The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-28
JOHNSON TO
Be LEADER
Sam Proposed as Head
OF the Oahu County
Committee.

| lead the Oahu County Republican Com
mittee out of the dreamland into which
| it has wandered. Sam Johnson is tn.
man. None other.
Not mel" said Sam. when he wa,
! asked about the thing. Not me.
| am a government official, and-well,
am a government official"
| Sam is coy-but he will serve. And
| indeed, why should he not? The one
| invaluable possession that the Count,
| Republican Committee of Oahu has i;
| the bundle of traditions on 'how tC
| do politics" left to it by Lorrin An
| drews of Shanghai, and Sam is the
| direct inheritor of those traditions
Lorrin used to sit in his office anC
direct-but Sam did the politics. There
is not another man in the islands who
has had his training. And when Sam
takes the headshio of the county COM
mittee, he will Immediately begin to
do things
That will not be a good hearing for
the Lane little fellows who had pro-
posed to interject their Sunday School
class into the breach, but there isn't
really a single scholar in the lot who
is sufficiently advanced to take the
lead in the serious crisis that confronts
the party in Oahu county at this pres
ent moment of time. Brother Jim
Quinn would not do, all things con-
sidered. although he has had very
wide and comprehensive experience.
He has, in fact, had all the expert
ence that there is, almost. He has
been on all the tickets, save the Civic
Federation, and there is reason to be-
lieve once had hopes in that direc
ton. But no more. 1t is Brother Jim
to the Sunday School class. now-and
it will be the class to the woods if it
ever should chance that the great pub
lie gets to swatting the pledge break
ers.
THE PLEDGE BREAKERS.
Not a guilty man of the lot would
get away, from Kuhio up. Clarence
Crabbe even says now that Brother
Arthur Brown promised not TO run,
after he had been given his vindica-
ton. And that is a sad commentary
on the faith that men keep-in politics.
Incidentally, while there is a settling
of affairs promised in the County Com
exclusion of all the little fellows. there
is a most astonishing dearth of can
didates for office on the Territorial
ticket. They have named Kuhio, the
Lane little chaps. and everybody else
has been willing to let it go at that.
Nobody seems to want to go to the
legislature save Andrade and Harris
and Harris is probably sentenced for
he 70 6c ipIJ q
is wanted in the House as a fnancier
in the interest of the business men.
And he is not wanted in the Senate,
where there are already two distingu-
ished inanciers in the persons of Dow
sett and Faxon Bishop. both holdovers.
Andrade is wanted in the House, al
so, for the reason that he is lawyer.
And that is the extent to which specu-
lation has gone on the Legislative tick
ct. And yet there is q large amount
of most important legislative work to
be done at the coming session. Maybe
it is the most important work that
ever has been presented to the iegis-
lature, not even emitting the passage
of the county act. There viii be some
amendments to be offered, it is likely,
to the county act itself. because it has
all particulars.
Then. there are the schools to be
taken care of, and the prison labor
problem to settle, and the matter of
the importation Of white settlers as
plantation laborers to come up for
consideration.
CANDIDATES WANTED.
Not a doubt that there will be much
to be done-and not a man has yet
ventured to whisper a single name tor
the senatorial or house ticket on Ca
hu, save the names of Harris and An
drade 1t is true that some effort has
been made to get Senator d. +. X
Isenberg, who presided over the last
Senate with so much dignity, to enter
the lists again; but Mr.. Isenbers is not
in robust health and while he would
make a strong run and a good Senator.
it is not though probable that he will
consent to make the race.
Oh. yes: Link McCandless will con-
sent to run again for the Senate, If
his boom for delegate in the room OF
Kuhio should perish of spring dwin-
dIing-a contingency that the Sage OF
Kaneohe is by no means prepared to
admit is within the bounds of prob
ability.
There are three Senators, and
twelve members of the House to be
elected from Oahu this fall
| And, while the Republicans are thus
| wandering around in the darkness, al
| is not so serenely happy in the ranks
| of the enemy as the enemy might
wish, perhaps. There is the usua
| fusion talk, but the Democrats are
once more hanging back because, while
| they are few, they fear that the rea
| Home Rulers are fewer-and if there
| is aught to be made from the division
! of the dominant party, the unterrl1ec
prefer to make it all themselves. They
| are not harmonious about making it
| either. 1t is said that the good Dickor
! Trent is not persona grata any more
! with Supervisor Moore. and as those
| two represent about all the county
! will he seen that