The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-09
MUST HE GO?


for desiring the Governor to go are not
quite clear. They seem in a great
measure to be personal, as very much
of Mr.. Emmeluth's craftsmanship APP
pears to be. The chances are that if
Mr.. Emmeluth's ambitions to become
planter had been fulfilled, he would
never have appeared upon the floor of
the House denouncing the Governor
and all his works. Had that particular
lease been granted we should not have
heard a word about the iniquity of
Dole. Upon such small things do great
ones hang.
That land and water deal is going to
have momentous consequences. But
for that the President would never
have been troubled with the petition
which is now being waited across the
Pacific. Poor President, he does not
know what is in store for him when
he gets to the Pacific Coast. He was
undoubtedly prepared to hear the tale
of woe from every disgruntled politi-
clan in the West, or rather his Secre-
tary was. But when Hawaii looms up
there will be woe indeed. The anti
expansionist view will at once become
dear to the Presidents heart. The
mainland politicians are bad enough,
but to think of the Island ones, and
then there may be some from the Phil
ippines.
But Mr.. Emmeluth has decided that
dole must 60" Why? What has Mr.
Dole done that should rouse Mr.. EN-
meluths wrath to such a pitch, that
he could go on talking for two hours"
about it. There is the Organic Act. has
Governor Dole transgressed any of it's
provisions? That act has given the
Governor certain prerogatives. He has
used those prerogatives. He has. an
undoubted right to use those preroga-
tives. The Organic Act would not have
provided such prerogatives if it did not
intend that they should be used Rep
resentative Emmeluth or any other
Representative or Senator is not the
judge of whether they should be used
or not The only judge upon the mat
ter is the Governor.
Take the matter of appointments The
Senate when it first came into session
was opposed to all appointees of the
Governor. 1t was not on account of
any inherent objection to the appoin-
tees, but simply because the Governor
had appointed them. The Senate and
the Home Rule party never paused to
think that they We're setting them
selves against President Mckinley by
ha
doubtedly did so. However, that is a
matter which they will learn all about
when they have finished with their San
Francisco trip. What we have to do
with is what has happened here.
1t is perfectly clear that in making
his appointments in last June, the Gov
ernor could not know who would be
acceptable to the Senate, seeing that
no Senate then existed. The Senate
turned down three appointments and
one Board. Did the Governor misuse
his power of appointing. BY no means
The appointees We're not reappointed
in defiance of the expressed wishes OF
the Senate. That would have been
thoroughly un-American, and those
who counselled such a course would
only have landed the Governor on a
rock. The Governor has chosen an
other set of names, and it will be for
the Senate to decide whether those are
satisfactory or not. Should they not be
so, he can only choose others and offer
them.
Review the Governors course
throughout a most trying time, and
it will be found chat he has kept strictly
TO his legal rights as laid down by the
Organic Act. What many of the Gov
ernor's opponents would have desired
if they could have had his ear, would
have been for him to have transcribed
his legal rights for their private bene-
fit. In point of fact it is the Governors
strict adherence to principle which
bothers them.
From one point of view the vigorous
attack upon the Governor is. perfectly
explainable. The spells men and the
carpet baggers naturally object to a
man who sees through them and who
turns them down. They detest the
Governor for his love of justice, and
they laugh at him because he is not
low, self-seekiug politician of their
own type. Moreover they know that
the Governor is a firm friend of the ma
tive Hawaiian, and though they are
at the present moment playing the ma
tive Hawaiian against the Governor,
and are using the worst elements in
his character, they feel that the course
pursued by Governor Dole, will even
tually be the one that will commend
itself to the Hawaiian when he wakes
up from his present dream.
If one looks back, present conditions
are only the history of the Pacific ISL
ands repeating itself. The carpet bag
ger of the present day, is only the ligi-
timata descnndant of the hnanh-nn1,n-