Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 339, 7 December 1891 — THE ELELE. [ARTICLE]

THE ELELE.

o are pleased lo see the Elele »ooking up in ite editorial eohimn. s very evident that some one beBide a Stone. ia attending to u long felt want in that paper. Unde: i he new hand it has launehed oiii its thuuders in a lit of ohargrin d abuse of the Ka Leo, and what it " '\uowledges as the Bush-Wil-c v factionv We ean afl'ord forgive the poor Elele and j ts editors, in their flings at us, because our motives are well iinderßtood by the people ot Hawaii nei not to be fected by it As to tne few who &re evidently manipulatiog the Elele for their own purposes, the puWie are the best judges as to their utfcerahces and worth. The Elele in its editorial very ingeoiously tnes to make its readers understand, that it has been aad is the National Party. and that the Bush-Wilcox faction are former to the Party, and that the ' iter, whieh it claims is composed of the Mechanics Union and the i »*iil Kalaiaiua are all that there is ofthe Nationai Party. • We are amus«d at the aBgurance »>f ihe Elele. /For a long time it has been in the back ground, and !lofa sudden we read from its ooiumna tliat that organ is the National Party, and repreae«ts the *fechanies Uni»n and the nui Kai liaina whieh is the tirst avowal we haye ever heard from that paper! 1 hat it belonged to -a Partv. The | i;īole was origmally the Gibson! «»rgan, but has l)een kept up since '»>y the remnant of those who were <vcipients of the bounties of the •'id gentleman'.s administration, and who are aiming bv the same organ f » resurrect their fallen crests and T.>rtunes. This is about the extent | of the Elele's atliliatkm willi the| National Party. The only one ' ver attaclied to thc Elele, who <-an justly elaim to he a mct of thej \'ational Party, and u ho helped to| initiate the main sectīon of the| partv, is D. Lyons, with a l'ew loval j liawaiianp. and the Mcph;inies j Onion. ! rhe party who U' run i t!ie noaiinatiotK< tor Ihs( | would gladly hav lott out Bash I :ind Wiieo.M tuo vears ago, but; deemed it discrertt not to so. Tbis yearthe «nme nnrty honed to ropeat the s«nh i iiuig uver agaiu, nnd run the rouog;tdc!* that <io(vivp- ♦ I the onoe m- ie .nUt the i/Cgidnt!ir«\ wūh the uope <»rfostering thoir int<*rosfp al tlie, cosr of the Native Huwaiians aud

the real wo*rkingmon. Theoriginal Workingmen's Union having falien away to onlv a few members, was whippeel into shape, only of a shell its former self— by the "boodlers t " composed of a few of the Nationalists, some of whoni hope vvith the assistsnce of another .clegenerated i orgnniz|itifin. to obtain control of the old Xational Beform Party and run themselves into ;power. They have for this purpose obtained the Elele as their mouth - pieee. and ■ have endeavored to control the najtive element as they did before, as a bridge to eross over from "obs a eurity<4o aeu ooportanity to pl'ay the ' % Twecd gang," and feather their nests. This is about the work marked out fgy the Elele by its patrons, who is represented by a block of Stone at its head, the halanee preferring obscurity in the work, until it comes to the diyision of spoils, when the u gang ,? will take charge, and Mr. Cephas will receive his reward as did his predecessor. The Bush \Vilcox faction, in the meantime, proposes to go on in the even tenor of their ways, having organizations that show strenfifth, voting power, and influence among the 'people. Tbey have full and overflowing meetings, and, painful as it may appear to the Elele Boodlers, they are the onlv ones that ean eall a mass meeting together while the latter control only a bakers dozen.