The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-11-10
TOWN TALK
BY The Man About Town, n

am sorry to know that Arthur
Brown is to contest the election. He
ought to take his medicine like man
and abide by the result of the count
The decent people Of this city, by their
votes, proved that they do not want
him for a second term. Really, l did
! not think that he would listen to leg
pulling" lawyers and others who are
trying to gain Selfish ends Re66unts
usually result in favor Of the man who
| is ahead on election day=dnless some
great fraud has been sfacticed. In
this case, it is admitted that the cleo
ton was conducted honestly and Tau
kea was elected and he WIZ be the
next sheriff of this county.
see that George Davis has COM
meneed suit against Kuhio for $4,000;
am not surprised at this. Several
days previous to the election, Davis
told people, in the strictest confidence,
ef course, and then they turned around
aha repeated the story, that he, Davis,
was not going to vote for Cupid; that
| he would, the day after election, COM
! mence suit against the "AhLeej" spell
ing not guaranteed, ahd for once, at
! least Davis kept his word. This Is
treason--just think of a Republican
orator suing the Republican delegate.
My! but some so-called Republicans
are a "tres" bum lot
William Savidge was straight
ticket" man and is an ardent Repub-
Iican; now he is looking for the man
who placed a picture of Deacon
Trent in his office window. The pic
ture remained in the window for sew
eral DAYS until Savidge discovered it.
Eugene O'Sullivan is said to be the
guilty man but he claims an alibi
SSSS
I see that Wade Warren Thayer the
| Democratic candidate for county at
torney, expressed himself as well
pleased with the run he had made and
as especially pleased over the fact
that he had defeated J. w .Cathcart in
Cathcarts precinct. Cathcart has not
! come back at Thayer but if he so de-
sired, he could express fully as much
and with more satisfaction than
| Thayer Cathcart not only was elected
but he beat Thayer and Noar both in
their precinct the first, Cathcart had
a majority vote over the combined vote
of the two opposing candidates. So in
the words of an illustrious governor OF
any old Southern state, the drinks are
on Thayer.
Bv the way there must be an air of
gloom around the Waikiki section OF
town. No less than three defeated can
didates live in that section-Brown
Thayer and Noar. Gee but this is
dismal town." is probably the tune
that the trio is singing.
SSSS
wish I knew of something else but
politics to record this week but the
smoke of the battle is still in my nos
trils. the sound of the conflict still in
my ears The part that many OF the
native police played in the recent cleo
ton was, as the natives put it KAPPA
kahi, in plain English crooked as a
rams horn. In figuring over the re-
turns for sheriff, for instance, II one
finds in any precinct where a lot OF
natives lived that Iaukea secured a
majority over Brown, it is safe to bet
that a pack of policemen lived in that
precinct. Down in the Fifth Precinct
of the Fourth district there were eleven
policemen living, and Iaukea got ma
iority of IS over Brown. In another
precinct in the fifth district where there
were about q police votes, Iaukea got
a majority of about 80.
But one of the tragedies of the re-
cent campaign occurred in the second
precinct of the fourth district. AND
the downfall of Brown came through
the agency of a hoo-deo that intertered
with the plans of the combination III
the convention. 1t had been framed
up in the convention to have r. A
Douthitt nominate Brown in an elo-
uuent speech, but Makalena police
man who had administered the func-
lions of dog catcher in times past
Jumped to his feet with yelp that he
probably had learned from some canine
that he had chucked into the dog wa
eon and nominated Brown. Makalena
was placed in charge of the native
voters i'm the second precinct, as the
police worker. He was supposed to
be able to deliver them and he did-to
Iaukea.
SSSS
| will watch with keen interest the
policy that the new Sheriff will pursue
with regard to certain members of
! the police force. Brown may have run
machine but it was certainly not a
perfect one. Instead of firing bodily
the men who had knitted him in times
past, he foolishly retained them. There
is one notable instance in the case OF
native officer who is high in the SER
vice of the police and old and expert
enced in the art of political treachery
: The voters in the region of that
mans home all threw Brown
, down hard in the recent cleo