The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-03
TRAITORS IN me cAMp.

President Mckinley ought 90 b. told
by men he wili listen to. that the con.
slant attempts 10 aisrrcdit the Hcpub
llcan Territorial administration mad,
by the old itovalist party and lts Les
lslsture, can - tThccd TO ~ NJ. Fepsll
and 20 the men Who represent that alb
scntee committeeman In these Islands
The active local conspirator II A. g.
/ Humphreys, whom the President was
mlsled by sewall. acting through Sen1-
tor Frye Of Maine. into elevatlng &
the benck
Since he failed 10 get the Governor
ship. Sewali has done his best 90 inJur'
the man whom President Mckinley pre-
ferred In hin stead. His friends have
been busy against him, both In Ha-
wall and at Washington. They htv"
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 20 elect members OF the old Royal
lst party. As soon as the opposition
Legislature convened, the local news
paper organs OF Mr. Sewall came out IN
favor Of all it's policies. however mimi
cal they might be to the welfare Of tn
INtDuDlNdu DhlASG anu w Ah' f7''''
OF the Republican Territorial admins
tration. These papers have asSdlled
Mr.. Dole at every turn; they have urged
the Legislature not to confirm his APP
pointees: they have hindered. hampered
and misrepresented him. 1t can he
proven that Judge Humphreys has baen
in regular consultation with the Homo
Rule leaders urging them on in their
attacks upon President Mckinley
choice of Governor. a clown on the
bench Humphreys has proved himself
a knave in the party; and his influence
has been uniformly destructive of Re
publicanism here.
We are we'll aware that the President
in posting himself upon local party
matters, would naturally consult the
Republican national committeeman.
But there are good reasons why he
should never consult him. Sewall does
not live here he never visits here; he
Is 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 II the Republican party of
Hawaii goes down also. Moreover ne
was never the choice of local Republi-
cans for committeeman. His friends
got the anti-American, Home Rule ne
tives to raid the Republican primaries
in the guise Of Republican voters. They
did the work they were paid for and
then, at the polls, voted agains. 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 poiti-
clan who is always trying and has now
and then succeeded in getting even
smaller and more contemplate politi-
clans into quasi Federal office here.
For example, the occupants of certain
The Advertiser, which divides with
the Star the field of Republican jour
nalism here, urges the President 20 |
send confidential agents to look into |
party affairs as they stand. II such .
agents are at all even-minded they will 1
report that the thing the Republican .
party needs most, Is good radiance of .
ts traitors, Sewall and Humphreys In
particular. The latter Is not only .
marplot and a treacherous schemer
against Mckinley Republicanism, but .
Is a street brawler who was more than
,nce in the hands Of the police, and as .
, fugitive to these shores, leaving a ,
crooked trail behind him, and pas a ,
ouffoon In ermine. he was probably the
most disrsputable selection for Judge
hat could have been made. The Presi-
lent was not to blame for this. Sswall
deceived Frye and Frye, In turn, WIS
IN unconscious means of deceiving the
President