Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 235, 5 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

It is rather amusing to see the hysteria into whieh some of the republican papers go when they discuss the possibility of Cleveland restoring Queen Liliuokalani. "Just like him" they say "to work against republican principles and choke off the young Hawaiian republic in its bud." Great Heavens! do these papers know what they are writing about? Do they realize that the alleged republican bud is a blossom of the worst form of a military despotism which can be imagined in this century. That the government has closed themselves up in the centrally-situated Palace building and that from there they propose to rule, surrounded by cannons and soldiers, these Islands without fulfilling the very first of all republican principles, that of showing that thcy represent the people. Do they know that this remarkable bud, if it was allowed to grow into the fullgrown flower, on the lines it now indicates, would he a worthy sideshow to the Russian Government of fifty years ago. The motto and device of this budding republic would properly be 'the people be damned' and the damning wouldn’t be done with open doors either, or over and above board, but in secret sessions on the Star chamber plan into which not even their own newspaper reporters can penetrate. And this specimen of a republic altogether depending on the hired mercenaries who might remain faithful until a higher bidder for their services appears, it is claimed should be the special object of the kind solicitude of the American Government. This unknown botanical genus should be nursed carefully in the hothouse of Uncle Sam and be called a sister-repub-lic to that great republic whieh is built and founded on the recognized liberty of the people to selfgovernment. And the press opposed to the Cleveland administration should seriously contend that a government like the one with which Hawaii is saddled, should be made permanent under American protection against the openly declared protest of the large majority of the Hawaiian people. There have been many funny features in the different phases of the Hawaiian incident, but the tender anxiety for the provisional bud is about the climax of the farce. How very little it takes now-a‑ days to sooth the despondent soul of the annexationists. Their morning organ is in great jubilee over a Washington despatch whieh has appeared in the Boston Transcript, and which claims that there is some prospects of a protectorate being declared over Hawaii and more especially over the provisional government. And that is what the Advertiser has come to since January the 17th. From all its crowing and bragging issues about the certainty of annexation and how the Senate would have to pass the treaty before the Harrison administration went out and then how Cleveland would have to adopt the policy of his predecessor and then how he wouldn't dare to haul down the flag or send a commissioner here, and then about the extra session of congress to be held in July to settle the Hawaiian question.

and afWr all lhese air castles had heeu destroyed and the braggiug and boaating ha<l heoome milder i and milder, thegreataunexation or- ; gan dnally eomee out wilh big head ' linea and seems ?atisfied by a very weak and unreliable prospect of a j>rotectorale whieh appeared in a 1 bogus despatch from \Vashington. ■ The Herald and the W‘>rld c«)rrespondents in \Vashington heard I about the rumor whieh caused the I despatch to the Boston Trau#rript ! but found it absolulely groundlee« uj>on an investigationand therefrom the fact that neither of those two great aud rehable papers contain anything about ihe proposed pro- • tectorate. In fact wecannot undersland how anybody who has folIowed eventa ean talk aboul Cleveland establishing a protectorate. an aelion whieh it has heen admit- * ted by the democratic as well as the repnblican press is totaily and absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of any president, and to perform whieh an act of congress would be necessary. But how is it that the annexationists suddenly declare themselves satisfied by not getting annexation? Dare we presume that annexation was but a minor ciuse for the late revolution and that the real object in th« affair was to obtain the reina of government and the offices for a lot of hungry office seekers? Dare we assert that the provisional governmeot feel that they could not continue permanently without a protectorate and that the prospects of such a move on the part of the U. S. fills them with joyful .visions of permanent government pap and continued power? We cannot judge otherwise from the tone of the Advertiser whieh ought to be ead and sorrowful, because the last and faint hope whieh they yet entertaiued of getting annexation has finally been shattered. Mr. DoIe stated in the eouneil that ail he knows about the matter is from tiie Bogton Tramcrivt while Mr. Sewall, says that Mr. Dole t>)ld him that he (Dole) had official information to the effect that the an-nexation-negotiations were off— Mr. Sewall whe at first was very mueh abused by the annexationists, here has lately heeome a pcrsona grata because he gave out that he was the annexatit>n corresnondent to the Nrw Y rk Sun and Tribune. Last Fnday the ungrateful annextionists explained the contradictory statements of Mr, Dole and Mr. Sewall by claiming that the latter was drunk and didn’t snow what he was talKing about. There are a good many people in town tbough who think differently. It seems rather reraarkable that the Marshal should enter a nolle pros. in the case of Walker atter all the display of energy and vigor in catching him. We have several times insinuated that there was no particularly deve!oped anxiety on the part of the j»olice to catch the alleged opium-thief. and we to be confirmed jq » . . , ouspicions « 6nd ,h. Atu>rnev'*‘,ueral’s department unwilling to proeecute. lt was commonly reported that if Walker had opened his moutb some discIosures wou!d have eome out whieh would hav« hit in quarters whieh it eeema must ba protected at all bazards. But we did thmk that Marshal Hitchcock waa built of different material and that with him justice would be done even if—well never mind who felL We cannot aay tbat the reform administration in tbe poiioe department haa fulAUad aajoftha

miii_v promi?es whieh the Advertiser a!ways held out as an inducement to former g'vepnments to make a elean sweep in the Station House. The m* thods adopted by the present Mar»haī, are to say the lea?t unique. A!lowing and tolerating his o{tioer- breakmg the law for the purp*>?es of getling somebody else to do it and to make an arrest is something rather unheard of outside Hawaii. A case has just heen closed against s >me women who were charged w-'th keeping a disorderly house. Tbe arresting officers admitted during the case that they had odended and broken the law just as mueh ae the arresled woupn. but they evidently considered th il it is perfectly legitimate for an officer to commit ad iltery if he thereby is ab!e to prov£ his partner in the crime guiltv. And the officer moreover stated that h a aclod so under instructions from the Marsbal. Neitlier the Marshal nor the presiding judge seems to think that anything irregular or objectionable had Leen done and they have succeeded in establishing a precedent the resu!ts *>f whieh it is irapossible to foresee. The crown-jewels are yet out of sight, but evidently not out of mind. as somebodv is now busy proving that they were paste. They were bought, if we remember rightly by Oolonel Judd and an investigation might be of some interest. The parties Who stole them, undoubtedly believed that they were genume or they wouldn’t have run the risk, but we should think that it would be a better plaij for the Marshal first to catch tne jewel8 and whatever eolonel sto!e them, and then later on investigate the stutf they are made of and the eolonel who bought thom. The Star prints au alleged interview with a member of the last Legislature ; n whieh the latter is claimed as saying that Mr. J. A. Low’s report tothefinancecommittee was suppressed by E. C. Macfarlane and the Royalist [sie!) raajority of the said committee. It is a pity that the honorable (?) gentleman, who tells that lie to the Star, has suppressed his oame from the iutcrview, because we would like to knovr what member of the wou!d be eapahle uf. not alone preferring such a malieioua accusation against a coI1e*gne in the Legislaturt, but also willing to air his absolute ignorance of the polilieal situation in the last assembly. The Star writer is as usually imposed on and nobody ean biame him fur being ignorant of the polilieal matters iu Hawaii; but we shall with the benevolent willmgness to teach the ignorant, socharacteristic of ua. tell the Star and its “unnanaeii memb«ir of the Legislat'ipj”' the trutb and the wbq' 4t , ( f uth. ar — were j D pj aCe no “Royaiista” in the last Legislature, or rather ali members were royalists. but the members were classified uoder tbree distinct parties, the Nalional Reform Party, tbe Reform Party, and the Liberals. Accordiog to the P. C. Adverti»er, the Reforui Party’s organ—Mr. Akina. the member from Waimea, Kauai, waa a membar of tb« Reform Party, a sta tement whieh occaaionally was denied by the other parties, but how ever that wa*, the fact remained, that Mr. Akina dunng tbe greater part of tbe aeaaion **voted with Baldwin.” £ven thea if Mr. Macfarlane and Koahou were membere of tbe Nattonal Reform P«rty, th« Befionn

Party with Baldwia, Thurston and j Akina. cerlainiy had the majority j in the eommiUee. The report of j Mr. J. A. Low was nat iraliy hand- j evi to Mr. Baldwin the chairman of j the eommiuee. who emoloyed Mr. ! Low, and it was lett f>r him t>> use ■ wh:it portions he con- dered valu ableofthe repv>rt and eliminate whatever statements āpiie.ired to him to be unfoundeil and Mr. Low s suggestii»ns regirding tue runutng of ihe d!tferent deoartments f>r whioh he havl not been asked. T’ae idiocy in supposing lhat Maefarlaue would supt>ress anything damaging l>> the eihiuei then m power is well i!lustrated by t!ie \ I fact, that he, as well as Baldwin, I Thurst>»n and Aiini, voted agvinst , the cabineton the res«>lution >>f >vant of confidence The wholefinance c>>m miUee was in opposition to the Wule loann ad nmistr »tiou and everything whieh cuuld have been used as a weapon against the cabinet would have heen weloomeil, but neither Mr. Macfarlane uor Messra Baldwin and Thurston were so coii9tituted. that they wuuhl prefer oharges agiinst their opp menU whieh they could neither sustain n>>r find a shadow of reason for. Mr baldwin is in tovn, we believe, and we should suggest to the Starwriter to interview him in r<-gard to this raalter aml then see if he will nol second us in cailing the Star’s unnamed member of Ihe Legislature a cowardly liar. Where was the ever vigilant poliee a few days ago when something very suspicious hapj>ened in that little Alahele Kuikawn whieh runs from Emma to Punehhowl Streeta? We do not know if it was another dynamite conspiracy, but it wouid bc interesting if the two young annexation Iadies who jumued the fence from that lane would explain what they were doing in that unearthly quarter at such unearthly hour. Did anything exj>lode or wis it only an ordiuary every day scare?