A Brilliant Man Cut Off At The Threshold Of His Usefulness

The following article will be read with interest, from the fact that both Mr. Carter and Mr. Job were U. of M. boys and well-known in Ann Arbor : Charles L. Carter, who was killed in the uprising oL the royalists, led by Robert Wilcox, at Honolulú, was the intímate friend and classmate of Fred W. Job, consul general of the Hawaiian Republic in Chicago. The uprising, which had been feared for soine time, took tangible forni on Sunday, Jan. 6. On that day Mr. Carter was oue of a posse which proceeded to the home of Henry Bertlemaun, a prominent royalist, to search the premises for arms and ammunition. In the party were Chas. L. Carter, Alfred Carter and J. B. Castle, members of the Citizens' Guard. "While the men were on the lawn in front of Bertlemann's house they were fired on by a party of natives in ambush under a boatshed. Charles L. Carter and Lieutenant Holi feil, the former fatally wounded. Desultory fighting continued for several days, during which twelve rioters were killed and 200 reyolutionists were taken prisoners. Fighting had not ceased when the steamer Alameda, which brought the news, left Honolulú Jan. 11. The notorious Robert Wilcox, a half-breed, is at the head of the rebels. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is reported to be in custody of the government, though her exact whereabouts is unknown. It is believed that she is at the bottotn of the uprising. "Carter was a martyr and like a martyr he has laid down his life for his people," said Mr. Job to-day. "His name will go down to posterity as a martyr. He was of the stuff of which héroes are made and nothing could daunt him in a cause which he considered right. Bullets could not fly fast enough to keep him from going anywhere to do what he thought right and threats had no effect. NATITB OF THE ISLANDS. "Carter was thirty years old and I recently had a letter froin him, written on his thirtieth birtliday, full of hope and promise for the future of the islands and the people he loved so well, for he was boni aniong them and was one of them. He was a son of H. A. P. Carter, who died four or five years ago, and who was the leading diplomat of that country. The Carters are an old and influential faniily in Hawaii and 'they have done more than anybody else to help and enlighten the people. The mother of Charles L. Carter was from an old missionary fainily at the islauds. "Charles Carter took the deepest interest in everything pertaining to the place of his nativity. The rotten condition of the government under the abuses of the old king and the queen preyed upon his mind, and he has told me that he walked the floor at night thinking of what could be done and what the outcome would be. But some of the natives, who are an impressionable race, would not follow the lead of men like Carter, who bad their true interests'at heart, but would take up with reuegades like tliis Robert Wilcox, wlio is a man totally without character, principie or standing. He was educated by the old monarchy, forsook the ïnonarchy and joined the revolutionists for a position and then went back to the royalists again, and now leads them in tliis new rebellion. Wilcox, as the late Charles Carter said, ought to have been hanged ; il he had been Carter would not have been killed. (LEEN A DANQER0U8 WOMAX. "Liliuokalani, in whose interest he has stirred np this revolt, is a dangerous and vicious woman. She is morally depraved and mentally without ability, and so far as her treatment of the natives is concerned has absolutely no claim upon them for anything. She does not do right by them and never lias done anything to advance the best interests of the island. "She is continually intriguing and harboring the revolutionists, and is ready to resume herthrone again at any minute and by any menas. She must reaüze that hers is the lost cause by this time, and I flrmly believe that her resent petition for annexation was only a 'bluff,' and that she is at the bottom of the present uprising. "llobert Wilcox, her chosen leader, has uative blood in bis yeins, He is between thirty-five and forty years of age, and always had been an enemy of Mr. Carter. He saw that Mr. Carter was coming to the front in the affairs of the island, and while perhaps he did not know of the verybullet which killed his enemy, I believe it was fired at bis instigation. He is, as he ought to be, a man without a country and bas fostered his schemes by playing upon the credulity of the deluded natives. Charles L. Carter was born on the island, where his father was an extensive Rugar planter. He received his first education there and then traveled in Europe and in this country with his parents, his fatber being in the diplomatic service and a meniber of the king's cabinet. In 1883 young Carter catne to Ann Arbor Uniyersity, where he took a two years' literary course and a full course at the law school. He was one of the most popular men of hisclass. Of fine stature- he was over six feet tall and weighed over two hundred pounds - he was a first rate athlete and brave almost to a fault. He was a meniber of the college foot-ball eleven and was a leading spirit in the Sigma Plu fratern" ity. BAW WITH PROPIIETIC VISION. "While at Ann Arbor he met Miss Mary Horton Scott, a daughter of one of the oldest and most prominent families of the town. He became engaged to .Miss Scott, and after his graduation in 1887, Mr. Carter went into the practice of the law with Senator Manderson at Omaha, Neb. Desiring to perfect himself in constitutional and international law, a year latter Mr. Carter went to Toledo, Ohio, where he would be near enough to Ann Arbor to take advantage of its eclucational facilities. At Toledo he became associated with Emery D. Potter, one of the most prominent men at the Ohio bar. He reinained there two years and then married Miss Scott, and the couple went to the islands, where Mr. Carter engaged in the practice of bis profession. "Even then he saw from the indications of the times that affairs in Hawaii would soon reach that crisis he had so of ten talked about and predicted, and he began to prepare for it. He interested himself in public affairs and he and Loriu A. Thurston, now minister at Washington, were immediately looked to as the representatives and leaders of the better element of the young Hawaiians who opposed the methods and policy of the monarchy, which was growing j more and more rotten and corrupt and which was beginning to show the signs of dissolution and decay. So, when the move was made to throw off the yoke of monarchy, Mr. Carter, as one of the leading men of the island, was selected as one of the live commissioners to come to this country to ask for annexation. Mr. Carter was left at Washington as therepresentative of the new goveruincnt when the otherfour commissioners returned to Honolulú. lie was the head of the Hawaiian legation during bis stay in Washington and he did an effective work and made great headway toward annexation with President Harrison and his cabinet. WAS A XATTRAI. DIPLOMATIST. While Mr. Carter was in Washington he became prominent in diplomatic circles, and was lionized by society there. He was regarded as one of the brilliant, rising diplomats of the day by Washington people. Subsequently, his services were needed at home and he returned, Lorin A. Thurston being sent as minister. "Upon his return to Honolulú, Mr. Carter was elected judge. This position he resigned to turn to the practice of the law, forming a partnership with bis cousin, Alfred Carter, win. was with him at the time he received his death wound. Hohadthree children, two. of whom survive liira, as well as two married sisters, Belle and Cordolia, at the island, and a married sister and a brother at Seattle, Wash., the latter being Hawaiian consul at that place. Mr. Carter was an intensely loyal man, and devoted to his country, which he loved ardently. "This man Wilcox ought to be shot as soon as taken. The western law ought to apply to this case - shoot him first and try hini afterwards to flnd out if he was guilty or not. The ex-Queen Liliuokalani ought to be closely guarded to prevent her making mischief. Her presence on the island is a menace to its peace, yet what to do with her is a serious questiou. If she were despolied or were to die, then her niece, a young girl of good character, who is now beine; educated in Europe, would become the successor tó the throne. This mightresult to the advantage of the royalists, as they could say of her that her character was all right, and that the objectious which can be urged against Liliuokalani do not apply. The ex-queen is known to be a depraved and worthless woman, and this destroys sympathy for those who want to place her on the throne again. There are 100,000 inhabitants in the island, and of these 30,000 are natives, who are decreasing in number every year, still favor the monarchy, and these are the people among whom this man Wilcox is sowing the seed of sedition. But the uprising will be promptly put down, I have not the slightest doubt, and the ringleader will be punished." Mr. Job received a telegram from Mis. Carter to-day announcing herhusband's death. It merely said: "Cliarles L. Carter died here Jan. 7. See press dispatches." The message came by the steamer Alameda to San Francisco.