The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-11
Chief Of Hawaiian Presidents
Staff Spends a Night Here.
IN ROUTE TO NEW YORK CITY.
says That Dole Was Not Guilty Of
-<Dseaeh OF Etiasefee IN Not Cali
dag on Incfe SANS CoRmtssfon-
.ers-'Twas Their Dofy 90 Call On
.aiaw allan Fiag Raising story.

citizen Of those islands could
pzy viafi 10 Seattle enan Ccs
q. II. 6opcr. adiutaEt general and chic: 81
~ 0reG3dsnt's staff. lie arrived here Fri
Hay b. tain from San Francisco and pro-
Uu6sd ysstx1Ay over the Canadian Pacific
- New York. He Ii accompanied by hts
Suefs and chiicrsn. who VIII go with him
bAr as Ranft. the summer resort, where they
val rcsnain a few weeks Ard th-n go TO
San Francisco to Join the colonel who is
booked to return to Hawaii. leaving the
Golden Gate Ocso5sr o.
CpI. Goper hzs distinguished himself IL
axAny ways Il; the Pacific ises. For years
ae was marshal OF the Hawaiian kingdom.
which osisoe wis similar 70 the chief mar
0haishap Of . district In the United States,
onc then was appointed commander in chief
Uf the revolutionary forces upon the ou;-
break OF the internecine war. in January,
ASA. He has come TO the United States now
merely on private business ard for thu good
OF Mrs. Sopers health. which has been
somewhat injured by an attack Of measles.
Col. Soper cheorfuly gave a Post-Intell-
gencer reporter interview at the Hotel
Seattle Friday evening. A few 6ays ago a
letter was cent out from a Honolulu CORE
Dpondent TO the effect that Commissioner
Dole had been guilty OF a breach OF official
etiquette because he did rot call on the
United States commissioners upon their ar
rival there late IN August. and also criti-
CisinG him for suggesting that the Hawai.sn
nag be rais@t simultaneously with the Stars
ana Strpsa over the executive building
when the commissioners formally met 10
take posaessioa OF the islands. Col Soper
left Honolulu previous to thai time having
sailed August Is. four days after the raising
or the flag for toe first time there hut ne
read the correspondents letter and was IA
miiiar with the details
Il was talking with prominent author
lily In San Francisco about the presidents
not calling on those commissioners" he
eaad. and he showed by his own and other
authorities that the commissioners were
guilty or the breach OF ettquett,. In not
calling On tha president FIRST The same
would have been true had he simply been
governor OF the islands
And as 10 the suggestion that the Ha
wailan flag he raised II Il was asked hv
president Dole al ALL know II was simply
q suggestion. and that he really did not IA
vor it That matter was discussed before
left tho Islands, some holding that II would
be good policy TO nacify some Of the na
t'ves that had tot become entirely recon
cied to annexation. IT was merely n sentt-
ment. and was opposed by the president and
others. including myself President Dole Is
not man who would b. guilty Of dis
courtesy to anybody. and am certain he
was Eot In THIS case
Full of "Reminiscences
Col. Soper Is full OF "reminiscences OF his
experiences In the Hawaiian islands. and Is
thoroughly familiar with their resources and
history He says that his people are looking
Tor great development OF the Pacific
Northwest. and believe that Seattle is des.
tined to become a great shipping port.
Our flour and lumber nearly all GENE
from here he's said. and now that the
tflnds are annexed It viii do away with The
business OF the Canadian ana other vessels.
Ina, have been taking cargoes from t;nltey
States points TO Honolulu You " IL raan
the creetcst beref. from this snf an,
giad IN see that you have established \ III
rect llre from Seattle - Honolulu I left
ihera before the Columbia atrivel"
Tie colonel says ;hat thu Cover l.ncrt Of
tho ISLANDS viii go on IN the same vav p.
II has under the Dole administration ur.n
congress legtslates covering the details 9.
the government there with the sx.e.ttf,n
that the mlnist = ana bureau OF forsl.~. AZ
fairs VIII noe re permitted 70 enter into anv
negotiations az = diplomatic nature EVEN
the tariff duties will go on thc SAME as he
Sore. IN most resrects ana the local GOV
eminent ~ In no~tsc changed" he saws
In diecussiag annexation. he sax! that the
principal opposition came from native eng
haN-whlta women. who were afraid ,hst
they might fosa somewhat % their social
caste ~ uot being placed on an equal foot
arg with American women. ''f2ut they arr
wrong, and toli them they could rot ,~os
chilly gain rnor- socially or any other wav
than BY becoming American citizens" said