The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-16
OBJECTS AND AIMS Of
THE CIVIC FEDERATION
LOCAL POLITICS.

article being to explain the position of
the Federation on political matters. all
that is necessary now is to say that the
Executive committee was fully aware
of the importance of its duty in po-
litical matters and that an election for
the first county officers In Hawaii was
close at hand and that it was OF the
greatest Importance that only high
and representative class of officers
should be selected. 1t was decided
unanimously without even the necessity
of a vote on the question that the Fed
eraApn would not take the initiative
and nominate a ticket of its own as
some outsiders suggested. but that its
duties would be of an advisory nature
with regard to candidates selected by
the various parties. In this view there
fore no action was taken until after the
nominations had been made by the Re-
publicans and the Fusionists, where
upon the Executive committee met to
consider the nominations, and the meet
ings We're attended by all of the com
mttee except those who had been
nominated, by various parties, and 1t
is only fair to these gentlemen to say
that Mr.. George w. Smith and Mr.. r.
II. Trent have not attended any of the
meetings or taken part in any of the
deliberations nor have they sought to
exercise any influence whatsoever with
regard to recommendations or the re-
fusal to recommend the candidature of
any person; and Mr.. Lorrin Andrews
has also ,refrained from attending on
the ground that, as the committee in
formally learned, he was a member of
the County Republican Committee.
The matter of qualifications was gone
into as carefully as was possible in the
comparatively short time preceding the
election and the necessity of making a
report in time for action on the part
of voters. The motions passed We're in
the following form: That the commit
tee endorses the candidature of (giv-
ing names), but that the committee
withholds its endorsement from (giving
names).
ACTION OF THE FEDERATION.
A meeting of the Civic Federation
was then called and was held, as is
well known, in the Y. NJ. C. A. hall, and
its report was read. After the meeting
of the Federation referred to, the posi-
tloi VI tue ASSoCldllOH SldiluS as lOl-
lows:
First, the canddature of neither
Brown nor Poepoe for Sheriff is en-
dorsed. The committee was then
charged with the duty of finding
whether some suitable candidate could
not be secured to run and to endorse
such person. The endorsements were
then as follows:
For Supervisor at large, either E. r.
Adams or A. Fernandez.
For Supervisors in Honolulu, George
w. Smith, John Lucas, and (subse-
quently suggested and endorsed by the
committee1 Joseph j. Fern.
For Supervisor in Eva, either Frank
| Archer or r. A. Woodward.
For Supervisor in Waialua, Andrew
Cox. County, Clerk, ID. Kalauokalani.
County Auditor, James Bicknell, County
Treasurer r. II. Trent. County At
, torney, either E. A. Douthitt or E. M.
Watson.
ENDORSEMENT OF HENRY.
At meeting of the Executive COM
mittee after the public meeting of the
association, it was ascertained that
Sheriff Henry had decided that he
would stand for the county of oahu.
He was Immediately endorsed.
There has been no selection of a
| candidate for Koolau, although the
| committee is thoroughly satisfied that
Dick Lane is an unfit person for the
position on account of we'll known
facts connected with his occupancy of
the position of Deputy Sheriff in that
district.
AS the persons endorsed for various
positions are well known in this COM
munity, 1t is hardly necessary to take
your valuable space now for specific
reasons for these endorsements, but as
the action of the Committee of the
Federation was against both Messrs.
Poepoe and Brown, it seems proper to
state some reasons therefor.
WHY BROWN is OPPOSED.
With regard to Mr., Brown, it seemed
to all of the members of the committee
a preposterous proposition that man
who had been dismissed from Office by
the Governor for improper conduct of
his Office should Immediately there
after be endorsed as a fit and proper
person to hold the office, but this was
Hol tHe olly ground OF WltnnOlulilP en-
| dorsement. 1t is n fact well known to
all of this community that while Mr..
Brown was High Sheriff. and previous
to annexation, while he was the mar
shall OF the Republic, certain forms of
graft and violations of law subversive
of good order and the well-being of the
community were in notorious existence,
and Mr.. Brown must be impaled upon
either horn of the dilemma, either first.
he was cognizant of the existence of
graft and of the existence OF improper
| conditions which should have been CON-
trolled by the police department and
was therefore himself guilty as the
head of the department of all that is
meant by the existence of such con-
| ditions; or, second with the facts star
ing him in the face and notorious, he
knew nothing of them and was there
fore unfit and Incompetent for Of
| flee. Under such circumstances any
other course than to refuse endorse
ment would have been fallacious and
weak.
| AS TO POEPOE.