The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-17
WILCOX IN
WASHINGTON
Department Rec
ord's Story of
His Life.

paper published In Washington. II, c.
contains In a late issue the following
"write-up" of Delegate Wilcox and
family. The article IL deliberately H.
Illustrated with reproductions Of pen
and ink drawings purporting to be por-
traits of the people whose names APP
pear beneath them. Robert Wilcox $
likeness il evidently taken from his
photograph, but the presentment of
the Princess" apparently about
twenty years Of age. nightly readily
be mistaken for some one else. Be
sides the portraits mentioned in the
text three pictures are presented under
the titles of Princess Eva Kuwailani-
maniac. daughter by Mrs. Wicox's first
husband, Alexander ]. Cartwright,
''who is residing in Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, with her aunt, Princess Eliza
beth Northumberland" Princess
Daisy Napulahaokalaui. daughter by
Mrs. Wilcox's first husband, Alexander
j. Cartwright who is residing in San
Francisco. age twenty-five, Mr. Chas
X. Wilcox, brother to Delegate r. w
Wilcox and Secretary to the Board of
Health, Honolulu, Hawaii"
The same number of the Record pub
fishes a brief article on Governor Dole,
together with an excellent portrait.
Gem of the Sea, what charms thy
shores unfold
To the rapt traveller wandering in
that cline,
Green, gorgeous pictures set in frames
of gold,
Musical ever with the wild waves
chime;
BY day L muse, by night dream of
thee.
Most beauteous island of the tropic
sea-
So years ago wrote a youth enamored
by glowing descriptions of paradisiac
islands on whose coral reefs broke in
never ending undulations the long
bright swells of the blue Pacific; where
summer always smiled, and balmy
breezes played through foliage of CO.
Goa, and palm, and breadfruit, which
furnished without the necessity for toll
food, and clothing, and shelter to the
happy islanders who basked luxurious
ly in the sunshine or sported, born
Maids and Tritons, in the surf, and
slew the shark in his own domain.
But these halcyon days could not last
forever, and with the advent Of Chris
tianity and civilization, missionaries,
and fortune hunters, and rum, and
other ills and evils. the troubles of the
natives began, and they found that
with the white man came the curse of
toll imposed on Father Adam centuries
agone.
Years ago one of the brightest, and
brainiest. and most brilliant OF Jersey
newspaper men gave the writer a Wv
Id description of a Sabbath scene In
the andwich Islands Gas they We're
then generally known IN which the
principal participants were a 24O-pound
missionaryess. en- route to church,
seated in a go-cart drawn by two lean,
lank perspiring kanakas, who. as they
"groaned and sweated under their
heavy burden" had their tagging ener-
tDl oHe, -,
the parasol of the pious driver; and
this was, he said. fair sample OF
the treatment meted out TO the natives
by their new rulers.
And finally the missionaries and the
sugar kings. aided by a United States
minister and United States marines
took possession of the Islands, over
throwing the native authorities. and
although one American administration
refused to sanction the act, another
was more complaisant, and the Ha-
wafian Islands were in 1898 admitted /
into the national fold as territory,
and entitled to representation by a
delegate in the Congress of the United
States. The arrival of that delegate, |
HON. ROBERT w. WILCOX,
created quite stir in political circles,
and his. admission to Congress was
strenuously opposed by the same par
ties who had overthrown the old ISL
and government. and who, despite their
uttcIluuHC fldu DetIl ueledttu Ill
the Congressional election by the pop |
ular party led by Mr.. Wilcox, who, as
native born and a maternal descendant
of the, old Hawaiian royalty, had en- |
deavored In the stormy days of the
revolution. to overthrow the foreign |
element, and had thereby endeared |
himself to the mass OF the people
whom he represents. But his opponents !
did not succeed in barring against him
the doors of Congress, and he scored
another triumph.
AS previously stated in the Depart
ment News, Mr.. Wilcox was born Feb
ruary Is, 1855 at Kahulul, Maui ISL
and His father. W., S. Wilcox, still
fve-a native of Newport, r. l., des-
cended from the old Puritan stock
which settled in 1880 in New England
was sea captain. and his mother, Ka-
scendant of Lonomakaihonua, the
brother of King Koalahea. of Maui,
two centuries ago.
Mr.. Wilcox received an education at
home. and In 1875 became for five
years teacher under the Board of
Education. He was then elected to the
Legislature. and afterwards became n
student at the Royal Military Acade-
my at Turin Italy from which he
graduated in 1885 with the rank OF I,
sub-lieutenant of artillery, and while
completing his course at the Royal
Application school for engineers and
artillery officers, in 1887 was recalled
by his home government. The intes-
tine troubles of his country. however.
resulted In his voluntary exile for a
time at San Francisco, but in 1889 he
returned to Hawaii as a pronounced
revolutlonist but owing to the failure
OF the King to give him the support
promised. the scheme miscarried ana |
the young patriot was tried for trea-
son and acquitted.
In 1890 he was elected to the Legisla-
ture as n neformer. and again IN 1892
as a member OF the Liberal party, be-
Ing idolized by his countrymen. In
1895 he. for the second time took up |
arms in behalf of his Queen and peo- I,
pie. but was betrayed ana sentenced