Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-10
WHO WAS ENDORSED?
tIIilo Tribune.1

Despite the sweeping endorsement
given to the Dole administration by
President Roosevelt, there is yet wide
leeway for The Tribune's belief, that
the First American obtained from the
Grand Hawaiian Oligarch a quid pro
quo for the favor. Already, the dis
patches say, that Roosevelt requested
of Dole that he support municipal gov
eminent in Hawaii. The dispatches
also say that Mr.. Dole explained his
past antipathy to such step and
promised cooperation in the future.
Whether the dispatches are bona fide
or not, The Tribune will continue to
believe that Theodore Roosevelt by no
means endorsed Governor Dole's past;
he merely gave him chance in the
two years more of crowning his life
work by making the Territory of Ha-
wall an American Territory in reality.
II Dole promised to do so. as he natu-
rally would II he will endeavor to full
fiji his promise, as his advisers seek to
prevent, The Tribune will render him
every available assistance and cooper
alton
The Tribune believes In Theodore
Roosevelt. whether he be a COW punch
or in the desert. Rough Rider in Gu
ba Chief Magistrate in the White
House or a guesser at the 14-l5 puzzle
of Hawaii and the Philippines. Roose-
welt would sooner pluck out an eye
than endorse a grey beard in Hawaii
If he knew such endorsement meant
the continuance of paternal rule and
favoritism in distant province.
We do not believe that Roosevelt en-
dorsed Dolesm: we believe Dole en-.
dOrsed Roosevelt and promised tn
faithfully execute his maIly ideas OF
government in this Territory. We are
willing to wait and abide by this be-
lief and faith. II Vt is not well found.
ed time will tell.
II time proves that the Americanism
of Roosevelt Is incapable of transmits
sion to the islands of the Pacific, II
will also be proven that Roosevelt is an
adventurer at home. If he is an enemy
10 Hawaii. he is an enemy to America
and faithless to the Republican party
which has honored him for his siren.
uous activities in its ranks.
The Tribune does not believe that
there is in the make up of Roosevelt
the faintest modicum OF policy or tainI
of the self-seeking politician. To al
appearances he may have pleaded gull
~ to all the charges of imperialism
ever preferred against the Republican
party. But the end will show that
Rooscvelt's Imperialism is the i'm
perialsm of equal rights to all mer
under the American flag. Roosevelt's
! Imperialism must mean that even thu
| officials of Hawaii, the Governor
/ Judges, the Attorney General. the High
Sheriff. the sheriffs and their deputies
are the servants and not the lords oi
the people-otherwis Roosevelt vii
come to be an irridescent dream, Il
| neeting memory.
Is reason wanted? Then II is this
There is no state of semi-martial law
IN Hawaii. as in the Philippines to war
rant rigorous or arbitrary official ac'
ton. BY solemn enactment of Con
gress. the Hawaiian and every either
of the Republic OF Hawaii who coult
read and write the English language
have been granted the inalienabl'
rights vouchsafed by the American
constitution.
If Dole, Governor. II Dole, Attorne!
General, II High Sheriff Brown o.
Sheriff Andrews or the commonest po
lice subordinate continue as in the
past, to interpret their commission o
Office to mean the bestowal of the mace
of kingship: the badge emitting then
to choose their favorltes, they mus
listen to a verdict greater than tn
voice of Roosevelt. That verdict Is tn
expression of the American people oil
question of fair play