Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 21, 25 Ianuali 1894 — The Circus Begins. [ARTICLE]

The Circus Begins.

That a day wonld eome wbec tbe two \erv itiP(.nprons factions «-hicb are represented respectively bv tlie “Advertiser” and the “Star would fall ont l;as never bet n doubted by anybody e. n- | versaut with Hawaiian pe! tics nml more esj)ecially v.;tb tbe cbaraeteri«tic f«*atuns <>f Ihe i M:ssionarv F.irty and tbeiroi>po- j neuts. The Keform Purty id \ «*(, the family eompael wiHi* headquarters in Ceutral Uuion Church, deniand.s eitber tiie w iiole hog or nothing. Tbey are willing to use auybodv who will support tbem to get into power and they . re just as williug to kiek their supporters ss soon as ; they beeu helped into [iower. They will hold nut proniises of all descriptiou and off’er all kinds of rewards aud they will break their promises aud squirm and lie out of their obligations as 8oon as they are “iu.” M'e saw it in 1S87 and we see it again today. Tbe great raajorit\* of inon who belped tbera in 1887 reccived j then a Iesson and refused to join j them iu 1893. Feeling that 1 they liave “been f*iuud ont since 1887 they imported this tiine as many strangers ; as they convonientl3' could, and they einptied the public j treasury to pay for a class of nien j who forraer!y was considered bighly undesirable, becauso they had neither interest iu, nnr care for the aflairs of Hawaii, but siraply wcre found ready to serve tho highest bidder. The 1 Stur editor aud his iramcdiate backers aro now learuing their lessons. The leaders in the club aud the secret leagues \vere never friendly to the missionaries” because they knew thera too well. They knew the Keforra party’s avarice. se!fisbness, and ambitions. They knew that tho main point in ull the politics of the party of 1887 was the demand for power and p©lf. The lessou is a good one aml it will be beuefieiont for tbo country and lead to the socond and we hopo the fiual downfall of the Keforra party. The Star of courso states that eyrrybody belonging to the revolutionary party is ready to stand by the P. G. and the Advortiser is called hysterical, because the family c- nipaet is having donbts as to the siucerity of Mr. Smith and bis leagaes. Of course tho secret leagnes and Mr. Sniith will support the P. G.-that is if the P. G. will accept the role pf duiniuies «nd allow the administratiou to be carried out by tbeiralleged faithful supporters. And that is where tho shoe pinches the eom pact. If the irresponsiblo crowd, as tho political organizatiou niostly consist of in the eyes of the corapact —only a few of thera having sugar stock —is allowed to run in ten merabei-s in the Advisory Oouneil where. oh! where wouKl the sacred priveleges of tbe saintlv flock bo? Beiore long bigli t fticials be found wanting and the Castle family would no longer hnve the mono poly of filling the officos. The loudest blower yrould always bo on top and Mr. Mulligan and Mr. Smith would run the couutrv. Aud what frightful ] rospects there would then be? No Chinese labor, no oheap labor in fact, no uudivided possession of tbe government pap, and finallv perhaps (what horror!) an ineome or a special sngar tax. The comj\act has two methods bofore them to avoid the torrible catastropho. They must either rouse ! all their members and get them : into the secret ieague aod then ! ruu that shebang to snit tbem or i t.iey most arrmnge for a frauchise ' and a toustitntioQal Legislature | whioh ean l»e so arrangt*u that if j anv uetuuer should bo found j unoblīging” a bribe would fetch him aroond. As bribe- j girers Iho eompael is uuequalled |

in H Of et»iirs*j i s.itts..«tlv«»s i«re liigh:v ah'e. Tlie s-iin!ly flock h:-s been to IkhI poIitic;«liy with a;i *• kinds of people, bat it was veiy j maeh ag.ūn«t tbeir inelinntion ; i bnt, to become, be<i fe!lows with the sceret Iesgae. where blua j ribln>ns are veri scarce—is reallv more thau ean betolemte<l. ! Of conrse the great raaster j Lorrin A. Thurston has alway> stateJ, that he was reaJy to i go to the Jeril (an nn* neces~ary remark) if he cor.lJ g»in his point, but that Joctriue was never, at least openlv. approveJ of bv the pilIars of the Central Ui ion. The most leaJing men of the P. G. cr rather of the family eompaei are f complaining lonJly over the Jilenima they »re ;n. Sorae are wh.ispering that it wonhl, after al!, have been bvtter t * have left well enough ni -ne whilo others .' aro freely aJvoc iting the calling 1 tcgether of a coqv,ention of all chisses of tiie Hawaiian j>eople to JeciJe on a forra of government whieh will be stab!o anJ to the benefit of the couatry. At the same time tlie “raJ:cals" are contemp!ating steps where by they ean gain a large major;ty on who&e shoulJers they eooU bs lifteJ into the salarics nttucheJ ; lo the admiuistrative chairs anJ thcy are Jevising raeans to onst i or at loast po!itically crnsh the i “family compact. ' ln the : rueantiine tho people are Iying I qnietly back amuseJ in watching ! tho circus and saying to both factions: “,Gentlemen yon are worrving yonrselves unnecessariIv. You are premature. The Hawaiian government wi 1 be settled without anv of vou being * consnlted or asked to help. 3fr. Cleveland bas the fioor."