The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-04-25
WASH AGT0H VIEWS
DOLE sUsPICI0UsLT
THE COOPER INCIDENT BELIEVED
PART or ATTEMPTED
DICTATORSHIP.
Statesmen Are Corning 70 Hawaii
With Eyes Wide open-PossihII-
ny of Presidential Delegation
Governors Signature Criticized.

WASHINGTON, April S.-Up to this
writing the report u Governor Dole
Ipo1 the dldOeS or Secretary Cooper
Al reporting The doingS OF the Legs
lature or hawaii has not reached the
anterior Department, but IL has been
demanded D. the Secretary OF the IN
terror and the Governor or course viii
De compelled 10 senoTit 10 Washington
sooner OF later unless he wishes 10
get further out OF twist with the gov
eminent OF the United States than he
Is AZ the present time.
Inc government here regards this
Cooper incident as beng of impor-
lance. 1t has been reported TO Wash
ington more than once that the entire
Dole government is seeking 10 be lit
tie less than dictatorship in the ISL
anus. and that course, of which the
Cooper incident is believed TO have
been part, has created uneasinesS
in Washington. OF course it is i'm
possible TO induce any of the officials
OF the Interior Department TO make
for publication statement about the
Cooper incident. That would be bad
public policy. No government Off
cial can blaze away in interviews IN
til he has an official report upon which
TO base his remarks, and there is no
such report here.
The Dole government is far from
being in favor at Washington, al
though it is struggling hard to get into
favor. 1t seems to believe in the For
tune favors fawning" process. which
goes when other things are satisfac-
tory. but which creates disgust when
! fawning is all there is to stand upon.
have good reason to believe that
! Governor Dole is quite far from be-
| ing in favor in any of the departments
| of the home government, and that his
rule over Hawaii will not last longer
than the end of his present term. II
it lasts that long. The revulsion Of
| feeling against the Hawaiian political
ring has most certainly set in at the
departments. and at the White House
as we'll The home government has
been compelled in the last to deuend
1 largely upon official reports TO know
how things are going in Hawaii Dur
! ing this summer several of the con-
fidential representatives of Mr.. Nc
Kinley will visit the islands and while
they do not go there as spies. thew
will bring back the real status of af-
fairs there.
Temporary success attended the
efforts of the ring to make it's infiu-
ence felt in Washington. Haywood
came here and plucked down about
everything in sight for a time but
there are signs that he will not have
I co much fO cav in tho future Mr.
HAYWOOD himself NAV stand well per-
sonally in WASHINGTON but the men
whom he represents are getting QUE
of line with the Administration.
It would not be at all surprising IL
at an early dav the President sent an
/ investigating committee to Hawaii 10
! find out exactly how the government
there is running So MANY cases OF
the assumption of power have come
up that thew are becoming irritating.
One of the latest of these mean lit
| tie questions is the assumption Of
Governor Dole that his own name Is
sufficient signature to state papers
| Edward, King of England. signs state
papers with his rank as a suffix. The
Governor of the grand old Common
wealth of Massachusetts, would not
think OF signing a state paper with
out putting the word Governor" after
| his name. The Governor of no State
| in the Union. in fact. would ever sign
his name that wav The assumption
of Dole that it is proper form. legally
or in political ethics, is nothing but
a case of snobbery.
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