The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-14


subject Of sore perplexity at the
White House, and the president never
lived who could satisfy at once the APP
pdcants and the people whom they
are sent to rule. The national conyen-
tons usually enact resolutions declar-
ing that Territorial appointments
should be made from among. the citi-
gems OF a Territory, and the incoming
President. as rule, pays about as
much attention to the resolution as
the pig paid to the request of his
driver TO proceed in the direction of
Cork, when his porkship was headed
for Kilkenny. Delegate Mark Smith
of Arizona, who was a favorite with
Grover Cleveland, once called at the
White House to demonstrate against
a pending appointment of a stranger
from the East to a Territorial office
He reminded the President Of a reso-
luton OF the National Convention to
the effect that such appointments
should be made from Territorial res
idents. Mark" burst forth the bad
gered executive, go and read the rec
ords. Read the applications from Ar.
iZonans, and read the protests and af-
hdaVits against them, and if you can
find a single Office seeking Arizonan,
who on the showing made ought not
to be in the penitentiary, will ap-
point him. :"
To send acceptable strangers to a
distant Territory, as England sent her
ancient spinsters in the eighteenth cen
fury, around the Cape of Good Hope.
"for India and a market is a task
the performance of which Is not free
from difficulty. 1t is the lame ducks
who seek a chance to swim in distant
waters. 1t is the cripples of politics
who desire to carry their 1imps to-
new land. 1t is those who have been
discarded by conventions or who have
been beaten at the polls who seek the
Territorial offices. and Congressman
and Senators who have succeeded are
only too anxious to provide abroad
for those MANNED ones. who cannot
be provided for at home, and so the
Territories have often, in despite of
National Convention resolutions, been
made offaI heaps on which to deposit
the sweepings of eastern. caucuses.
A A A
Hawaii was freed from the blessing
or blight of nonresident appointments,
through the insertion OF Congress in
her Organic Act of a clause providing
that appointments should be made only
from those who had been three years
resident in the Territory This clause |
was not after all, an unmixed blessing,
because of local conditions never exist /
Ing in any other territory. There was !
not a man in Hawaii of sufficient abil- !
Ity or character to be fit for Terrific /
rial Office who had not actually either /
fought or favored annexation. Hawaii
did not come to the arms of Uncle :
Sam a blushing but willing bride. She /,
was married a la Sabine, with black
I'VE and a bloody nose for her trous-
seau. / am not proposing to discuss
mere or at this day the wrongs OF Lii
1okaIani. or the righteousness Of the
,cts of those who struck her crown
rom her head Hawaii is with US
low. for good and all, and rejoice,
S every American citizen ought to re-
dice, that the flag is there, however
t got there.
But the problem which annexation
reated ought not to be ignored IL
las ever been the policy of wise vic
ors to reconcile and not to frritate the
Rome made friends OF
10Th and Gaul by enrolling them un-
or her eagles and sending them to
ght in Africa. Diaz transformed cap
1red bandits into policemen by giving
nlistnert. Great men gain doubly
hen they make foes friends. Inc
.oyarnor and executive officers and
does of Hawaii had to be appointed !
ither from those who helped annex /
tion or from those who fought it, aId
between those two factions it VS. .
's;caI - was indeed, inevitable thu
- annexationists should receive tass
Iaces. q
Under all the circumstances, most
70 appointments were successes t
resent Circuit Bench averages Wen 2
= Independence and ability. The SUI
.eme Bench. although somewhat sat
.a+ed with the ideas of paternallsIi
.ouired under a monarchial govern
ont is reasonably fair, and is GER
inIv rigidIy honest, and Governor !
NV United States District Judge
,nford r Dole has surely most sue d
ssfuny steered his ship OF state =
ro,erb ,,exed waters. His successor,
Gorge r Carter. has his record 10 .
axe. He is a Yale graduate, =
Dad man, a lifetime resident Of Ho- ;,
zulu. and he possesses the confidence
his friends and the respect OF MS :,
emies. I,
A
Hawaiian legislatures and courts -
we followed California preeedehts IL
d California prejudices in dealing hi
N +ba chinese AS early as 1851 the "
n, me- court If California set the ii
- DoonIa vs Hall. reported in "