The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-03-13
POLITICS At
VERY LONG
RANGE

u II said that Senator John Lane is
to lead his good young men under the
banner OF kuhio. And what will Alex.
Robertson do then. poor thlng2
| Now, as matter Of fact, IL viii be
well To watch this Lane leadership. be-
cause {; really Is going to do some pie
turesque things. That prophecy was
made yesterday morning. IL has al
ready borne fruit The Lane leadership
did couple of picturesque things yes
terday ON the very first day that the
mask was taken off II. II proclaimed
Itself for Kuhio and II got behind the
sherif OF Oahu and drove him into
the open. There is some reason To
believe, by the way, that the Lane
sunday school class was not quite
ready to come out into the open itself
Yesterday the members of the class
being good young men of timid and
retiring disposition, more accustomed
to burrow underground and hide their
blushing modesty up dark alleys: but
fate and the trade wind betrayed them
by whispering their secrets into the
ears OF some people whose business Il ia
not TO keep things out of newspapers.
what prematurely.
Also, there was the wicked Mr..
Achi, who had TO be swatted, and the
noise of whose swatting got into
print. So the Lane leadcrhsip had to
make the announcement that it was
a leadership in the direction of Kuhio.
as well as away from Achi.
Now, everybody in town, save the
political writer's fnr aft
papers. knows that Kuhio is a candi-
date for reelection and has been for
months Kuhio knows a good thing
when he gets it--and is possessed Of
the perfectly human desire to hold
onto 1t. And, promise or no promise,
Kuhio is going to try to stay. In
passing, 1t may be noted that Kuhio
will be pretty hard man to beat. You
see, 1t was a most terrible thing for
Achi to bolt the straight ticket-but
there can not be the least harm in the
world to Kuhio making a promise to
stand aside. and then not standing
aside. Not In the eyes of Mr. Lanes
Virtuous young men. Kuhio might
have forgotten the promise. No doubt
he has. Senator Lane forgot some
things himself, so Lorrin Andrews
used to say. He even forgot them af-
ter he had been reminded of them.
The quality of political forgetting is
one of the highest attributes of cul-
tured statecraft The fellow who can
do 1t the best Is the best statesman
but he must see to 1t that the other
fellow does not forget, too. That is
the objectionable sin, in the other fell
low.
All the same, IL Delegate Kuhio has
any friends in town-any sure enough
friends-they will do well to keep an
eve upon Mr.. Lanes good young men.
Because, the Sage of Kaneohe has not
been heard from officially on this mat
ter-and there will be no calculations
safe on the race for Delegate to Con-
gress that leave McCandless out of
the reckoning. Not while the sun
shines and the water runs in Ko-
olauloa and Kooiaupoko! II you think
That Charley Clarke and the other lit
Tie Lane fellows are going to get away
with the works without knowing thar
they nave been in a fight, ask Jack
Lucas He will have something to
say when 1t comes to the long last
and will say 1t with force and effect.
Moreover, 1t is an old game in poll
tics to put man up a long time in
"'''''NN "hb ec MIL llIil lUt more tI-
fectually, and while John Lane is not
long, as has been said aforetime Il
has also been said by a political wise
man that he turns with an easv facil-
ity astonishing i'm a gentleman of his
learning and dignity. And so, while 1t
is entirely possible that the Lane
leadership is I'm the interest of Kuhio
today Kuhio is long way off and a
trade wind from Kaneohe may come
whistlins across the Pail tomorrow
and whisk Lane entirely aground Be
cause, that McCandless partnership in
the Senate was very real thing.
Beyond that, there Is the possbil-
ity that Alex. Robertson may have
deep hand in the Lane movement-al-
though Alex. is not saying anything
He never does say anything. But he
looks as wise right now as he ever
mas looked-and he may have come to
the conclusion :hat when the turn
comes II Will come his way.
The Sheriff OF Oahu is i'm the turn
ing class, too, II appears, and so has
come rising up TO the bait thrown him
10 announce that he is a candidate for
reelection. He had previously an
nounced that he would not be. both in
print and to his friends, who would
really like to see him step aside, for
reasons. But the Sheriff is q fish that
rises TO the fly very easily Most like
" he will say today that he will not
be candidate, because the Advertiser,
taking him at his word, hereby says
that he VIII be- All OF which implies
a state OF mind that must be uncom-
Portable 10 the Sheriff-albeit amusing
to the rest OF us.
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