The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-05

apprehends the circumstance I'M
der which Kalakaua and Liliuoka-
lani came TO their thrones. There
was not a drop of so called royal
blood in the veins Of either. The
last descendant Of what was known
as the royal line" having in them
any Of the blood of the Kamehame-
has, was the High Chiefess Bernice
Pauahi, who subsequently was mar
RED TO the Hon. c. r. Bishop, who
still survives, and who is probably
the richest, as he is certainly one of
the most honored among the older
residents of Honolulu. The throne
was at one time offered to this high
chiefess, but she declined to accept
the honor. Subsequently, the royal
line having died out, the monarchy
became elective. After the death
of Kamehameha V, which occurred
in Honolulu, December II, 1872,
Prince William Charles Lunalilo
was elected king by vote of the
mobiles and representatives, and be-
gan to reign January 9, 1873. He
died February 3, 1874. An inter
regnum of nine days followed.
Queen Emma, the dowager queen
of Liholiho, by right or dowager,
should have succeeded her husband
on the throne. A singular anomaly
in Hawaiian law is that the rights
to property by descent belong to
the female and not the male line.
This was a case so hedged about
that it was generally supposed that
the right of the throne was to Queen
Emma, as Liholiho was childless.
She was the idol of the populace.
The nine days interregnum gave
the Hon. David Kalakaua, who
was a prominent male chief, his
opportunity. Being man of popu-
lar manners, he and his agents
were so active that when the vote
was taken February II, 1874, they
had electioneered so success
fully that the vote stood 81 for
Kalakaua and 6 for Queen Emma.
The public was 80 greatly disap-
pointed in the result that a riot
ensued. Chief Justice Judd, in
the annals of his mother, Mrs.
Laura Fish Judd, who was one of
the most illustrious Of the early
missionaries who had civilized the
Hawaiians, writes in the Appen-
dix:
"The popularity of Queen Emma
among the people soon showed itself
in the shape of a riot, which resulted
in the sacking of part of the court
house and In assaults on many of the
representatives. The apparent object
of the mob was to coerce the assembly
into taking another vote, and to elect
the one of their choice. The army had
been disbanded, the police proved in
effectual, the volunteer troops were
divided in their sympathies, and mat
tiers were becoming serious, when, on
request, troops were landed from Uni
ted States ships of war Tuscarora and
Portsmouth, and her British majesty's
ship Tenedor, who speedily restored
order. Many arrests were made and
about one hundred persons were pun
ished by the courts for riot. 1t is diff
cult to say what the result would have
been but for the opportune presence
of ships of war in port at the time.
His Majesty Kalakaua formed his
government and made a royal pro-
gress throughout the group, and the
disaffection became allayed."
Thus Kalakaua did not derive his
throne from inheritance or blood,
but from election, which had in
trigue for it's moving power, and he
was only kept on the throne by the
presence of United States and Brit
ish men-of-war. Liliuokalani got
her throne neither by inheritance,
blood royal, or election. Neither
was she entitled to it, because she
was the oldest sister of Kalakaua,
whom she succeeded. But the lat
ter fixed things so that she would
be his successor when he died with
out an election by the assembly.
He acquired right to the throne by
election, as did his predecessor,
Prince William Charles Lunalilo.
AS Kalakaua kept his throne only
by calling in the aid of foreign
ships, there was poetic justice at
least by the calling in of the aid of
United States warships to prevent
the use of the rabble to restore her
to that throne that she obtained
neither by having royal blood in
her veins or by an election.
*s* Their grandfather and
father were both of the chief class,
but not of the royal blood. It is
true that the ex-queen is an edu-
Gated woman as far as female edu-
cation went in the islands at the
time Of her youth. She is also fair
ly intelligent, a good listener, and
a woman with sufficient womanly
accomplishments to fairly enter
tain a guest at an interview. She
granted myself and my wife per-
sonal interview, and that is of
course not a subject to be written
about. What manner of woman
she was to be the Queen may be
judged of from what lady of I'M
doubted veracity told me in Homo
lulu. My informant told me that
when the opium and lottery bills
passed, that several church ladies
of the missionary class went as