The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-29
Thumb-Nail Sketch of Dole.

The first thing about him is size. The
president of the Hawaiian Republic is six
feet two inches in height. He Is about
60 years of age, but he has not taken
on flesh He is as trim as a man OF 90
He is admirably OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shouldered, deep-chested, thin-fanked
and long of limb, writes H S. Garfield.
One cannot help thinking in looking at
him that such bone and sinew were vast
ed on the supreme bench A weak man
can sit still and think as well as another.
Dole would have made an ideal head for
boarding party. Properly trained. ne
could have attained international reputa-
ton in the prize ring He is. or rather
has been, a giant of a man. twenty years
ago his strength must have oeen enor-
nous. SO far as physics go, ne is not on
ly the largest living president, ne Is the
biggest president the world ever saw
Snare of flesh as he is, he weighs more
than 200 pounds.
Those who knew him as boy, youth ana
man tell many tales of his prowess- The
Kanakas of undiluted race are timely pro
portioned and well grown, but Dole was
swifter of foot than any man on the Is
lands He handled without e1ort
weights that others could not stir. AS
mountain-climber he was unsurpassed
Like the natives of the little group that
lies lonely but smiling in the heart Oh
the Pacific, he was as much at home In
the water as on the land AS swimmer,
diver and shark fighter he held his own
with the best of them. His skill in aquat-
les made him remembered at Williams
College, Massachusetts, for many years
He was supreme judge of the Hawaiian
Islands, but his former college mates ana
those who came after him thought OF MN
only as a mighty swimmer, runner, CHINO
! er, walker and fighter.
The old Puritans bred big, raw-boned,
| hardy men, and Dole is of Puritan STOCK
| undefiled. His ancestors lived down New
| Berford way, where they believe IN Meu-
/ ford rum and true religion. He possesses
| the more salient characteristics OF the
| Puritan stock, modified by long life
| spent in an easier cline and amid an
| easier people. He is direct, positive, earn
| est, personally absteminous, grave or de-
rneanor, with little sense of humor, with
| a tendency to estimate observance above
| the thing observed; very straight-1or-
ward very moral, very honest and very
| reverent He has lost the Puritan desire
| TO force others to his way of thinking
| He is not in any sense missionary, OF
an evangelist, or an eXhorter.
He is a handsome man even now. Uu-
dersized cynics say that avoirdupols Is al
| more
than brain. and there may be something
| in it. Dole had both the size and the
| brain. His features are regular and wei
| nodded his head is rather long, but wei
| shaped; his eyes are soft lustrous dari
| brown. They are much too soft for
| man. Dole could never have been the low
| ing and Mechanically remorsefui LanceIot
| or the merrily jesting Gawaine, or IT'S
| tan of the fiery heart and conscience
| less desire: but he could have been Ar
| thur. who was handsome and good. and
with it all. something of a prlg. IL II
| Charles Reade who in one OF his Iesse
| stories, 1.-THE Jilt," makes his heroine
| faithless. charmed from her equipoise b!
a magnificent beard which belonged TO
man who should not have won her. Whel
she came within the sphere of inf1uenc'
of that torrent of hair she was powerless
| Dole's beard is splendid. 1t is silken ant
| brown, slightly tinged with gray, ant
| pours over his breast in masses
With all his personality, however, hi
| reposeful manner and suggestion OF lat
| emf force. one cannot talk to the Ha
waiian president without realizing tina
he was not, is not and can never be IN
| real leader of the revolution ana TN
forces which maintain the present form
| of government He has the judicial, no
| the active mind. lie can pldI' put nc
not the kind which executes. All OF nj
previous life had untitled him to be tn
man to strike the decisive blow. He wa
the son of a school teacher and was edu
Gated in this country, where respec
for the established order of things wa
| ground into him. He was lawyer unit
| called to the bench, and was on the oencl
until a short time previous to LiliuoKa
| lani's overthrow. He was made presiden
because of his lofelong reputation for al
| unswervabIe rectitude. No man could sa,
aught against him. He was representa-
tive of the purer and better life of Homo
lulu. He was known also TO possess som
administrative ability. He was, in the yer
nacular of politics in this country.
safe man" Therefore he was honore'
and made famous