The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-18
HENRY'S STRENGTH
GROWS GREATER
WITH EACH DAY
The Brown Men Bring Out the Poepoe Scare.
crow Again but the Poor Thing
Frghtens Nobody.

The tide of Henry's strength rises
Led by their knowledge that the waters
are closing over them, the Brown man
ayers are willing to resort to the most
desperate expedients to save their for
tunes from the flood. Yesterday tale
was circulated industrious1y to the eff
ffeet that an attempt was being made
to get Poepoe to withdraw at the last
moment in the Brown interest. 1t was
the old scarecrow once more, and the
town laughed once more. For what
difference does it make whether Poe
poe is in the race or out of it? He
cuts no figure, one way or the other.
desperate attempt to work the Home
Rule scarecrow to frighten the busi-
ness community The scarecrow is will
ing enough. of course, but the business
men refuse to be frightened They
want an honest and business-like ad-
ministration of public affairs, and pro-
want to sustain the administration of
Governor Garter for the credit of Ha-
waii. and propose to vote to sustain
it. And. wanting these things, and
having these purposes, they have made
up their minds to elect William Henry
Sheriff. and to choose a Board of Su-
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trustworthy. So the poor old scare
crow finds itself out of job.
STORM THE CAPITOL GROUNDS.
Led by Attorney Ashford, the fusion
lists stormed and captured the band
stand in the Capitol grounds last night.
How like old times that sounds, Sub
stitute another Ashford, and CALI the
Capitol the Palace and that state
ment might have been taken from a
leaf in the past history of Hawaii. The
fusionists, it seems, had asked permis-
sion to hold their meeting inside the
Capitol grounds, and the permission
had been refused. 1t was not a very
big meeting, and would not have done
much harm anyway but it has not been
the custom to have meetings of any
political party there. The grounds be-
long to the people, it is true but not
to the political parties
That however was not the logic of
Mr. Ashford The fusion crowd gath
cred in the square outside the grounds,
and had neither platform nor accom-
rnodations for speakers. The band
stand was invitingly within reach.
They have refused us permission to
speak there" shouted Ashford. yet
that is public property. 1t belongs to
us. They have shut the side gate,
even, to keep us out. Pick up your
torches and follow me. We will speak
there
THEY FOLLOW HIM.
They picked up their torches and
followed him And they held a meet
ing. peacefully and disturbed by no
body, within the Capitof grounds. 1t
was much more comfortable on the
grass there than it would have been
on the hard road in the square out
side, and perhaps the crowd staid bet
ter because of that. Because the
speeches We're not entertaining. 1t was
not a big crowd. There We're not more
the outside. 1t was. in fact. the kind
of crowd that gives the scarecrow of
Home Rule success evoked by the
Brown managers in the interest of the
{icket which is called straight" symp-
toms of heart failure.
How can that poor scarecrow do
anything a all for it's owners when
the best the Home Rulers can do is
to get together the kind of small crowd
that gathered in the Capitol grounds
last night? II is discouraging to the
campaign managers and candidates
who are running away from the scare
crow to have the balance of the town
stand still and laugh at them. Sure
ly. it is to smile. For the gang can
never get back to that dear police
station. if the people will continue
thus stubbornly incredulous and deter
mined to elect straight men and not
straight tickets to office. And any
way, a ticket can not be straight that
has crooked men on it.
REPUBLICAN RALLY
The Republicans had the biggest
that they have managed to
get together during this campaign at
Aala Park last night. 1t was Satur-
day night and people were out to be
There must have been seven
or eight hundred voters there, at the
very least. and any number of women
and children. and Chinese and Japan
csc who We're not voters. The Chinese
and Japanese always turn out largely
at these Aala Park functions. 1t
amuses them to see how excited the
Americans get when they are tran