The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-22
P. G. DAVIES.

The following extract from the
London Times of May 18th last will
be instructive to those who thought
Mr.. Davies could be of service at
the Ottawa conference
A dispatch from Honolulu, dated May
3, reads as follows THE election OF
delegates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton was held on the Island OF Oahu
Yesterday. About 400 OF the popula-
ton went to the poll, but the natives
abstained from voting. All is quiet.
No returns have been received from the
other islands,"
Mr.. Theo. H. Davies, OF Southport,
explains the news thus:-
During the last year and quarter
the Government of Hawaii has been adj
ministered by nineteen white men, who
assumed control by vote of a mass
meeting held in Honolulu. They are
men of good social and commercial
standing, but they have never consulted
the natives nor the people of any class
outside Honolulu. Hitherto these
gentlemen have steadily refused to put
their position to the test OF an appeal to
the people. Finally, they have felt
themselves compelled to make some
show of constitutional Difference, and
the following is their scheme:
THE Provisional Government sum-
mOned the nation to vote on the I'd Of
May for eighteen delegates to con-
vention in which they also and their
council nineteen in alb would sit and
hold the majority. They further per-
NIT every man to vote who has been
either soldier or a policeman for the
last four months or resident for the
past year, provided that he is not an
Asiatic, and proUided that he lciU first
tdke an oath to uOte for them!
II learn by cable that on the island
from which the commissioners were
sent to Washington, out of a possible
5000 Hawaiian voters, 2,S42 refused the
qualifying oath; and a later telegram
informs me that the natives have al.
most unanimously abstained from vot.
ing. The Provisional Government has
been pronounced illegitimate by the
President of the United States, it has
received recognition from no Other
Power, and the nation whom it pro
fessed to represent has utterly repudi
ated it. If this Government continue,
to maintain itself, it must be largely by
the votes of policemen, soldiers, and
Portuguese immigrants, many of whom
had not seen Hawaii when the revolu
ton took place"
The above statements, absurd
and glaring as they are, will sur
prise no one here who has watched
Mr.. Davies INSCRIPTIONS politica
course since the revolution. 1
the man would only stick to the
truth in his politics the Hawaiian
public might extend its charity ia,
enough to cover some of his othe
professions at variance with the eX
ternal fitness of things in general
and with his practice in life in par
ticular. A spade is a spade and {
lie is lie, no matter whether it il
told by Theo. H. Davies or any
other man; and it is quite eviden
from the above extracts tina
having ceased to respect tn,
truth he has become careless
as to retaining the respect o
others. 1t is one of the traits il
Mr.. Davies character that has i'm
pressed many of his former friend
in Hawaii of late years, that sine
he removed his person and effect
to England, where he is not obligec
to meet daily face to face men wh'
know him as merchant, worshipe
and politician, and can read boil