The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-14
ON CARRIERS MISSION
GOVERNOR DOLES SERVICES TO
HAWAII.
Roosevelt Should Summon Dole Himself
And Other Prominent Men of Hawaii
To Washington.

The Washington Star of February "a
prints a long letter from its Hawaiian
correspondent Kamehameha, the Rev.
Serene Il. Bishop, on the subject of
Carriers mission TO visit the President.
Commenting editOrially on the subject
the paper has the following:
"Kamehameha's" latest letter to The
Star, printed in todays issue, clearly
reveals the state of mind regarding the
possibility of Governor DOle's removal
on the part of those in Hawaii who
stand for honesty and effectiveness of
administration, for progress and for
peace. These are the men who, with
Governor Dole at their head, successive
ly and successfully opposed the ele-
ments which would have held Hawaii
in the miTe Of corrupt rOyalism. They
are the men who secured annexation,
and who, pending the acceptance of the
islands by the United States, at the peril
virtually of their lives and surely of
their estates, maintained a friendly at
titude toward this government dur
ing its war with Spain, when it sOrely
needed a Pacific halfway house. They
represent today the highest character in
the islands.
Governor Dole is undeniably antagO-
nistiC to the radical reaCtiOnary party
says, he has fought them as In one guise
and another they have undertaken to
break down the republican structure
which he and his colleagues painfully
reared in the islands. When the mis-
guided natives placed this factor in
control of the legislature Governor Dole
was required either to surrender the
archipelago deliberately to their mis-
chievo0s incompetenCy and their royal
list schemes or to stand staunChly by
the principles which he had so long re-
presented and which had been with Ha-
wall adopted by the United States. lie
would have been reCreant to his trust
had be yielded then to secure the ease Of
a pusillanimOus peace between him and
the dominent legislative party
That he did not weaken, that he
preserved Hawaii from a scandalOus re-
gime of misgOvernment and corruption,
is now the basis Of the charges against
him, upon which his enemies hope to
secure his removal from office. The
very fact that he and the sO-called
"Home-rulers" cannot agree, averred
as a reason for a change, is the strong
est possible Endorsement of his admins
tration for the good of Hawaii.
Governor Dole personally is willing
enough to retire from office, provided he
can yield to a successor capable of
maintaining the territory upon a sound
basis and of safeguarding It's interests.
But the white residents of the Islands
are not WlllluE ludL ne Sloulu bI L'lNN
out of Office by the mal-COntents, the
schemers, the royalists and the place
seekers who now constitute the anti
Dole faction" The President, accord
ing to "Kamehameha' S" letter to The
star has summoned Mr.. George Carter
to Washington for consultation. 1t is
evident that Mr.. Carter, while worthy
to be summoned in a council of confer
ance, Will not prove a reliable sole add
| wiser upon Hawaiian affairs. His pre-
JUDGES, possible his own ambitions, pre-
vent him from being entirely acceptable
as the Warwick of the situation. If the
| President wants light upon Hawaiian
| affairs he should summon here the men
| of highest standing I'm the islands, in
! Guiding Governor Dole himself, who
/ knows Hawaii probably better today
| than most other and whose personal
character Is such that he is surely al
| this critical iuncture entitled TO be
heard if not IN his own behalf, at least
i'm behalf of the islands he loves and
| with the rescue of which he has been So
| closely identified.