Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-04-14
DOLE TELLS EXAMINER
VIEWS ON HUMPHREYS

San Francisco, April 1.-The Exam.
liner says:
Governor Sanford y. Dole of Hawaii
reached here on the steamer Sierra
yesterday.
Time was when the coming OF the
rulers Ot Hawaii caused stir. The
bands played. The military arm of the
Government stretched forth glad,
perspiring hand. There was show
al gold braid and flunkeyism.
Yesterday Governor Dole arrived in
democratic simplicity. There was no
band no braid, no welcome to the city.
| He came in like the ordinary globe.
trotter from out the sea. He was held
with the other passengers while the
quarantine doctor made a weary in.
speCtion of suspected steamer. He
came up from the steamer on a tug
! like the other first cabin passengers.
| That was his only distinction, and he
shared 1t with seventy.five or more:
for the second cabin and steerage pas.
sengers were taken over to quarantine
in the steamer-all men being UNEQUAL
before the law in our ridculously quar-.
antine form of government.
But Governor Dole's baggage had to
be Inspected and he had to wait for
! II. There was no hack burning at
anybody's expense in anticipation of
his coming. General Young sent no
aide'dc.camp to bid him welcome. Gov.
ernor Gage made no pilgrimage to the
wharf to extend to him a fraternal
| hand. Mayor SChmitZ didn't bother
/ his head about mere island Govern.
Or
And yet when Governor Dole left his
island home the band Of his partisans
played. and his opponents said he
would be removed or forced to resign
as soon as he got to Washington.
There was the very devil to pay over
his departure; but when he reached
California there was no sign that the
continent wobbled or tipped.
All of which indicates that the fuss
In the islands is good deal of tea.
pot tempest so far as the rest OF Uncle
Sans domains is Nncerned; but 1t Is
very real and mighty down there. Gov,
ernor Dole, however. does not seem
like a man who would wade into a po-
litical scrap and lay about him indis
criminately unless the fight were fore.
ed on him. He Is mildness personified,
has no frills about him and talks OF
his opponents in the tone of plying
rather than that OF an acerbitous dis
putant.
why are you going to Washing.
ton?' the Governor was asked.
! Because President Roosevelt sent
for me-" was his reply.
Did he send for you at the instance
/ Of George r. Carter?"
Il suppose he did"
: rs Senator Carter for or against
. you?"
} Senator Carter always has been
! my friend"
2 Have any charges been fled against
you at Washington"
u have not been informed of any
charges-there has been no Official
communication to that eeffct."
rs any member of the party in Cd
position to you now at Washington? 2
mot that | nnow Of"
. Did any OF that party come on the
, steamer with your
! No. Judges Humphreys and GeaI
, were booked on the Sierra, but they
did not come. They said the booking
Ndo u june
How about Tom Fitch, the silver
. tOngued orator, who was on board 2
Il don't think Mr.. Fitch has been Ia
/ king any part in politics He told m,
) he was going to Southern California
5 10 look after some mining interests
and he asked me to do something fol
1 him in Washington concerning a qua
l no island between Honolulu and ia
pan"
What Is the real cause Of the DIFF
2 terences in the islands,"
$ Just here Governor Dole rose, sough
? his glasses from beneath his beard
5 adroitly swung their string around tn,
r flowing glory Of his face and studied
] the card which came with big bou
quet of rosebuds.
1 The real d...erence is that the out
| want to get in" said Lorrin A. Thurs
/. ton, who was Governor Dole's compan
r ion, and who is apt to say things will
! e snap.