Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-02-14
kAMAAINA TOMMYROT.

The appointment Of Philip l.. Weaver
10 the position Of Assistant Deputy At
torney General rewards a young man
of admitted capabilities and completes
the working forces of the Attorney
Generals Department. II Is to be pre-
sumed to the satisfaction of those who
must be held responsible for its admin
istration, and. IL is to be hoped. TO the
satisfaction Of the people. Attorney
General Andrews is a young man who
has his friends. his deputy. Mr.. Peters,
IN another young man who was prom
inently mentioned for the judgeship
now held by Mr.. De Bolt and has
proved himself very capable attor-
ney. and now Mr.. Weaver. a young
man OF good education and n success
full legal practitionGr. has been added
TO the list. The Bulletin sees no rea-
son why the combination should not
make a very good team. Mr.. Andrews
has selected the men he wants and as
he Is held responsible for the admins
traupn of the department this is a very
proper proceeding on his part. The
Bulletin wishes the Attorney Generals
department every success.
For the officials, the Bulletin has
only words of commentator and hopes
for their success, but the incidents
leading up to the vacating of the sew
eral Offices in this department and the
method of filling them points to an in
teresting line of thought of especial
interest to the public, which for sew.
eral years has heard great deal about
the necessity Of appointing kamaainas
to Office.
The term kamaaina as used by those
who make most frequent resort to It.
and therefore are presumed to know
what they are talking about, means an
old resident or son OF the soil as dis
tnguished from the American recently
arrived in the country, and. although
he is a thorough going American. does
not possess that superiority of caste. or
whatever II may be called. TO admit
him into the sacred circle which makes
him eligible to official favor.
When Attorney General Dole re-
signed his natural successor was John
W. Cathcart. the then Deputy. Mr.
Cathcart is an able lawyer as was evil
denCed by his official record and tho
endorsement for promotion by prac-
tically the whole Bar Association. Even
Mr. Andrews had said that he would
not stand in the way of Mr.. Cathcart's
appointment. The kamaaina experts
however commanded that Mr.. Cathcart
should not have the position. A man
OF longer residence and experience was
needed, indeed must be had. too many
newcomers, malahinls. we're getting in
TO office; the islands had capable men
and the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. especial
ly should be shown that the Islands
produced men able TO Ill offices without
drawing on the influx from the States
After much talk of this character Lor-
rim Andrews was appointed to tho
Office.
The steamship records will doubtless
show that Mr.. Andrews arrived In the
islands after Mr.. Cathcart. II Cath
cart came to the islands with nothing
more than a carpet bag and deter
mination to make an honest living II
is safe to state that Andrews, who
came later. had little more additional
than possibly a tooth brush and n
toothpick and relationship.
Thus in this instance was the ka-
maaina cry, Tommyrot, pure Tommy
rot.
Then came the important duty OF
selecting a Deputy to the Attorney
General. Mr.. Cathcart had resigned
IL was suggested TO Andrews For
Gods sake get Deputy who has been
In the islands for some length OF time!"
Mr., Douthitt, the assistant deputy,
was in line of promotion and had made
good record. He is comparatively
recent arrival, not as recent however
as Mr.. Peters. Douthtt was not an
active applicant for promotion and Mr..
Andrews was left practically scot free
There were kamaainas, sons OF the
soil, to draw from. Mr.. Andrews sell
ected e. C. Peters.
For the second time was the ka-
maaina cry proved to be Tommyrot,
purer Tommyrot.
Assistant Deputy Douthitt made GER
tain demands with which Mr.. Andrews
decided he could not comply and he
was In consequence forced to look
about for new Assistant Deputy for
the department. Once more the ka-
maaina question came up, Andrews as
n mafahini representative OF the ka-
maaina experts would presumably
select his man from the young men
whose birth and residence entitled
them to place in the kamaaina class
Two candidates of recognized ability
and kamaaina qualifications were ap-
plicants-W. T. Rawlins and Alex.
Lindsay, young men, born here, who
had completed their legal education in
universities of the mainland and start