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Years ago John Dominis, a shipmaster who made a fortune in the Pacific trade, built himself a fine white colonial mansion in what is now the centre of Honolulu. His half-white son married Liliuokalani, last Hawaiian monarch. John Dominis' house became Iolani Palace and his daughter-in-law lived in it long after she was deposed. When she died, a great fat wahine, in 1917, the territorial Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks...
...chief industry is agriculture, since her No. 1 agriculture product is sugar and her No. 2 product is pineapples, since her chief manufacturing industries are processing sugar and canning pineapples, there is no doubt about who rules the territory, regardless of who happens to be holding forth in Iolani Palace. Most of these economic rulers, traditionally Republican, view the New Deal of their distinguished Democratic visitor with considerable apprehension, if not downright alarm...
After the judge's departure everyone stood around in the courtroom chatting easily while High Sheriff Gordon Ross guarded his prisoners. Soon the four "convicts" were herded across the sunny street to Iolani Palace, once the home of Hawaiian Kings, now the office of the territorial governor. There they sat waiting in a high-ceiled, red-carpeted inner room for a few minutes more...
...Iolani Palace, where Hawaiian kings once sat enthroned, Hon. Antonio Perry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, stood by to administer the oath of office. Governor Judd delivered his Inaugural address to the mixed crowds waiting outside. That evening a dinner for 250 was served in the Governor's mansion, out of which the last and deposed Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani, was removed in 1917. Governor Judd planned as his first work of office, a month's inspection tour of the Islands...