Evening star., 1902-05-02
NEWS FROM HAWAII
Republican Victory in a ope-
cial Election.
ANTI-D0LE GAME UP
EFFECT OF ORIENTAL LABOR ON
THE ISLANDS.
Hawaii No Longer Offers Prosperity
to the Poor White
Man.
ANTI-DOLE GAME UP

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
HONOLULU. T. H.. April H. 1902.
The republican party has just won COM
plete victory in the special election IL the
fourth district. Honolulu. to select repre-
sentative to succeed the late a. T. Gillian.
1t won under a peculiar combination of
circumstances that illustrate in an inter-
esting way the strange mixture of island
politics. The winning candidate is mis-
sionary." a Dole man. and it seemed to
be generally conceded that he was beaten
until two days before the election. when
correspondent signing himself "Nindex
sent letter to the Advertiser. missionary
paper. which stirred things up all round
and undoubtedly had the effect of sending
many to the polls who would not have both
cred about it otherwise
Among the Dole element it was common
talk that the man nominated, w. w. Har-
ris. had been put up for defeat. The anti
Dole men were reported to be ready to
knife him. in order that they might point
to the result as another indication of Doles
unpopularity. It would have been another
something to point to evidence that the
republicans could not win with Dole at the
head of the government This is what Fln-
dsx wrote. His letter aroused great DEM
Onstration of Indignation among Dole's op-
ponents who emphatically declared 1t to
be untrue, but the resulting storm of ar
gument aroused the community and II
brought out the missionary vote as prop
ably nothing else could have done. The
friends of Dole went to the polls and voted
and Harris went in. The honor is an empty
one. for the legislature TO which Harris has
been elected will probably never sit again.
Dole has said that he will not call an extra
session. But the introduction of the charge
that the election was being used as an op-
TNFNTn lrY1y in cot cd
life into a dull canvass and enabled Harris
to beat home rulers and democrats fused.
The Removal Game Up.
Since Governor Dole was sent for to see
the President at Washington there has been
Q cessation of attacks upon him here. The
game of removing him is up, in the opinion
Of most enemies as well friends. though
there are still those who think that he was
sent for to defend himself and that he is
likely to be removed after he sees the
+ President. Dole will not be removed now,
said one of the most active and prominent
and one of the most powerful of his enc
mics here just after the summons to Wash
ington came. He will he able to explain
At Washington anything Roosevelt does not
understand
Governor Dole occupies unique position
In Hawaii Though ne is unpopular among
} the Hawaiians. as a natural result of his
! leadership in the revolution of 93. he is
! trusted and respected. They know that he
[
Interests, and they can appreciate the hon.
esty of his character and the singular dig
nifty and firmness of his course through
about two years of as constant, bitter and
Incorporate personal criticism it is the
! lot of many men to experience, even in
American public life.
Dole Not a Politician
Dole is a wretched politician" said one
of his admirers to the writer, 'and that is
tns only charge that will stick against him.
II he had been that kind of man he would
| have worked the home-rule legislature
| last spring and got what he wanted out Of
! 1T. Instead. he held aloof. contenting him
| self with sending messages. A little bit of
/ political wirepulling. little judicious use
! OF patronage-do not United States Presi-
dents do it?-and Dole would have smoothed
away political rows and made the present
| situation impossible. The men who are
| leading the Hawaiians in their present
i course against Dole have done nothing for
! them. They are only working them. How
much better Dole could have done 1t, with
/ the influence and power in his hands. He
would probably have been roasted for try
! ing to influence legislation and encroaching
! upon separate department of the govern
ment but he could have stood that better
: than the present row"
/ At present there is much discussion of
!. harmony in republican ranks One of the
primary conditions of union of the factions
+ is that there must be loyalty to the chief
executive named by the republican Presi-
dent. 1t is thought that if Dole comes
/ back as his friends and many of his enc
mics expect. with the Endorsement of Roose-
Welt there will be an end of the talk of re
+, moving him. and the two factions of the
party may be able TO unite and let the
/, sOvernOrship alone.
Chinese Exclusion.
As having bearing on the Chinese ex-
clusion debate at Washington some inter-
esting figures have been collected. showing
3 e, ~
: Hawaii. 1t is found that less than half of
: the thousands brought here to work on the
/ Plantations have remained laborers. From
} one end of the islands TO the other the small
! oriental storekeeper and the cheap oriental
/ skilled labOrer shut the white man ont
| and encroaches on every trade and pursuit
! except the plantation labor. for which they
/ Were brought to the country. For example,
| IN Honolulu and on the Island of Oahu
( Where Honolulu is, there are 130 dealers in
/ general merchandise in the Hawaiian direc-
/ tory, and only eleven of them are white
men OF firms.
The last census of Hawaii showed 10 600
+, Asiatics in the territory. The last reports
OF the Planters Association showed that
Only "-.vo or them are employed on plan
t%tlons. The rest are conducting small
| stores IN Honolulu or other towns; they
are mechanics OF all kinds doing work
cheaply and undertaking the whites at
every turn. Honolulu's population is under
/ G0.~p. native HaWaiians included and tho
( Asiatlcs who have left the canefields to, find
/ easy Jobs undertaking the whites in Homo
!uIu make up more than half of the popu-
: l&tion OF the city. Some domestics, and
I OF the Japanese a considerable number live
F. On the earnings OF women
Even on the plantations the competition
with whites has been felt. Many of the
japanese have learned to be engineers TO
an extent, as We'll as blacksmiths. ma
chlnists. etc, and they take places white
men look for in vain
The Plantations Crippled.
AT the same time the plantations are seri
ousiy crippled for lack of labor They
cannot get enough men to cultivate and
harvest their crops. Hawaii's OUTPUT of
sugar this year will be substantially less
. than 1t would have been had there been
b enough labor for all the plantations But