The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-02
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HIS NAME CONNECTED WITH THE
GOvERNoRsHIP.
Said That He Went to Washington
With This Possibility in View-Con-
ference With Sam Parker.

Cecil Brown may be the first governor
of Hawaii. This possibility is now
given as the reason of his unexpected
trip to Washington.
When Sam Parker was in the States,
there were influential persons, men
prominent in the councils of the repub-
lican party, who were ready to urge
him for the position of governor But
Parker has said, and others have said
that he would not allow it. There is
no doubt however, that he could have
secured influential backing for his
candidacy il he had tried for the posi-
tion. This is not saying that he could
have secured the position, as any one
familiar with American politics can
readily understand But that such
backing was offered him, and he de-
clined to permit himself to become a
candidate for the office, would natu-
rally give his suggestions, if he made
any, considerable weight.
Upon Parker's arrival here, even be-
fore he got rid of the travel stains on
his garments, he was closeted with Ce-
Gil Brown. Cecil Brown took the next
steamer for the coast and it was an
nounced that he would go on to WASH
ington, though business connected with
the bank was given as the reason FOR
his going. Now those who put two
the addition of hint here, and a scrap
of information there, think the govern
orship, and not the bank business,
called him hence.
The amendment to the Hawaiian bill
which required that the governor be a
resident of the Islands at the time of
his appointment, has removed a good
many possible candidates from the field.
The ubiquitous Ohio man who is to rule
in the Philippines as he does in the
United States, and the men from otner
states who control state delegations in
national conventions, are out of it. The
choice must be made from residents of
the Islands, and it is not unnatural that
President Mckinley should desire to
know as much about the available ma
terial in the Islands as possible, and 1t
may be that a hint going no farther
than this, was all that Sam Parker
gave Cecil Brown in that conference i'm
mediately after the arrival of the Nip
pom Maru,
The proponents of this gubernatorial
theory point out that Cecil Brown has
many qualifications to entitle him 20
consideration, If he should become a
candidate. He has some that would ap-
peal particularly at the distance Wash
| ington is from here, where conditions
and policies are weighed very shrewdly
and carefully though, of course, not
always with exact knowledge of dis
tant conditions. He was born in the
Islands, and is thoroughly Unidentified
with them. He has been a cabinet
officer and a member of Hawaiian leg
islatures. He is a man of affairs He
has the confidence of the natives SO
| far as any one has it, and his in
fluence with them is strengthened by
marital relations.
| If Cecil Brown has gone to Washing
ton as the result of the conference he
had with Sam Parker, and with any
! gubernatorial aspirations, there is moth
! ing in this fact to initiate against Par
ker's perfect good faith when he said
in interviews after his return that ne
considered President Dole the most
probable first governor of Hawaii.