Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 272, 3 Kepakemapa 1891 — The Bulletin's Inconsistensies. [ARTICLE]

The Bulletin's Inconsistensies.

II. The Bullctin does not like to be "snarled or sneered at," but it eonfesses itto be nonew thing: "Before the last campaign ; there was a similar kind of snarling (against it) on a part of small factional politicians and "orphaned sheets" vexed because the a orb" would {, take no stock in |their frantic atteiiipts to make theniselves and their views recognized." This admission only goes to prove onething, riz: that at that time, the Bulkiin wa? just as mueh "'on the fence" as it now is and ever will be. But the funny thing is that, this last time, the BvUktin was the one who started the attack, the sneers and suarls at thc "mongrel Hawaiian and English 8heet:" the Leo only retorted in self defense, andthe Bvl~ lelin having got the worse of the fight, wcnt around wailing ' hhae murder." Be consistent, ye %ireflecting" brothers, and leave the Leo alone, if you do not like to he whiuped. Now for a bit of hi*torv, kang;iroo laehion, —we eontinue to quote Queen 8tm>t 8heet: . ,% This crovd (ofiS. F. pohtieians a,nd orphaned shects) rushed a platform of their incoherent. ill-digested notions on the puhlu ,, ga/o, calling the heterogenoua compound ultra-radica)ism atid baldest reflotionary twaddlo by thc nanie of

principles".... "A single artiole in the BuUetin knocked the bottom out of the uijgaiulyfabric 3 and it» wreck was cleAred away bo expeditiously that in a week there was not a vestige of it to mar the polltical landscape." By jove! thi8 is a modest assertion ! But' if we are not zmstafcen, the a"uthorship of what Jupiter "orb" is pleased to eall "incoherent, ill-digestfcd. heterogenous~twaddle, etc., belongs to the Meehanie' Uuion, and therefore that association ie the crowd alluded to. Well! it is a known faet that the BuUetin never has laeea sympathetic or partial to| that it is evidently I afraid of soiling its dainty fingers i by conteact with the horny but ] honest hand of our laboring class, | and ithas never raissed an opportunity of throwing sneers and ridi- j eule on the mechanics and theirj opimons; probably the "orb" thinks j that such a crowd is not entitled to have an opinion of their owo, | and ought not to be allowed to express it. Men so sensitive to sneers as the editors of the BuUetin, ought to be a little more careful of the feelings of the best class ot our population, the one that combines honesty with hard work and stolid paiienee, when su£Tering e under government misrule and plutocratic tyranny. However the self-styled U tribune" Wants us to believe that the Uungainly fabric" of the Mechanics' political expreesions was just blowndown by u a single article" of its powerful editor! we are not generally curious about the orb's doing, but we .would like to know in what issue this cyelonic efFort was published ? Wonder \t diil not burst the BuUetin press and blow to atoms the poor , compositors ! But, strange to say, the Mechanics' itsel'f iiC " r felt 'anything of the tornado and the document it had published stood for months ap the banner of the party, until it heeame expedient to modify it in tbrm,—not to comply with thc Bul■le,tin's thunder, — but as a eoneiliatory po!icy to allay the timidity of some of the running candidates. In sober fact, the say, the "candid or seasonable opinions" bf the Bidktin, had nothing at all to do with the matter. But to eonlinue with our selfconstituted adversary's eonsistencies. Aftcr the above described cyclone and-wreck f u in its plaee," says the modest Bulletin, "arose a platform of coramon-sense and progre8s, on whieh a 3ighal victory was won at the polls." The BuUctin having, according to ite assertion, knocked to pieeea the previous Dlatform, one would think that it furnished or at least helped to concoct the documont that took tlie plaee of the u wrecked" one. But no!I.. .The Bullelin was nowhero ! It had no show whatsoever in the proddction of the uew platform that was going to win at the polle. Wliere was thcn the Bulh (in, after its cyclonie blowin{»! It was prudently sitting on the fence, ns iiRjal, waitinjr for a time" to take sides with the presumabiy <?trongest partv, and oxpress its ' oaadid opiiuon" when no danger conld be apprehend<>d; in fact. the pahlie never knew anything of thai new platform through ihe }ud!< tin. until it was published in i?-« hnek columiis at 9o>tnueh pcr eolunw, a purriy iinaneial conrjnvi-

nication,and that is how the RuUetin 4, led" nr ever **reflectod" pahlie opinion, and assisted the Nat/onal Party! If the Bullctin darēd to contradict us, we will challenge it to publish the real authorship of the nalional platform of 1890, and to brin£ forth the proper proof of its ehar& if any, in its production.