The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-16
POLITICAL DRIFT WOOD.
che Leavings of Some of Our Yromi-
nent Countrymen.
By AHUIMAIA,


counties are hardly known to me,
and therefore, when l say nothing
OF them, it is not because want to
ignore them altogether, but because
I do not know them sufficiently,
most Of whom are malihinis and are
as mere birds of passage. But SUI.
fee it for me to caustically remark,
that il they are not known to your
correspondent, then they are bs.
nanas not worth the picking out OF
my bunch OF bananas (shui maia).
What is not worth knowing ia not
worth the trouble nor tho writing,
And therefore--who cares
In East Hawaii County, Lorrin A
Andrews is the candidate for sheriff.
He is well-known as the "Red Gar"
while on Maui and now on Hawaii,
the monarch OF all that be surveye,
the bloodhound man. Enough 10
known of the man during his official
career that l am at a loss to need
say further for or against him, but l
think he ought TO be relegated to
the dust heap OF politictl iniquity,
where moth and rust doth corrupt.
He's dunghill,
But for Norman Lyman, the off
spring OF a missionary dad, whose
anatomical makeup 10 Of many com
ponent parts, | need to say better Of
him for the county clerkship than
can say for his present chief for
sheriff, He'S young man OF fair
education, although a Republican,
he's a Hawaiian to the core. He
has although managed to get the
Home Rule endorsement for the
place, probably through the influ.
ence of his fsthsr-in-lsw, Senator
John T Brown. One advantage with
the young man, he has his fsther to
look to for advice, and that alone
will stand him in good stead.
Another Republican candidate
who has received q Home Rule en-
dorsemsnt is Nathan WillfonR, an
island grown man, for the auditor
chip. His own personality, coupled
with that OF his half-white wife, has
gained for him the popularity OF
the Hawaiian people. his present
position az assessor in-chief OF that
big Island cutting no figure. Re
formerly worked in the postoffice in
this city and should be we'll known.
Speak native fairly we'll, is conServa.
tive aud fair, always neatly attired
and somewhat womanish.
For the aOsessorship, George Fl
Williams is the candidate. At pres
ent he is the deputy assessor for
South Hilo. Was formerly deputy
sheriff in the bailiwick. He has rails.
ed large family OF cross breeds by
coalition with member OF the Ha-
waiisn tribe, and that alone may
have something to do with the show
of sympathy he tries to make man
ifest to his wife's people, but yet
doubt whether it is sincere some
thing after the fashion of his own
kind who greatly loves them; oh
yes, particularly when there is some
thing in sight TO be gotten. A form.
or p g henchman, aud therefore, a
well-known quality for gaining un-
popularity. Yet his experience in
the tax Office is greatly in his favor
and / have no doubt that he will
make o good man.
And the one FOR county attorney
another OF the numerous Billy
Smiths family OF smiths, | don'I
know tho man 70 speak to, but his
kind is numerous round about Hilo
to be sure, by the way the
Home Rulers have taker
up with another Smith
l designated by them as the LonG
Smith tKamika Loihil, otherwise
, | John IT, The oueStion il uhich NJ