Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 142, 4 Malaki 1891 — THE COMING MAN According To False Prophets. [ARTICLE]

THE COMING MAN According To False Prophets.

T t peems lhat, at the presont jaiicture. :t «iesut-rato « fiort is beiti<j »i»;ide, to tn>o[«i thu politic:il |>crsouit!ity ofJ. O farter. The huil \v;is t-:et a-rolling b)* thut wifeaere of a rein>rter sent down here bv the P Exiiiiiin<*r t«> \vrite ap thc ? fanerai.— a ref»orter, by the vi.iy, wlio. if by !iis imleeent a:n:l wouhl—be joeose nrtieleB ort tlie Miournful eireuinstane<', must be a i -buil<K»i\< even than a iii'lH ral« sealuivr ol h<«rBe-raeit:g ami

boxing aaatelies. It is ti<>' matijer of surpris6-that 4his gaid reportjer should have so ridicvi!ously hlun-. dered ab®at Mr. Carter, for he o(b--tained all his ipformation hepe from the hot-beds ef the old form and of the national rerregade)s; i ānd he amusingly displayed ljis | ignorance of our rcal : politics, bv cdling nohle lane " practically the leader of tJpe National Fartv." j But what is more astoundi ng, the chorus of approbation from ; the ,4 Advertieer' and from the t4 Bulls-; tin M who, althon.gh.chiming io, cann®t help growli"ng snappishj(y at one another. What the real m6tives and reasons of all these effisions and uneommon unison ean tte is a matter of no importanee to the "Ijeo"; but &ome of the extraordfr nary allegations of Mr, Garterfs paper friends, do positively some contradiction and refutātioi, in ©rder that, witheut casting tlje smallest refiection at Mr. Cartcr|s private stand in the eoimnunU#, his political eharacter may be well understood. To ?tart with, the '*Leo" £.sserfcs that Mr. J. "O." Carter is very fai from possessing the fl full nubl!c on the contrary, with i tlie exception.af verv fsAV friends who want to wurk for their own l>enefit through him, we are satistied that he is disiiked and niistrusted by "both natives nnd fofeigners alike," and l>y the independe»t thinkers of both our political parties.He h:is never becn in harmonv with the Xational partv and would be ineapable of even understanding u the wishes of the puhlie as expressed at the late elections;'' his poUtical views are Joe ('arter'S, and no:>ody el.-e" 1 saiul no trne adherent of the National Party has ever looked upon him as aiiything elso hu.t a di»contented sorchead of the Reform ranks; he doos likeaiui always did like to <labble in ]oc;vI poiitics bui he hns been repcatd<l]y defeāted cverv linie he p.ppealf<l to puhlie ■ sufTrage, so that tlie only true thing said of iiiiu l*y the Piulletin, is that he "is en;ineruly nnfi.t lbr a cabinet position. ? ' Th:it Mr. <-;irier has heon c, a constant adviser v to the Queen. may not be incorrcct. and that Iler Majesty has listened to his advice perhaps too oftt.n. is equally correct; bat she is now believed to have at last realized the naturc of his "faithfulness" and the value of his "advice." His presence i ri a eahinel (if one eoukl ever be fouud to accept him) woaUl be quite sufiicient to damn that cftbinct, especially in the es:timation oT the natives, who cannot forget and forgive Mr. Carter's assuniption that there is no native Ilawaiian fit f>>r iio!ding any cabinet position; and of a sivnilar nature is Mr. Carter's standing with our ?vlet hanics, who <annot avbid renie»ubering that th«\v d*d not nb!:iin his help and inlluenee ut a rertain ti?vie wlien ihes<> iui<:ht have l»een of sonie weight for t!ieir <>ause. Therelbre. we do b->pe that no liawaiian:adm!nislratio!n will <vr ie«'l s«> <l<Mt<)rali::vd as tosoek lo % ■strengthon ,, its<lf bv cai!ii«g 011 Mr. C:U't<T's n*sūurces, as siteh a conrs<» wouhl i> • a * In <v>nncction v,ith Mr. J;>scph rart{»r*t: futur'\ īh • A<lv( rtiser >nys, tiiat aecoi\iinv: t<> '.i!i<{j/.' \Vi.{e. .uaiin niii!;t rosign lroi.n ih.- I* v ;> naravsso as • tv» inake for Mr-»L O. C ar'.er. Our ik>t UK' of F'.n;;iKe is a v« ry gued ui^uh

who every mortal» lias <x>v&* mittcd bkmders m his lifefiiae* but, if be did leml his hand to soeh a schenie as that, tbe National Party would not eall Hon Widemann ablunderer,biita traitor. Such are the political virtu«s t stich the populai* pulitical estimates of th« t4 Coming Man," herald«d by our English press!!