The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-04
GOING To
WASHINGTON
Hon. II. E. Cooper
and Judge Hart
| we'll En- Route.
SAM PARKER IN
SAN FRANCISCO
A Streaky Yellow Yarn of the
Sensational Examiner About
Dole Resignation.
The Chronicle says:

The Chronicle says:
Henry E. Cooper, Secretary of the
Territory of Hawaii, landed in San
Francisco early yesterday morning
from the steamship Sierra and departed
at 10 o'clock for Washington, D. c.,
accompanied by former Judge A. S.
Hartwel of Honolulu. According TO
advices coming on the Same steamer,
Secretary Cooper is supposed to be GO
ing to the head of the Government to
obtain the position of Territorial Gov
ernor, as successor to Governor Dole
whose place he has filed for several
months as Acting Governor. But Coop
er said in Honolulu that he was merely
going away on his vacation, would
spend most of it in Washington and
would present his annual report as
Secretary of the Territory. also that he
would take the opportunity while in
this country to receive the thirty-third
degree of Masonry, as he happens to be
one of the most prominent members of
the order in the islands, having been
elected Grand Master Mason in 1896.
| Cooper has been very prominent in
the islands and the recipient of many
offices traceable to his friendship for
the Dole government. He is an Indiana
man by birth and is A years old.
| The fact that Cooper left Honolulu
practically in company with Colonel
Sam Parker, presumably for Washing
ton, gave rise to the supposition that
they were one or both after the Gov
lernorship. Parker is still In this city,
and his friends firmly deny that he
has any aspirations for gubernatorial
honors. Parker says he has come to
the continent purely on private bust
ness.
In Honolulu the Home Rulers are
still talking Of getting Dole removed,
but even Congressional Delegate Wilcox
has announced that Dole is a pretty
good Governor and that for himself he
is satisfied to be the islands Represen-
tative in Congress.
THE EXAMINERS CANARD
| The Examiner says:
| Sanford B. Dole has resigned as Gov
|
| mors circulated since the arrival Wednes-
day of the Sierra can be taken for grant
| ed. WEAKNESS of the strenuous official
| life in the Islands is assigned as the
cause, aggravated by the rebuke admin
istered by United States Attorney Gen
eral Knox in his decision upholding Cir
cult Judge Humphreys in his charge
against the Dole administration.
Dole's resignation, so the story goes,
was penned two days before the Sierra
sailed for this port, as the result of a
conference of missionary party leaders
who decided that that was the only
course left open for the governor. Coup
led with this decision, is it added was
another that Secretary Henry E. Coop
er was the man for the vacant place.
Cooper, with Judge A. s. Hartwel of
Honolulu, was a passenger to this port
On the Sierra, and both took the over
land train east Wednesday night. Those
who hold that Dole has resigned say that
Cooper and Hartwell are headed fer
Washington, and that Cooper has Dole'E
resignation in his inside pocket, together
with various Endorsements of himself for
the place. Among these is said to be one
from Delegate to Congress Robert G.
Wilcox, who has been won over to the
missionary party.
On the steamer up from the Islands
and east on the SAM, overland train was
Colonel Samuel G. Parker bent, the same
story runs, on spiking the guns of the
missionary party and getting Dole's place !
for himself. Parker goes, it is believed, |
as the representative of the democrats, |
republicans, home rulers and natives !
who, it is said, heard of Dole's resfgna-
ton before the ink was dry On the docu-
ment containing it. They got together |
at once, it is reported, and concerted a |
plan of action that resulted in the hasty |
journey of Parker to this side of the !
world.
If the story is true, and indications |
point that way, there will be hot times |
at Washington, and hotter still in that |
hotbed of political pickering, Honolulu, |
the capital of Uncle Sans new island |
territory.
ININGORT Al IZING GUINE