Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 3, 4 January 1894 — MR. W. G. SMiTH. [ARTICLE]

MR. W. G. SMiTH.

A Candidate for a Seat in k | the Advisory CounciI t i L The Adrertiser tbis morning states that Mr. Walter G. Smith ( | bas beeu endorsed a» a candidate ! for a seat in tbe Cooncils in case any vacancy shonid occur. We J heartily approve of that idea. 1 We know of nothing whieh could better tend to show the world the true inwardness of the revolution 1 in Hawaii-nei, carried ont by 1 i Hawaiian patriots (save the mark.) Mr. Smith has not yet lired a year in this country. He is an alien in the most intense meaning of the word. He may or he may not bave paid five dollars ($5.00) worth of taies and bv tbat magnificent contribution he is supposed to be entitled to a seat in the Legisi lative body of the conutry. Can anything better than this intended selectxon of Mr. Smith emphasise the filibustering character of the Hawaiian revolt? We do not think so. The endorsment of the annexation club aud ! the so-called Ameiie in League aud we snppose of tho German poliee officers who compose the international Leagne ought of course to cavry great weigbt. :We presume that tbe wealth, intelligence andrespectability of the country are embodied in these Leagues and their judgment of the qualifications of Mr. W. G. Smith to sit in a Hawaiian Legislative body is supreme. 13y all means let Mr. Smith be elected, to the everlasting rejoicing of Emmeluth and the other “radical” councillors who needs reinforcement. The Advertiser refexs to Mr. ' Smith’s former legislative oxperienee. Wo wonder if it is of mueh account. We noiiee a reference to it whieh appoared in the Rochester Chrcnicle of December 5th, but whieh perhaps also was writteu by “a personal eneni}’’ like the one who we notice Mr. Smith elaims, wrote bis biography in the Examiner. Wo reproduce the Rocīiester ChronicU , 8 remarks on Smith. Walter G. Smith, editor of tbe Hawaiian Star, who has figured somewhat promincntly in the political hula-hula at Honolulu, seems to be a survivor of the old type of nomadic Americans, whose home was iu the setting sun and whose delight it was to be intimately coucerned with every available row that occurred during his journey thither. He is a New Yorkor and used to be a pretty well kuown newspaper man in this part of the state. He was born iu Sherburne, Cortland county. He entered Coruell but left before graduating to take editorial charge of tbe lihaea JournaI. A raisuatlerstanding witb the propnetors of that paper resnlted in hxs leaving the Journal and starting a weekly paper of his.owu, the “Eopuhliean”. -He had quite a politicaI following and before his weekly bad been ruuning a year be was elected to the assembly from Tompkins county aml sat in the legislature of 1887. He didn’t cut mueh of a figure in the assembly, and before his term was ont, he was disgusted with politics. Soon after the legislatnre adjournod the Hepuhliean was discontinaed and its editor and proprietor went back to work on the Journal. A few weeks afterward he was esitibiished, witb his priutiug office ontfit, in San Diego, California. Tbere he started the Sunday Tclegram, but it didn’t live long, and for a while he dtifted nbout from ' one paper to another in Califor- ! nia. Two years or more ago he suddenly eame into promin- i enee again as the leader of a ' filibnatering scheme to sieze; Lower California, &nd make of it an iudependent country, foverned by himself as dictator. 'he world wonld probably never | bave heani of this anterprise h»d j not Mr Smith, himself, told all : abont it iu an interview with a Sau Francisco repo-ter. When the naws of the comp!ications in ' j Hawaii reacbed this countiy, ! Smith wns on his way to HonoI loln, borniug to be in the ihiek |of the tronble. As soon as he ! arrived there he started the | Hawaiian Star, and became at j onee prominent in ihe annexation i party. Where he will turn up | next is a piatter for sj>ecnIation.

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