The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-29
STAUNCEi ALLY
OF M'KlNLEY
Joseph 5. Spear Passing Through
to the Orient on iions-
kong Maru.

i
Among the through passengers on the
steamship Hongkong Maru, which ar
rived here yesterday from the Coast and
salts today for the Orient at noon, is
Joseph S. Spear Jr., the wen-known pol
itician and the man who was California's
stauncheat supporter of Mckinley when
that statesman was first named for the
Presidency.
/ Spear is surveyor of customs for the
port OF san Francisco, and is bound for
Yokohama and Hongkong on a trip of
pleasure. He is accompanied by his wife,
whose son, at present stopping in Homo
/ lulu, Was the first TO welcome his mother
! on the arrival CT the vessel in the har-
Dor. Mr. and Mrs. Spear expect to be
! gone in the sOrieut for several weeks.
They win stop over in Honolulu on the
return trip and remain here a week or
two.
According to Mr.. Spear, there is very
little doing in politics in California at the
present tine. The visit of the President
to the West has put aside for the time
being all thought of political ideas. The
/ State was too busy in welcoming Nc
Kinley to have thought for anything else.
The Presidents trip was a grand sue
cess; the illness of Mrs. Mckinley, of
course, made certain changes in the itin-
erary necessary, but all important en-
gagements We're kept and only banquets
and such functions were dropped from
the, Presidents plans.
The President said to me-" said Mr.
Spear, that he felt 1T was only right for
him, in consideration of the fact that
everything could not be done exactly as
planned owing to Mrs. McKinley's i'll
ness, that he should consider banquets
and similar affairs, where only the few
were met of less Importance than the
events where he was enabled to meet
whole crowds of people and talk to them
He wanted to get near to the people OF
the great country of which he is chief
executive"
Asked concerning the prospects of a
} cable here, Mr.. Spear said: 1T will be
a fact very shortly. 1t is something
which Is absolutely essential, and is
bound to come. Mr.. Mckinley has spok.
/ en- in regard to this many times, and il
is one of his dearest wishes to see Ha.
wal connected with the Mainland by ca
b1e'
What are the chances of Mckinley.
] running for third term?" repeated this
traveller, in answer to the reporter
question, Why, I think there is nc
chance of that The. Presidents sole de
sire is to serve q second term well. He
fentertains no wish in regard to another
term of Office. He does not think Il
wnuld be well, and. besides. he doesnf
want it."
Mr.. Spear was in Honolulu thirty
years ago. Then, he says, 1t was only
little village and a great deal more in
teresting from tropical standpoint
He asked concerning politics here. say
, ing that he had heard things had beer
very warm down this way of late
The strike of the machinists on tht
Coast, in the tourists opinion, IS rapid,
nearing It's end. He thinks that boil
sides are gradually weakening and tina
S some satisfactory arrangement viii sool
q be made between masters and men.
: When asked concerning possibilities 70
: the Presidency. after AIcEinley's presen
= term expires, Mr.. Spear said that Roose
Y welt he's as good chances as any: tina
= Oden had good prospects: that Funston
although an excellent soldier, would no
:, be President; that Fairbanks had con
siderable hope. and that several new me-
were likely to come before the peopl
r. when the right time arrived one of tn
latter. perhaps, having more chance tina
any others.