New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-16

upon which they could not support their fami-
lies This action has also done its part toward
alternating former adherents OF the Administra
ton
THE BUBoNIC PLAGUE.
In December. 1899. the bubonic plague broke
out in Honolulu. The most drastic measures
were resorted 10 in controlling and stamping it
out This was necessary not only for public
safety. but to protect the sugar trade, the main
industry Of the country. Excluding Hawaiian
sugar from the American market would have
precipitated disastrous panic. strict quar-
antine was enforced; all persons leaving the ISL
ands were required either to report daily for two
weeks 10 the Government Health officers or
submit TO injection OF Haffkines prophylactic.
Houses IN which cases occurred were burned
10 the ground In carrying out this last reSu-
single house in that quarter, the whole OF China
town was destroyed. The destruction involved
the loss Of many houses. shops and all their
stock. the tools OF laborers, and three thousand
people were reduced 10 restitution. AS the oe-
struction was caused by act Of the civil
thorities no insurance could be collected. The
Government was instructed by President Nc
Kinley TO take the necessary steps to pay all
just claims growing out Of the fire. A Board Of
Claims was instituted in apparent accord with
this instruction, but IL was soon alleged that in
stead OF equitably considering the claims of the
ruined Chinese its purpose was 10 obstruct the
Judgement and settlement OF their claims.
The Board IL was constituted was strongly
obnoxious. II was argued that members Of the
building trades. merchants and other experts
competent TO determine the value Of the prop
erty destroyed should have been selected. law
yers only having been named Public feeling
ran so high that mass meeting was called. and
the appointments and their manner Of selection
were strongly condemned. Among other meas
ures that which at the very beginning shut
out many deserving man from all chance
Of ever recovering anything was bitterly in
weighed against This was the fee of SO re-
quired for the mere lodging of a claim, an i'm
dre7c n CnT1ra nO had
lost everything they possessed One Of the most
prominent speakers at this meeting was Cush-
man Jones, who was one Of the five Commits
sioners sent to Washington in 1893, active in
the organization Of the Provisional Government
in the Constitutional Convention OF 1894 and
the institution OF the republic which followed
a public spirited. patriotic man. supporter OF
the Government. and up TO that time a friend
OF the Administration. The meeting represented
not the disgruntled Office seekers and disaf-
fected partisans, but the best men in Honolulu
those interested in educational affairs, bankers
shipowners, merchants and the pastors OF sew
eral OF the churches Their protest was marked
by moderation. Justice and intelligence. but II
had little effect. The Objectionable feature Of
the Board-the membership and plan OF action
remained. and the President announced his in
tention OF not receding from the position which
he had taken.
TWO POLITICAL PARTIES FORMED.
In the midst Of this disturbance two political
organizations were formed, Republican and
Democratic. In memory of what the coun-
try had suffered at the hands OF the Cleveland
Administration there was considerable resent
ment that any should have remained in the ISL
ands who willing 10 help restore the party
TO power-a sentiment that intensified when
il was learned that il was the Hawaiian vote
in the Kansas City Conventions Committee on
Resolutions that made the free silver idiocy once
more an issue OF the Presidential canvass. The
element too. that was disposed 10 protest
against the family autocracy" in the Islands.
and demanded a remedy for many evils ap-
pointments from outside-like that OF Chief Jus
tee Ide in Samoa-began quietly 10 make itself
felt and factions strengthened and multiplied
In the mean time, results sufficiently prove,
the native born Hawaiians. with the ex-Queen
al their head, worked together They have
quietly bided their time, and in this first
election have returned their candidate, defeating
the Democratic Hawaiian Prince and the Re
publican, sam" Parker. halfcaste, a man or
excellent qualifications
II is denied that the canvass was conducted on
strictly color lines that ii was In any sense an
arrayal of the natives against the whites. The
election Of Hawaiian candidates, which Is held
10 mean that the whites were perfectly willing
10 trust their interests in the hands OF native
is cited 10 corroborate this II
Is Interpreted therefore. distinct rebuke 10
conditions above mentioned-personal Jealousies
and internal strife-and a triumph for the eX-
Queen and her party. MARY h hROOI'
New-York. Dec II. 1900