The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-19
GOVERNORzSAYS
ADMINISTRATION
TAKES NO HAND
lie Says the Opposition Force Can Have the
Field of County Politics all to
Itself.

! Governor Garter has gone as far as he
can 90 under the law in restricting the
political activity of men holding Of
fee under the administration. The
Governor said so yesterday himself.
'sI am not taking any part in the
county campaign" said the Governor,
Ttand I have intimated to every office
holder under the government that L
do not wish nor desire any of them to
take any part OF course, cannot in
terfere with the right of any citizen
to take an interest in political mat
ters. but I can keep the administration
as such ont of the fight, and this 1
have done.
''The so-called anti-administration
force if there is any such force, there
fore has the field to itself. The ad-
ministration has no candidate for any
Office. and is fighting no candidate.
From what 1 read of his power, L
should say that Sam johnson could
if he had been really taking any part
in the struggle. But, as an office
holder, at least, he has not been. He
has received the intimation from me
to keep hands off, as the others have.
And that would seem to settle where
the administration stands in this cOun-
ty fight. In the meantime, with the
convention but one day off, the wise
acres are but little wiser today than
they were a week ago. 1t is notice
able. however, within the last couple
of davs that the friends of the leading
candidates for Sheriff have quit giving
out figures. When Brown got up to "a
delegates, and Crabbe up to eighty,
both seem to have concluded that they
would better stop, perhaps. There
might not be any left for the other
fellows, if the strength of the two
principals kept on growing IN that way.
DARK HORSE TALK.
The talk of dark horse for the race
kept on growing and growing yester-
day. Sam johnson was not saying
ANYTHING. The Governor said it was
hands of. The friends of Crabbe and
Brown could not see where there was
any possibility of anyone else IN the
race-and still that dark horse talk
would not abate. Just who the dark
horse Is TO be, nobody seems to know
with any degreel Oh certainty. There
have been no names mentioned on the
Republican side save those of Brown
and Crabbe, with Sam johnson as
possibility, aud Sam really does not
want the Job. There is no reason,
political or other, why he should. And
if not johnson, who thens
. So far as any other office IS con-
kerned, there was little talk yesterday
and has been little talk at any time.
The race for the shrievalty absorbs all
interest, public and political. Richard
Trent, who has been regarded as ex-
cellent Democratic material for, well,
most anything, announces that he IS
not in politics-in the sense of looking
for an Office. r. Beverly Kidd Is not
a candidate for Treasurer. Mr.. Cooper
of the County Act Commission says
that he is not candidate for Super
visor at large from Oahu. Mr.. Nc
Candless viii not be a candidate for
Supervisor from Eva. So, one by one,
the roses fall. 1t begins to look as
though the statesman who said, early
in the fight, that it would be hard to
get good men to run for Office because
the salaries fixed III the County Act
were so small, had some measure of
truth IN his theory. The salaries are
not. on the whole, large enough to in
duee men to abandon private business
for the public service. Also, it is
vexatious thing to run for county {
Office that the court may knock you
ont of as soon as you get it.
DAVIS wITHDRAws.
Even George Davis has withdrawn
from the race for the district attor-
after having first concluded I
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