The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-12

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10 carry out our political plans and to
prevent the unnecessary shedding of
Dlood. proposed to arm my men and
when we marched down they had rice
guns for appearance. / expected at
tack from those in opposition to us. NV
pan embraced the expelling of the
Ministers. had the new constitution
with me on the morning of the 30th
nave destroyed it. / talked with the
queen one day when | went to the
falace to see the King. told her very
iittle, told her it was nothing against
the royal family. We had a meeting on
July l1th, j. 7. Baker of Hilo was pres
ent. lie promised me to attend. | did
not expect to use the cannon much, for
II did would have fortified them, hav-
ing had plenty of time. Ii the new con-
| stltutlon had been signed and the minis
ters would not have gone out, | would
| have fought for the King l did not see
the King personally. l first met Loo
mems in the city. He was presented to
me, he wanted to get work Afterwards,
| L met him often and talked with him,
with the result that he came to the
meetings. He knew all that was going
| on. He was at my Office good deal
| We talked very little ontside the meet
| ings. He was at the meetings, came
very late. The arms were displayed at
the meeting that John Baker attended.
1t was discussed that we had better wait
until We got more arms and men. Had
no meeting between the 18th and 29th
| of July. The cause of no meetings
was that [ wanted to get more arms and
men. l gave notice myself of the last
meeting. | telephoned to Boyd in TIA
J liam to come from Kailua. At our last
meeting we had thirty-five rifles and
about thirty-fve rice bird guns. | paid
! for them. 1t is nobody's business
whether had money or not. l saw the
King at Honuakaha, another person
was present whom will not mention. |
received three verbal messages from the
King. They were delivered by one of
the Kings staff. l believed this mes
senger told me the truth, I had conf
dence in him and he in me. The mes
senger was Col. Robert Hoapili Baker.
Capt. Kaaha took my first message on
the morning of the 30th. He took the
| royal carriage and returning said he had
seen the King at Honuakaha. L wanted
the King at the palace to sign the con-
stitution. 1t had not been passed upon
at the meetings, only passed upon by
myself and private friends; one was
Judge Pahia, he approved OF it and
made remarks. f. j. Tesla read it, he
thought it good, approved of it and
thought that the King might change for
the better when he got into his new
position. Showed it to several others,
no haoles. / told Col Baker the con-
tents of the constitution. 1t was under
stood he would tell the King. [ talked
NTH coma Of tho EayOa oinaC on tha Cl1h-
ject. Kaaha's message was that the
King would not come right away. Col.
Baker took the second message to the
King. 1t was after 6 o'clock in the
morning. He soon returned and said
he had seen the King, delivered my
message, and the King replied that he
would come at favorable opportunity.
He told me not to put my soldiers in the
palace. 1t was understood | must get more
men before the favorable opportunity
arrived. The King told Baker that l
had all the guns and ammunition in
the palace | intended to get a large
party so as to repel any attack that
might be made by those in support of
the government. | sent Loomens to the
King with message. 1t was written in
native and said that [ was waiting for
His Majesty. Loomens did not return,
next saw him in the police station.
heard rumors that the Ministers had
been to see the King at his boathouse.
The Queen slept at Waikiki the night OF
July 29th, the princes were at the same
place. l did not know they were not to
be at the palace. found no primers in
the magazine, went to the barracks to
get them. l wanted to get the cannon
ready, as heard rumors that there was
to be opposition from outside. l did not
| know was in the wrong when my men
assembled in the palace yard. We
waited for the King. [ was prepared to
resist any uncivilized attempt on the
part of the government to dislodge us. L
experimental with fuse, it did not
work, then went and got the primers.
| Capt. Kahalewai gave me the primers,
from trap door over the entrance to the
barracks. / did not threaten him. Ka-
halewai after lodging a little gave me
the primers willingly. On July 18th
received message from the King, 1t re-
ferred to former message. The mes
sage said the Ministers were going to
take the cannon away, they had already
got the gattling guns. [ kept secret
these messages from the King. The
message was delivered to me near my
office. Think it was before noon and
| was verbal. did not know Mr.. Damon
was at the gate. l did not think OF
sending word to the Ministers of my in
tention to march to the palace. A sug-
gestion was made that | should be a
dictator as the King was weak. | re-
member making a statement to Mr..
Peterson. l do not remember [ told him
the King had nothing to do with him, L
did not want to say anything then.
When asked Parker for the palace he
told me to go to Kahalewai. Loomens
marched down with us part of the way.
He was dressed in big gray coat. We
held up lot of policemen and made
them fall in line so as they could give nc
alarm at the station. Loomens saw me
experimenting with thesfuse, he said il
would only make noise and scare the
people. The first message from the
King was about my idea of getting VI
the Kamehameha Rife Association
The King knew was patriotic and he
had confidence in me. He said it was {
good thing to teach the men to shoe
| straight. He said the whole city was
r talking about it and it was a good
thing.
At 7 80 the Court adjourned to $50
: Friday morning.
FRIDAY, Oct. 10.
t The Court opened at 9 80 a. m.
: The cross-examination of RObt. w