The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-10-17
PUTTING LEGS TO LIES.

Although an old proverb says
lie has no legs, the Advertiser does
not believe it. In a long article,
full of lodgings of the main issues,
that paper pretends to reply to our
remarks on the new public printing
scheme of the Government. Our
contemporary defense against the
charge of boodling is prolific of mis-
statements and misleading insinua-
tions. 1t assumes that this paper had
a monopoly of Government patron
age under the various administra-
tions that succeeded Mr.. Thurs
tons. This is very far from the
truth. The Advertiser had very
liberal share of Government adver-
tising, including nearly the whole of
that from the Finance Department
much of which was what printers
call "fat''-even while director Of
the Bulletin Publishing Company
was the Minister. When our con
temporary refers to the National
Reform party it ought to be very
respectful, in view of the little
coquetry practiced by itself toward
the Mechanics Union-the foreign
wing of that party-at the opening
Of the campaign of 1892. 0ts de-
vout ally the Friend was not above
curling its bangs and powdering its
face to catch that particular beau
at the same time.)
When our amiable contemporary
brands anything as lie again, it
should first brush up its memory
and ascertain if there is any evidence
extant on the subject Of branding.
1t happens that the Minister of FL
nance few months ago submitted
a statement of outstanding accounts
to the Councils. In that statement
it was shown that several thousand
dollars was coming to the Gazette
Publishing Company. How many
hundreds or thousands had already
been drawn in the months that the
Provisional Government were taking
Advertiser space by several columns
sometimes at once, neither the
Councils nor the public have been,
or probably will be, informed. One
thousand of the amount outstand-
ing at the time in question was for
work got by tender, but there was
still over two thousand due the Ga,
zette company on miscellaneous ac-
count.
This paper knows nothing of a
time "when notice was posted in
the Interior Office ordering that al
vertising was not to be given the
Advertiser without the special order
of the head of that department
1t does know, however, that an order
was given to stop all Interior Office
advertising from coming to the
BULLETIN since the p. G. came into
power. We are not complaining a
bit, but consider that the Advertiser
has a brass cheek to complain OF
similar treatment when the late Mr.
Spencer was Minister The way that
paper slandered and bounded that
gentleman, personally, and libeled
his public actions without rhyme OF
reason-in the news columns as well
as in the editorial formed one OF
the most disreputable exhibitions ol
journalism ever made in this or any
other country. Both the editor and
the newsgatherers of the Advertiser
took every opportunity of discredit-
ing the means adopted by Mr.
Spencer to deepen the entrance to
the harbor, which proved successful
IN spite OF all the malignant obstruc'
ton of the clique represented by
the Advertiser with the assistance ol
faction to which they pretended
to be deadly opposed but that
crowd would join hands with Apol