The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-06-14
If. AUST|N'S
EMISSION
Ills Plans Suffer a
Noteworthy
Change.
WILL WRITE A
KEYNOTE BOOK
How Hawaii is Going to Be
Revolutionized by Literature.
Saw the Governor.
Especial to the Advertiser.)

tSpeciai 10 the AdvertiSer.D
SAN FRANCISCO. June a.-The lost
Is found. Franklin Austin Is still In
the flesh. and In San Francisco. His
plans are changed. He will not sweep
over the country In his planned cam
paign against the Missionary party.
nor will he endeavor to drive the Dole
ties over the Pail. A great wave of
conviction has come over him. Where
as he had intended to loose the hounds
of fiercest speech and denounce the
missionaries" from sheol to breakfast,
he now will write a book.
Calmly and dispassionately he viii
set down the political story OF Hawaii.
point the moral. and adorn the tale
with half-tone pictures OF leading
Home Rulers. toss In. mayhap. a poem
or two. or a word painting about the
houris of the islands. and publish all
these facts and fancies In a neat vol
ume at so cents per volume.
1T has been always a debatabie
question with me-" said Austin yester-
day. as he lit the initial leaf Of a fat
book OF cigarettes. las to whether my
forte was oratory or writing. True, In
Fpfttn tlll aDlc 70 AOEtiAy the
word with personal magnetism and
power of gesture. while with the pen
I am limited to the effect I can create
by the mere printed sentence. This
lacks the flashing glance OF the eye.
the subtle information and the force of
the whole corpus which / make the
most OF when on the rostrum, but still
to one skilled In the adroit use of writ
ten language. there is perhaps an even
greater and more permanent impress
sion made by the logical and sequential
argument received through the eye
alone.
"As informed you a fortnight ago.
I had planned TO lecture in all the i'm
portant cities and towns OF the coun-
try. I had engaged a manager and was
to begin my tour In San Jose. The
manager was no good. He went to
San Jose but spent his time swimming
instead of arranging for my reception
and lecture. / went to San Jose and
spoke for 10 minutes in the Unitarian
Church"
y but the San Jose papers said moth
Ing about your appearance" / inter-
posed.
YES. they were so busy with local
politics they overlooked me. But IL
doesn't matter as / have determined
to change my scheme. / had started
out on a very radical course, but have
had several talks with friendS-Repub-
licans OF California, who are very rich
and influential-and they have per-
suaded me that the campaign had in
tended TO make would injure the Re-
publican party"
But you are not Republican,"
I'm not a Republican? I'm the
strongest and most influential Republic
can In Hawaii. MY whole life has been
given up to the Republican party.
made two campaigns for il in Caiifor-
MIA when / had my chain Of papers in
-. a l.. oil nNr4
been a consistent believer in the great
principles enunciated by Lincoln and
Mckinley. Even now / am planning
the making of the Home Rule party
into the real Republican party.
1T is wrong to suppose that l would
not have gone to Washington in time
TO see President Roosevelt before Dole
arrived there. IL had thought / could
have prevented his being endorsed. Ola
Franklin is n man OF many resources.
and would have managed to arrive on
time IL / had thought ii would avail
/ did express surprise at Rooseveit's
action on my arrival here but 1 know
now IL would have been useless to try
20 have Dole ousted. 1t would be like
buttinE against stone wall L nave
nothing personally against Governor
Dole and would not injure him. 1t was
only my deep consciousness and patri-
otism that urged me to advise Roose-
Welt not TO retain him in office.
by the way. l met Dole in the street
car awhile ago. I entered the car and
sat opposite him. At first he ignored
me. hut when we went outside TO smoke
a cigarette he could not avoid noticing
me. / saluted him and asked after his
health. He was very chilly and gave
me really CLASSY eye i said nothing
more. as felt that IL ne did not appre- !
ciate the broad spirit which actuated
me. ne was the loser and not /. This
IL not like Dole. for he usually does
not carry the asperities or politlcal
feelings into his private life. i felt that
had done my Christian duty and
could not blame myself.
II understand that Dole believes and
has said that the Republicans are
growing in strength In Hawaii. and
that there Is a very good chance for |
them 10 elect = delegate To Congress. !
This is so paIpably foolish don't care (
20 dliate on Il. Robert Wilcox viii be /,
elect ted 20 Congress sure, and at least |
fwo-thirds Of the Senate and House /
viii b. Home Rulers. We are organic |
ed more strongly than ever.
who's we?' asked I.
why. the Home Rule party.
Where's your Republicanism?
There YOU are" said Austin. in l
your coarse. unseeiag way. The AoIne Z
Rulers aIe the majority In Hawaii. The
majority here are Republicans; Tor
tori and by the eternal. the Hone I
Rul.. party IL the real Republican party |
OF Hawaii. shall contend In my forth |
book that the Home Rule par
" should b. allowed TO reorganiZe the /
Republican party OF Hawaii, ana 10
lave th,. sole right TO that name. Mind |
YOU. not 10 have the Republican party |
organized for them. or for any haoles
TO Try TO boss them. We VIII accom-
pllsh this some day.
MY book will contain about s3.oeV
words and will be neatly but not gaud- /
L. hn,tni / will send one To every |