The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-09
pRICKED BUBBLES.

yet attests the very practical fact that
a simpler and more dangerous scheme
has failed. When poor Humphreys, har-
ried and desperate, turned to the coun-
Enumeration idea, he tacitly confessed
that his hopes of giving Hawaii a car
pet-bag Territorial government had
gone. 1t is not far In the recent past
when Humphreys thought that he had
bonded these Islands politically and
could use them at his pleasure. His
first success was TO have been the re-
moval of Governor Dole, his second the
changing over of the Supreme Court.
and his third the creation of city and
county government. He was sure of
them all.
The war begun upon Mr.. Dole was pc
culiarly indecent and undetermined.
Whenever a Federal office-holder ar
rived on the beach he was at once sur
rounded by the partisans of Humphreys
and made to believe that the Governor
and the men who, with him, had risked
their lives and their property to bring
Hawaii under the American flag, were
an alien oligarchy whose principal aim
was to discourage the American up
building of these Islands. All this was
for the purpose of inducing them to
write to their Senators or Representa-
tives at home that Mr.. Dole ought to
be removed One might feel astonish-
ed. If he pleased, at the number of Fed
eral office-holders, presumably intelli
gent and alert, who let themselves be
caught in this trap. To divide the Dole
adherents into hostile camps Hum
phreys began his Iwile crusade, de-
nouncing Mr.. Dole as the protector of
vice in that stockade and hoping to get
the evangelical clergy and a part of
their congregations to join in such a
charge. The Grand Jury was also used
to go on fishing tours in the Territorial
departments and bureaus (prison. police |
department, insane asylum, etc., to see
If evidence of Dole "mismana cement |
could not be obtained Incidentally
paper was started for the sole purpose |
of causing distrust here and elsewhere
in Mr. Dole's capacity. For months the
warfare went on and 1t eliminated in |
the visit of a Home Rule legislator to |!
President Mckinley who, interrupting |
the Hawaiian's stereotyped complaints !
about the Governor. advised the young /
man to go home by the next steamer. |
Within a short time after that the Pres
ldent took occasion to say at a private |
dinner, that he had the utmost conf
dence In the Governor of Hawaii and |
should sustain his administration. Since
then little has been heard from Hum
ohreys about Mr.. Dole's removal"
The scheme to remodel the Territorial
Supreme Court which was urged by
some parasites of the political Judge.
and which, for time, deceived the bar.
also came to grief For weeks before
he idea was preached, the ring attack
"a the Chief Justice on any conceivable
oretext. His insular decision, in which
ne anticipated that of the Supreme
Court, was derided and every act of his /
vas mfsrepresented, but all to no DUR
pose. AS soon as the bar was apprised
IL the real meaning of the conspiracv
u set heavy foot upon it and the
lream OF the Arizona fugitive that he
would become Chief Justice of the Su-
'reme Court of Hawaii came to moth
ng.
Likewise the city and county govern
hent scheme. Half the secret black
ma midnight interviews which the dis
'red1ted judge had with the anti-Re-
publican politicians referred to the pro-
ooseo decentralization of the Terri
DRY. This reform" was to be a sop
or the native Cerberus, blow at the
power of the Territorial officers, and a
means of feeding patronage to Hum
ohreys' moribund paper What came
If 1t everybody knows. 1t is now a
,ricked bubble.
And all these failures Humphreys
practically admits to have been such
" his adoption of new and radically
ifferent policy. 1t is no longer a mat
er of removing Dole and putting a
ingster or a Hawaiian in his place; 1t
5 not now proposed to have a new Su
RENE Court with an adventurer at its
lead; the scheme of city and county
overnment framed under the easy-go-
ng organic law Of Hawaii Is no more.
shows that he is beaten and
hat he knows 1t. Every fine-drawn
Ian of his to get power and place has
cen pulverized between the upper and
ether milestone of Hawaiian conserva-
SIN and decency. Defeat and repudia-
on meet him at every turn and with
ody sore from the bruises Of his fight
18th the Bar Association, he turns his
ack upon the wreck of his former
opes and tries to make a new deal.
low resourceless and desperate he is is :
nown by the fact that his latest pro-
osal is one that was morally bound to I
e rejected, as 1t Is now rejected, both
t home and in California He has
ienated the Hawaiians and gained no
for the only papers on the
cast which deign to mention his an
exation scheme jeer at 1t. Humphreys
as become a very Ishmaelite, his hand a
gainst every man and every, mans
and against nina poor, snarling vi
ous. grasping but unmistakable HUI
ian failure and fraud. +
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