The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-15

about him, composed in part from fugi.
tives from justice from other countries
accused of all degrees Of crime
Wilson is half-br Tahitian who
as waif, was brought to Honolulu by
al old Hawaiian sea captain. He grew
up here. learned tho blacksmith trade
and followed it till his physical develop.
ment attracted the attention of Mrs.
Dominis, who at once procured a Gov
eminent office for him aud advanced
him as occasion offered. Though physi
cally large, active and well proper
toned, he is morally of low order-a
circumstance which is true of all the
ex- Queens favorites. The feeling of
disgust resulting from the Palace scan
dals as well as the general repugnance
to having the laws maladminstered 10y
worthless favorites, combined to origi-
nate the league to promote justice and
equal rights in the political Government
of Hawaii Among the wrongs to be
remedied was, of course, the differential
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Hawaiian leaguers that annexation
would mean equal civil rights which
most strongly tended to bring the an
nexation view into prominence among
them as the true solution of the ques-
ton. At first the Palace party encour-
aged the league. They thought to use
them in the PRONUNCIATION of new
Constitution by throwing to them the
sop of equal rights in exchange for
their actual cooperation in the Queens
intended coup.
''The league did not openly quarrel
with the Queens representatives, but
negotiated at arms length, with the
object of being left unmolested by the
authorities, or, rather, by Wilson, who
was directing the new Constitution
conspiracy from the Queens side, and
giving only such information to the
Ministers of the Government as the
Queens party chose they should know.
1.-THE league rapidly increased in num-
bers and included many of the best
natives and half-whites in the country.
By May 3lst there were over 800 sworn
members. There was a quasi-military
organization, controlled mostly by ex-
officers or native chief officers of late
native volunteer companies or of the
guard. Spies reported that the leaders
of the league had arranged for large
supply of arms to be landed by SNUG
Cling from small craft at ut.of-the-
points. The Legislature was about to
meet, and it was the Queens plan that
the new order of things must be inau-
gurated in time to prevent its meeting.
MATTERS finally came to head by
the refusal of Wilcox to agree to the
Queens demands. Warrants were made
out for every member of the league
whom the spies had located - some
eighty-seven in number. Plans were
laid to attack and shoot down in cold
blood the executive council of the
league, who were, according to informa-
ton from spies, to hold a meeting at
my rooms that night. This was to be
done under cover of an alleged but
bogus resistance to arrest, in face of
warrants, and, to make the thing COM
plete, martial law was to be at once de-
clared and the league leaders were to
be disposed of by a court-martial, COM
posed of officers of her Majesty's per-
sonal staff and royal guard. But the
league had friends at the Palace and at
the headquarters of most of the Gov
eminent departments !: so the meeting
did not take place, but, instead, Will
cox and other leaders attended a
public meeting of the Liberal party
on that evening and denounced the
Government, the Queen and royalty
in the bitterest terms. If there
was basis for the arms story, no evil
dence was found in the searches by the
police of residences of all known to be-
long to the league. But the details of
the first move having failed, it was
still contemplated by the Queen to re-
move, at all hazards, those she consid-
cred her enemies. 1t is positively known
that proclamation of martial law was
drafted by one of the Queens advisers,
revised in the Attorneys Generals office
and carried for some days in the pocket
of one of the Queens staff, while the
authorities were busily engaged in
hunting up more evidence.
"The palace party calculated to slife
all necessity for such evidence as would
convict in a court of justice by estab-
ing military court. composed of ig-
norant Kanaka partisans and body
servants of the Queen. In this search
for evidence, after the arrests, the au-
thorities threw parties into prison with
out warrant or form of law, kept some
without food for days, piled prisoners
with promises of reward and office if
they would periure themselves in such a
way as to make case against the Lib
eral leaders, and with threats of death
in case of refusal, and used means ex
tort evidence of the kind they wanted
in manner which would disgrace
brigands. These facts were proved in
court by witnesses for the prosecution.
But the failure of the Queen to destroy
all opposition to her abominable course
| ia due chief " after all To the infer