The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-19
He and CaypIeSS in
Washington.
The Amusing Pair Take in the Post
Newspaper With Their Boasts
and Misrepresentation.


date, if not by members of Congress,
certainly by rival delegations from the
Sandwich Islands. Commissioners
claiming to represent the native Ha-
waiians arrived here Saturday, after a
journey eastward by way of Seattle,
and are quartered at Wizards Hotel
for the session. They are Mr.. Robert
w. Wilcox, who bears the title of "The
Revolutionist" among his native adj
mirers, and who is a splendid physical
specimen of the Kanaka race, and Mr..
Edgar Caypless, an attorney of Homo
lulu, who was born in New York, stud
led at South Carolina University in the
same class with Senator Tillman, and .
then meigrated to the Islands of the F.
Pacific
Mr.. Wilcox has long been an inter
esting individual in Hawaiian affairs. .
He is very dark skinned. tall. and
/ erect. His raven black hair is cOmbed
with a flourish over his forehead. Per-
| feet teeth, white as pearls, glisten from
under his black mustache. Mr.. Wilcox
/ speaks English well, but with some
/ hesitation, and is credited with being
able to converse intelligibly in both
Italian and French. He was in Wash
ingtOn about twenty years ago as a
young man. then being en- route to
Italy. He was sent there for six years
by King Kalakaua to attend the mill
tary school at Turin. especially to
study artillery practice.
Led Assault by the Hawaiians.
In more recent times Mr.. Wilcox has
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the native Hawaiians. 1t was he who
led the unexpected assault on those
who had seized the government from
her in 1895. His soldiers had been Sc
GREETED in extinct volcanoes, including
Diamond Head and the Punch Bowl, so
called, overlooking Honolulu, but pro-
visions failed them and when the SOL
diers were starved out they surrender
ed. Mr.. Wilcox, as their leader. was at
first sentenced to death, but this SEN
tence was later cOmmuted to thirty
five years imprisonment and fine of
100000. The latter sentence was event
uahy set aside.
Mr.. Wilcox and Mr.. Caypless are
stOutly opposed to the Dole faction in
Hawaii, and Mr.. Wilcox has been fire.
quently mentioned as the acceptable
candidate Of the native Hawaiians for
the governor of the islands. 1t is gen.
orally understood that they will urge
the appointment of a new commission
to visit Hawaii, to be composed of six
members, three Americans and three
! Hawaiians. The reason for asking a
new commission is that native Hawaii
ans were not consulted at all when the
old commission visited the islands in
the summer of 1898. and that President
Dole and Judge Frear, who were men,
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: represent the ideas of the native fac
| ton. There have been hints that the
two gentlemen just arrived in Wash
Il ington may have some disclosures OF
L importance to make before the Com
mittees on Territories, but they de-
clined last evening to discuss any such
phase of their mission here.
y Oppose a Territorial Government.
I'VE are not in accord with the rec
ommendation for a territorial form o
government for Hawaii" said Mr..
Caypless, a middle-aged man, with
black hair and eyes, who talks rapid!
!. and in a somewhat nervous manner
Il am not prepared yet to say wha
/ form of government we would advise
for the islands, but we have come t
Washington to remain for the winte
i native Hawaiians before Congress a
far as we may be able to do so. When
ever a plan is proposed before the com
mittees We shall hope to be heard
- Thus far, the Hawaiians have not bee
consulted at all. The missionary fac
D. ton have had entire say.
- "The Hawaiians, although they hav,
not been consulted about annexation
~ and are not well treated by the prOvi
sional governing authorities in the Isl
ands," continued Mr.. Caypless, who di
ID most of the talking on Hawaiian topics
"have always been a gentle people an
have never cried out against Amer
- cans. They now want an opportuhit
to be heard"
As an example of the treatment tn;
the natives receive, Mr.. Caypless spok
q of an accident that caused the death (
a resident of Honolulu. Not long ag
K one of the electric wire poles near II
palace rotted away and the live viii
fell into the street. The plant is ope
ca. ated by the government. A native W;
: driving down the street in a cab, whe
his horse stepped on the wire and fe
| dead. The native was precipitated OF
of the carriage upon the dead amin;
and also died Immediately.
ree Made Distinction in Claims.
lef A claim was filed with the attOrne
'eh general for $3.50 on account OF q
horse, and it was agreed to pay 81
Then a claim for the death of the n
tive was filed, and the a.,orney gener
o. ruled that the government was not II
bic in the premises. This is only ;
A instance" said Mr.. Capyless. going
- show that the missionary faction LOO
upon an animal as Of more importan
ICt than a native Formerly the missiO
- aries were noted in the Islands for pie
- and interest in sugar. Now It is mo;
~ " sugar and very little pie.y."
Mr. Caypless spoke very emphatic
" about contract labor in the island
and declares that $4,000 japanese Ia
been imported there during the pa
-. wear under contract TO labor for te'
~ ali the way between five and sew
wears. He insists that the s-atamer
- mat more Japanese have lef- the &