The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-06-17
+. AUSTIN'S
mission
-aa
Ills Plans Suffer a
Noteworthy
Change.

over the country IN MS planned cam
paign against the Missionary" party,
nor will he ondeavor 10 drive the Dole
ties over the Pail. A great wave Of
conviction has come over him. Where
as he had intended TO loose the hounds
of fiercest speech and denounce the
"Missionaries" from sbeol To breakfast.
he now will write a book.
Calmly and dispassionately he will
get down the political story of Hawaii.
point the moral. and adorn the tale
with half-tone pictures Of leading
Home Rulers. toss in, mayhap, a poem
or two, or word painting about the
houris of the islands. and publish all
these facts and fancies in a neat vol
ume at so cents per volume.
1T has been always a debatable
question with me-" said Austin yester-
day, as he lit the initial leaf of a fat
book OF cigarettes. as to whether my
forte was oratory or writing. True. In
speech am able to fortify the uttered
word with personal magnetism and
power of gesture. while with the pen
am limited to the effect can create
by the mere printed sentence. This
lacks the flashing glance of the eye.
I the subtle intonation and the force of
| the whole corpus which 1 make the
most OF when on the rostrum, but stili
| to one skilled in the adroit use of writ
ten language, there Ia perhaps an even
greater and more permanent impress
sion made by the logical and sequentlal
I argument received through the eye
alone.
"As informed you a fortnight ago.
! l had planned to lecture in all the i'm
! portant cities and towns of the coun-
try. I had engaged a manager and was
to begin my tour in San Jose. The
manager was no good. He went to
San Jose but spent his time swimming
and lecture. j went to San Jose and
spoke for 10 minutes in the Unitarian
Church"
but the San Jose papers said moth
ing about your appearance ] inter-
} posed.
"Yes. they were so busy with local
politics they overlooked me. But 1t
doesn't matter as have determined
to change my scheme. ! had started
out on a very radical course. but have
. had several talks with friends-Repub-
5 licans of California. who are very rich
and intluential-and they have per-
, suaded me that the campaign I had in
tended to make would injure the Re-
publican party
but you are not a Republican,"
I'm not Republican? I'm the
strongest and most influential Republi-
; can in Hawaii. My whole life has been
. given up to the Republican party. 1
u Illdut Two lOT IL III Ndhlot-
e mia when had my chain Of papers in
- Southern California. and have always
q been a consistent believer in the great
9 principles enunciated by Lincoln and
Mckinley. Even now | am planning
y the making of the Home Rule party
{ into the real Republican party.
1T is wrong to suppose that ! would
: not have gone to Washington in time
$ to see President Roosevelt before Dole
: arrived there, IL / had thought / could
nave prevented his being endorsed. Old
+ Franklin is man of many resources,
= and | would have managed to arrive on
time if l had thought it would avail.
I did express surprise at Roosevelt s
: action on my arrival here but / know
: now it would have been useless to try
o to have Dole ousted. 1t would be like
= butting against a stone wall. l have
e nothing personally against Governor
v Dole and would not injure him. 1t was
n only my deep consciousness and patri-
. otism that urged me to advise Roose-
welt not to retain him in office.
by the way. l met Dole in the street
c car awhile ago. l entered the car and
n sat opposite him. At first he ignored
d me, but when we went outside to smoke
e a cigarette he could not avoid noticing
me. / saluted him and asked after his
health. He was very chilly and gave
me n really CLASSY eye. / said nothing
more, as / felt that IL he did not appre.
ciate the broad spirit which actuated
me. he was the loser and not j. This
= is not like Dole, for he usually does
] not carry the asperities OF political
feelings into his private life. felt thai
l had done my Christian duty ant
T. could not blame myself
y Il understand that Dole believes anC
i has said that the Republicans ar,
growing in strength in Hawaii, anC
that there is n very good chance fol
/ This is so palpably foolish l don't car
- TO dilate on it. Robert Wilcox will b'
4 elected to Congress sure. and at leas
two-thirds of the Senate and Hous,
:, will be Home Rulers We are organic
v ed more strongly than ever"
a Who's we?" asked L.
why, the Home Rule party"
10 Where's your Republicanism?"
:, There you are" said Austin, "ir
:, your coarse, unseeing way. The HON,
= Rulers are the majority in Hawaii Tit
majority here are Republicans; FOR
!, tori and by the eternal, the Hom'
u Rule party is the real Republican part.
. of Hawaii. l shall contend in my forth
"a coming book that the Home Rule par
W ty should be allowed to reorganize tn
y Republican party of Hawaii, and I
V have the sole right To that name. Min
- you, not to have the Republican part.
organized for them, or for any haole
to try to boss them. We will accom-
" plish this some day.
81 MY book will contain about 5000
~ words and will be neatly but not gaud
III lily bound. l will send one to ever
~ editor in America and will put them o
% sale in Hawaii"
re But you won't make much none
VI by giving them away and selling ther
u only in Hawaii, said l.
e Il am not after money. l am enun
AT ciating principles. IL | aspired 70
money l would have devoted myself
u commerce and not to literature. ! hav
always held that brain power is tn
~ superior of money. When my bi
IN. scheme failed in the eighties, l resign
a. ed all lust for gold. In the last fe'
>, days | have been thinking that perhap
- I might make a million or two just
~ show these rich Hawaiians who jest q
''' me that can amass wealth II i direC
r. my talents that way. I wouldn't max
ne Il in sugar either. How? don't car
ns TO tell. Sufice IL TO say that ] SO desir'