The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-03

Arthur Z. Peterson was born in
New Bedford, Mass, of old Puritan
stock, and was SO years old. He went
to the Hawaiian Islands when quite
young, and after graduating from
Punahou College, he went to the law
college of the University of Michigan
and was graduated with honors. He
next went to Boston, where he was in
active practice of his profession for
some years, alternating it with news
paper work.
He was Deputy Attorney General
for two years and twice Attorney
General of Hawaii under the mon
archy; also sitting as Noble for Oahu
In the Legislature OF 1890 90. He was
Acknowledgement at the time OF the
revolution in 1898. He had conferred
upon him the decoration of the Impe-
rial Order of the Sacred Treasure OF
Japan for services rendered to the
Japanese Government.
Peterson's friend, Charles Creigh-
ton, also an ex-AttOrney-Gener and
now an exile, in speaking of Peter
sons illness and death said: "His
late illness was contracted while I'M
dergoing solitary confinement in the
station house in Honolulu during the
uprising. He was confined to his bed
during the last two weeks.
peterson was the acknowledged
head of his profession in Hawaii, hav-
ing established for himself a reputa-
ton for ability and integrity excelled
by none at the Hawaiian bar. Dur
ing his last illness he constantly
imagined that he was still in prison
and suffering from the indignities
practiced on him. His last words
were: I've got out of jail"
ASHFORD Is DEFIANT.
Clarence w. Ashford, one of the
deported adherents of the ex. queen of
of Hawaii, who arrived on the Arawa,
was seeu at the Lick House last night,
says the San Francisco Chronicle of
March Is. He readily consented to
give his views on the situation at the
Islands.
"Yes, I am a full-fedged exile
now," said he, "and to tell the truth I
am not a little surprised at being
such. Not that l expected to be &C.
quilted, but, on the contrary, because
of my having been permitted to leave
the islands with a whole skin. [
subjected to long term of imprison-
ment or something even worse.
81 feel very much agrieved on &C
cOunt of the attitude of the American
people in reference to our case. Be-
cause the Provisional Government
had its band play yankee Doodle"
and declared itself to be Government
of the people by the people, you folks
over here have run away with the
idea that the so-called revolution
which resulted in the present Govern
ment was simply civilization and
freedom asserting itself and downing
tyranical monarchy. Never was
more serious mistake made. The fact
of the matter is that the Dole Govern
meut is the most un-American and
repulsive combination imaginable.
We exiles were sent away, not be-
cause we had done anything wrong,
but because we believed in a true re-
publican form of government and
dared to dieapprove of the tyranny and
misrule which usurped a former salts
factory government.
"The American League over there
is an organization formed to promote
to the United States. Its
leading members are American citi-
zen who have had some experience In
American politics. They are for the
most part liberal in their ideas and
are most persistent in their efforts to
secure lenient treatment of the politi-
cal prisoness lately arrested; whereas
the so called solid mem would
move. heaven aud earth in their
efforts to bring the leaders of the late
to the gailows. The afro
city involved in the condemnation of
citizens by lynch court,
masquerading under the name of q
military commission, is something
which should come very closely home
to every American.
"The Constitution of Hawaii, bad
and unrepublican as it is in most re-
spects, at least processes to guarantee
the right of trial by jury. But,
of the judiciary-through its own APP
pointees on the bench, and had jurors
who, in order to be eligible must take
an oath abjuring the monarchy-they
feared some of the parties whom they
wished to convict might slip through
their hands. Therefore the court.
martial was organized, not to try, but
to convict, those who should be
brought before it. This is the way we
who do not believe in the present
looked at the situation.
"The Grand Army of the Republic
might do worse than to consider
poor old Major Seward and
Colonel V. V. Ashford, themselves
OIdHO Army hSnt as We'll DIS OtbSA
American citizens have received the
rights to which they are entitled from
the military court"
Mr.. Ashford dwelt at length upon
The alleged iIl-treatment of the po1iti-
,al prisoners. He had not Jared so
badly himself, he said, except from a
spell of solitary confinement, but he
declared that others had been tor
5ured by minions of the Government |
In the hope that they might be har-
rassed into giving evidence against !
themselves and others of the pris- |
)ners.
Speaking of the ex queen, Ashford |
said he had spoken with her just be- |
,ore boarding the Arawa. She was
hen q prisoner guarded by soldiers. |
He said he was satisfied that she |
would scorn the proposition made to
Der to leave the country and accept an |
allowance of $4,000 a year. She |
would stay in her native country, he |
said, be her fate what it may.
''The DartV in mower now doesn't |