The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-06-25
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Y, JUNE 25.
Official DeIinquents.


yet received from all the districts, enough have
been to show that the house will comprise eleven
or twelve foreigners out of the whole number
of q delegates, and that generally the members
elect are adverse to the proposed mode of chang
ing the Constitution, though they may favor
a discussion of it. However, it remains to
be seen what their action is to be, and whether
it can be altered and set aside by any body but
that in which the right is constitutionally vested.
The election being now over, it will not be out
of place to make some remarks on the mode in
which it has been conducted, especially as a cor
respondent in our last paper calls attention to
certain interference from persons in : high Off
cial position" On this island, as also on Ha-
wall, SO far as we can learn, there was no such
interference, and everything was conducted
openly and fairly.
On the other islands, however, the case was
different. On Kauai, it will be remembered
that His Majesty the KING made a tour early
in June, accompanied by some of his chiefs and
Mr. Wyllie. His Majesty made addresses at
each stopping place, showing a deep interest in
his people, and which elected warm responses
from them. lie told them that he sought to
govern only for their good. and whatever were
their expressed wishes respecting the Constitu-
" hC Ndo BICpdECQ u 5IO VII UcIn, anu
carry out their views.
Not so however, with Mr.. Willie. He is
reported to us as having used the most violent
language about the Constitution and the Legis-
lature, denouncing them both as a nuisance and
an insult to the King, whose duty it was to put
an end to them.
Among the candidates at Koloa, was DR..
James W. Smith, Il man who had been sponta-
aDrll A-,-aN L. IL
intelligent person they could elect to a c%onstitu-
tional convention. Previous to the election, the
Governor of Kauai assembled the people both
at koloa and Lihue, telling them that they must
not vote for any foreigner, but for native candi-
dates, and that DR.. Smith was only an enemy
TO them, or IS belonged to the enemy as the
expression was. In this and other WAYS, he
sought to intimidate the natives, and change the
issue of the election. The result was, as might
have been anticipated, d. S~ith WINS defeated,
and the Governors candidate elected.
So too, the Governor Of Maui is reported to
have used his official influence for the purpose
of preventing the election of foreigners in his
field. y letter has been published in the Kuokoa, |
and we have seen another in English, from Il
gentleman on Molokai, stating that Governor
Nahaolelua had written to his deputy on that
island, instructing him to use all his best en-
deavors to prevent the election of foreigners as
delegates, ordering his deputy to put himself up
as a candidate and to put some one in his place
as Inspector on election day, who should be
a0ise, so as to PREVENT any haOAe or foreigner
from getting elected. lie moreover commanded
him to order the deputy sheriff and constables
to use all their power to prevent the election of
any foreigner.
If these reports are true, both the Governors
of Kauai and Maui have been guilty of open
and fragrant violation of the laws of the land.
The civil code reads
with money ~ promise nsy Of S1 reward. oT o 5faIi Ry REis'p ar TPSthsT
TO INFLUENCE ANY ELECToE IN GIVING his BAL
contrary to the inclination Of such elector.. or to deter MIN
exceeding fifty dollars. or imprisoned at hard labor n not Exceed eI.
ing six months, in the discretion of the court.
The law is very explicit, and it would appear |
that both these governors are liable to an action
under it, although it is difficult to avoid the
conclusion that they acted by some authority.
The Ministers, however, are responsible for the
acts of their subordinates, and it becomes a
serious question whether, if what is stated be
true, they should not be removed from office,
or at least their official conduct INQUIRED into.
If these Governors have sought TO prevent the
election of FOREIGNERS, pray by whose authority
HAS IL DecH uOnc were lney SO instructed,
and if so, by whom?
Al Lahaina, Mr.. Wyllie repeated his dcnun-
Citations of the Constitution, and is reported to
have urged the people of that place to seek its
that they might buy liquor-a most
argument with the people of that
moral town, who desire to revel in beer and oko-
The result of his speech and of the inhu-
ence of the Governor, was that ministerial tools
were elected at Lahaina.
Thence His Majesty proceeded to Hilo. and on
The 18th inst, addressed the people in Mr..
Coan's church. His speech there, like all his
previous addresses, was in sympathy with the
and pleased them much. But Mr.. WI
lie again launched forth in his abuse of the
Constitution, &C., and surpassed all his pre-
Tious efforts in that line. A person present at
he meeting, writes us:
'The old gentleman was as fiery as a youth of r
or nuumbered years, and as apt in the use of Bill
ngsgate as one to the manor born" lie says,
here is an clique of hypocritical, scheming, traitori-
JUS and lying demagogues, who are going about the
aountry telling the innocent natives that the King is
attempting TO take their liberties from them; that he
5 intending to saddle a church and several other in
upon them; that he intends to destroy the Con-
titution of 1852, which he (Mr. Wy did not say was &
but was a slanderous lie. That what the King =
esires is, to cheek abuses, to place the right above
he wrong. Here our correspondent makes a note {
the minister may mean the fright church over L
ne " wrong church, not by making a State church, q
ut by making its Bishop and teachers and creatures
ne State Mr.. Wylie says moreover, that these 7
,me ones who are now m~aligning the Kings Minis i