The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
PRESIDENT DOLE.
Physically a Giant, Mentally Judge
Morally a Man Without Flaw.

Morally a Man Without Flaw. The first thing about him is size. The president of the Hawaiian repub- lie is six feet, two inches in height. He is about sixty years of age, but he 1 has not taken on flesh. He is as thin
 as @ man of thirty. He is admirably | proportioned-broa deep
 chested, thin flanked and long of limb, | One cannot help thinking in looking at him that such bone and slnew were | wasted on the supreme bench. A weak man can sit still and think as we'll as | another. Dole would have made an l ideal head for boarding party. Prop | erly trained, he could have attained | international reputation in the prize
 ring. He is, or rather has been, a gi-
 ant of man. Twenty years ago his l strength must have been enormous.
 So far as physics go, he is not only the | largest living president, he is the | biggest president the world ever saw.
 Spare of flesh as he is, he weighs more
 than two hundred pounds.
 Those who knew him as boy, youth
 and man tell many tales of his prow- l ess. The Kanakase of undiluted race
 are finely proportioned and well grown,
 but Dole was swifter of foot than any man on the islands. He handled with l out eort weights that others could not 1 stir. As a mountain climber he was unsurpassed. Like the natives of the I little group that lies lonely but smil- | ing in the heart of 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 aquatics
 made him remembered at Williams ] college fir many years. He was su-
 preme judge of the Hawaiian Islands,
 but his former college mates and those
 who came after him thought of him
 only as mighty swimmer, runner, climber, walker and fighter.
 The old Puritans bred big, raw boned hardy men, and Dole is of Puri-
 tan stock undefled. His ancestors
 lived down New Bedford way, where
 they believe in Medford rum and true
 religion. He possesses the more sal tent characteristics of the Puritan stock, modified by a long life spent in an easier cline and amid easier peo- pie. He is direct positive, earnest,
 personally abstemious, grave of de- meanor, with little sense of humor,
 with tendency to estimate observ- ance above the thing observed; very
 straightforward very moral, very hon.
 est and very reverent. He has lost the
 Puritan desire to force others to his
 way of thinking. He is not in any way a missionary, or an evangelist, or an
 exhorter.
 He is a handsome man even now.
 Undersized cynics say that avoirdu- pois is always more potent with the
 other sex than brain, and there may be something in it. Dole had both the
 size and the brain. His features are regular and well nodded, his head is rather long, but well shaped his eyes are a soft lustfous dark brown. Dole
 could never have been the loving and !, voleanically remorseful Lancelot, or :. the merrily testing Gawaine or Iris
 tan of the fiery heart and conscience
 less desire but he could have been Arthur. who was handsome and good and, with 1t all something of prig. It is Charles Reade, who in one of his lesser stories, "The Jilt," made his
 heroine faithless, charmed from her
 equipoise by a magnificent beard
 which belonged to a man who should
 not have won her. When she came eI within the sphere of influence of that
 torrent of hair she was powerless. Dole's beard is splendid. It is silken
 and brown, slightly tinged with gray,
 and pours over his breast in masses With all of his personality, however, : his reposeful manner and suggestion of latent force, one cannot talk to the Hawaiian president without realizing that he was not, is not and can never be the real leader of the revolution and 5 the forces which maintain the present : form of government. He has the judi cial, not the active mind. He can i plan, but is not of the kind which ex-
 ecutes. All of his previous life had . unfitted him to be the man to strike /, the decisive blow He was the son of q a school teacher and was educated in e this country where respect for the established order of things was ground
 into him. He was a lawyer until e called to the bench, and was on the : bench until a short time previous tc e Liliuokalanis overthrow. He was q made president because of his lifelong S reputation for an unswervable recti- e tude.. No man could say aught against l. him. He was a representative of the
 purer and better life of Honolulu. He : was known also to possess some ad- n ministrative ability. He was in the tt vernacular of politics in this country [. a "safe man." Therefore he was hon. k ored and made famous.-Chicago ' Times Herald.
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