The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-05-12
.HONORS TO
GOV. DOLE
Echoes From Press
OF the Whole
Country.

The following u an editorial articl.
In the Boston Journal " April 10, under
tho head ~ "Hawaii's Great Leader
The journal never has had any doubt
that the result of President R1osevelts
inquiry into Hawaiian affairs would be
complete vindication OF Governor
Dole and his associates. Tremendous
efforts have been put forth by selfish
interests to break down Governor Dole
and the distinctively American party in
Hawaii. but they have been of no avail.
President Roosevelt himself has gone
10 the very bottom Of this question.
and he has now reached the conclusion.
and. with characteristic frankness. pro-
claims It, that Governor Dole's course
has been such as to warrant his con-
tinuance as Governor OF Hawaii and
entitle him to the respect and hearty
support of the administration"
No Endorsement could possibly be
more sweeping. Governor Dole must
feel abundantly repaid for all the anx-
ieties of the past ten years, in which
he has stood as chief warder of our
Gibraltar OF the Pacific
To Boston and Massachusetts, the
| Presidents vindication OF Governor
Dole will be all the more gratifying
| because Mr.. Dole IL Of New England
| ancestry and education. His parents
were among the early missionaries to
Hawaii, and he himself graduated from
| Williams College and admitted to the
| practice of law in Boston. For many
years he had been a member of the
| Supreme Court of Hawaii and at the
time the corrupt monarchy was finally
overthrown by a revolt of the Amerl-
cans and the best of the Christian ma
tives. he was the ablest and most trust
ed man in Honolulu, and his election to
the Presidency of the new republic
came quite as a matter Of course.
President Mckinley did a just and
graceful thing in making Mr.. Dole first
American Governor of Hawaii after an
nexation His services to our cause in
the Spanish War, when Hawaii was a
halfway station for American trans
ports and cruisers, were of incalculable
Importance Many of our ships could
not have crossed the Pacific without
recoaling at Honolulu, and coal would
have been denied them by strict in
, depreciation OF international law. But
President Dole and his comrades never
forgot that they were Americans first
. and always.
With annexation there drifted into
, Hawaii n lot of political adventurers
from the United States and elsewhere
who resented the kindly but firm rule
I OF the so-called missionary party 1T
: was too clean and incorruptibe for
4 their purposes, and as the head of this
. party Governor Dole was especially
=, odious to these carpet t-baggers." They
!. began a systematic campaign against
him, and, aided by the folly OF Con.
= gress in extending the franchise to ir-
responsible natives and foreigners, they
d succeeded in electing a hostile Terri
It torial Legislature which would have
r. ruined Hawaii If it had not been foi
= President Dole's resistance. Finally
n these carpet baggers and the dsrep
: utable classes generally became so en-
s ragged at Governor Dole that they sen
emissaries to Washington to lie abou
e him there. and procure his dismissal il
Z favor of a more pliable executive
3 President Roosevelt has heard thei
It case and he has heard the case o
n Governor Dole. His present declara
d ton that the Governors course ha
e been such ''as to warrant his continu
e ance as Governor of Hawaii and entitl
d him to the respect and hearty supper
IS OF the administration is the outcome
# So, after visit to Boston and hi
loyal friends here. Governor Dole vii
is return to Hawaii with the powerful in
It dorsement of the National Government
= He will go on more successfully tina
" ever with his great and noble work O
II making Hawaii the fairest and mos
= prosperous realm within the wide Pa
= cific President Roosevelts action
- this matter has been just what tn
= country has anticipated. Under thi
Id administration every honest and faith
II ful officer of the United States is sur
r of his reward.
RS Following is from the Burlington
10 Hawkeye: The President has sustaine
N Gov. Dole in his Hawaiian policy. Th
action of the President, based upon a Jus
&c estimate Of the situation in the Island
u and the Governors acknowledged abilit
and probity was practically foreshadowe
oy in private letter received in this cit
er In which the writer says:
re You would he surprised at the wa
l. the papers here criticise things; bac
en- home don't suppose paper dare con
MT ment on a court decision, but the news
r. papers here roast every official and pr
"a vate act of any one they like. The figf
on Gov. Dole has been wholly by RI
publican (co-called) paper and really hs
no backing, though the papers are a
sent to Washington, as representing III
whole party. The fact is that the crow
which is lighting the Governor is con
6 posed of the old monachists and native
y and few renegade Republicans, terme
here carpetbaggers, are egging them c
in hope Of getting a better job.
" Dole is not a politician or he coul
ne turn the Territory under his thumb. II
ne he has the sole appointment of every o
" icici in the Islands. from hod carrier {
:, the streets to the Treasurer of the Te
n ritory. There are no cities or countie
'is and II Dole We're a shrewd manipulate
~ politically, he could appoint enough m'
IN to office that would give absolute contr
of the election machinery of the TER
iu tory. There isn't another man In Il
~ United States, excepting the Presder
se' that has such great appointing power
'p- OF course the President sustained Il
ne Governor under such circumstances.
fc- could not well have done otherwise. Bo
se as President Of the Republic, after 4