Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 159, 10 July 1894 — MORE MISREPRESENTATION. [ARTICLE]

MORE MISREPRESENTATION.

An item in the W'i*hingto , n Star shows the mnnner in whieh the sitnation in Hawaii has been represented or rather misrepresented bv Araerican officials. From the tenor of the paragraph of whieh Admiral Walker is snpposed to be the father, it appears as if Dole “won” a contested election, and gained a “working majority” in the constitntional convention. while we all know that Mr. Dole was elected by himself, that the convention eonsisted of his creatures on!y, and that there was noopposition what ever. Tbis is what the “inspire<l” I Star savs: DOLE WDfS THE ELECTION. The acting §ecretary of the navy has received a long dispatch from Admiral Walker, commanding the naval forces at Hawaii, in whieh he says that the election for delegates’to the constitutional conveution passed otl qnietly, and that the snpporters of the provisioual government secured a fair working majority. At the date of the report order prevailed in all parts of tbe islands. If Liliuokalani or her adhorents contemplated on the eve of the election knowledge of the eonspiracy had not boen obtained bv the officers of the American tieet. It seemed clear to Admiral Walker that the prograra of the provisional goverument as mapped out in earlier advices from Hawaii wouM be carried into execution. The Japanese had made somewhat vigorous demands that the}' should have the right of sutfrage in the islands, but there was no apparent disposition in the part of the provisiona! governmeut to grant such a concession. More recentlv these demands bave grown less earnest, and the departure of one of the Japanese cruisers for home waters might lead to the conclusiou that no further serious attempts to euforce them would be made.