The Topeka state journal., 1901-04-26
TO TURN REPUBLICAN.
Movement Started by Mr.. Wilcox
i'm Hawaiian Native Party.

Correspondence Associated Press.)
Honolulu, April 10. via San Francisco,
April 26.-The proposal which Delegate
Wilcox brought back from Washington
that the native home rule party become
Republican, has aroused great political
activity and is being very much dis
cussed in political circles It is stated
that the plan was proposed to Wilcox
by Senator CuilOm and that the pfes1-
dent showed interest in the conversion
Of the natives of Hawaii to republican
ism.
The result of the proposal and it's en-
dorsement by a majority of the native
party leaders is that both the parties
affected are more or less split over it,
The Republican party has for some
time been divided into the elements
known as missionary and anti-mission-
ary, and it is with the latter, or anti
administration Republicans, that the
home rulers may combine locally At
present they have taken action which
they think unites them with the nation
al Republican party, but not with the
party organization in Hawaii. The op-
position of the ex-queen to any plan
looking to a reconciliation between the
natives and the old Republican leaders
whom she regards as her enemies and
who We're annexation leaders, is said to
have had q powerful effect in causing
the home rulers to carefully turn Re
publican in such way that they
would not be committed to support the
present Republican organization in
Hawaii
In the step they have taken so far the
natives have refused TO drop tSseir name
of Independent Home Rulers and have
only added Republican to that name.
A complete turn down of all the NOM
nations sent to the legislature by GOV.
Dole is threatened. The Independents
have been holding caucuses on the sub
ject and they would like to turn down
all the men the governor named and
~
which the executive renominates them.
The home rulers have a list of their
own men whom they would like to see
in office. Under the organic act the
governor may leave the offices unified
till the legislature adjourns and then
appoint his own Choices.
Delegate Wilcox has come out in op-
position to the idea of trying to turn
the other party leaders not to take such
action, but many of them reject his adj
vice.
DIR. sun Vat Sen. the exiled Chinese
revolutionist, arrived in Honolulu last
night on the steamship Nippon Maru.
DIR. sun was born in Hawaii and gradu-
ated from Oahu college. He was tire
leading spirit in the attempted revO}u-
tionary coup d'etat at Canton in 81,
since which time he has been an exile
from China with a price on his head His
views of the Chinese situation and of the
Bow WOngs, or reform society, which is
Sz1iu 10 nave nearly 1uUUU members III
Hawaii. will be a bombsheI to many
local Chinese who have been led to join
the organization and support it.
DR. Sun says that the Bow Wong Wui
is useless and viii end an ineffectua1 ca
reer amid internal dissensions that have
already begun Already some of the
millionaire members in Singapore have
withdrawn their support from kang Yu
Wei, and members are asking what
there IS to show for the millions that
have been subscribed to the society.
The revolutionary party has the real
strength of the reform and progressive
element in China, according to DR. Sun
Its membership extends throughout Chi
ma in secret societies that are waiting
their chance. Instead of striking for the
return of the emperor, Kwong Ksu to
power and trying to induce him to issue /
again the reform edicts that are sup
posed to have caused his dethronement. |
the revolutionary party wants absolute |
abolition of the Manchu dynasty and es-
tablshment Of a republican form of gov
ernment in China.