The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-02
OP|N|ONS
ON HAWAII
acknowledgements
View Of Dole's
Enemies.


Courant. the paper edited by United
States Senator Hawley:
The agitation for the removal of
Governor Dole of Hawaii began. in
sense. before he was appointed: it has
| been going on ever since. without pause
or stay. Why?
That's an easy question to answer
| There isn't a worthless scamp in the
| Islands. native or imported, white.
black or brown, who doesn't hate San
ford e. Dole. first. for what he is; sec
ond. for what he has done, and. third.
for what he has prevented and is now
preventing. The son of New England
missionaries, educated at Oahu and
Williams College. upright lawyer and
just judge. conspicuous in the success
full defense of American civilization in
the Islands against Kalakaua and Ka-
lakaua's successor; head of the proyi-
siOnal government and president of the
republic he has been a large part OF
recent Hawaiian history. But for him
and his friends Hawaii would not have
been today an American territory. They
stand for what there is Of decency and
stability. of intelligence and political
conservatism, in those Islands. Array
ed against them are al the forces OF
vice, disorder and greed-the semi
heather Kanakas who haven't taken
the trouble to learn English, and who
WOulQ restore lne anu tiiS
witch doctors tomorrow if they could;
the nativeApolitician, who flatters and
befools these grown-up children for his
own profit: the white carpet-bagger
who hurried to Honolulu, after the an
nexation, with dreams Of power and
pelf in his head, and who finds San
ford &. Dole in his way. Pressure was
brought TO bear upon William Mckln-
ley, unsuccesSfully, to restrain MIN
from appointing Mr.. Dole to the Terri
torial governorship. Pressure is being
applied to William McKinley's success
sor to bring about Mr.. Dole's removal.
and there are some indications that II
will be successful. The carpet-bag NAL
contents have friends in Congress and
in the Republican National Committee.
OF course. Mr.. Dole's resignation is
perfectly at the Presidents service.
He is fifty-eight, a sick and tired man;
the burdens of office have been heavy
for him; he has borne them from
sense of public duty, and not because
of ambition. But Sam Parkers in
auguration day-if il is to come to that
will be very serious day for the
reputable Americans of Hawaii.
The politicians of the Home Rule
party. native and imported, have
well-developed hunger for place and
salary. The setting up of county and
municipal governments in the Islands
would mean, for one thing, places and
that purpose was passed by the Terri
torial legislature at it's recent ridiculous
session. Governor Dole quietly dispos-
ed of il with a. pocket veto. Another
bill on the same lines now turns up at
Washington. Its passage would slgn1-
fy something much more serious than
the multiplying of petty offices and
emoiuments. ut means" remarks the
leading Honolulu newspaper, 1.-The de-
livery of the public and to large ex-
tent the private interests of 5000 white
voters and of perhaps 1000 native and
half-native voters of intelligence and
capacity, constituting the owners OF
the property and OF the business OF the
Hawaiian Islands, into the hands OF
the degraded and irresponsible section
of our Polynesian race whom Congress
so prematurely enfranchiSed. Unfor-
tunately, the needless politicians at
Washington who committed that first
stupid and wicked blunder are quite
capable of committing another.
MUCH POLITICAL ADVICE.
The following is from the Washing
ton Star:
President Roosevelt is receiving much
information and advice relating to po-
litical and other conditions in Hawai-
Ii is coming in all kinds of shapes. the
result of recent publications that the
administration of Gov. Dole might be
overturned in favor OF new set of
people. Nearly everybody in Hawaii
is described as politician. This, add
ed TO an intense political situation,
causes the White House mails to be
full of letters both from Hawaiians and
from people in this country more or
less familiar with affairs there. Mem
bers OF Congress are becoming inter
ested, and are going to the President
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