Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 580, 10 Nowemapa 1892 — POLITICAL TREACHERY! [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL TREACHERY!

The Reformers. so..''eallH. h:ivo <luring the last uiinifiterial strnggle, proelaimed in stentorian tenus, thro"uffb i hjeir inouih_pi<Kieg. thafe they were not oV»jecting to the pers.on(jl of a»y cabinet, bat were fighting fer a principle—the right ot tho majority to rule» or representive goyernmeDjUt*This being one of'the princ.iples defk»cd in the Liberal Party's there was an immediatecoslition of the Reform and the Progressivii Libera!s in the House to sustain this priuciple. These two elements formed a majority of the House. and by eombined a(ftion had a!most iyon their noint. The recognized journal of the Reforrn, the Advertiser. in its issue of the sth inst.. editorially stated as follo\vs: "wecnnnot remind our readers too olVn or too stroi>gl v. that the cpr>osition is fightincj to>r v prinoii)k\ not fur per?<ons. * * /• h ,uj (<>.• hi<ijo, % !ti/ It i? g*ving al! its :onergic-s to estabiish thut tlio u-ill of the majoritv.' not the per.?otial of tlie R»vereit*n f niakosthe jaw andihe governniont.' v Why has their boasted tenaoity't\v prinoip'o disappoared? Why ilo s\u h gcntlemen helio thoir own words, and t.ike \vater? How is it that thity have acoopted a ca!> iiu t fr >m Her M je*ty. rho new Prot:iior īlio Hon <» X. Wih (*\-, rttwrM U t > "Honolui i «»n ?:ist Sunday; w;is oull»»d ibr ov ll**r M;ijosty. Ho r«"ipt>ntsed. āJvi siio sv\b*iatto 1 t \ iiiui tl;ro» eoM-.i-cues; oabiu«t h<» in turn subuiitted to tne opposition Tht Pro«rossive Librral* heJd ;hat

|in accordanro with their |)rincipl<?e, I this cabinet, npt coraing from the i oppoBiition iii eaueuE. could not t>e acoepted, and poeitiyely refused to support them, ten of the opposition out of twenty-six memhepe preeent rpfhaiii|f to countensnco the eabinot from the unprincipled manner in whieh the Reform Boodlers hādr takenin its formation. Tbe i Refonners acting upon the thesis that enough was as good as a feasti\came out m there true eoiors and showed the cloven hoof. They, from all indicaJjonSi | mto an agreement retain C. B. | Wilson in oflsce, providing they | should be giiren the rest of the hog. | In fact, they live<i we)l up to the ! sentiment of one of their leaders. i.e, j to the devil to gain their 1 esd. In their eagemess to grab | ail, ihat pnneiple, through wliich.| they had obtained the suoport of j the Progressive Liberals, ānd the | sympathy of the puhlie, was loat ■ sight of. , j However, they are simply delud- | ed if they ivnae;ine for a moment 1 that they-can hokl power, after en- ; traping their politicai allies as they | have done. If we are going to hav*e an entdrcly factional cabinet then, let us ihave one composed of represontajtive Haw.aiians oniy. The Progres?ive Liberals, L am sure, will remain true t ) their principle. and will endeavor to their uttermost to obtain a cabinet in whieh the Hawaiiah and foreigner \vHl he alike represented. *