Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-04
HAUGHT|NESS CARTER
NEWSPAPER BOYS DO
NOT FIND HIM In
Gives SCant Courtesy and Gets It
In Return---Private SeCre-
tary TO Governor
Parker.

Under the headline His Haughti-
ness Carter of Hawaii" the Call Of
Feb. 10 says:
Hawaiian Senator George X. Carter,
one of the best known politicians and
business men of Honolulu, was among
the passengers of the steamship Sono-
ma, which arrived here yesterday. Car
ter is reported to have come to the
United States for the purpose of re-
porting personally to President Roose-
welt on the political situation in the
Islands.
This report is untrue" said the
Senator to a Call reporter at the Pal
ace last night. 81 am here on private
and not public business OF any kind"
rs 1t not true that the President re-
quested you to come to Washington to
| advise him as to current affairs in the
islands," was asked.
That is a matter do not care to
discuss" responded Carter coldly. 81
have nothing to say concerning my
trip to the United States"
1T is reported that you are to be
Parker's private secretary in the event
OF his appointment as Governor to sue
coed Dole. Is that true?"
Il have nothing to say"
Receives Callers With Goodness.
Senator Carter muttered something
about having heard considerable about
the enterprise and persistence of the
American newspaper man, and that he
was convinced his information in this
respect was not misleading. He con-
| scented to say, however, that he would
ultimately leave San Francisco for New
York. He was not quite certain when
he would make the journey across the
continent, but thought It would be
within a day or two"
Are you going to Washington? ?"
was asked
u don't know whether by itinerary
| includes that very interesting city" he
replied, as with wave of the hand and
80 long" he dashed into an elevator
and disappeared.
Carter is a young man, 80 or so. OF
athletic build and a good dresser. He
wears glasses and is smooth shaven,
| When addressed by strangers he eX-
hibits surprise and assumes an irrita.
tion of manner which may be foreign
TO him when among his own clientele
Of aCQuiantances and friends, who are
not likely to startle him. He seemed
| to have prepared himself to meet with
GOODNESS the advances of reporters, and
| lao, 81, hn a
are in the public eye, he evaded every
effort made to extract information
from him with the general statement
that he had nothing to say and an all
as If all the secrets OF the nation haC
suddenly been placed in his keeping
Scant courtesy was shown by him tC
various persons who called upon hin
last night, and the impression created
thereby was not flattering to Carter oil
to the importance OF the mission with
which he is intrusted and which evil
IDENTIFY has very favorably impressed
him with himself
Statement on Way to President.
Carter left Honolulu on the 18th inst
A few days prior to that event the
leaders of the party which Is antago
nistic to Carter and his following pre-
pared a statement of their own in or
der TO head off any adverse report III
might make and forwarded 1t to tbs
President. This statement is now ell
route to Washington and 1t will be In
President RoOsevelts hands befor,
Carter is enabled to reach that city
The intimation is that Carriers report
will be one-sided, and whether tho
written statement will be accepted IL
preference to Carriers verbal one re-
mains to be seen. That the politica
division in the Islands relative to the
removal of President Dole and the ap.
pointment of Parker as his successor
Is marked there can be no question.
: Carter has been a leading figure In
Island politics for four years. He is Q
son of the late II. A. p. Carter. who
was at one time Hawaiian Minister tC
the United States. He Is the head oil
the Hawaiian Trust Company ant
holds interests in the Hawaiian Elec,
trio Company. He has been identified
with the missionary movement in the
Islands and has the reputation of be.
ing a reformer.