The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-07
THE ANTI.DoLE CONSPIRACY.


t The attempt to convince the Presi-
dent and Chairman Hanna that Gov
ernor Dole caused the defeat OF the
Republican ticket in Hawaii began
some time before the election. Letters
were then written to Washington
which said that owing to Dole" Par
ker for Congress and the majority of
the Republican legislative ticket could
not be elected. Having thus prepared
the ground, the letter writers and their
friends, comprising the Humphreys
Gear cabal. undertook to make their
prophecies good by voting against the
party nominees. Humphreys, an unac-
countable appointee of the President
for Judge. boosted of his offense after
election. and Gear was exposed by
eleven witnesses in the act of trying
to disrupt the legislative ticket The
organs of the boilers chuckled over
what they called the results of a
silent protest" Having succeeded in
aiding the native majority to the eX-
tent of their voting strength, these
boilers raised a hue and cry at home
against Governor Dole, and resumed
the congenial task of writing letters
to Washington, transcripts OF which
have come back to small Coast papers
in the form of correspondence from
the national capital.
These are the frozen facts about the
course of the Sewall machine. AS to
the relation borne by Governor Dole
to the canvass, people here know that
he was in no sense an issue except as
he. like two or three thousand others,
represented the anneXationist cause
against which the majority of natives
were arrayed. Had Sewall been in his
place the result would have been the
same, for Sewall is the man who, as
American Minister here, sealed the
final act of annexation. The majority
of the natives when they got to the
polls. simply registered their votes
against the American policy of annex
ation-and that protest was as much |
against Mckinley himself as 1t was
against Dole, or would have been
against Sewall.
All this is no news at Washington.
1t has been understood there for some
time past; so we'll understood, in fact,
that the local attempt to set aside
Dole for Sewall will amount to naught.
And speaking of Sewall is it well to
remind the public that it was he and
not the governor of the Territory who
was communicative of the Repub-
lican campaign in Hawaii. AS national
committeeman it was his business, and
not Governor Doles, to see that the
Republican vote in these Islands was
properly organized; and had the vote
carried all before it, paeans to Sewall
would have arisen wherever the ma
chine men congregated. But Sewall, !
far from staying with the party, went
to the Mainland on a pleasure trip
it was before his father had been !
taken sicll-and the campaign fell en-
tirely into the hands of the local com
mittee. That committee, and not Gov
ernor Dole was Sewall's residuary |
legatee; and if the Governor had in
terfered it would have been an un-
precedented move. The committee did
the best it could but it was hopelessly |
handicapped by the treachery of the
Humphreys-Gear people, by the alb |
sence and indifference of Sewall, and |
by the determination OF the natives to
score an anti-anneXation victory even
if they had to sacrifice men like Da
mon and Loebenstein. Whatever was
saved from the wreck goes to the
credit of Mr.. Dole's friends who kept
the Territorial Committee supplied
with funds