The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-19
OBJECTS TO THE CLUB.
A Correspondent Writes of the Con-
servatives.
: pen Picture of "'yve. the People.
4 Brilliant word-Coiner Dis
cusSes the Future.

Mr.. EDITOR 1t always gives
MS pleasure to agree with our po-
litical opponents, when we can DO
so conscientiously, so when the
stockholders and directors OF the
Hilo Tribune undertake to plllory
their quondam editor and then
tumble over one another in their
haste to disavow and repudiate the
sentiments expressed in that papers
last issue-sentiments which were
but the logical outcome of their own
course-we can but congratulate
our friends on their conversion,
even though their announcement
comes a day behind the fair.
Gentle reader, there has been
wailing and MASKING of teeth among
the elect of the Conservative Club.
The apothesised plantation mag
mates have taken the matter in
hand and the riot act has been read
to their not too subservient editor.
We are given to understand that
he is to be removed, and that there
is to be a change of policy. Poor
weakling-
If 80 soon it was to be done for,
We wonder what it was begun for.
But we are assured that there
will be a rehabilitation of the Tri-
bune as a factor in sugar politics
that, Phenix-like, it will rise once
more from amid the ashes, and,
with another editor, bridled, bitted
and curbed, with the reins held
taut-the one from the Olympus of
Wainaku, the other from the Val
hala of Waiakea-take up again
the slogan, as it did in the begin
ming, that The Tribune is in for
annexation, when it can be shown
that the same is desired by the
larger interests of the country" or
that the Government must con-
tinue the importation OF cheap
labor" for
The Chinese and the Japs are the best
Aabor by far, -,
And the scrubs that are worthless will
do for Olaa,
For SUGARS the only salvation. =
Away then, We sneering cynlcs,
BECOME with those frigid brows and
curling lips, the Hilo Tribune has
not like Jonah's gourd sprung up
in a single night, rather from the
mighty brains of the Jupiters OF
the Conservative Club. Is not its
existence sufficient guarantee OF
the good accomplished in those
beautifully benign and peaceful
Saturday night meetings, from
which all disturbing influences
have been barred, and is not the
Tribune's policy but the echo OF
noble sentiments and holy exhort-
atoms of the clubs many (sic)
gifted actors?
And so, copies of the Hilo Trib-
une will prove in eager demand,
inasmuch as they may be expected
to faithfully depict, portray and
describe those instructive and en-
tertaining meetings of the Con
servative Club, behind the guarded
portals of the hash factory DE
Vierra, where as a rule doth gather
the sacred and select conclave OF
intellectual giants, and sitting in
secret session, determines and con-
trolls the destinies of the nation
mayhap whilom knight OF the
hammer and chisel now descents
in seouipedalics on the injustice
and jealousy of hated Honolulu
against poor Hilo, others hasten tc
assert their claim to ambiguous
rank by theses on self government
which no one understands, or, Jus'
think of it we shades of Comus
discussing banking projects, and L
it so happens that after all these
flights of fancy, there still happens
to remain a member not snoring IN
sonorous cadence rythmic accom-
paniment to the bray, laying
train which is to explode and re-
move more detested Government
officials. Oh, tits an intellectual
arena, this of the Consecutive Clut
and if the gIadiators are few, Their
still remains the Tribune to Whool
this up.
That North Kona, or Hamakua
Kohala, the two Konas, Kau, Pun'
with its mass of voters, that tn
mass of the voters Of this distric
should desire to express some volc
in the disposition of question
affecting the body polite, is an In
pudent assumption of arroganc
which the Conservative Club mus
resent. We, the forty members c
our club, are the people. In
Conservative Club and it's organ
the Tribune, represent the "larg
and varied interests" The faithful
are expected to bend the knee i
reverence before it, and those VIII