The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-07-25
GOVERNOR GLAD
TERM IS OVER
Will Welcome His Successor and
Return 70 Private Life After
Twenty-one Consecutive Years
of Office Holding-New Govern.
or Will Find Business Cleared
Up for a New Deal.

News of the nomination of l.. r..
Pinkham by President Wilson for Gov.
ernor Of Hawaii was received with
feelings of relief by Governor Frear
yesterday and when questioned about
the nomination he showed considerable
pleasure over the fact that the day had
at last dawned for a nomination to be
made.
81 have been little anxious of late
lest my successor should not be ap.
pointed in time so that he might take
office by the middle of August or Sep.
TENDER |, at the latest, so that could
leave the position. ] wish to be re.
lieved by the end of August at the lat.
est, as l wrote the President last
March.
"The appointment of Mr.. Pinkham
does not come as a surprise to me, -
continued the Governor. az hope to
have things in shape for him before the
end of thu coming month, ana ! hope
he will arrive here and be ready to
take the office before the end of next
month, since | have no doubt this nomi
nation will be confirmed by the sen.
ate.
$50 far as / am personally con
| cerned, ! would like to retire from office
Immediately, but j have thought and
felt it would be to the interest of my
successor and the Territory that tn,
change should take place about tn,
middle or end of August so that tn,
work of the last biennial period should
be cleaned up and reports written fol
the year and so that my successor
should start in with a comparatively
clean sheet and with his own program
81 wish him every success and hop,
the people of the Territory will accorC
him all appropriate assistance in tn,
execution of the duties of his office. ;
Future Plans.
Speaking of his plans for the future
Governor f'rear said: 81 expect to re
turn to the practise of law and lool
forward with pleasure TO the chang,
from nearly twenty.one consecutive
years of official life. +"
On August 10 of this year Governo
Frear will conclude his sixth year a
Chief Executive of the Territory HI
was appointed by President Roosevelt
to succeed Ex-Governor George Il. Car
yer. and took Office on August Is, 1907
Governor Frear has, consequently
served under three administrations
those of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson
When Governor Frear was 7appointe,
to the Hawaiian governorship he wa
chief justice of the supreme court o
Hawaii, prior to which he had bael
an associate justice of the same court
Governor Frear was also member o
the United States Commission whicl
drafted the Organic Act of the Terri
tory.
While no definite statement has bee
made to the effect, it is rumored tina
the Governor will, upon his retirement
become member of the law firm o
Prosser, Anderson & Marx.
Frear Could Have Stayed.
1t is now no secret that Governo
Frear is having Office of his own az
cord, the position having been pract
cally offered him on a reappointmen
by the Wilson administration. Govel
nor Frear made it very plain, howevei
that he was not a candidate for real
pOntment and that he very much do
sired to be relieved of his position b
not later than September l.