Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 25, 30 January 1894 — CORRESPONDENCE [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE

[W( <V> ik>: hoJ 1 oane)!» rcspoa«b!e fw tbe opiii oa* or tbe of oor coirapondeBU.] | Editob Holojcta: Yestertlay (Jan. 29th>, the , Jdirrfr«Tcontainedthefollowing clipping pnrporting to bo from tbe Washingt'>n St‘>r: — Under date Nov. 19. 1893. Mr. Willis transmits au es.planation and apolog\- of Mr. Charles Creighton for pntting Mr. Bloant’s name on a eane presented to Claus Spreckles.— As I ani not aware of any snch paf>er as an “apology" being in ! existence. I fail to see where the Star man got his information from. As a matter of fact I declined to tender the “apology” reqnested by Mr. Dole and since tben, I have heanl nothiug : forther on the snbject. As I have the origmal correspondence . in mv possession. I may presnme to contradict the Siars stateraeut. Chas. Creiohtox. Honoluln, Jan. 30th, 1S‘J4. I I Editoi: Holomua: I see in the of Jan. : 8, a remarkable pieee of news : headed, iu very l.irge type, { | “Humakua Royalists Plot!” The ne\vs is saiJ to be \vritten by a j gentleman (?) to oue of his cor- ; respondents iu Houoluln. And . what is it all about? A few Ha- i waiians attend a luau given at ; Waipio, at a private faraily gathering, in honor of a domestic event, and in no way connected with politics. Three meu are ■ ( [>icked out from among the guests ; to be shot at, men who havo been j • 7 I i fri«nds for many vears, men who i •/ m are nombered among the well-to-do Hawaiians, and like raost Ha- i : waiiana, are fond of a luau. It ; i soems a shame that a few Hawai- j ians cannot assemb!e at a feast | without some malicious indivi- | doal trying to make eapiial out j [ of it by calling it a “plot. ’’ Xo sane persoa conld for n inoment suppose that these three government officials, eveu if tbey j were lloyalists, whieh I very mueh doubt, wouhl be so foo!ish to attend any g.theriag in direct oppositiou to the policy of the ! Goverument thev have sworu to • support. What has Mr. T. H. Davies to i do with all this! Why shonld 1 his muue be introduced at the ■ samo time as tbis luau? Mr. i Davies visited Hawaii simply on business in connection with his variousplantations, as I kuow, for a fact. he was not teu miuutes in Houokaa. Tho paragraph about the deportation of Thurston and Bishop is enough to give the lie to the whole letter. Everyone who knows Mr. Davies will aeknowledge that he isthe last man to make such a stateiueut eveu in confideuce to his most intiuiate friend. Mr. Davies’ success in business here, a success, whieh has iuado him about the wealthiest man in this country today, is sufficieut guarantee that he knows a man when he soes one and could not possibly mistake oue for a *cur’ who could allow any secret be told him, to leak out. Mr. Geutleraau of Hamakoa: I you had better look after your coffee \vith your shot-gun and not bother about auy male of Waipio,! who h<>ids a Government job { and attcnds a luau. lf you had ; ouly t ikeu the trouble to fiud out ' for yourself, you would have learned that the poliiieal gathering was in the Waipio oliureh and thut neither of those three men you uame was present. Waipio.