The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-13
FEARS A COLONIAL
GOVERNMENT
A CORRESPONDENT WHO SEES IN
GOVERNOR CARRIERS ATTITUDE
A COVERT THREAT OF IT.

EDITOR STAR: There has been a
good deal of talk of late about the
Governor taking part in politics, so
much so that, it seems very clear, les
pecially from the standpoint of man
up a tree) there is a good deal Of truth
in it, for its an old saying, where there
| is smoke there is fire."
| When we take i'm consideration his
manners during this last month or so.
! it comes very wildly to ones magma
! ton something was brewing i'm his
noddle to a point of busting. We were
not far wrong i'm our prediction for be-
| hold! it has busted sooner than we had
anticipated, for he has at last shown
! the cloven foot, listen.
What will they say of me in Wash
! ington if A. NJ. Brown is elected for
| County Sheriff, the man who / dis
! missed from Office for cause and a man
| in whom l have no confidence as an
officer of the Territory, again. He tried
/ his level best to have Rawlins accept a
nomination on the Civic Federation
! county ticket for sheriff and II. Vida
! for deputy and for Kalakiela the reg
| ular candidate for deputy sheriff on the
! Republican ticket to withdraw i'm favor
! of Vida, and further said, that they
| would be elected for he would get one
of his henchmen (Sam Johnson) to his
support with his crowd and when an
| interview was sought by a member OF
the press on the subject, he refused,
thinking perhaps he had got his fool
! in 1t by his own utterances in the pa
pers, and therefore would try to hedge
off the best way he could l could go
| on and mention numerous quotations
of his, but suffice for the present later
on l will give some more, as l want now
! to refer back to his objection to Mr..
Brown
What has A. NJ. Brown done that he
should be so anxious for his defeat in
! the coming election? has he done any
! wrong while High Sheriff of the Ter
| ritory? If so, what is it? We are not
/ aware of the fact that he was ever
| hauled up before the Grand Jury for
any crime if he was, we would like to
/ known when. If he was not hauled
up what is his crime that the Governor
speaks Of when he says he dismissed
nun for cause, what cause?
TrOt it out Governor. trot if out. Do
your duty We would like to know. for
may be we could help you to snow him
! uhqer, but you can be assured well do
nothing of the kind unless we have
good and substantial reason, reason by
the way, you cannot produce, for it Won
had them they would be forthcoming
long before this. Governor YOU must
bear in mind, prisoner before the bar
IS supposed to be innocent until he is
| proved guilty but in Browns case he is
not even before the bar or Grand Jury
or any other jury, only perhapsin yours
or Hatter's mind. Speaking of Halter,
| what has become of all the cases he
was the means of bringing to the courts
II my memory serves me right, they
! were all mol pressed with the exception
/ L believe of one and that one was so
! plain that an old woman could have
done as well as Halter to bring a con-
| Viction. If the Governor and brother
Halter are the only witnesses in Brown
| VS. the Territory of Hawaii, then that
settles it, Brown is not guilty, now, nor
/ never was, so far, so good.
| Can the public so lack reason
! ing that they can be so esaily hood
| NlHhtu INTO Dellet that the gov
ernor was really in earnest when he
said that he has tried to keep the gov
eminent employees out of the campaign ?
Can the people believe it after the p.
c. a. comes out boldly and says Sam
johnson is for Henry Believe! l
guess not to be plain the Governor
! and his crowd is in it with both feet,
and let us not for a minute forget it.
! 1t seems to me there is something more
behind all of this miX-up, than the ma
tural results, of any ordinary political
campaign, can it be the forerunner for
a smash for a colonial form of gov
| eminent? When one takes in consider
alton the attitude of the Governor one
cannot help thinking to himself. There S
a niger in the fence somewhere.
ANOTHER CAMPAIGNER.