Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 86, 29 Kekemapa 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The ‘Star” ia dreamiog pleasant dreams. The ingennoas e<litor is counting his ehieken» before they are hatcbed. He is coonting noses in the Senate and natarallv arrives ut the eonelusion tbat the Clevehind Admmistration will be in a minority. H«w ofton have noses heen eonnted and the most skilfnl politiciau beeu surprised to find tbat he ha<i made the most stupendous miscalcniation when a vote was iaken? Take the silver <iuestiou as an example. The Republiean press in the States and even the “Star” iu Honolulu were eoeksure that Cleveland never eoukl carr> r his policy through either House or Senate. And yet when the day eame the Democratic party stood iu a solid phalaux aud backod to the letter tbe will of the man they them.selves had selected for iheir chief and placed at tbe head of the great Kepublic. And it will be the same again on the Hawaiian question. An affair of so small importancetts the Hawaiian aftuirs isto the American neople will certainly not be used for tbe purpose of creating a split iu the denio cratic parfv. The men who would desert the ranks of their party for the simple reason of spitiug Cleveland wonld comrait polilieul suiciJe, aiul Congress would know tbem uo more. The few Senators of tlie democratic party who so far have expressed au opinion adver.se to Cleveland's po!icv will turu t 'back into the fold uml state that they retract and change formerly expresse>l sentiments becausp they at the time did not h:ive the material on hand to enahle them to fully judge tho inatter, but that they now fully uuderstand and decidedlv approve of the plans and policy of the administratiou. and we will bet onr esteemed eontemporary a new hat that such will be the case.

The San Francisco Axuminer has heretofore beeu rather fair towards the Iwo parfcies uow existing in Hawaii, altbongh the }>oliey of the great Califoruiau j)apor has been iu favor of anuexation. But as a rule both sides have had access to its cplumus. We makes tbese remarks. because in the last eommunieuiion from Honolnlu to the “Examiuer.’ we notice that. cerfcain interviews with and statements by some leadiug loyalists have been sappressed, and one of them at least has expressed his suqirise to us on such aelion. It may, thongh, b© dae to an oversight, but if uot it will iu the future make it mote difficult for tbe eorrespondent of the “£x«miner'' fco receive impknial and roiiable news. Aml now we are going io the Midwinter Fair and ilie P. G. band will go too. That i ndeed must be a high)y original and bighly

instrnctive sight for the good people in San Francis---o to see their “own" boys appear in a Hawaiian exhibition as fulllie<lge<i kanakas and provisional Hawaiian horn-blowers. Bnt of coarse the cvclorama and the shark niast be looked aftor or the ditferent trnsts. :ind companies. ami combinations. of the on!y T’nursion might lo?e their shekels. ,

A more preposterons and idiotie rumor than that whieh the Advertiser dishes up this morniug, *we baven t seen even during this period of rumors and lies. We need not repeat that the Queen and her supporters are now, as ever, perfectly wiiling to abide by whatever decision, or whatever steps it shall please the United States to take towards the settlement of. Hawaiian affairs. and have no intentiou of iuterfering in a matter whieh they volnntarily have left in the hands of President Cleveland. So the dime-show and the >alary of Minister Resldeut at Washiagton were not enough together to kaep tbe body (well, we had almost said body and soul, bot he hasu't even gct a fraction of one) of Lokuin Andkews THrusTON in good enough trim to retnrn. His travelliug ex{*eus©s—both ways murk you—must be also dug ont of the pockets of the unwilliug taxpayers. Think how choerfully they would pay them, away from here. if there was a guarantee with it of his never returning.

J. Emmelcth poses as a member of the Educational Comraittee. What a satire on the educational qnalificatlons of the Couucils. Whatbext?

So the “Kaokon" is aboot to gnspeml. So says Emmeluih. And as he is man«ger he onght to know. The oniy natire annexationist paper ean t liveeither on its r sabseriptioh, advertisenients, government subsidv, or the eoin dug up bv Ennneluth. Possibly this is vrhy the “St»r, Emmeluth's other rotten rog, has 8piritedly procured Kunuiakea to boom the cause. And Emmeluth foams at tlie raouth.

Mr. Ed'vanl Tenney a «entleman who has been long und {ivorablv known in this eoinmn* nity, aml wliom the Holomua does not at present class amongst taat eoUn' whieh it regards as legitimate poliiieal game. is a menihei - of tbe Advisory Oonneil. He is credited with saying, daring the interesting discussiou on the HoLoMUa question, by one paj>er. that, said in that sheet \vould not rutHe a singie hair on his head; auother papar quotes hiui as saying, “If it shou!d eail one u bandy legged. w!iite-livered ehieken. I doa’t think it would hurt my repntviiou in the eommnnile.’’ The power of the press f is regani**<t as of soch r.iaguitiule that. it is believe»i, it **onld aceotupitsh vith ease. that whieh, otherwise, without the aid of the preis». woahl be ntterly ; roid of acbievement. iu this instance we wouid say cb.it the | HoLOMUA passes by the raore than Hercuieau Ubor of finding. i

aside from rufliing. a single straggling hair upon the billiard ball occipnt of “our dearest foe. With regard to ihe other. quote<l. remark Mr. Tenney there showed his perspicuit>- and judguient and pierced tbe vindictiveness of the Nuuanu street tinsmith who, in deep cunning. bad endeavored to cover all of the Oouneil with the <tigtna whieh was his nlone.

What must the entire puhlie, politios aside, think of the fake st itement with whieh the Adverti*er gulls its, probably trusting, readers this moruiug. under the heading ,: More Plots.’ Here is a season. now existing, dnriug whieh tb? feelings of most men except the rabid partisans, are fillfd with desire to let peaee and good will prevail. And the business pnhlie, how muat they feel when agaio is raised a cry, a false cry. of. “wolf, wolf, when tbere is no wolf. The cry serves, however, to frighten their Iong-wished-for cnstoraers ;»gain from ahop doors and se cludeddollars thatwere trerabling in the halanee of expenditure, again are made to seek safety in the depths of the prospective customer’s purse. Who is to hlame! The supporters of the Adverli**r!

Onee more the Star has had to take back its language snd its abasively slanderou3 use of its dictionary, this time at the instance of Mr. C. L. Carter, exMinistei to Washington. “Be chesm' I have eaten dirt, on my headbeit When will you learn, O Star tra.nscriber, that your ep;tbets couvey mueh more than vour informants ean father of slander?

Mr. Einmelnth says ‘ in plain Englisb" that he has got “a bellyful of the Holomua. It is the ouly time on record that he has ever had » his internal machinery filled with anythiug decent.