Evening star., 1902-09-15
NAMED FOR CONGRESS
"PRINCE CUPID, MAY BE DELE
GATE FROM HAWAII.
Native Leader Nominated at Homo
lulu by Republicans to Oppose
r. W. Wilcox.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
HONOLULU. T. H., September 3, 1902.
The republicans Of Hawaii have met in
general convention and nominated Jonah
Kalanianaole, generally known as Prince
Cupid as their candidate for delegate to
Congress, in opposition to Delegate r. w.
Wilcox. home ruler. The prince Is an in
telligent young leader of his race and was
the man who led the recent bolt from the
nome rule convention. splitting the home
rule ranks probably fatally.
Prince Cupid was an heir to the Hawaiian
throne when there was such throne.
After the overthrow he Travelled extensive
Iy about the world and on his return to the
Islands about year ago, he Joined
the home rule ranks, and appeared to be
one of the native party men. supporting the
Ioyailst wilcox He soon became a dis
turplng element, however. With his educa-
uon and his progressive ideas he could not
approve some of the doctrines which VIII
cox put forth to catch votes.
win Others of the more intelligent ma
tlVes ana members of the home rule party
ne peSan to demand reforms His element
IN the party urged the dropping of the can
oloates for the legislature who were in the
iast session and who helped to make it a
nzzle. They demanded the organization of
the party on basis of popular control,
instead of under Wilcox dictatorship. The
ftu-nlnat1on to Of their contest for these re-
Iorms was when they walked out of the
convention, after Wilcox had broken q
promise to accede to many Of their de-
mandS.
Since he has been a leader of the new
party which was formed by the boilers
from home rule Cupid has been much
talked OF as possible republican candi-
date for delegate to Congress, If he would
JOIN the party. He Is young, popular and
wealthy, and Is a most intelligent repre-
sentative of the Hawaiian race, but 1t was
not until the republican convention met
that he declared himself ready to be a
member of the party. After that his nomi-
nation was easy, and 1t was made unani-
nous. The other candidate was A G. NJ
robertson, one of the leading lawyers Of
Honolulu. He was the prosecuting attor-
ney for the government against those con-
cerned in the royalst uprising of '95 and
1t was recognized that this fact was likely
to lose him enough native votes to cost the
party the election.
Senator Burton of Kansas and ex-senator
Thurston Of Nebraska were both interested
spectators of the convention, occupying
seats on the platform. Burton is here as
the chairman of the senatorial commission
appoionted to investigate Hawaiian affairs
while Thurstcn came ON a pleasure trip
with which some private business is min
gled. Thurston addressed a large audience
at the Orpheum Theater last Saturday, and
told the Hawatians some plain truths on
political subjects. 1t was the first address
OF the kind by a man of equal prominence
that has been delivered here, and 1t con-
tained some political lessons that local
leaders have long tried to impress upon the
electorate. Senator Thurston over and over
again told his audience that they could not
hope to get hearing at Washington with
delegate who was not member Of either
OF the American political parties. The
American goverenment was by party, he
said, and it was useless to send a man to
the national capital who could not work
| with the congressional committees appoint
ed by the parties.