The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-01
TRAITORS IN THE CAMP.

President Mckinley ought to be told
by men he will listen to, that the con-
slant attempts to discredit the Repub-
lican Territorial administration made
by the old Royalist party and its Les
islature, can be traced to H. NJ. SeWa1,
and to the men who represent that alb
sentee committeeman in these islands.
The active local conspirator is A. S.
Humphreys, whom the President was
nnisled by Sewall. acting through Sena-
tor Frye of Maine, into elevating to
the bench.
Since he failed to get the Governor
ship, Sewall has done his best to IMPURE
the man whom President Mckinley pre-
ferred in his stead. His friends have
been busy against him, both in Ha
wall and at Washington. They have
lied and intrigued, schemed and plot
ted, day in and week out. The votes
they could muster helped to defeat Re-
publicans, running for the Legislature
and to elect 121embers of the old Royal
list party. AS soon as the opposition
Legislature convened, the local news
paper organs of Mr.. Sewall came out IN
favor Of all its policies, however mimi
cal they might be to the welfare OF tho
Republican party, and to the success
of the Republican Territorial admins
tration. These papers have assailed
Mr.. Dole at every turn; they have urged
the Legislature not to confirm his ap-
pointees; they have hindereds hampered
and misrepresented him. 1T can be
proven that Judge Humphreys has been
in regular consultation with the Homo
Rule leaders, urging them on in their
attacks upon President McKfnleys
A IL m q
bench, Humphreys has proved himself
a knave in the party; and his influence
has been uniformly destructive of Re
publicanism here.
We are well aware that the President,
In posting himself upon local party
matters, would naturally consult the
RepubncSn national committeeman.
Bat there are good reasons why he
mould never consult him. Sewan does
not live here; he never visits here; he
is a perpetual absentee. His work
here is done by proxy. Enraged at
his failure to be Governor he is intent
upon breaking down the prestige of Mr..
Dole, even if the Republican party of
Hawaii goes down also. Moreover ne
was never the choice of local Republic
cans for committeeman. His friends
got the anti-American, Home Rule ne-
tives to raid the Republican primaries
in the guise of Republican voters. Trey
did the work they We're paid for and
then, at the polls. voted against the
party, helping to swell the Home Rule
majority. The actual Republicans of
Hawaii want nothing to do with Sewall,
a very small and contemplate po,iti-
clan who is always trying ard has now
and then succeeded in getting even
smaller and more contemplate poiiti-
clans into quasi-Federal office here.
For example, the occupants of certain
judgeships.
The Advertiser, which divides with
the Star the field of Republican jour
nalfsm here, urges the President 20
send confidential agents to look into
party affairs as they stand. If such
agents are at all even-minded they will
report that the thing the Republican
party needs most, Is good riddancs of
Its traitors, Sewall and Humphreys IN
particular. The latter is not only a
marplot and a treacherous schemer
against Mckinley Republcanism, but
as a street bravler who was more than
once in the hands of the police, ana as
a fugitive to these shores, leaving a
crooked trail behind him. and as q
buffoon IN ermine, he was probably the
most disreputable selection for Judge
that could have been made. The F'resi-
dent was not to blame for this. Swall
deceived Frye and Frye. in turn, was
an unconscious means of deceiying the
President.