Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — DOLE ASKED TO RESIGN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DOLE ASKED TO RESIGN.

11l Health Unfits Him for Duties as Governor of Hawaii. President Roosevelt has asked Got. Dole of Hawaii to send in his resignation, and the friends of Col. Samuel Parker claim he is slated for the post. Sanford B. Dole has been Governor since the islands became United States territory in June, 1900. and was President of (he Republic of Hawaii. It is said his continued ill health has made him unfit for the duties of the office and. compelled the President to seek a new man for the post. Col. Parker is a native of Hawaii, a Kanaka. He is one of the wealthiest men In the islands, owning large sugar plantations, cattle ranches and extensive real

estate in Honolulu. He wns prime minister in the last cabinet of Queen Liliuokalani, but upon the annexation of the islands by the United States strongly advised the natives to submit, and, probably more than any other, influenced them in that direction. He was one of the delegates from Hawaii to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia and wus a member of the committee appointed by that convention to notify President McKinley of his nomination, making a brief speech on the latter occasion. He was the Republican candidate for Congress from the territory, and was defeated by seventy votes by Wilcox, the Iratlve candidate, in a three-cornered race, the Democratic nominee Prince David, a nephew of Liliuokalnni. Col. Parker and Prince David have for years had close business and friendly relations, which were further strengthened recently by a double wedding in Ban Francisco, when Parker married Mrs. Campbell, a wealthy widow of Honolulu, and Prince David married her daughter. The two eouples are now on a wedding trip. The vacancy in a cadetship at Annapolis jjaval academy has been promised the son of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, and he will be appointed In time to take the next entrance examinations. Ths eon of the late Captain John W. Phillip of the Texas has been promised the alternateship to Admiral Sampson’s sou. A freight wreck occurred about fifteen miles east of Shawnee, O. T. Two engines were damaged and three negro tramps were killed. No others Injured.

GOVERNOR S. B. DOLE.