The Wichita daily eagle., 1900-12-01
Another Terrltoral Delegate.


One day last, winter in Washington,
/ Dennis Flynn of Oklahoma saw q
| stranger and asked VINO he was He dis
/ covered that he was wilcox of Ha-
/ waii" who had congressional amhitions-
| Having a fellow feeling f0r the stranger.
| Flynn made himself known and tae tow
] became friends. Flynn liked Wilcox and
wanted the Republican leaders to take
/ him. This trey would not 90. Wilcox
/ returned 10 Hawaii ran as the Indepeud-
! ent Royalist candidate ana beat both
I the Demccratic and RerU0 can aomiue $
/ The Royalist delegate from Hawaii s
wen known in Washington, having pass
ed months there in company with 6x
I Queen LiIuakalani He was Interested
I in the passage Of the Hawaiian govern
ment bill, and became o familiar figure
/ in the rooms OF the senate and house
/ committees on territories. He is a half
/ blood the son Of an American sa or
and a KaRaka woman. The career Of
/ Wilcox has been in many ways re-
markable one. He has bean a prominent
( figure in Hawaiian history Tor twenty
I'VE years. He IS well educated and IS
an eloquent public speaker.
Delegate-eIect Wilcox is about forty
four years Of age AT twenty-one he
was elected d member OF tn parIlamnt
OF the kingdom from the Island Of
Maui and although be is said to have
been so POOR ar that tiuia thar he had
never worn shoes, became prominent in
the bodv rs a thick and thin adherent
of all r0yalist policies. He was looked
upon with much promise and was Sc
lected by Kalakaua. with two other Ha-
waiian youths, to proceed 70 Europe 10
be educated They went under the
charge of CeIso Caesar Moreno, Of wash
ingtou. at that time prime minister Of
Kalakaua
King Hunbert granted an audience to
Senor Moreno and his charge, and the
request of Kalakaua that the Italian
ruler furnish schools for the boys that
they might perfect their European e5u-
cation brought a prompt response from
the knightly italian king, and wilcox
was sent to the Artillery school at Tu-
rim.
These youths were all bright. and they
had money. for the parliament Of Kinr
Kalakaua had voted an appropriation #
$4,000 for their education. Gradually it
came to be believed In Turin ard Ma
pies that these youths were distinguish
ed princes. and notable people began
paying them attention Wilcox appears
10 have taken no pains to undeceive
them. He completed his course at Turin
and returned to Hawaii with the lknoTi-
edge that he had won the heart If Vic
ter Of Colonel Baron Sobrero, Of the IN
dian Artillery. She believed him to be
a prince Of the Inc of Kamahameha he
Great This lady's mother was the
Princess Victoria Colonnl Of StgHno. q
branch Of the famous CoIonna family ot
staIv, into which Miss MacFey II san
Francisco and New York. married some
years later
Wilcox married the Barona Sobrero and
took her with him back to Hawaii
rude awakening followed The rank and
position OF Wilcox turned out to be
mthical and. heartbroken over the decep-
ton practiced upon her, the daughter Of
a notable and celebrated house turne1
her footsteps backward to her italian
home Wilcox had not even money
enough to pay her passage. Being thus
abandoned by his wife, Wilcox circu-
lated the story that the Court Of Ap
peais at Turin had granted him full di
vorce for desertion.
The new delegate soon resumed his ac-
tivities in island politics and WIS re
turned to parliament He continued
much in evidence up 20 the time Of the
fall Of the monarchiai government. He
was at one time minister for fOreign af-
fairs. He was also the central figure
in two revolutions in the islands.
Some years later Wilcox married Te-
resa Owana Kaohalelania, a niece of the
Princess Elizabeth Kekaaniau, who is
claimed to be the last representative Of
the old royal line direct descendant
of Kamehameha III Through his wife
Wilcox has made claims to a portion Of
the crown lands.
Wilcox has successfully arrayed The
natives against the whites, with the re-
suit that he comes to congress in the
capacity Of a roval'st sitting amongst
Republicans and DemOcrats-the first one
that has sat in an American representa-
tive hodv since the ravolnLion