Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-19
HAWAII AMERICAN
Recent Election Finally Put
Islands on That Basis.
ROYALISTS ARE ROUTED
CITY AND COUNTY REoRGANIzA-
TON WILL NOW PROCEED.
Extra Session of Territorial Senate
Will Be Called to Consider APP
pointments and Removals.
ROYALISTS ARE ROUTED

Special Correspondence OF Inc Evening otai'
HONOLULU, T. H, November 8, 1902
A complete reorganization of the terri
torial government will result from the re-
publican victory in the recent election AL
ready Governor Dole has decided to call
the senate together in extra session TO con-
slider the matter of removals and appoint
ments of officers and the work that Is gong
on among the members of the new legis-
lature indicates some sweeping changes In
the government.
The defaulters, embezzlers and ofhclals
guilty of malfeasance in office, who have
been fighting against Dole's suspension Oh
them from office, on the ground that he has
no legal authority to suspend them, have
had the ground cut from under them by
the voters. The senate chosen by the peo-
pie of Hawaii will remove them anyhow,
and it matters little now whether the gov
ernor alone has power to remove them OF
not.
Hawaii Now American.
The defeat of Delegate Wilcox and the
royalist element he represents makes Ha-
wall for the first time really American, In
a political sense. in that from now on it
may be expected that the issue of opposi-
ton TO annexation is dead. The election
of 1900 was unquestionably won by VIII
cox as simple supporter of the OLD mon
archy. In the same character ne mas iost
this time, and by an overwhelming mayor
ity On the issue of race hatred, a1ter Il
campaign in which no scrup!e was allowed
to Interfere with even the most outlandlsh
efforts to arouse hatred against the WHITES,
Wilcox has gone down to defeat by nearly
2.CU0 votes, where he won by ABOUT ooo
two years ago.
The legislature is working BODY OF over
whelming republican strength. No less
than thirteen of the home rule members OF
cr;c1at no ra e
election. went to defeat. The voters on
every island repudiated the men who spent
ninety days in the last legislature in idle
quarrels and windy attacks upon Governor
Dole.
City and County Government.
The election of the republican ticket
means the carrying out of a number of
important policies In Hawaii. the principal
one being inauguratio of city and county
government. I'VE shall carry out every
pledge in our PLATFORM said Senator Crab
be- chairman of the central committee and
probably to be the president of the senate.
The blanks of the platform to which this
remark applies declare for a city ana
county government act. liberal appropri-
atoms for the leper settlement. perma-
nent settlement upon ex-Queen Liluohalanl,
A revision of the taxation system. The
South Carolina liquor dispensary system
which was hard fought issue in the last
session, is declared against in the plat
form, and may therefore De coliSlueleu "9
dead in Hawaii
The municipal government act is the most
impOrtant matter that will come before the
legislature. 1t will bring about a great
change in the conditions in Honolulu. 1t is
perhaps surprising fact that the Philippines,
which have been in actual rebellion against
the United States while Hawaii has peace
ably accepted the stars and stripes as her
flag have more of the American form or
local self-government than HaWan mas
The people of the Hawaiian villages or
towns or districts have nothing to say
about their own affairs, locally There Is
one government office for the entire ter
ritory. and it Is the capitol building in
Honolulu. If the city of Hilo, 200 miles
AWAY and unconnected by wire, wants TO
Law sidewalk il is the superintendent or
public works of the territory, in Honolulu
who must do II.
A General Reorganization.
From Governor Dole down, in all the
parties a system of local self-government
has been favored, and it would have been
,adopted by the last legislature and ap-
proyed by the governor then had an in
teIIigent act been passed. The republican
convention this year appointed commits
sion TO prepare law and this commission
is at work carefully studying the best mu-
nicipal laws, with a view to framing an
act for Hawaii
One result of municipal government will
be Iessening of the Importance of many
of the territorial offices. The mayor OF
Honolulu will rank with the governor OF
the territory in the Importance OF ms
duties. The city treasurer will probably
outrank the territorial official in charge
of public funds and the same statement is
true of some of the other officials. Inc
territorial department of public works Will
dwindle considerably if Honolulu and Hllo