Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

is correct. It's no good stirring up old
scandals, and doubtless we have all had
a shabby ancestor or two if we could
go back down the line far enough; but,
according to the belief above mention
ed, Liliuokalani and her brother Kala-
kaua were the children of a father
whom my informant described as ''an
American darby" Kalakaua's appear
ance and personal carvings on gave col
or to this dark hued belief. In his high
old days the walls which now hear only
the modest click of the pretty type
writer's machine or the fluent flow of
political oratory echoed to the tune, so
it is said, of performances that were
enough to make the good old mission
aries rise from their graves.
The head of the present government
lives in his modest private house and
has his Office in the palace.
"There comes Mr.. Dole now" said
DR.. Rodgers as we stood waiting in the
hall Of the palace.
A slender man in q suit of light gray
linen walked up the path carelessly
swinging an umbrella. He was entirely
alone and looked like a modest profess
sional man going to his Office, or, say,
as Jefferson or Lincoln or Grant used
to look when he walked freely about
the streets. of Washington quietly and
unattended.
I said to MI. Dole: 'sMr. President,
I am an American newspaper woman
and do not wish to leave Honolulu with
out paying my respects to the head of
the Hawaiian republic
Over that speech I boggled a little,
for I had made it up beforehand, and
when you do that a sentence never rolls
off your tongue quite SO glibly as when
it strikes you spontaneously. But I
was received kindly and put at ease i'm
meaiately.
You are familiar with President
Dole's pictures-rather thin face, full
beard, hair not SO full. and both hair
and beard nearly white. But no picture
does justice to the expression of the
fine, thoughtful face and dark eye.
Sanford B. Dole is as conservative in
looks and as an elder of the old
school Presbyterian church. He is the
last n you would take for a revolu-
ZIONIST. He says the revolution came
about very suddenly, in one day-came
of itself, in fact. The queens acts be-
came SO arbitrary that citizens rights
> were not safe a moment. In alarm Lili-
uokalani's own ministers came to MI.
Dole, then a judge of the supreme court.
They wanted to know what to do and
feared for their w safety. Then it
was that a few determined men who
had large interests ct stake resolved to
: put up with no more nonsense. They
formed a provisional government and
asked Sanford B. Dole to take the pres
. idency of it. He resigned his place on
: the supreme bench and accepted that
: offered to him and held it till he and
: his supporters steered the beautiful Ha-
? waiian republic into the safer harbor Of
. the American Union. Honor to him
8 and to them!
Mr.. Dole is warmly in favor of a ter
: ritorial government for Hawaii, and I
: am in favor Of making Mr.. Dole the
> territorial governor. He is worthy to
: fill the place, and he knows his business.
! He does not think it would be wise
just now to divide the islands into
. counties such as we have in the States.
.: The present district divisions have ex-
I listed 80 long that immediate changes
9 would cause confusion.
g3zf ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER.
Honolulu, q. l..