The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-30
Town Talk And Garter

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San Francisco Town Talk, in its
current number, has the following con-
corning Hawaiian politics:
Just about as the sugar planters
had made up their minds that Cover
nor Garter was the man they wanted
for another term as governor Of Ha-
wall" says my Honolulu correspon-
dent, lit was announced (unofficially
but none the less convincingly), that
Carter would not be reappointed. Two
years ago Carter announced that he
had resigned. He went to Washington.
had an interview with the President,
withdrew his reslgnation-if he had
ever rendered it-announced that he
was a changed man and took up the,
gubernatorial burden again. The tip
then was that at the suggestion of the
President he was going to serve out
his term of office. Last November he
gave out several interviews the burden
of which was that under certain cir
cumstanCes he might accept a second
term. This was accepted by the COM
munity as an intimation that he would
seek reappOintment. About the same
time it became known that the plant
ers, who had not always been satisfied
with him had made up their minds that
he was the most satisfactory man for
the place so far as their interests were
concerned and that they would use all
their influence to secure his reappoint-
ment One of the incidents accepted
by the discerning as most conclusive
of the attitude of the planters was the
action of H. E. Cooper. About this
time Cooper, who has been a perennial
candidate for governor, announced that
he was no longer an aspirant for the
office. After continuous office holding
almost from the time he arrived here
fifteen or sixteen years ago until about
three years ago, he retired to practice
law. Since then he has been employed
by planting interests in a number of
cases in which his official experience
was of value notably in the recent
deal by which the Island of Lanai was
traded off. These employments were
looked on as putting him in a position
where he would know what the plant
ers wanted, and when he announced
that he was no longer an aspirant for
the office of governor he was credited
with knowing that the planters had
fixed on another man.
A FRIEND OF THE PLANTERS.
Carter has not always been satisfac-
tory to the planters. He is an impul-
sive man, and where his own interests
are not involved, a man of generous
impulses. After holding back for a
good while he finally accepted the
Presidents announced policy of maxi
ing this an American territory instead
of planters oligarchy, and it looked
for time as though he purposed up
setting some of the planters plans
But his ardor cooled off, and after he
had given away some remnants of pub
lie lands that included about four hun
dred acres of fine cane land and the
site Of the entire village of Waianae to
the Waianae plantation, and had trad
ed off some forty-seven thousand |
acres of public lands on the Island of |
Lanai to another opulent interest. the |
planters came to believe that he was [
not after all so anxious to bring in a
white population to settle the public
ands as they hpd feared he was. and
renee their willingness to accept him
Is governor for another term Now it
$ all off again. The conjecture is that
he tip came from Washington that
fter his break about being willing that
lis daughter should marry a Japanese
lie was no longer on the list of eligi.
les: that there would be too much
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