The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-19
FAIRY TALES TOLD BY EyILES.
Tim Murray Gets a Send-0ff in
California Papers.
Hawaiian Government sRId TO he Enlist
ing Recruits to Prevent American
League from Overturn-
lug the Republic.

The following extract, taken from
the S. f. Chronicle of March 18th,
is sample of the information fur
nished the press By the Hawaiian
exiles now III that city:
The exiles from Hawaii, who form a
little colony in this city, are discuss
ing the chances of conflict between
the Dole Government and the Ameri-
can League, as il is said that recruits
for the Government will depart on the
steamer for Honolulu, which sails to-
day
the bonds uniting the League and the
Dole administration The League Is
as anxiors and clamorous for anneXa-
ton as ever, while the Government Is
opposed to it under present conditions.
The Wilson tariff law is said TO have
caused the change of heart of the Ad-
ministration, and while that law re-
mains on the statute books President
Dole and his Cabinet Will make no
advances in the direction OF national
union.
No open rupture, so the story goes,
has taken place between the Govern
ment and the League, but a very in
teresting encounter Is reported as
having taken place recently between
Attorney General w. 0. Smith and
t. B. Murray, the president of the
League. The latter, it is stated, Is
outspoken in his demands for the
taking OF immediate steps for annexa-
ton, and has, thereby, fallen from his
former high favor under the displeas-
ure of the Government. A short time
ago he and Smith are said TO have had
cut and thrust sort of interview,
which terminated in anger, with a
threat from the Acknowledgement
that Murray had better keep an eye
on his actions or he would be locked
up.
This may be mere rumor, but on
top of it comes the information, given
as absolutely true yesterday, that
agents of the Hawaiian Government
are at the present moment engaged
in recruiting NEIL for the army,to be
prepared for any violent demODstra-
lions that may be made by the ''scrap
pers'' of the League, headed by the
redoubtable "Ti.n" Murray.
Ex-soldiers of the United States
Army are said to be preferred and
some are, according to the story,
this morning. 1t Is even said that
they are to receive pay at the rate of
$40 per month.
Should the Government wish to
come to an open rupture with Murray
and his immediate followers-that is,
some 300 who believe as strongly and
firmly in annexation as himself-it is
thought that any little precaution it
may take in the way of providing dis.
cip1ined fighters for its army is not
piece of bad judgment.
First, last and all the time Murray
is q fighter. The Government Is
aware Of this, and the newspaper &C
of the various encounters on
the islands, from the revolution of
1893 to the encounters at Diamond
Head two months ago, bear it out.
TIM Murray was. given the task of
the queens soldiers in the
palace yard and at the armory and he
accom- plished both tasks quickly and
without the shedding of one drop of
blood.
In the recent uprising with twenty |
nine men. he went against an I'M
known number of natives near Moili- |
iii, variOusly estimated at from 200 to |
1900, dispersed them and car,ured |
thirty four, after having been am |
busbed and having one of his follow |
ers wounded. That's the kind OF |
man Murray is, and of such stuff most |
Of the American League are said to be |
made.
Ii .ecruits GO down on the steamer
today some very pretty stories from |
The Islands may be expected soon. !
The exiles who will haunt the docks |
or thesfirst news are ready for almost |
anything.