Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 269, 28 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Tiiat eane ie »till caitaing the P. G. and the annexation-orgms eonaiderab!e worry. Yeaterday the councils actually went into aecret aessi »n i*. discuss lhis very important HŌ'air. We h<»pe ttiat Mr. D>»le enjoys that kind <>f baby-play. To us. it is <>nly a further pr>»f of the increasing mibecilitv whieh for aome time. has char:icter ; zed our great and wise rulers. Mr. Dole we understand desires Mr. Creighton to \vrite a letter to him at his dictation, whieh mild request. Mr. Creighton of c<>urse declines to comply with. simply heeauae it has not yet been learued when Mr. l)ole heeame an anthority either on matters pertaining to dip!omatic usage or on the private atfairs of private cilizens. The courteoun and explanatory letter whieh Mr. Creighton wrote to Mr. Dole was rejected without heing submitted t<> Minister Blonnt, who we feel assured would have heen perfectly aatisfied with it. And here the matter resta. W'e would S'igge8t that a committee be appointed to find waj’S and meana to enahle Mr, D<)le to make some m >re display of kinder-garten statosmanship, and we don’t know of any better •eleeliou than Messrs. Bolte. Mendonca, and Emmelulh. Military and diplomatic knowledge would he equally well represented in «ueh a comm:ttee, and it may he necessary to eall in the army before we get through with that stick. In its lat«st comments on the 8tick-episode. the Advertiser elaima tbat there is a split in the Royalist eamp und that aome leading royalists condemn the whole husines8 even stronger than dn tfq. &nnexationist8. The AdvertiS'T is aa unual wrong. There ie no “leading” royali9t who does not fully approve of the presentation of that eane to Mr. Spreckels. Tbere are in the royalist party —as in any other j»*rty —some hangers on who. aIthough politically impoasible, attempt to have a big voice in tbe a£fairs of the party and as long as it ean be dune cheaply and without any expenditure of eaeh deaire to pose as leaders—fair weather friends who laek • the moral courage to eome out at the right time and take their ehaneea with tbe party. Men who to a oertain exteut are to hlame for tbe tmhappy condition of the ccuntrj to-day. “ Found out” po!iticians who wouldn’t dare to plaee their namea before a convention of electors. Yes, the royalist party, we regret to say baa got a few of that kind among its membere,but we eall the Advertiser’s attention io it that they are not “leaders” nor considered of any aeeooni by the rank and fi!e of tbe partr. If eueh men ahou!d object to the preeenUtion of th« eane to Oolonel Sprecke)s, the Adrertiser ean reet aasured tbat ihe eole reaeon for such attitode ie that they are f«eliug eomewhai hurt, heeauee tbey wem noi eoo- %

aidered of sufficient importance to have their names mentioned aa victims of the aileged murderorganization. W’e are sorry for them and we ask theAdvert!8er editur when he nexttime ?electsa list of citizens to be killed that he will be more circumspect and add a few of Ihe self-styled leaders to the former number and so avoid hurting their feeling« and more especial!y their overwhelming vanity. We have to ap.)Iog:ze. It is rarely that we ever have to aeknowledge thal we are wroug, heeauae this is first and foremost a truthtelling paper, but whenever we unintenlionaiiy hurl the feelingsof our opponenU by ine »rrect st.itements we hasten to make all the redress whieh is in our power. We aooli<gize to Mr. 1) >le and t > the whole of the prov<sional governmeut f»r occassionally having mentioned the P. C. Advertiser as be ng the oOieial jourual or eemiolheial organ of the P. G. We have done the P. G. an injust.ee and we regret it aud promise never to d<) it again. We have been made aware of our error through reading Mr. Dole’s lelter to Mr. Creighton in whieh the head of the government says,“that the mention of the P. C. Advertiser as being the official organ of the government is extremely offensive to the government and false.” We fully sympathize with Mr. Do!e. It is bad enough for any government to be saddled with the ipoh whieh supports it and hangs ōn to it, but ihe eup of bitterness would undoubted!yoverflow if Mr. Dole and eolleagues w< re mude responsible for the superlative idiocy and prize r»t whieh daily appear in the now proclaimed unolficial morniug bladder.