81
let it develop 10 an open session OF tn
Council and be debated on its merit