The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-02-18


l correspondent was sent four days
u before the above dispatch:
WASHINGTON. u. g, February IT,
win sam Parker be the next Goyeiup"
~ Hawaii? That iS the question q .
great many people are asking hc'e IN
Washington, but just at the present .
date they cannot answer with any
mere certainty than can the PEOPLE ol
Honolulu. Some remarkable things
have been doing. A peculiar official
denial from the white Honse. referred
to in my telegraphic dispatch by the
last steamer. has Defogged the si,ua-
ton. But whether COL. Parker becomes
Governor or not the future historian of
Hawaii win have an unusual incident
20 record.
Col. Parker left here Tuesday last Cor
san Francisco, where he expected to|
meet Mr.. George II. Carter. lie had
telegraphed Carter TO come by the FIRST
steamer from Hawaii. so that he ought
to land In Frisco by February ~.
There, according 70 the program, they
are to confer about Hawaiian matters,
as the apparently reliable word Is here,
about the Presidents offer TO Col Par
ker of the GnvernOrship of the Ter
ritory, and of the Presidents tender
TO Mr Carter OF the srcretaryship
There is a report that the President
personally wrote to Mr.. Carter about
the secretaryship, and that his accept
auce OF that office Is the desidcratum
before the President will appoint Col.
Parker Governor. When Col. Parker
left here he told his friends that he
might return TO Washington about
February II or IS.
There are many here who believe
that Col. Parker is still IN line for the
goVernorship, although the Presidents
word that he has not selected anybody,
of course, must be accepted. NOtWith-
standing the denial, however, the con-
VictiOn IL strong that there was a
change of front somewhere. The inside
facts are that there was an interview
between President Roosevelt and col.
Parker over ten days ago, at which
one other gentleman was present out
of that interview col Parker, at least
got the impression that he was to be
the next Governor Of Hawaii. Some
think the other gentleman present was
Secretary Cortelyou, and some say it
Was a senator. but at any rate IL can
be stated that "the other gentleman"
did not talk about what transplred be
tween them ana President Roosevelt.
According TO the stories that came
from the inside and which bore every
mark Of reliability the President con-
versed in his usual vigorous tones and
Col. Parker, by no means feeble lung
ed, talked "A note or two higher And
further, as the stories from the inside
go, the President not only asked Col
Parker to accept the governorship but
urged him to do so.
After the Presidents official denial
your correspondent obtained from an
entirely authoritative source a state
ment that Col. Parkers fool friends
were responsible for getting him into
difficulty. This same authority in
formed your correspondent that the
statements Of these friends had hurt
him with the President and might
block his nomination entirely. 1t can
be said with equal reliability that Col
Parker did not himself talk with news
paper men about the matter. All ne
would say was what / telegraphed Ia
The Advertiser one week ago that
something important was going to hap
pen in Hawaii and that il would be
known in Honolulu when the next mail
arrived.
But col. Parker had talked with
some Of his political friends about the
matter, including one Senator from the
lntermountain States. another ex-Sen-
ator from the same region and proba
bly, with an eX-member OF Congress
who once visited Honolulu. They sup
piled the information which was in.
tended to be published outside Wash.
ington only, but which was published
here before the papers from S., Louis
indianapolis and Chicago. containinl
the dispatch, could get back to thi
city. The publicity undoubtedly AIS
pleased the President.
The assurances Of these friends o
Col. Parker's to newspaper men tina
the Colonel would certainly be selecte,
as Governor, were responsible for tn
reiteration of the story and eventual,
brought the emphauc denial from tn
White House January 20 But ever
after that Prince David, in an inter
view which he gave out IN Chicago
declared that Col. Parker had been of
fered the governorship
The report here Is that Col. Parke
was actually offered the governorshi
some three or four months ago an
that he told the people so in Hawai-
BY the same report II Is declared tina
he declined because he did not thin
he could afford to accept. /. Is sal
here that Col. Parker. while a man q
large means. is not supplied wit
abundance Of ready money. hayin
great expense of lands and othe
business which demand his constan
attention This does not mean that tn