The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-30
St WALL MAY
DROP OUT
Belief He Will Not
Hold National
Place.
WANT RESIDENT
COMMITTEEMAN
Cecil Brown Writes and Receives
Letters From the Man From
Maine Without Effect.

N EFORE the end of the year Harold
X NJ. Sewall viii have ceased to be
W. the Republican National Commit
teenan or will have signified that his
intention is to return to Hawaii to make
his home. This is the opinion of most
of the Republicans who have followed
the attempt to have Sewall remove him
self from the position of official repre-
sentative of the party in Hawaii. The
weight of opinion is that he will with
draw.
The dissatisfaction which was felt
over the election of Sewall to the place
was intensified when it was found that
the committeeman had taken himself
away from the Territory and displayed
no disposition to return. There was a
long period of silence on the part of the
leaders of the party, and when in last
March it was found that the former
Minister and special agent was in San
Francisco, there was a belief that he
would then come down and make his
plans known to his personal henchmen.
as we'll as the rank and file of the party
workers
But reasons which were insurmount
able for time prevented and the noti-
fication came that a call from Maine
made it impossible that Mr.. Sewall
should visit the Islands at this time
Then it was that Senator Cecil Brown
who in addition to being one of the
leaders of the party is close personal
and political friend of Sewall, wrote to
him and explained that there was a
general feeling that there should be in
the place of representative of the party
a man who lived here and was recog-
nized as having some attachment to the
Territory. To this gentle reminder
Sewall replied at length and in such
tenor that it mas been the hope of Sen
ator Brown and other friends of Sew
all that there would be further news
from him on any steamer within the
past month.
The answer of Mr.. Sewall, as de-
scribed by Senator Brown, was that the
position taken by the writer was the
correct one; that the Territory was en-
titled to representation on the national
committee by a man who resided in and
was a citizen of it; that he had made
no decision as to the course he would
follow; he might come back here and
he might not do so. So it was left in
the air, whether or not the committee
man would resign. He further said
that he was going to Maine and would
decide upon his plans while there. Two
months have elapsed since that letter
and yet there has come to the walters
here no information as to the decision
of the committeeman.
There are some of the party workers
who think that there should be no more
delay in the placing of the committee
manship in the hands of a live man.
who is the actual representative of the
Territory. There are said to be many
things which might come to workers
here, if there was an active worker in
the place who would look out for the
organization. The fact that there have
been no places given to men of the or
Eanization, except those local to the
Territory, has aroused some of those
who have had experience in the Main
land States and Territories, and who
know how much of national patronage
goes with the committeemanship. There
is no information here whether or not
the quota of this Territory has been
filed from Maine or is still at the dis
posal Of the local organization