Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-27
Delegation to st. Louis Con-
vention Instructed for Hearst.
THE ROYALIST PARTY
PUNISHMENT OF DELINQUENT
OFFICIALS DIFFICULT.
Native Opposition to Conviction OF
Their Own People - Industries
Awaiting Development

Special Correspondence Of The Evening star
HONOLULU. June IA. 1904.
The democratic party In this young ter
ritory OF Hawaii has just sgnalized Its
wisdom, or prowess. or whatever virtue may
be Indicated, by sending to the nauonai
convention a delegation strictly instructed
&c vote for Mr.. Hearst. The party hltherto
has been no weighty factor In the pontics
Of Hawaii The great majority OF the
whites have heretofore supported the re-
publican party, in the interests OF Ameri-
canism OF the natives. constituting ma
jority of the voting citizens, the larger
half have formed the home rule, or royanst
party in sympathy with tie old monarch!'
opposed to American rule, and seeking 10
give native sentiment the performance.
But latterly and partly in consequence
o! the death of their leader. Wilcox. the
late delegate to Congress. this home RUE
party has disintegrated. small portion
only has united with the republicans. a
majority of them have come out as demo
Gratis. They have probably niue ueiiiii.e
conception of any political principles VI
that panty. any more than nave the heMis
errived immigrants ct Ellis Island. VINO
toin II Ell masse. They know, however
that President CLEVELAND was a democrat,
who opposed the annexation OF iiawa,a a ,i,i
tried 20 replace Queen L!liuokalani on the
throne in 1898. And this REMINDS me 10
say that these democratic natives pau
their especial respects last week 10 'he OK
queen who had just returned 1hes arc
still Thoroughly royalist at heart, winch Is
rot at all to their discycdit, although UNI
American.
s,nns there was no especial friction or
lack of harmony. Delegates were duiy
selected. A platform was adopted COZ
tanning the requisite roasting OF tue re-
publican party and of the tesrltorlai gov
any definite enunciation of democratic
principles, which may perhaps De reliiE
devoid of definiteness or importance. but
near the end the proposition was sprung
upon the convention to positively instruct
the delegates to vote for Mr. Hearst rms
at once met with the most emphatic OPP
position from most of the white demo-
Gratis who had so long and faithfully
chung to their party during the years OF
its insignificant numbers. But their voices
went for nothing. The natives had been
primed for Hearst and would hear moth
ing to the contrary. Opposition to posi-
tive instruction was useless The ma
jority stampeded for Hearst. The faith
full old democratic warriors were left IA
menting and dismayed. l regret to have
no definite clue to the motives animating
the action Of the natives. There seems to
be no evidence of the presence of bar
rel" although there was very active
agent named Kidd, who swung them
swiftly into line. One might surmise that
the natives mainly desired to down the
Quate solution of what was clearly an or
ganized arrangement
Extensive Land Frauds.
There has lately been a series of very
unpleasant developments of fraud in the
government land office AS first reported,
the entertainments are believed to be be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Later investi-
cation leads TO the belief that they will
reach 100000. The frauds have been go
ing on for some years. Two officials have
been arrested. one Il native clerk named
Mahaulu, the other a lately removed land
commissioner. E. s. Boyd, who had been
at the head of the land office. Boyd is
half white, who was one of the appointees
forced upon Gov. Dole by the legislature
few years ago. There was in the office
defective system of keeping accounts.
through which the delinquent officers
were enabled to evade previous investiga-
tions made both by the public auditor and
by legislative committees. The frauds l
believe, consisted largely in emitting to
credit upon the books moneys received for
rentals of land The present commission
er. in demanding payment of supposed de-
hnquent dues. was confronted with office
receipts for the same of which no record
existed on the books At any rate the
government has lost some $50, 600 which
IL mas no prospect of recovering. This Is
an amount which would give material re-
lef TO the present depletion of the treas
ury.
l regret to add that there Is little pros
pect that the delinquent officials can be
punished for their populations There
exists at present a strenuous and deter
mined opposition in native social circles to
the punishment for official delinquency OF
any OF their own people 1t is consequently
practically impossible to secure conviction
by jury. however strong and positive the
evidence. This state of things was clearly
svinced only few days ago. A jury stood
hung seven to five for the conviction of a
member of the legislature and the clerk of
the same body for fraudulent action in
concert where the evidence was point
blank against them. 1t was we'll under
stood that certain jurymen were too close
" allied to native ladies and her kindred
70 face the bitter obloauy of oonvicting a
ed officials will doubtless be indicted by a
grand jury. The evidence against them
will be unanswerable. But the petit juries
will not convict them.
The part white gentlemen on those juries
and the men with native or part white
wives will not have the courage to fulhn
eible to exclude men from the juries upon
the ground OF native Affiliations In alleg-
Ing the prevalence of such a sentiment In
native social circles I write from positive
knowledge that the current universal sem
timent among their ladies is that the
whites are animated by disposition to
prosecute native official delinquents, and
that such persons must on no account be
convicted. These women are fully able to
make their influence felt. and their men
Will not earn their displeasure.
Leniency to Natives.
II is due to these women to say that there
is some appearance of ground for their so
feeling. The prevailing opinion among
whites II that Hawaiians as a rule are
Dot TO be trusted TO handle money and
ehould not commonly be indicted into Of
Aces of pecuniary responsibility. In hardly
any private business house are they in
trusted with the handling of money It
mot mn IN iraf frfa hot to
70 effect their exclusion from public flnan-
cial responsibilities tho whites will be anx-
$pus to punish their delinquencies. Yet I
DO not believe that such severe disposition
exists toward Hawaiians. On the contrary
the disposition is to deal with natives with
especial lenience for financial failings
knowing native society to be undeveloped
N Its moral sense in such matters 1t Is
Toward the fraudulent white man that all
would exercise severity. as having been
trained In society who're financial recti-
tude Is held TO be essential virtue Tire
white iaan sins against his habitual convic-
lions. and has little claim to mercy when