The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-30
GEORGE DAVIS ON POLITICS,
WEATHER AND ORANGE TREES

: of President Dole, man who pleased
r the sycophants who surrounded the
Hawaiian throne, courier, man who
/, had joined within five years all three
parties, but personally beloved. When
: the polls closed, after two in the morn
: ing, the Sheriff of Oahu County, the
Republican candidate, was beaten by
Is votes. Iaukea, the ex-envoy, was
Sheriff of Oahu County, and head of
the police. Here come the ships of all
nations. Here come on the various
steamships hardened criminals from
Australia and the mainland. Whether
the mild and genial Curtis p. Iaukea
will fill the place to the satisfaction OF
the law-abiding citizens of Hawaii re-
mains to be demonstrated.
The Republicans swept the County
with their Legislative ticket. They got
two Senators, some of the Supervisors,
| the County Attorney, Clerk and Audi
| tor, but Deacon Trent, from the seced-
treasurer Who won the fight for Sup
ervisors? 1t is a Honolulu mystery.
| You would have to get a Honolulu girl
| to tell you. The hulahula dance was
INDUCED In during the campaign. The
sweet songs of Hawaii Mel were sung
By Hawaiian singers. who went round
to the polling booths in automobiles.
All day the weather was fine The
| r. at oh
and the trade winds famed US. The
one hundred hell holes in Honolulu
| called saloons were closed up tighter
than a drum by the strong arm OF the
| law, backed by public opinion. The
| fighting seventh precinct of the County
| had no fights, nor were the ballot boxes
tempered with. The inspectors of cleo
] ton had been chosen with great care
| by the Governor, but We're a little par
| tial, for be it known that George Car
| ter, Republican Governor, had his
Ratchet out for the Sheriff. He had
bolted his party on that office; he does
not love Brown; and the best sheriff
Hawaii ever had went down to defeat
by the aid of mugwump votes.
You would think that 1t was a presi-
Dental election. Why. the people here
think that this is the center of the uni
verse. 1t is the climate, the sugar, the
smallness Of the islands, and our isola-
ton that warps the judgments and
narrows the minds of our Inhabitants.
Honolulu, all Hawaii, elected Prince
Cupid to Congress. He swept the terri |
tory. He was the Republican nominee;
the Hawaiians, regardless of party,
voted for him; all the Cinnamon, en-
titled to vote, are Republicans. The
Portuguese got offended and the ma
lied Americans voted as they pleased, |
and it would be hard to tell how they
voted or who they supported. It took
about sixteen hours to count the bal !
assembled to get the returns; and such
excitement, but no fights like in old ST. |
John when Tilley and DeVeber were
engaged in a hand to hand political !
love peace: they talk; they do not |
strike unless liquor flows. The night |
closed without a street fight, but it was
a quiet day In the sugar barons' land. |
The natives will continue to talk about ,
it, until the next election comes around. |
In the parks, on the streets and squares,
with the mild tropical climate of this |
fair Hawaiian land, oratory of no mean
order had flowed from the lips of
spielers and partizans for six weeks
before election.
Let US hope that the yield of sugar
may be half a million tons next year
and that Congress will put bounty on
coffee. and it ought to protect its new
possessions. This will do more toward
making happy and contepted people |
on these Islands of the Sea, now part
of the indissoluble union Of indestructf-
bic states and territories, than all the
theories and policies Of a hundred polit-
ical parties I think we have had too
much of politics. At the next election
the Republican party will be reorganfz-
ed and the grand old party that Lin
coin formed and that Blaine. noblest
Roman Of them all, guided through it's
darkest hours, will sweep this infant
territory of Hawaii
The orange trees are now in full
bloom, the ripe Strawberries are !,
brought to our doors every morning by
Chinese fruit vendors Verilv this is
a fair land, and the most lovely climate
on the face of the globe. Aloha Nui.
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