The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-07
OUR EXPORT STATEsMEN.


friends sent John Wise to Kansas City,
with results that were momentous in
American political history. AS mem
Der of the platform committee when
the fatal sixteen-to-one plank lacked a
single vote, Mr.. Wise, under the Inn
preston that the plank meant the pay
ment of sixteen dollars for every one
owned or borrowed by Democrat ana
corresponding loss to Republicans
cast the needed vote and sent MI
Bryan headlong to defeat. For long
time after that, Mr.. Wise, as a Hawai-
| ian export, was coupled with Demo-
cratic profanity. There was even talk
of putting high duty on his kind OF
political merch andise.
Time went by and Beckley was ex-
lported. Judging from his self-revealed
interviews with the President, that dis
| tinguished man was not only impress
ed. but profoundly moved to hear Beck
lley's views on the Executive policy to-
wards Hawaii. Though the President
| felt compelled to ship Mr.. Beckley
home, at Government expense, without
unnecessary delay; he made sure of his
Halter presence at Washington. Mr.
Beckley." he said breathlessly, II want
you on hand by all means before the
next meeting of Congress. Promise,
10 promise me, that you will be there.
Don't let anything short of death it
| self detain you Washington would
seem dull and commonplace to Con-
gress and myself without you, Beckiey;
| and besides, we need your advice. But
don't stay now. Hard as it will be for
me. Beckley to part with you, it must
be done I hear a car coming. don't
linger or you may lose it. Here, take
this card to the captain of the Lawton,
which leaves for Honolulu in twenty
minutes Farewell" Beckley arrived
on board in time, but he had met peo-
pie on the way, and now the whole
Union is wondering If anything will
keep the Hawaiian publicist from
reaching Washington so that Congress
and the President may begin work
without making plumbers.
So high has national appreciation of
Hawaiian export craftsmanship gone
that even the Buffalo Midway is being
ransacked by American leaders to find
political advisers from this gifted peo-
pile Elsewhere we have touching ac-
count of Mr.. Hanna's eager search for
VIM J. Coelho, a Hawaiian Bismarck,
who has condescended to play the ban
10 for hula-hula girls at the big fair
while resting from his mental toll. 1t
appears. from the printed account, ap-
parently dictated by MI Coelho HIM
self. that Mark Hanna could not enjoy
the fair until he had found the eminent
Hawaiian. Instinct led him to the hula
hula show, and when the two leaders
met there was hardly a dry eye in the
house It was, indeed, an historic
scene Hanna had but asked for that
brilliant man." Coelho of Hawai-, when
the genius Observation-Disclosures in dane
ing costume Is not revealed to US, and
the twain shook hands as only men
can who respect each others attain
ments and public services. There was
a long talk about Hawaiian conditions.
in which, no doubt, Mr.. Hanna's crude
views about expansion politics We're re-
vised; and then, with mutual regrets
the great men parted. But not forever
Mr.. Hanna must make sure of seeing
Mr.. Coelho again in the intervals of the
lhoochy-koochy dance, and SO he made
summer date with him. Further
more, the Republican Warwick said
he might even visit Honolulu, where
he would naturally like to see Mr..
Coelho's birthplace. BY some over
sight he did not tell the eminent Ha-
waiian to come to Washington, a la
Beckley; though, perhaps he felt sure
that Coelho would come, anyway as
soon as the fall term of the dime mu-
seums opened and the Princess Theresa
had got her crown on straight for a
new series of State balls.
In the catalogue of Hawaiian exports
we have not spoken of Delegate Will
cox, but he is fully able to speak for
himself. His chaste remarks, prepared
for the Congressional Directory about
being the Idol of his people, are proof
of that, and they still linger in the pub
lie mind. 1t can readily be proven by
Robert himself that his position in Con-
gress is like that of Corporal Flynn at
the battle of Waterloo. SIS Corporal
Flynn In the ranks?" asked the Duke
of Wellington in loud, importunate
voice. HE is responded the nearest
major general. Then said the Iron
Duke, as il relieved of a great anxiety
''let the battle proceed
1t is a proud era for Hawaii that it
has been able to export so many cele-
brated men. but 1t will be prouder
one when, If ever, 1t can manage to
export them all-without return tick
cts. If the Legislature will go next
Hawaii will take a holiday, conscious
that its own loss will be the American
nations eternal gain.