The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-13

1 went to a Republican meeting the
other night, It doesn't matter where.
The speeches were all right and the
crowd was big and I stood i'm the rear
and watched and listened. Suddenly
i'm that mysterious, inexplicable manner
I'm which rumors are sometimes cir
culated, it began to be whispered that
somewhere not far from the madding
crowd there was a keg of beer Men
might be seen growing uneasy at ora
tory and then silently stealing away
to where a dim but far from religious
light was surrounded by ghostlike fig
ures. I followed. Soon it seemed
that most of the meeting was clustering
about that magnet keg. There was
one large native who had evidently
discovered it early and made the most
of his find. STILL he had an oliver
Twist demand The dispenser of the
cool refreshment was con- to him, how
ever and allowed the glasses to pass
him by. Oliver Twist became insistent
and was finally told to get out A
most painful look overspread his man
| ly features and for a moment he SEEM
| ed to stare incredulously at the superin-
tendent of the keg. Then he spoke:
"All right,-Tr go and vote the Home
Rule ticket"
And he strobe away through the
crowd amid the laughter of those more
favored at the shrine.
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One of the heads of the Territorial
government recently received an earn
est applications for employment from
a Hawaiian He had to turn 1t down
"All our positions are filed" he said
cor at least all we have any appropria-
ton for. The men we have are all
right and of course I keep them. The
department has no money to pay you
if put you on"
'Well," said the applicant chow
about a part of your own salary?"
The Hawaiian did not get a job.
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w. A. Kinney is very busy man ir
politics and I fear that unless he give:
his office clerk better instructions some
of his sedate and religious friends will
begin to lose faith in him. Kinney has
been passing frequent intervals of time
at the Democratic headquarters in the
Waverley Hall which happens to be IL
the second story of the same buildine
in which tie Criterion saloon is located
Whenever anybody went to his law
office to make inquiry, the clerk would
say that Kinney was at the Democratic
headquarters. Not everybody knew tn
location, so the clerk hit on the plan o
saying ooh he is over the Criterion
: Saloon" in order to give more eX
: plicit direction. He told it to SOM
of Kinney's religious clients tht othe
day and now l understand that the.
have threatened to transfer their bust
ness if the lawyer does not mend hi
ways and abandon politics
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Secretary Taft telling the Cuban
, that the United States will Withdraw
from their island as soon as fair cleo
tions can be secured, is an interestin
q attitude for an American. If I wer
q one of the Cuban scrappers l shoul
be inclined to tell the secretary tina
it is time for some nation to interven
in certain American states and hold o
{ until fair elections can be assured
which, under the theory of fairnes
contemplated by the law, would be
very long time.
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7 I understand that there We're a lot c
j heart burnings in the local Japanes
community over the Anegawa receL
ton. 1t seems that many of the "con
mon people" thought they were nc
sufficiently recognized on the list {
e those invited to attend. The resu
was a failure of some of the uppt
classes to respond, for they felt thG
c they might be earning the resentmeT
of the common ones Rumor has i
in fact, that there was a carefully lai
plan by some of the gambling and sport
element, to get warship invitations, TT