The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-14
CONVENTIONS
OUTLOOK
WILD!
Continued from Page l.,

tSOLliIlUeU rage Ii
cure the defeat of any rule, regarding
the personal pledge. The proposition
of shutting out a candidate who is in
every way qualified for the position,
simply because of a temporary absence
from the convention, is so ridiculous
upon its face that any attempt to throt-
tie decent representatives upon a tick
ct, should cover the movers of such a
scheme with shame.
If the rule is defeated it will mean
that Dillingham; and probably A. V.
Gear will be the nominees from the
Fourth district. With the adoption of
the rule the most probable nominees
according to present indications, will
he A. V. Gear and Jim Quinn The
prospects of Charles Hustace, Jr., do
not appear to be so bright The bal
ance OF power of the Fifth district
seems very likely to be thrown against
Hustace, who is understood to be one
- Johnson s candidates And so if
the pledge is required, it means the
probable nomination of two stalking
.lorseS tor the enemy.
Nagaran Fernandez is being tout
ed by the Fifth for the super
visorship. In fact, it is understood
that the secret ballot that is to be
enforced at the convention where the
various delegates can go into their lit
tie booths, secretly mark their tickets
and commit any political treachery that
they wish. was largely engineered by
the Lane element in favor of Fernan-
dez. But as the supporters of the
secret ballot have put it ''We want no
boss rule in this convention - The
delegates who have supported such a
rule, however, have done so utterly
unmindful and in many notorious in
stances, disregardful of the fact that
the members who elected them dele
gates to the convention are the
bosses and have the right to know
what their representatives have done.
But where politics is a profession and
chicanery an art of livelihood, a dis
regard of decent American political
methods is the inevitable consequence
To w. W. Harris for supervisor-at
large there is no opposition. a. An
drew Cox is almost certain to be NOM
mated at Waialua while Archer and
the Low forces seem to have about an
even break for Eva. F. T. P Water
house is understood to be supporting
Archer. The entrance of w. H. Hoogs
into the senatorial fight was too late
to be apt to be productive of more
than a ripple on the political surface.
BROWN FOR SHERIFF.
There is no fight on over the nom
nation of Sheriff. A. NJ. Brown, the
incumbent, will undoubtedly receive
a denomination on the first ballot.
No hint of any dark horse has
as yet been made, although Charles
Aehi is said to have something up his
sleeve in this respect. However it will
probably not be more than wooden
horse candidate for there is no pros
pect of any one being able to run
with any chance of success against
Brown. The latter attitude in the
supervisoral fight has been as coy as
the solitary waitress in western
mining camps He has been as slick
as Brer Rabbit in side-stepping prom
ises of support. The recent efforts to
smoke him out into declaration show
ed that Brown evidently liked the
smell of that kind of smoke. However
he is undoubtedly backing Dillingham;
and is now understood to be not I'M
friendly to Gear. That old johnson COM
bination that was effected before Jack
Lucas gave up the political ghost,
might cause Browns support to go to
Hustace.
James Bicknell the present Auditor
seems likely to be renominated without