Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 27, 10 February 1890 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The effects of extreme partisansliip are always'bad, Such effects are gen erally lasting. They are especially detrimental to the general welfare when a canipaign is w T on by the use of extretne partisan n:ethods. Per* sonal influence,or political individualism, when misdirected or intemperately used always results in the worst form of partisan polities. īu a small country like Hawaii, where political personality is a necessary but dangej*ous factor of our political svstem, personal responsibility rightly and justly fixes itself upon those who seek to direct the present or future policy of the kingdom. There are, however, degrees of personal ro« sponsibility in politics, For instance, the ward ss not held so responsible for political results as are the political leaders who direct his course, When political loaders aro placed in high olHeial positions, as tbe trustoī?s and represontatives of the country at large, they violate all reasonable polilieol when they descend to partisan politics. Let it be understood that political *■ custom always peru.iis the leaders of the'party in power to fonuu!ate and defend their po!icy and position before the country: In Ha'waii this privilege is granted by But let it also be remembered that.in no eivilized eountry is oither the po!itical custom or the !,-nv cver.so eon .trued as to allow poliiieal by p<#sona!iy dabbling in partisan politics. henever the leadersof government take advantage of oilieial tmstoeship to become party partisans, they shonkl be held persoually responsible for their actions. Tlie truth . is„ such olheiai partisans are alwa}'s unfit and unsafe men to retain in eiīiee. We have been political!y nnfortunate durmg the late &impaign in this respect. Tiie ministers c r government delegated one of the number to plaee Iho govēnicent policy and position beiuiu tue eeuntry. The entire ministry; thereby became responsible for the political doings of their ministerial delegate. From the very first this ministerial de!egate t verstepped proj>riety and in the end violated the spirit> if nol the absolute ktterof tbe iaw. Giving the most libefal interpretation to ministerial eoiuluei during the campaign the fact remains thatthe ministers are politically responsib!e for degrading their ollieial trusjgeship to the level of the wavd vorker's raethods. AVe are in hopes that the new Cab;nct, \vhea formed 4 in fnture abstain from violating political custom on this point. Tbe public will be further benefited if the new cabinet refuses to follo\v several other doubt- . ful political exatnples set by the present ministei*s in th?ir eagerness to use quc.:tionable means to retain therii • selves in power. There is one other suggestion: viz., our eleeliou law needs to be made more delinite on this point, in the. iibsence of a well established politiea!|

c«stom in Hawaii, so tbat, herqaftrtr, we shalī nin no risk of tho ministqrs of tho crown so far;fo.vgetting' them.»elves as to become, cliiring a polifioa! campaign, the companions if not tho willing tools of ward politicians! We fail to see why tLe governmont journal shoitld always make it a point to slur the mechanics of Honoluki, This morning the meehanies aro a;cused of "already rushing into t';e business of cabinet making." Kow the ti'Uth is tbat tbe meehanics ale doing nothing oi' tl.e kind. - dC4i# only slates that have thns «r ;been made up have boen snggestec! or concocted outside of the mechar.ics and workingmen of Honolnlii: ;nd any compromises otlejc-d 3 as public feelers, certainly do not emanate f; om the meehanics' side of the political house. There are certainly no calls for coinpromises at the present time, as to the f,uture cabinor, except i -om oue source; and it is quite likely (hal ali cabinet rumois have thus Car started from tliis source.

is rather pvomat;iro for eahlnei slates and it is si!!y ;but typical jo;;rn« alism for the government organ to jn - sist that other» are following the p m - nicioas ex?imple of oabinet slate niaking heretofore practicecl by the ernment pariy. There is, however ; one thing t!io ]>3or)le at large h ive pretty weli determineVl upon and ; hat is that t!ie presc-nt cabinet ranßt g>\

The mechanics are but' a portio i of the maioritv who have decided fliīs; and it is pretty certain that wh ou the new cabinet is foro)ed the king will men w!io will represent tlie me- | HōrfwliolO 1 ; plo. Slate making, in the int ;i r.<t of' cliques and classes, is a thing of the! pa,st, as we truly hope its repreben-! tatives will soon be! ! The liope displayed by our highly esteemeu eontemporaiy onthe gove'rn 1 ; ment side f in tr\ing to make the elec f | tion retnrns, thus far received, give| the government party a clear majority ,of four votes, hardly warrants the timidity of the following editorial ex-1 tract: "Wg quite i)gree with tlie j Bulletin that the [election] law stands in need of some further modificat;on, but whether it will rece.ive any, or! whether any that it m iuceive. will be in the right direcf i is more than doubtful." We doub ot this is another case wliere hop dcferred maketh the political he.u -,ick. īf our highiy 3 very highly esh emed eontemporary has any real faith in its' assumed majority of fonr votes, wlial is the reason the election 'aw c uinot| be amended just as it sho. M be from' the government standpoiji; The government joumui 10 u-l:, ing gradually weaned from race pre - ■ judice. In its issue this morning J. ■ K. Hookano» National īteform eaiuli- • date for representative from Kohala, : is taken into full eommunion and in- ' troduced as one atnong others of the j fancied government tnajority in the ; next iegislature. t Thr result of further eleelion re-i iUrns from the other islands, as far as' ! absolute!y reliable, are published| to-dar. !