The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-10
hat Brown never denied that he said

that Brown never denied that he said
that
1t is a pretty complication, anyhow.
And in the meantime the boys are
none of them enthusiastic for the
ticket-beyond the street corner en-
thusiasm that costs no effort. The Re-
publican meetings at Moiliili and Ka-
lihi Pumping Station last night We're
neither of them marked by the hur-
rah boys spirit that wins campaigns.
But six persons, two of them women,
staid out the last speaker at the Kali
hi r'eeting. and these did not cheer
Justify. And much the same kind of
thing is said to have happened at Mo
iliilf. In fact, the managers have not
had a great deal of faith in the sue
cess of the Moilnli meeting since it
was first called The enthusiasm in
that neighborhood is the thing that is
not.
LISTLESS CAMPAIGN.
Indeed, the listlessness that has set
tied down upon the Republican cam
paign in Oahu County is giving the
leaders not a little uneasiness. There is
abundant lip service. The workers pro
fess to be enthusiastic, and in their
words they are enthusiastic, but it
goes no farther than that. The voters
do not turn out at the meetings, and
those who do turn out do not cheer the
speakers as they have been used to
doing. In fact, the great Republican
giant is acting precisely like a prize
fighter in a contest who has been over
trained for his battle. He looks fit,
and feels fit, but when 1T comes to the
performance he is not there with the
goods. He is what followers of the
prize ring cali ''stale.'
Possibly this is because of the man
ner in which the Progress Hall conven-
tion muddled things in the beginning.
Possibly it is because the mass of the
Republicans do not feel bound to a
ticket named by convention that fail
ed to endorse the administration. Pos
sibly it is one result of the split in the
party, precipitated by the nomination
of Brown. Whatever the cause. the
apathy exists-and it is looked upon as
dangerous sign.
So strong is this discomfort, that
there is growing a feeling that the
Fifth District is in the gTavest danger
of swinging squarely around into the
Home Rule column. 80 Unless there is
a change in sentiment in the Fifth, -
said a party worker yesterday, ''the
Home Rulers viii sweep it. It is the
supervisors they are AFTER j ne ma
tive voters there want the road boards
and the road jobs. And they feel that
the Republican candidates will' not
give them as good chance at the work
as the Home Rulers. They do not care
so much about the balance of the coun-
ty ticket. 1t is the old cry "A job
for a vote And it is the old danger
that it win VIVA double danger, this
time, because of feeling that the adj
ministration does not care about the
Supervisors, and the other side does
not either. 1t would not surprise me
at all to see general overthrow in the
Fifth District"
This. however, sounds like the old
wolf cry. The campaign is listless
enough, but not in the way this worker
says. The people are not to be fooled
with talk like that.
QUINN MAKES A SPEECH.
Candidate Quinn, who is furnishing
a good many of the sensations of this
campaign, went up to Pauoa on Thurs
day night, and made speech to about
twenty voters there. elf you do not
elect the Republican Supervisors, -
Quinn is Fenorted to have said, ''not
man of you will get job on the
roads -