The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-14

published last week an interview with
"a gentleman who had been promin-
ent in the counsels Of the government
for some years past" and in the in
terview Re declared that he was in
"a position to know the fact" that a
movement was on foot to displace
Capt. j. =. King as Minister Of the
interior, and he desired Tue people to
rise and head off the conspiracy.
the gentleman Gin a position to
know also declares that Minister Da-
mon has stood staunchly by Capt
King. He also used this language
in the interview: Il know that Mr.
Damon tolu Mr.. Dole in so many words
that he ought to be ashamed Of him
self if he gave such movement a
moments consideration.
The gentleman Sin a position know"
also states that Mr.. Dole suggested
that Mr.. Damon be made Minister of
Foreign Affairs and so put him in the
line of promotion. And what did Mr.
Damon do? The man 'tin a position to
know says: Mr.. Damon answered
this by walking out of the ROOM
The Advertiser has not made an in
Quiry regarding this alarming condl-
ton of things in the Cabinet, because
it knows, as any one who will reflect a
moment also knows, that an independ-
ent government, with sole power of
appointment or removal in the Presi-
dent no longer exists, and that Capt.
King now holds his commission as
Minister OF the Interior from Presi-
dent Mckinley, and not from Mr.. Dole.
The law of annexation so orders. The
man sin position to know don't ap-
pear to know this provision of law.
So long as Capt. King holds title to
Office through President McKinley's
appointment, no conspiracy" can re-
move unless it secures the sanction of
the President. The man sin a position
to know should know little more
before he tries to rouse the people to
head off a conspiracy that cannot sue
coed
On reading between the lines, it is
evident enough that the man Tin posi-
ton to know either invented the story
or obtained it from Mr.. Damon. But
that is no affairs of ours at present.
The noticeable feature of the inter-
view is the very dramatic scene de-
scribed by 1.-The man in position to
know of the interview between Mr..
Dole and Mr.. Damon, in which Mr..
Dole tempts Mr.. Damon with the offer
of the Foreign office, if he will join
the conspiracy. One of our excellent
artists has now the chance of life
time. Let him put on canvass the
scene, when the "conspirator" Dole.
Knowing that he has no power to do
so, tempts the ingenious Damon with
the offer of the Foreign Office. The at
titude of the parties should be depicted,
as they stand in the Executive cham
Der, and at the moment when Dole
himself only a mere subordinate OF
President McKinley's, and powerless
to make the appointment, tempts MIR
Damon to abandon the paths Of rec
tltude. 1a&.
1t should depict Mr.. Damon, standing
erect, his eye fixed on the infamou:
tempter his arms crossed over hi:
breast, his legs braced in resolution
and his lips just open, so that the OBJ
server of the picture readily imagine
me hears the solemn words sSuIng II
sepllchral tones Get thee behind m
Satani"
BUT to make the picture historicall'
true. according to the statements fur
nished by the man Gin position t
know" it should rather represent Nh
Damon answering the Offer, or IN
temptation" by walking out OF tn
ROOM This the artist cannot repre-
sent correctly. For if MIR. Damon di
walk oct of the room i'm indignation
and pity, and silence, he undoubtedl
banged the door behind him, and ever
seismograph in town instantly recorde
an earthquake. But the bang can
not, unfortunately, be represented i
Inc picture or the quick movements
Major Potter and the lady typewriter
who startled by the report rush int
MIR. Dole's room, where he is foun
uiIivering and PROSTATE under Nj
Damon's thunderbolt of Indignation a
embodied in the awful bang. The cas-
as it is told by 1.-The man in positio
to know" makes it one rather for
panorama. But as a single picture {
this event is preferable, the scene {
the temptation as We present it shoul
be chosen, even if not literally tru
The idea to be conveyed would be tt
same in either case. It is that of ''al
other good man gone wrong" and al
other good man gone right or ''Vit