The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-14
SAM JOHNSON
TAKES A HAND
FOR A MOMENT
Holds a Meeting in Kakaako, His First in the
Campaign, But Only Candidates for
Supervisors Make Speeches.

II is to laugh! The whole town was
smiling yesterday at the way in when
the Brown men frothed at the mouth
all over the place when they happened
IN think of High Sheriff Henry's can
yass of the men of the police force.
And Mr.. Brown himself posed in the
star as the apostle of high morality IN
.ba conduct of elections This is the
same Brown, who, in the last county
election. on a Sunday, assembled the
entire police force in the jail yaro'
among the petty maIefactors, and in
structed them to vote the straight fe-
pubIican ticket. Surely it is to laugh'
1t was explained last night by a can
.5idata on the Republican ticket with
Brown that he gave luau TO tne iiieh'
and then talked to them. Capt hailae
did NOT saw anything about the luau
when he told the story Monday night
Mavbe he had forgotten it. Anyway
if does not matter whether the coercion
of tho men by instructions was pre-
.oadsd nv coercion by the stomach
The Imam but made the Instructions
moro likely to be obeyed-if there was
a luau.
GAM JoHNsON'S MEETING.
sam Johnson conducted daylight
"Supervisor's" meeting at hakaaho
Yesterday afternoon, the first that ne
has managed during the campaign, anu
vhad about 500 men out-an voters. 1t
Ibas been complained that the Repun-
,ic.n meetings have lacked force anu
enthusiasm since Sam went out OIL pom
tics and the Kakaako function was
demonstration that there is truth IN
tho statement. Sam was careIul u
~n,ain that his meeting was exclu-
siyal, for candidates for Supervisor.
Nobody else was permitted 10 SPEAK,
although Brown was present.
Sam said that there had been some
+o1t IN the effect that the taking over
Of the roads and garbage department
nv the county would mean that the
men who had worked with MIN lor
eight wears past would be thrown OUT
a h. wanted that apprehension re-
moved. He felt that to be MS ou'S'
San, himself will retain his position as
Territorial Road Supervisor but ne mas
eva ont for the interest of his men
The Republican candidates for super
visor. namely Adams, Lucas G- W.
smith and Jim Quinn. were all pres
emf and all pledged themselves 10 De
.,, 70 +be Kakaako voters. And, with
that understanding. resolutions
nassed favoring the straight hepuo-
1ican ticket for Supervisors Inc men
in the road and garbage departments
=, fact think that they have done
pretty good stroke of work for theni-
Aelves in pledging the candidates
MEETINGS AT PALAMA-
The Republican management
ted the error for second time last
night of having a meeting under the
hanyan tree at Palama at the same
time that the Fusionists were holding
meeting about a block away Really
tbey should not do that. Because IL
knocks the spots out of all their at
+eupts to scare the voters into De-
lief that there is any danger of Home
Rule supremacy. How can they man.
age to make a scarecrow, that Is en-
tireIy willing, do any work for its Gre
ators when they persist in hitting the
poor thing in the solar plexus every
chance they get?
There was not a big crowd, and not
q lot of enthusiasm at the meeting un-
der the banyan tree-but there was not
any bigger crowd nor any more enthu-
siasrn at the other Indeed, the crowd
was hardly as ,big-although a number
of voters who turned out apparently
only to be amused kept drifting from
one meeting to the other, and back
again. and so it was hard to tell. a lot
of boys and Cinnamon and Japs were
doing the same thing. Maybe there