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165 of the male petition, 20 signatures.
Nos. 80 to 49 are in the same handwrit-
| ing. On page 2l2 of the male petition, 20
| signatures, Nos. 20 to As are in the same
handwriting. On page 255 of the male Pc
tition, Il signatures, all there are on the
page. are in the handwriting of Edward
X. Lilikalani.
| All of the signatures on page of the
women's petition, 16 il nunzbax.. are also
in this mans handwriting. On )age n of
the women's petition, 16 signatures, Nos
"a to 40, are IL the s,anle handwriting (net
Lilikalani's; but number of the names
signed by Lilikalani on page are written
again by some one else, on page 10
| A strong side light is thrown upon the
| petition as a whole by the fact that Lili-
kalani is an intimate personal adherent
| of the late regning family, prominent
! office holder and member of the Legisla-
i ture under the Monarchy, and is now an
| implacable Royalist and advocate of re-
| storation of the Monarchy.
| In addition to signing his own and all
other names on the two pages above in
| dicated, he attests his enthusiasm by
| again signing his own name on pages So
and 255 of the male petition. I am per-
sonally and intimately acquainted with
| Lilikalanis handwriting. Mr.. John Ross
also signs his name on page 307. and
| again on page SOS.
| On page 26O of the male petition. 25
| signatures Nos 20 q are in the same
| handwriting. On page 294 of the male
petition, % signatures, Nos. 2 to "a are
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| the female petition, ell of the AZ sigma
lures and the age, are In the same hand
| writing. On page of the female petit
| ton, all of the 16 signatures are in the
same handwriting. On page II of the
womens petition, A of the AZ signatures
are in the same handwriting. All the
signatures on pages 1OS, 109 and Ill of the
womens petition, 126 in all, are in the
same handwriting. All of the signatures
Except Is on page 120) on pages 116. 120.
121 and 132 of the female petition, 1iS
in ALL are in the same handwriting.
On page 240 of the women's petition, c.
K. Pa, a man, has signed all the names
from Nos. to &c, 81 in ali. His own
signature appears as No. l on page 1870
of the mems petition. All the numbering
of signatures on pages 1870, 131 and 1872 of
the mems petition, is in his handwriting.
The pages of the petition and numbers of
the signatures of male petitioners, which
do not appear to be original signatures
are given in Table A, and Of females in
Table s. hereto attached.
Fourth fact tending to discredit the
petition.-The petition purports to give
the ages, on whole pages of the petition.
are filled in, all in the same handwriting.
and manifestly without attempt on the
part of the enumerator to insert the real
age of the petitioners, the ages all ending
in even round numbers. The following
examples will suffice to demonstrate that
no reliance can be placed on the correct
| ness of the ages given. On page 73 of
the male petition, signatures Nos. 80 to
40 inclusive, have set opposite them, all
in one handwriting, the following, as their
| respective ages, 80, 90 80, 35, As, AZ, As, 20.
As, 45, A. 80, 40, 60, 80, 40, 60 years. On
pages Is the ages set opposite signatures,
Nos. 9 to %, inclusive, all in the same
handwriting, are 40, 40, 20, 80, 40, 35, 40,
49, 30, so, 80, 49, 60, 45 years. There are
scores of other instances of ages all in
one handwriting manifestly inserted by a
from the signatures.
Again, the ages of 27S certainly, and
probably many more petitioners have been
fraudulently changed. The ages of petit
TONERS are not ordinarily ar essential
part of a petition; but having in this case
been made a part, frauds in connection
affect the bona fides of the whole petit
ton.
Fifth fact tending to discredit the petit
tion.-Each and every page of the male
petition is countersigned with the original
signatures of Enoch Johnson, secretary,
and James K. Kaula, president of the
Hawaiian Patriotic League" and each
page of the female petition is counter
signed with the original signatures of
Mrs. Lila Aholo, secretary and Mrs. K
Campbell, president of the "Women's
Patriotic League
These four people are all intelligent
Johnson and Kaulia are members of the
bar Of the Supreme Court of Hawaii
Kaulia is now chairman Of the Royalist
delegation in Washington, and personally
brought the petition from Honolulu
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