Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-09-05

in peace and with laurels well earned.
But when election time rolled around,
the people knew their man, and Mr..
Gibson was elected to the Legislature
by the largest majority of any one man
ever sent there. The vote was over
whelmingly in his favor. When the
Legislature met in session and Mr.. Glib
son had delivered his maiden speech.
the members and visitors realized at
once a master mind was among them.
The ministry at that time had become
very unpopular and there was strong
talk daily on the street that their time
was short and that Mr.. Gibson was the
coming man. Now for the low cunning
of the pious daisies, who had for years
been the sworn enemies of Mr.. Gibson.
They formed their plan OF action by
writing letter to him, the purport of
1t being something like this. We have
never properly understood you Mr. Glib
son until the present time. and we
would like to see you at the head Of the
Ministry. We will use our influence
with the King to appoint you as the
head of the Cabinet and at the same
time you use your influence with his
Majesty to appoint members of our
party as the balance of the Cabinet.
Mr.. Gibson instead of swallowing the
bait so innocently held out to him, he
at once took the letter to the King and
laid 1t before him to read. His majesty
read 1t and with scorn depicted upon
every lineament of his countenance. he
turned to Mr.. Gibson with these words:
That will do Mr.. Gibson. These men
after trying for years to defame your
character now crave to ride into Office
upon your shoulders, but what else can
be expected of such men-they are be.
meath contempt. The present Ministry
being very unsatisfactory to the pub
lie, change will be made, and I now
appoint you as head Of the Cabinet and
will consult with you right away as TO
the men suitable for the balance of the
Cabinet" The next day the new Minis
try took charge of the affairs OF go;-
eminent and set the machinery In mo-
ton for the benefit of the people as a
whole, as 1t should be.
The country prospered and the pep
pie were contented and happy for the
change, excepting the rule or ruin party
who laid all manner Of undergrounl
schemes to hurt the business of the
country; but the strong man at the
helm OF state easily swept them aside.
The following is one of their pretty
schemes. The bank OF Mr.. Claus
Spreckels at that time was not in full
operation in the matter OF exchange,
and exchange at the bank Of C. II.
Bishop was gradually raising higher
and higher; but Mr.. Gibson soon drop
ped onto their game, and arranged with
Mr.. Spreckels to have 10000 Hawaiian
silver dollars minted as soon as pos ]
sible for the benefit of the public.
In the meantime exchange had gone
up to s per cent, and at that period a
member Of the family compact boosted
in the Office Of Consul General McKin-
ley on Queen street, that he had run
exchange up to per cent and that he
would run 1t up to Is per cent II pos
sible. But short time after In came
Mr.. Spreckels with the Hawaiian dol
lars and agreed to give exchange at
one per cent and take the silver dollars
as payment. 1t was thus that Mr.. Glib
son met the crookedness of the family
compact at every point.
The Advertiser has considerable to
say about the evils of bossism, etc. If
the Advertiser man can point out on
the face OF Gods earth, by going back
a thousand ages, a more mean, despi-
cable, viperous and damnable penny
whistle prosecuting gang of bosses than
the pious impurity bosses of 1893 up,
who for many long years were kept
from poverty's door by blood money
received directly from the gentle AMI
generous hearted Hawalians, and thea
ending their hellish bossism in regard
to Hawaiians by driving their old bene-
factors into the last ditch and holding
them there, until they were pulled out
by the generosity Of Uncle Sam, why
let him sail in and bury himself in his
favorite beverage of "angleworm mud"
Mr. Walter Murray Gibson was a
man loved and respected by every right
minded person in this kingdom, for the
strong, manly courage he displayed in
the cause of right and justice to Hawaii |
mel. The strange, crooked policy OF
the family compact has invariably been
thus: He that will pull in the traces
with them submlssively, however low
his character, is in their estimation |
he that pulls in the opposite
direction is devil incarnate.
ANDANTE.