Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 210, 8 June 1891 — A TARNISHED REPUTATION. [ARTICLE]

A TARNISHED REPUTATION.

It must be aumitted that Mr. Thurston's reputation is not as lustrous as it onee was. It lost most of the shine while he was Minister of Interior. into whieh position he eame by force and fraud, and retired by the request of the people expressed by the ba3lot. He and his friend, Mr. Wun(lenberg, are a pair of distempereil and disappointed ojfiice-seekers, who nevercan exnect to attain any position by the vote of the people or by any fair means whatsoever. The Bulleten has long been singing Mr. Thurston's requiem as the political "■ defunct," and we have not paid him even that attention. Now, he goes before a poliee justice and holds up his hand and swears that a crime has been committed against-■ the Queen and country, inasmuch as Ka Leo blew coldly on a tender young conspiracy that he and his confederates were said to be hatching. We must say this is very offensive conduct on the part of a political corpse. Mr. Thurston onee made incendiary specches with a cartridgebelt around his middle and a rifie in his hand, against the King and Constitution that he had solemnly sworn tosupport. After that we cannot see that his character woukl be mueh injured by the word " conspirator " or even '• traitor" When we published whpt was as mueh said of the Marshal he eame around and wanted to elean out Ka Leo office and wipe up the floor with the editor, and with a good deal of difficulty "was refrained from disfig«ring the Mouth of the People. But Mr. Thurston, of course. has too mueh moral stamina to take such methods to prove his innoeenee. Making oath to tbiugs is in Mr. Thurston 7 s line, and he went at onee and swore out a warrant against Ka Leo while he retired to his fortifieations. He thus made a contemptible and unmanly attempt to suppress free speech, whieh as a jwurnalist and an Ameriean he was always bound to support