Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 34

New Delegate THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. in Congress From Hawaii WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—(Speclial Cor- respondence of the Bee.)—The congres- slonal directory for the Fifty-seventh con- gress will contain In its list of representa- tives and delegates in the house the fol- lowing unusual and interesting line: Hawall—Robert Willlam Wilcox, pendent royalist. The royalist delegate from the island ter- ritory is well known in Washington, having passed a large portion of the last year here In company with ex-Queen Lilluoka- lanl. He was interested In the passage of the Hawallan government bill and became a fumillar figure In the rooms of the senate and house committees on territories. He is & half-blood, the son of an American sallor and a Kanaka woman. The career of Wil- cox has been in many ways a remarkable one. He has been a prominent figure in Hawallan history for twenty-five years. The new delegate s well educated and is an eloquent public speaker, but Is as wholly an adventurer and soldier of fortune a8 any man who ever sat in congress. The regular party candidates for dele- gate were Colonel Samuel Parker, for- merly minister for foreign affairs, who is & descendant of native nobility (repub- lican), and Prince David Kawanakakoa, the adopted son of ex-Queen Kaplolani (demo- inde- crat), They were men In every sense su- perior to the adventurer who defeated them. Parker and David passed last winter In Washington and were well received in the best soclety here. KEach man is very wealthy and each has played an important part in Hawallan affairs. These two Kanaka gentlemen are on the most intima:e terms of friendship. It was no secret here that they hoped to so arrange their po- Iitical afllations that one or the other shculd come to the capital as delegate. The national political parties had no for- mal existence in Hawall until last spring, when republican and democratic territorial conventions were held at Honolulu. Parker Republican Convention, Sam Parker headed the Hawallan delega- tion to Philadelphia and Prince David that to Kansas City. All those who witnessed the republican convention will recall the hearty round of applause that greeted the appearance of the rugged, bronze face of the titanic-statured Parker, holding high above all the standards of the states, the handsome silk banner of Hawail. This was the first time a Hawallan banner was ever seen in a national convention. Parker, who is a very genlal and popular man, recelved notable attentions from prominent re- publicans at Philadelphia, and was recognized as sure to become the party leader In the new territory. Prince David performed much the same role at Kansas City. His friend, Parker, shipped the identical banner (it was a beauty, too,) to Prince David at Kansas City, and that handsome young representative of the old royal line of the Kanakas carried it in the merry-go-round parades of delegates In the exciting scenes of the convention. Prince David was not only prominent on the floor of the convention, but he played a highly important part in committee work. He served on the committee on resolutions and it was his casting vote (Hawall's being the last territory called) that placed in the democratis platform the distinct reaffirma- ion of 16 to 1 demanded by William J. Bryan. After the conventions Colonel Parker and Prince David returned to the islands, and each one was nominated by his political party for congress. Both are men of dis- tinction, wealth and energy, and each made an active canvass of th ands. Some time after the regular conventions Robert W. Wilcox announced a rump can- didacy as an independent royalist, but it was generally supposed that Parker would poll a large majority of the American and other foreign votes and be elected. The democrats relied on the influence of the ex- queen to ald the scion of the royal line, who was their leader. If the native vote had gone largely for Prince David he would have been elected. But the ex-queen threw her support to the half-caste adventurer. He carried every island but Oahu and was elected by a plurality over Parker, while Prince David ran a very bad third in the race. Parker even lost the garden island of Kaual, which he practically owns, holding 700,000 acres and having 30,000 head of cat- tle upon fit. Wilcox Educated in Italy, Delegate-elect Wilcox is about 44 years of age. At 21 he was elected a member of the Parllament of the kingdom from the island of Maul, and, although he is sald to have been so poor at that time that he had never worn shoes, became prominent in the body as a thick-and-thin adherent of all royalist policlies. He was looked upon with much promise and was selected by Kala- kaua, with two Hawallan youths, Booth and Boyd, much his juniors, to proceed to Burope to be educated. They went under the charge of Celso Caesar Moreno of this city, at that time prime minister of Kala- kaua. Moreno was am Itallan by birth and returned to his native land bearing a com- mission from the Hawallan king which stated that Moreno “had the charge and e of Hawallan youths proceeding to Europe for their education in foreign coun- tries.”” On March 23, 1881, King: Humbert granted an audlence to Senor Moreno and his charges and the request of Kalakaua that the Itallan ruler furnish schools for the boys that they might perfect their Buropean education brought a prompt re- sponse from the knightly Italian king. Wil- 0% was sent to the artillery school at Turin, Booth was assigned to the college academy of Nunziatell, in Naples, while Boyd, v.ho desired to follow the sea, at- tended the naval academy at Leghorn. These youths were all bright and they had money, for the Parliament of King Kala- kaua had voted an appropriation of $32,000 for the purpose of undertaking the educa- tion of Hawalian youths. Gradually it came to be believed in Turin youths were dis- and Naples that these Kalakaua evinced a decided interest in the young Maulan, who had in four years made such a reputation for himself at the artil- lery school at Turin that he had succeeded in winning the love of the colonel's daugh- ter, a patriclan among patriclans. In due season Wilcox married the Barona Sobrero and took her with him back to Hawall. A rude awakening followed. The rank and pesition of Wilcox turned out, of course, to be mythical, and, heartbroken over the deception practiced upon her, the daughter of a noble and celebrated house turned her fcotsteps backward to her Itallan home Wilcox had not even money enough to pay her passage. Being thus abandoned by the wife he had decelved, Wilcox had circu- lated the story that the court of appeals PRINCE DAVID KAWANAKAKOA—DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF AT THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION BY PLANK. tinguished princes and notable people be- gan paying them attention. Wilcox appears to have taken no pains to undeceive them. He completed his course at Turin and re- turned to Hawall with the knowledge that he had the heart of Victoria Gina Sobrero in his keeping. She was the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Colonel Baron Sobrero of the Italian artillery. She be- lleved him to be a prince of the line of Kamehameha the Great. This lady's mother was Princess Victoria Colonna of Stiglino, a branch of the famous Colonna family of Italy, into which Miss Mackay of San Fraccisco and New York married some years later. Wins a Royal Bride. Wilcox, having learned all the vices of the Itallans with none of their virtues, upon his return to the Hawallan islands took a commanding position among the natives. CASTING DECIDING VOTE ON THE SILVER of Turin had granted him full divorce for desertion. The new delegate soon resumed his activi- tles in island politics and was returned to Parliament. He continued much in evi- dence up to the time of the fall of the monarchical government. He was at one time minister for foreign affairs. He was also the central figure in two revolutions in the islands. The first, in July, 1889, was against the reform ministry, unwillingly forced from Kalakaua. In this case he appeared to be revolting against the king, but was really only representing royalist reactionaries. Wilcox had with him in this enterprise his old associate, Boyd, but Wilcox was the ringleader. His forces ‘“‘consisted of all the malcontents and loaf- ers in Honolulu,” to quote Historian Whit- ney. They made a demonstration in favor of the old form of government in the palace yard at Honolulu. them and dispersed the others. imprisoned along with many of his follow- ers, but was soon released and returned as a member of Parllament by the native vote. S8ix years afterward, in 1895, Wilcox led another attempted insurrection against the provisional republican government. This was quite farcical and was promptly put down. The only man killed was Charles L. Carter, who had been in Washington as an annexation ocmmissioner in 1893. For this exploit Wilcox was again imprisoned. He was pardoned by President Dole after one year's incarceration. There is no doubt that these two events are largely responsible for his manifest popularity with the Hawallan native voters. His Second Marriage. As before stated, Wilcox is neither of princely nor noble blood. But some years after his return from Italy he married Teresa Owana Kachalelani. She is a niece of Princess Elizabeth Kekaaniau, who is claimed to be the last representative of the old royal line, a direct descendant of Kamehameha III. Through his wife Wil- cox has made claim to a portion of the crown lands, asserting that they were the personal property of the Kamehamehas and did not follow the crown fitself to the possession of Kalakaua and Liliuokalani, who were not of the old line. He has not yet realized anything on this claim, nor is he likely to. In fact, the marriage may embarrass him. It is already reported here that his seat will be contested on account of his second marriage. Senor Moreno, who was the benefactor of Wilcox, says that an examination of the court records in Italy will show that the divorce was refused so far as Wilcox was concerned, on the ground that he had committed bigamy in the Hawallan islands. Wilcox, when in Washington last winter, held many interviews with the ex-queen, who was a guest at the Cairo apartments, and it was then and there the plan was laid to bring about his election over Samuel Parker and Prince David. It was a daring plan, but it succeeded. Queen “Lil" had no friendship for Parker. She resented the manner in which Prince David received the fortune of Kapiolani, the former queen ot the Hawalian islands, because she thought it belonged to the kingdom and not to the person of the queen. Wilcox also cunningly appealed to Mrs. Domini's hope of restora- tion. It is claimed here that he secured the Kanaka and half-castes by promising them titles and giving them lands should his effort be successful. The natives therefore voted against Parker and Prince David, with either of whom the intelligent white people of the islands would have been satisfied. Robert Wilcox, however, playing upon the old superstitions of the natives, using all his native cunning and benefiting by his Italian experience, has successfully arrayed the natives against the whites, with the result that he comes to congress in a capacity that is startling, a royalist sitting amongst republicans and democrats—the first one that has sat in an American repre- sentative body since the revolution. E. C. SNYDER, An Ancient Narrative Lewliston (Me.) Journal: State Librarian Carver has received a couple of quaint old bits of Maine lore from Goodspeed's book store in Boston. One is a little book of twenty-eight pages printed in Boston in 1738. It is entitled ‘A Faithful Narrative of the Wicked Life and Remarkable Con- version of Patience Boston, alias Sampson. Who was Executed at York, in the County of York, July 24th, 1735, for the Murder of Benjamin Trot, of Falmcuth, in Casco Bay, ' a Child of about Eight Years of Age, she Drowned in a Well."” ln the old black print, with the queer old ' that looks an “f." It details the con- version which brought Patience to the gal- lows. She wasg acjuitted the first time she was tried, but voluntarily gave herself up and pleaded guilty the second. The book who The story is told SAMUEL PARKER—FIRST DELEGATE FROM HAWAII TO A NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTION—DEFEATED BY WILCOX, TURIN, ITALY, ROBERT W. WILCOX—DELEGATE-ELECT FROM HAWAII— | PICTURE TAKEN WHILE IN ARTILLERY SCHOOL AT The reform ministry has a preface written by “Rev, prcmptly resisted the rebels, killed nine of Wilcox was December 2, 1900. Messrs, Samuel and Joseph Moody, pastors of the churches in York Aforesaid.” The other curiosity is an official list of prisoners in “"His Majesty’'s Gaol in York,” signed by John Carlile, the underkeeper, and bearing date of June 18, 1740, < . v The Colonial Novel Detroit Journal: At this point General Washington was introduced into the colonial novel, for the purpose of foiling the villain thereof. But the villain was daunted. “‘Sir,"”" exclaimed this person, addressing the distinguished patriot, “I am somewhat acquainted with contemporary history and unless I am mistaken you are at this mo- ment crossing the Delaware. Consequently you cannot be here without violating the unities!" Upon looking the matter up in his diary General Washington found that this was indeed g0, and accordingly, with a low bow to the ladies, withdrew from the story. not easily to be 00M PAUL KRUGER Made More of a Bensation in France Than 1 South Africa. THE FRENCH PEOPLE WELCOME HIM In Recelved with Open Hearts and Extended Hands and Shouts of Exul- tation. The great reception accorded the exiled | president of the Transvaal is not often | duplicated even in mercurial France. Not In a generation have the people of the polite nation turned with one accord to welcome an expatriated foreigner with the “‘Marseillaise’” and all the panoply of war. The heart-broken old man appreciated the kindly manifestations of interest shown him by the great European republic, but His Soul Probably Wept bitter tears in private, hcwever imperturb- able may have seemed his countenance as he passed through the cheering crowds, There is something genuinely pathetic in the history of the South African Republic and a heart of stone would melt at fts story of disappointment and disaster from the lips of its sturdy Dutch chief ex- ecutive. | Oom Paul is Not Insurable because he has passed the age limit. 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