Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-02
T URMOIL IN HAWAII
GOVERNOR DOLE MAY REACH
WASHINGTON SUNDAY
Coming to Tell President of Political
Conditions in the Disturbed
Islands. i r

According TO the latest information re-
ceived in Washington from Hawaii Gov.
Sanford B. Dole was to leave Honolulu for
san Francisco in the steamship Sierra,
March %. 1t Is usually a run of seven
days from Diamond Head to the Golden
Gate, so that if on reaching San Francisco
Gov. Dole should proceed directly to Wash
ingtOn, he should arrive in this city in five
days. His journey to the capital is on the
invitation of President Roosevelt, who de-
sires to acquaint himself with the confused
political conditions which prevail in the
paradise of the Pacific
The Honolulu Advertiser of March II says
that the enemies of good government in
Hawaii are not gratifed that Mr. Dole is
TO nave an interview with the President.
They know, says that newspaper that
the counterfeit Dole whom they had manu-
featured out of their own prejudices and
spleen would be exposed as such, and that
In its place. revealed to the eyes of the
President or his Representatives, would
stand the impressive figure of the true Doe,
the man whose courage and virtue saved
Hawaii for the United States, and has kept
It's administration clean and pure The
true Dole they have tried to thrust into
the background and he has not cared to
struggle with them for position, but at the
summons of the President he will now
emerge and take his rightful precedence
How puerile the carpetbaggers the political
judges and hoi polloi of job-chasers will
look when Sanford b. Dole meets the out
Political Refugees.
The files of Honolulu papers make it
clear that much of the unhappiness of Ha-
wall is due to political refugees from the
mainland who have sought their fortunes
in the islands. The troubles in Hawaii
says the Advertiser of March is, came
with and from Office seekers who fiocked
hither during the transition period and not
from the substantial business and mission
airy classes, old and newcomers who are
represented by Gov. Dole's administration
The former have everything to gain and
nothing to lose by social and political tur-
MOL; the latter have everything to lose
and nothing to gain. Centered about Gov.
Dole are men with their stakes deep in the
soil; men who have wrought for good gov
eminent here during their lifetimes; men
who invited the American flag as guaran-
tee OF stability, honest rule and reasonable
progress. Opposed to them are old mon
archsts led by demagoguges in and
out of office. They control a portion
of the circuit court and use their powers
in promoting fractional strife; owing to the
Introduction to the suffrage of a mass of
voters who cannot read or write the Eng
fish language, and who have monarchist
sympathies, which demagogues play upon
they control the legislature; and they aim
under the plea of an advanced American
ism and the energizing of life" in political
affairs, to get hold of the supreme court
and the governorshp."
Punish Peace Breakers.
1t is declared by representative Americans
in the islands that as a condition precedent
to peace the disturbers of the peace must
60 One of the influential newspapers thus
puts the case:
Before the circuit bench, property is
longer safe; friends are rewarded and
enemies-even critics-are punished; the
community Is terrorized by judicial policy
of revenge; judges who are lawbreakers
themselves try to imprson among criminals
those whose sole offenses are embraced in
the protests made against them the jails
are opened to supply political heelers for
the next primary election; boy thieves are
freed by one judge on the ground, stated
plainly by himself, that he also would have
stolen at their age, and estates are ruined
by another because, as he says, he would
not be dictated to by a newspaper which
Joined the stockholders, bondholders and
creditors of such estates in suggesting an
act of common justice. Such things as
these have thrown this community into a
turmoil as they would any city of the land
The state of things in New York under
Tammany and the state of things here I'M
der the tyranny of unworthy courts differ
only in degree and not In kind. The only
hope of peace between such courts and in
dignant citizens is In the restoration of the
bench to juriSts and it's rescue from poll
ticians.
1T is not that Mr.. Dole seeks to retain
the gOvernorship; II is not that any bust
ness man among his friends is avid for the
meager pay and the large vexations of ter
ritorial office; it is that the people who have
to live here, and bring up their children
here; who look upon public office as a pub
lie trust, and not as private benetice;
who love President Roosevelt not more for
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