The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-11

ties, the Democrats hailed him as their
natural leader. He was one of the Ha-
wailan delegates to Kansas City to
nominate Bryan TO the presidency.
Later he ran for Congress, but Wilcox
| beat him in the hottest campaign that
ever excited the Islands. Money was
spent like water. but the Princes ma
tive followers We're not as quick or as
adept as their opponents in learning
the tricks of election day. But the
| Prince was not a whit dismayed, and
when he was raised to the third de-
gree of Masonry on the occasion of a
( ship load of ShrinerS visiting Hawaii,
4 he gave the most lavish and magnifi-
cent banquet ever seen in the Islands
/ This never say die spirit is almost
as strong in Prince David as it was in
! James Campbell. the father of the
Princes bride. Fancy a man scramb-
ling ashore on a South Sea island with
nothing but his clothes on his back and
piling up a fortune OF $1,000 900. That
+, is what James Campbell did. His life
is replete with incidents that rival the
adventures of Robinson Crusoe. For
instance, one day in San Francisco, he
received notice to call at a certain
house on a big business scheme. Once
inside he was set upon by three thugs
who felled him to the floor and secure
, ly bound him hand and foot. Pen and
ink We're set before him and his right
arm was loosened, and he was ordered
, to write check for $4,000 He refus
ed. He was threatened, and attempts
We're made to torture him, but he stub
bornly held out for three days, and
then succeeded in escaping from the
place. He reported the matter to the
police, and they succeeded in making
several arrests. The chief culprit is
now serving time in the State Peniten-
tiary.
Such was the history of the man
whose daughter Prince David Kawa-
nanakoa wooed under the palms at
Waikiki. But there was no sordid gilt
ter of her fathers money bags to spoil
the romance. Prince David does not
need to gid his fortune by marriage.
1t was love match unalloyed.
But Mrs Campbell, while favoring
the Princes suit. insisted on a period
of probation. Her daughter was very
young. and as yet had seen nothing
of the world and the wise mother
wanted her to feel sure of herself be-
fore marrying. A trip to Europe was
planned at the Princes suggestion, and
to Miss Abbie's intense dissa tisfaction
for Prince David was not to be one
of the party
So Mrs. Campbell and her beautiful
daughter toured Europe and attracted
attention everywhere. There were ru-
morS of French Count and Russian
Prince supplanting the scion of the
patiently and never doubted. His re-
ward came on Christmas day, when he
met his fiancee in San Jose, and in the
shade of the convent where she spent
her young girlhood then plighted her
faith anew. With Prince David and
his suite was Colonel Parker, the larg-
est land owner on the Islands. Matri-
mony was in the air, and at the big
New Years ball which Mrs. Campbell
gave to formally announce her daugh-
ter's engagement to Prince David, Col
onel Parker made a few love speeches
on his own account. So moving were
his words that when the party came
to San Francisco after the ball, his own
engagement to Mrs. Campbell was an
nounced and their marriage followed
three days later. So now the great
Parker and the Campbell fortunes are
united. united under the happy we'd
ding ties that almost garlanded a dou-
bic wedding. The nuptials will receive
a fitting browning when Prince David
and his bride receive the blessing of
Liliuokalani at Washington and return
to Hawaii to meet the royal home well
come that is being prepared for them.