The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-06
THE FURRY
OVER PARKER
Continued from Page 81

lied even an indirect of conditional
tender of the governorship to anyone
else. The stories that have so disturbed
the Hawaiian business interests, ac-
cording to an article printed elsewhere
! in The Star, which represent this re-
sponsible and important office as being
banded back and forth between Col.
Sam Parker and Judge Estee and
Judge Little, are all doubtless either
the baseless products of overheated i'm
aginations. or else deliberately fabri-
Gated and circulated for purpose.
The decision which the President IS
about to make is a vitality important
one in its bearing upon the future well
fare of the first of our insular acquisi-
tions. There is a national obligation
10 the men of the provisional govern
ment who risked their lives in the
cause of annexation to the United
States, undauntedly facing in success
sion Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawa
iian royalists, Paramount Blount. the
Hawaiian revolutiOnists. clustering ia
pan and the Spanish sea power IIa-
wall was not won by US from Spain,
but scorning neutrality though pre-
viously repulsed by us, was our open
ally against Spain, and in supplying us
with a half way house to the Philip
pines. rendered the republic valuable
military service.
1t was inconceivable even before his
emphatic denial that the President
with his strong sense of fair play
would hastily and inconsiderately and
without notice deprive of executive
control of Hawaiian affairs the men
OF the provisional government and
turn the Islands over to the royalists
and carpet baggers, something that no
power short of that of the United
States could accomplish, as the records
of Hawaii demonstrate.
The President is anxious that the
Hawaiians and the men of the proyi-
sional government should work in bet
ter harmony for the welfare of the ISL
ands. In bringing about the desired
result it is necessary TO recognize that
Governor Dole with his veto power has
been the sole protection of the Islands
against the attacks of a home RUE ma
tive Legislature, elected in part on the
platform Of the restoration of the
queen, and prolific in wild and corrupt
schemes that threatened the prosperity
of Hawaii. Wise harmonizing will be
directed TO the labor of reconciling the
natives more and more to republican
and white control: not to the over
throw and humiliation of the long-res-
ident whites, and the enthronement of
royalist natives, with carpet-bag prime
ministers.
So far as Governor Dole personally is |
concerned, he has never scrambled Ell |
Their to secure the office or to retain it. |
The slightest indication of conclusion
on the Presidents part that it might !
be for the welfare of the Islands for
him to give way to younger and phys |
ically saronger man would meet with |
immediate and ready response. The |
suggestion that the President confer |
with Governor Dole upon the wisest |
lines to be followed in the government |
OF Hawaii is sensible and practical. Mr.. |
Dole's place is so well established in |
Hawaiian and American history, and |
his relationship to the gubernatorial |
office is of such a character, that there |
would be no embarrassment and prob !
ably much good for Hawaii if the Pres |
ident. desiring a change for reasons |
which did not discredit Mr.. Dole. |
should frankly consult him as TO the |
best man to succeed him as governor |