The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-09

lin ,,rox,a more and more his eXcep-
tiopal character for it was he VINO
tempered Justice with mercy and kept
calm and imperturbable.
I2ecause Governor Dole's report OF the
situation did not cover all the eNiueheo' (
Mr. Cummins has asked you TO reopen
the question. Therefore you VIII hho
enclosed a monograph on the Cumniils
case in which is the actual eVlueiiCe
given by Mr.. Cummins before the coEi
martial after giving which ne pleaue''
guilty It was. therefore, uillleceS"ei'
to introduce other evidence, and in re-
viewing the case at this time II Is ii
nossible to ascertain the weight ana
raIua of further evidence, if any. How
ever. I do not think it is incumbent Oh
vour administration or mine to act as
! a court of review in this matter.
iconcur with Judge Dole in his concur
sion that to reopen these matters would
be impolitic.
/ All of the one hundred and ninety
oonyicrions (of which Mr.. Cummins
was one> were for acts committed unuer
tho Renublic of Hawaii and the ac-
cused were tried during a period Oh
j martial law by a military trlpullaf.
rrbev were acts in a drama which hao
bae,n with the overthrow of the MON
orchy on January II, 1898; the estap-
1:-hment of a provisional government
followed from that date until july f.
1894. when the Provisional Government
was succeeded by the Republic OF ma
wall: and on August II, 1885, the nd
vyaiiau flag was lowered and the Aliiei
} ;can flag was raised, signanZlnS the III 81
, 80, t,xyard annexation of the Terri
tory of Hawaii, an integral part OIL INC
Jrnited states of America. The case,
! +berefore primarily involves the ques-
= tion of the present Territory's respoh-
si!,ility for acts of the Republic OF nd
, wall. 1r+-
Won are aware at the State Depart
noent in Washington there are cIdliil'
:. flied by foreign subjects against tne
: Republic of Hawaii for certain Oh LIS
. acts during this very period, and the
. state Department has not yet cohceueo
that our government is respohsiple'
, Mr.. Cummins states that ne can nv
= cot over the stigma of being punished
i for the crime of treason. VI 'iie oi's
q hundred and ninety persons convicted
: by the military tribunal IN 'anu1 ao'
and February. 1895, large nuiiloei
!, mn A Cummins included) are TO-DAY
GOOD and loyal citizens of this Ierrl-
a tory and do not believe, puoll'
@ oninion now condemns them as Grim
e mails Among a certain element OF TINS
Y community they are still, perhaps non
= ored as martyrs to a lost cause
d Of all those convicted. the first to p'
= shown executive clemency was MT
}, T,,1mmfns himself, in that his sentence
g was commuted by relieving him OF har'
n labor. then finally by Imprisonment
l. s,,biect only to the payment OF q me
Re OTHER prisoners convicted by this trl
It bunaI were sentenced to both fine am
imorisonment, but none were aiIo"e'
the privilege of release from lmpFisoli
mint bv the payment of tine. MI
IS Cummins accepted this ana pala III
fine and it can not now be cldiiiie
that those in authority at that TIM
re- ala him an Injustice by allowing Mn
er - ascane the indignity and menta
1t r,efor;ne which confinement In ia
Is would hiring. Had Mr.. Cummins dc
1r o1;ned this offer of clemency ana sldi
in iaf il now appears that he, IKE III
others. would have undoubtedly pee
tnar6oned without the payment OF I'M
fine. But he preferred to pay the III
L. .,a can not now claim that course
have been injustice.
In the enclosed "Reminiscences OF III
oase the author 1ntlnaIeS theie "''0
reason for the withholding by Govern
h mr. Dole of the evidence given by Cum
q. Minis in Governor Dole's report on III
nv matter to the Secretary of the lhleiie
h in 1903. But let me assure you 'lie
n governor Dole's character is aoo'
IS. such innuendOes.
a. The pamphlet also intimates that
1e was financial distress on the part
Is the Republic of Hawaii which force
the payment of the fine-a charge
on ,,ranosterous that few would pay nee
at to it. ~, +h+- =.
~ The document winds up with TINS +
of rnarkable statement ..-
- "As long as he lives and TINS stisil
or remains on his name this old havana
inn chief should hang his head IN shain
n in the knowledge of the fact 'nal ne
NOV living under a government WI"
a. would stoop to rob citizen. As loi
a. he lives the Territory Of Hawa
s,3 the successor to the Republic OF ii
az wall will owe him the hVe 'Hous
,;nl, ho