Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-26

circulated the story that the court of
appeals of Turin had granted him full
| divorce for desertion.
The new delegate soon resumed his
, activity in island politics and was re-
turned to Parliament. He continued
much in evidence up to the time OF the
fall of the monarchial government
He was at one time minister for for
eign affairs. He was also the central
figure in two revolutions in the is
lands. The first, in July, 1888. was
against the reform ministry unwill-
irgly forced from Nalakaua. In this
case he appeared to be revolving against
the king, but was really only repre-
senting royalist reactionaries. Will
cox had with him in this enterprise
his old associate Boyd, but Wilcox
Was the Ring Leader.
His forces consisted" of all the mall
contents and loafers in Honolulu, to
quote Historian Whitney. They made
a demonstration in favor of the old
form of government in the palace yard
at Honolulu. The reform ministry
promptly resisted the rebels, killed
nine of them and dispersed the Others
Wilcox was imprisoned along with
many ofhis followers, but was soon re-
leased and returned as member OF
Parliament by the native vote. Six
years afterward, in 1895, Wilcox led
another attempted instruction against
the provisional republican government
This was quite farcical and was
promptly put down. The only man
killed was Charles N. Carter, who had
been in Washington as an annexation
commissioner in 1895. For this exploit
Wilcox was again imprisoned. He
was pardoned by President Dole after
one years Incarceration. There is no
doubt that these two events are largely
responsible for his manifest popularity
with the Hawaiian native voters.
AS before stated, Wilcox is neither
of princely nor noble blood. But some
years after his return from Italy, he
married Teresa Owana Kachalalani.
She is a niece of the Princess Elizabeth
Kekaanian, who is claimed to be the
last representative of the old royal
line, a direct descendant of kameha-
meha III. Through his wife, Wilcox
has made claims to portion of the
crown lands, asserting that they were
the personal property of the Kameha-
mehas, and did not follow the crown
itself to the possession of kalakaua
and Liliuokalani, who were not of the
ole line. He has not yet realized any
thing ON this claim, nor is he likely to.
In fact, the marriage may embarrass
him. 1t is already reported here that
His Seat VIII Be Contested
on account of his second marriage.
Senior Morem, who was the benefactor
of Wilcox, says that an examination
of the court records in Italy will show
that the divorce was refused so far as
Wilcox was concerned, on the ground
that he had committed bigamy in the
Hawaiian Islands.
Wilcox, when in Washington last
winter, held many interviews with the
eX-Queen, who was guest at the
Cairo apartments, and it was then and
there the plan was laid to bring about
his election over Samuel Parker and
Prince David. 1t was daring plan,
but it succeeded. Queen Liz had no
friendship for Parker. She resented
the manner in which Prince David re-
ceived the fortune of Kapiolani, the
former Queen of the Hawaiian Islands,
because she thought it belonged to the
kingdom and not to the person of the
Queen. Wilcox also cunningly ap-
pealed to Mrs. Domilis' hope of restor-
alton. 1t is claimed here that he Sc
cured the Kanaka and half-castes by
! promising them titles and giving them
lands should the effort be successful.
The natives therefore voted against
Parker and Prince David with either
Of whom the intelligent white people
of the islands would have been salts
fed. Robert Wilcox, however, play
ing upon the old superstitions of the
natives and using all his native cum
ming and benefitting by his Italian ex-
periece, has successfully arrayed the
natives against the whites with the re-
suit that he comes to Congress in
capacity that is startling, a royalist
sitting amongst Republicans and Dem
ocrats-the first one that has sat in an
American representative body since
the revolution.