The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-01
MACHINE IS
LOSING HOPE
Finds Too Much Split
Ticket Sentiment
to Suit.

On the first page of the Bulletin last
night was a sad wall over the pros
poets though the paper tried to make
itself believe that the machine still
has a little the best of it. The Bulletin
said:
The Republican campaign workers
are at present pusy sizing up the po-
lirfcal situation in a most systematic
manner. Every precinct is being han
died individually, and the political
choice of each individual voter is pc
inc figured as near as possible While
a good Republican majority is shown
by these calculations. the Democrats
coming next and the Home Rulers
ending the procession, the most dis
uuieting feature is the number of split
ticket voters which have been found.
There will apparently be more OF
these this election than there have
ever been before, and when the spht
ticket vote should fall in with the
Democrats. the combination will be
sufficient 20 beat the Republican cam
didates.
The split ticket in the Fourth will
concern mainly the Delegate, the Sher-
iff and the Deputy Sheriff. There are
many white voters who VIII vote Tor
McCianahan in preference to Kuhio.
and considerable number of disgrun-
tied Republicans will scratch Brown
and Vida, and vote the rest of the Re
publican ticket.
I'm the Fifth the split ticket is more
of a surprise. as the Hawaiians as a
Soly
Kuhio Brown and Vida are solid, and
the scratching will mainly be done on
the Supervisors and Senators.
The Democrats are figuring that
their own people will vote straight.
the ticket-scratchers in the Republi-
can party
RIVALS FOR BRECKONS.
The near approach to the end of the
term of United States Attorney Breck-
Cns was not well known before the
editorial comment in the Advertiser
yesterday and the result is a number
of local attorneys figuring out ways
and means to get the place. At least
three seem to think they have a chance
for it and will make the effort. Said
one:
AFTER THE JOB.
There is a fighting chance for a
Cood man to get the place if he begins
right and continues. 1 have been told
that Mr.. BreckOns will not make much
of a fight for reappointment, as he pre-
fers the climate of the western states
to that of Hawaii. The position is
lucrative one and there are few men
here who realize the value of it. I
remember it was the place GaIbraith
wanted when he received the appoint
ment as associate justice of the Su-
preme Court. He told me, after he
came down from Hilo to assume his
duties here. that he considered the Of
flee of L. S. District Attorney worth
at least ten thousand dollars a year,
and that the late Col. Little would
have had the appointment from the late
President Mckinley but for the fact
that he was afraid the Colonel would
be too radical in his expressions. Cal
braith came to the Territory for the
revenue it would bring him and when
he was not reappOinted to the Supreme
Court he went away. You will re-
member he went into the National
Democratic Convention on a proxy and
was one of the committee to notify
Candidate Parker of his nomination
After he left Hawaii for good he got
a hunch that Parker was to be elected
so he returned to Honolulu with, it is
said. gubernatorial bee in his bonnet
but when the Parker boom failed, Gail
braith fitted back to Oklahoma City,
where he now has desk room in the
,ffia Of Iea,1
there is a chance for a Democratic
President in 1903 I would not be sur.
prised to see him back with a good
job commission in his pocket The
District Attorneyshfp is about what he
wants. because it is for six years, but
that place will be filed before the cleo
ion of a@ President and Gal would have
to wait
VOTEeFOR FOUR.
The talk about O. vote for Brown.
kuhio and Vida and to h with the
'est of them continues, in spite of the
rebuke given a policeman by the Sher-
# at Aala Park the other night. And
ne rumor is worrying the candidates
on the Republican ticket. One of them
'emarked 10 a reporter for the Adver-
User Yesterday:
Il have just heard a strange thine
and it does not suit me at all. An
Intelligent half-white came to me
little while ago and told me he had
been trained to vote the straight
ticket. but he is now being irnportuned
% vote for four and to h with the
'est. l believe Brown is working for
he straight ticket all right. but I am
satisfied that there is some crooked
work going on among the candidates
for Supervisor. believe that Sam
Johnson is too anxious regarding the I