The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-10-17
SAM PARKER
FOR kauai
Cowboy and Party Get
Away.
Case OF PREACHER OESHA
HlIo Tribune Says the DisgruntIed
Candidate Will Be
Sorry.


Kauai yesterday afternoon.
They will speak all over the Island.
Meetings have been arranged and luaus
VIII help to gather the natives.
ABOUT PREACHER DEsHA.
The following from the Hilo Tribune
concerns the candidacy of Preacher
Desha. of Hilo. who failing to secure
the nomination given Blacow. has bolt
ed the Republican party. and is running
on his own hook:
The argument, or excuse, or what
ever you care to call it. put forward
by Mr.. Desha, who bolted the Repubii-
can party and it's candidates, because
he was not made one of the latter at
the district convention in Laupahoehoe.
and the argument put forward by his
Few supporters in Hilo. is, that the
nominations at the convention were un-
authorized. IL not illegal. and that
neither he, nor the rest OF the party
are bound by them If they didn't want
to be. As far as the rest Of the party
are concerned, AZ does not seem, as
nearly as the Tribune can judge, that
they have any kick coming at the tick
ct, though we must except a few iso-
lated individuals. who. as IS usually tn
case, cannot understand why the mi
nority should not run the party-whel
they are I'm the minority. AS for Mr.
Desha, II doesn't probably make muct
difference whether he likes ii or not
There viii be plenty more things thai
he will like even less before he get:
through with politics. one of which vii
be the drying up OF several large-sizet
fountains of subscription. which hav,
hitherto contributed a good share of his
and the church's support. It isn't 4
be supposed, either. that when minis
ter goes into politics. all his flock arr
going to jump on the same side CT tbs
fence as their reverend shepherd: thi'
is liable to create a diversion net con
ducive to harmony.
However, what the Tribune ia tryinc
to get at Is the bottom OF the campaig.
argr.nent which the aforementione.
reverend shepherd and his adherent.
ing back on their party and weakenin,
it's chances at the polls. The argImsn
is that certain man went to Laupa
hoehoe with ten proxies in his yes
pocket and voted them contrary to tn
instructions which owners OF the prox
les had given him; otherwise Mr.. Desh;
would have been the party's regula
nominee and entitled TO its support
This is, IL true. a powerful argument
whether false or true. IL allowed to go
IL Will injure the party vote to an al
most incalculable extent.
| The Tribune Is pleased to have bee,
able to get at the bottom of the matte
as easily as Il has. There was only on
man who went from this precinct wit
ten proxies. This was Dr. Milton Rics
He said TO a Tribune representative on
I Ina L. 4fsl
about enough of this fairy story abou
the man with the ten proxies. / am tn
only one TO whom these remarks ca
apply. so I naturally take them to my
self, and IL Mr.. Desha and his hench
men don't drop II, somebody ~ going I
get hurt. IL is naturally Irritating
when there isn't n word OF truth I'm ii
but what care most about is its effec
upon the party. Now here is a plai
statement Of facts. TO which / am will
ing TO make affidavit. and IL 1t doesn'
settle the matter once for all, I'll tr
TO find out the reason why.
II went to LaupahoehOe talIilg prox
les for ten people who could not q
and who asked me to ballot for theT
on candidates. As far as Mr.. Loeben
stein Is concerned. know that all bu
one vote would have been cast for hiI
had the people 1 represented bee
there. that one vote was l.. s. LyTnan'i
N don't know whom he wanted, becaus
he didn't tell me, so i used my ow
Judgment. But you viii say / still coul
have voted for Desha. as the other Sen
ator TO whic hthls district Is entitled
This. however. Is not a fact, for w
could not reasonably demand two car
didates from Hilo and leave the rest {
the district without any. That is til
way Honolulu does things, but Hilo
not following suit. The up-countr
people wanted Mr.. Blacow. and "
from Hilo stayed with them. and thu
have the district united. Desha's pee
pie say that the meeting held the nigh
before the convention. here in Hilo, ir
structed the delegation to vote fc
Desha and Brown. That Is not th
Z, tn. In the first place the meetin
was gotten up by n few people who ha
IL IN for Loebenstein. and who wante
to handicap him at the last momen
In the second place. IL the delegate
were to have been instructed IL shoul
J have been at the time they were eleci
; ed. and not after they had already pei
} formed half their duties; and In th
third place. as n matter OF fact I'll
meeting didn't presume to instruct III
delegates. anyhow. and the vote thei
taken was merely an expression (
opinion on the part OF those presen
Now. that IL all there IS to this prof.
osition. Anybody who disputes IL ma
lui lily takes the responsibility Of brand
ing me as a liar: In which case I sha
L mn ko be 0ra