After the annexation of Hawaii to United States , Wise became a founding member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and served as a delegate , with former Hawaiian royal Prince David Kawānanakoa , to the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City , Missouri , in which William Jennings Bryan was nominated . He supported the Democrats because of the association of the party with President Grover Cleveland who had sympathized with the Royalist cause in 1893 . Wise worked as a Hawaiian language interpreter for the 1901 inaugural Hawaii Territorial Legislature , established after the Hawaiian Organic Act
1900 Democratic National Convention
1900 Democratic National Convention
John Henry Wise