The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
G, D, GILMAN
ON HAWAII
Ex-COnsulGeneraI
Sheds Needed
Light.
TELLS BOSTON OF
ISLAND POLITICS
Nails Several Current Falsehoods
and Predicts the Triumph Of
Conservative Party.

The following interview concerning a
dispatch in the Boston Advertiser, sent
out by the Humphreys penny-a-line news
bureau, is from Hon. Gorham D. Gil
man. formerly Hawaiian Consul Cen
eral at the Massachusetts capital:
Il have seldom seen SO many false
hoods in so little space says G. D. Gill
man, late Hawaiian Consul General for
New England, relative to the Press dis
patch from Washington concerning Ha-
waiian domestic troubles.
In the Hawaiian Islands Judge Hum
phreys poses as the friend of the people.
but as soon as he lands in San Fran
| cisco he advocates the annexation of the
| Islands to California as a new county.
| When news of Humphreys proposed
plan, outlined in San Francisco pa
fpers, reached the Islands, the Legislature
vigorously condemned it. On that point
at least there is unanmity.'
| Mr.. Gilman read to the writer an ex-
tract from a Hawaiian correspondents
| letter: NO movement for annexation
has ever been heard of here. 1t is wholly
an invention of Humphreys, for his own
purposes All except employees of his are
opposed to the idea
Mr.. Gilman not only denies the state
IleAt tIldl there Is d prospect OF Tower
nor jDole's removal, but declares that
when an emissary approached President
| Mckinley in San Francisco on the sub
ject, the president sent him about his
business.
Mr.. Gilman has a well-defined opinion
lof Judge Humphreys, who seems to be
the leader of the anti-Dole party.
Mr.. Gilman says:
Judge Humphreys sentencing of Cen
lEr-o sar-tyr
Iaroused a great storm of indignation. and
81 members of the bar association, out of
a total membership of 81 have signed a
petition to the president for his removal
OF the other seven members of the aSso-
lciation several would have signed the pc
tition, but could not be reached at the
time.
AS for the counter petition. of which
so much is said, the character and
weight of the petitioners may be con-
jectured when it is remembered that
Judge Humphreys admitted to the ba,
fourteen members of the Legislature
without any examination whatever.
Instead of the missionary element be
ling the originators of trouble" continued
MIR. Gilman, "it is the carpet-bag ele.
ment the foreign Adventures, combined
with the old royalist party. that is 70
lmenting all the disturbance
The recent Legislature, called together
in February, for limited session of g
days, under the provisional act. con
Sumed days in endless discussion. After
more than half the sixty days had passed
the only bill that was enacted was tina
which provided for the payment of mem
bers.
AT the end of 60 days a bill imposing
tax on female dogs had been enacted
and a few measures of similar import
Ion rI,a =; III
| necessary for carrying on the govern
ment had not been touched.
Governor Dole continued the Legisla
: ture thirty days longer, but no better re
suits were obtained
Strong pressure was then brought t.
, obtain an extra session, the reason fo
which was apparent enough. 1t mean
another 5000 piece to every representa-
tive.
provision that business should be Unite,
5 to consideration of the appropriation
bills
These bills have finally been passed
, but extravagant is the outlay ordere,
that there is not revenue enough In sigh
to provide the money.
"As for Governor Dole's whereabout
being unknown, that is untrue. Will
} he is in the mountains seeking recupera
ton, he is where he can be continuousl,
in touch with affairs, the Islands bein,
connected by wireless telegraphy
/ Acting Governor Cooper was goot
acting governor to sign warrants to pa,
the Legislature, but when they foun,
they could not bend him to their will
| then they attacked his authority
The missionary element, so-called, il
really made up of the decent, law-abid
: ing population, many of whom have n,
: utilization with any church whatever
, Governor Dole has the esteem of al
f the conservative people, and there is n
I doubht that the conservatives will ulti
mately prevail"