Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 37, 13 February 1894 Edition 02 — Those Nominations. [ARTICLE]

Those Nominations.

We fully agree with the Adver- | ’ liesr that it is a pieee of imper tinence for any insignificant and secret political organization to 8ssnme the rigbt to dictate to tbe government. We expect that the German league will have a man nominated and as the Siar I always claims tbat the leading 1 Chinese are faithful annexationists, we cannot see any good i reason why they should not be i allowed a voice in tbe govern- j ment to whieh they contribute a great deal more money in taxes i than all the members of the ! league put tcgether. The leagne has nominated Mr. D. B. Smith !to a seat in the Advisory Oouneil. As we have said in a former issue it is perfectly iramaterial to us who sits in the ; Councils, and we find therefore no canse to criticise the selection of Mr. Smith. If the Anneiation club also should nominate him, we suppose that he will be elected to the counci!s—if they are yet in existence —and it will tben be time enongh to analyse whom Mr. D.B. Smith represents and what particular interest he will advocate. He may possess sorue very great hidden qualifications whieh will make him an ex- , cellent legislator, ibut of course these’qualifications so far have, we prosume, only been presented to tho League—and that, wemust remember, is a very secret and very deep institution. The Star does uot believe that anybody outside of the annexatiouists should ever be allowed to vote or to have a voice in the aflairs of thecouutiy T . We presume that the Star would find it perfectly legitimate if the Deraocratic party should refuse to grant the Hepublicans a vote, because the Hepublicans are not in favor of the Democratic governraent. That would undoubtedly simplify matters, a great deal all over the world, if the rainorities were deprived of representation, but in Hawaii the diflerence is that the temporary ‘outs’ are the great majority, and the temporary ‘ins’ a very insignificant rainority. However Mr. Smitb of the Star will find out that things in this country, never miud what our future is will never be sbkaped according to his ideas, and if he remains here a short while longer, he will yet seo an electoral snowstorm, whieh will politically bury his dearly beloved aliies from the learned Attorney-Gen-eral to the tinpot—making president of the Star company. Who by the way does the editor of the S(ar desire to see in the Councils—besides hiraself? He is evidently disatisfied wilh the present members of the govern raont, because, as he says they do not represent the rank and file. But who is the rauk and file ? We plead ignorance as to the existance of that worthv body—and so does the taxcollector. After all, perhaps the only way to gain information. whieh we seek, is to advocate the proposition in this morning’s Adverli«er. We therefore sav: publish the namesof the members of tbe secret league! How is Mr. Dole s Board of £ducation getting on? Has he succeeded iu fiuding a German yet, eapahle to be a meraber and yet not a consul or a Dane? The reports from tbe MudAVinter Fake is not very encouraging for the Hawaiians who were induced by Mr. Thurston to go there—and get stracded. The whole company that went up ean be expected back by an early steamer —if they ean pay their passage. The whole fair is described as a mnddy fake from begining to end solely instituted «nd c«rried out as a eheap advertisement for that interesting apeeimen of bum«aity Mike de Yoong.