Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume VIII, Number 26, 25 December 1886 — America and Hawaiian Politics. [ARTICLE]

America and Hawaiian Politics.

We know but little gSfctit Amenean polities, but aro toKl that thoy hav-e in that country two great and powei'ful partieB, tho one ealleil the Republiean. and the other the -T)fimocratU

party. Both pariics p!aco their eandidptes for office before the people to elect. They \vork har<l and vigorous for their favorites from Pres!deiit to Constable, and when the electi on 5s ov«r, the victors rece|ve the hearty undividecl support of their opponani It is considered dishonomble and cowardly in America to vilifv tho victorious party. As an instance, President Clevelaud is the only President elected by the Dernocratic party in Amei'iea einee 1856, thirty years agoj many woald Buppose accoJxling to Hawaiian political theology, that the United States had eommitted a feafnl error in electing ā Democrate into office after havmg tull contro!l of the government for tlnrty year3, (< no

Amei'iean thinks so," and to-day Hiere is not a Keipublican nowspapcr in tho Uuitcd Slates whieh cloes not givePre sident Cleve!aud its hearty suppōrt.j llere is somethīng for our Ilawaiiau Statesmen to look aftev. America ia a good example to follow. Did you ever hear an Ameiiean speak disparagingly of his own countiy, or did any one ever hear even a forcigner in Ameri.c», of any standing, lying dehberately, anū saying of the government the meanest things he knew how, nothing of the kmd. True Americans aro made of batter materal How about Hawaii? Vy"e have our eleetions too. We also have two parties, one called the Government, audthe other the Opppsition party, unhappiiy both cannot be elected. The Governui£nt party being victorers at the last election. Now let us see how our foreign aud native opposition party contrast with the groat llepuhlieaii party of the Uuited States. The one gives its undivided support to its opponents. The other what? To use the vory milde3t of language, does tho verv reverse of our great neighbor. There is nothing too bad for them t« say of our King and hia MinisterB, and a man elected by the people or appointed by His M' jesty into is a standihg targ-"i, for th.e malighity an.d slandeb of men who con«ider "themselves" gentlemon.