Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 285, 22 September 1891 — The "Advertiser" Coming to Terms. [ARTICLE]

The "Advertiser" Coming to Terms.

According tothe :. ''ihoi'e no doubt tbat by nmhml mnn»- . a platform may be adopted, whiqh will meet the approval of a inajority of voters here and throqghout the . . . v ; and ali T ,vi}l asriifit" .... althoug"n experience has hitlierto confirmed the trnth of the latin saying ';aes danaos et dona ierentes/' whiehleaehe»■ tinit little good ean ever be expected from the Greeks of the A>hn crowd, yet we shali be verv curious jndeed to see \vhat £ *rautual eonoe?j?ions" they wiil be wiliing to make. Eut, until proof- of the contrarv. we iire afraid that no ,; coneessions" jnade by t-he.- ■Advt?t.mi: and the classeH it represents ran possibly eatisfy-■ the - However the Xeo is pert*eetly disposed tō give a hearing to the .ld rr rti?er\< }iroposals ;md will not purpos33} T oppose any--Ihing reasonable.

The Adyerti#erfurthēr says: a That Ihe results of the elections of 1890 *was a disappointment all round is bow universally conceded" . . . . to •*bo-: sure the : Advertis : er t s pet cabinet Uid fall after the e!ections, —whieh tras a disappointment for it, — but ihe two cabinet who succeeded that one have been so mueh the satelJites 01 the class whbse organ that paper is. and the new minister have l>ee'n so tacitly and serviley at the | beck and command of the old Re- ■ form Party, — though not having ,nny particle of the talent and business capacity of the Thurston cabinei,—•that, although a bitter ;,disappoi indeed to the National Party. Yet th<ire~ought to be no 6entiment of the kind on the part of the Adrertim\ The old reform crowd xeigns in fact more to-day thān the? did before theelectiousoflB9o, \and moreover with the $overeign's sauction, and we cordially agree "with the Advertiscr that y, to j»void a similar disaster in 1892 Bhould be the aim of every voter" ... .and therefore we liope, not on-; ]y that the Advertiscr w ill help us J to obtain for the people a good plat« forro, but will also help us to obtain good men to carry that platform out: the onlv trouble and difference we anUeiuaie between us,-fe as to what "good men" are. But 4t mutual concessions M might perhaps be su£gd?ted, on the question of men well as tliat of the olaN form. And we shalt wait for further development of the Adrcrlisers ideas. But surely, two of the eommon aiins of both parties will be to oufit the present cabinet in its entiretF acd to crush the desigmnp

treacherpus politieianjs who are trying to fish a seat between the two, by. oonstituting the so-called "ind«pendent~party," iudepcndent of all honesty and devoid of all natriotism v and whose only aim is to rais6 up ilie renegades of both ihe other par:io.*.-