The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-09-14
CONVENTIONS
OUTLOOK
WILD!


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cure the defeat Of any rule, regarding
the personal pledge. The proposition
| of shutting out candidate who Is In
every way qualified for the position
simply because of temporary absence
from the convention. is so ridiculous
upon its face that any attempt to throt.
tie decent representatives upon a tick
ct. should cover the movers of such a
scheme with shame.
If the rule is defeated it will mean
| that Dillingham; and probably A. V.
| Gear will be the nominees from the
| Fourth district. With the adoption of
the rule the most probable nominees
according to present indications, will
be A. V. Gear and Jim Quinn. The
prospects of Charles Hustace, Jr., do
not appear to be so bright. The bal
ance of power of the Fifth district
seems very likely to be thrown against
Hustace, who is understood to be one
of Johnson's candidates. And so if
the pledge is required, it means the
| probable nomination of two stalking
horses for the enemy.
| Nagaran Fernandez Is being tout
ed by the Fifth for the super
visorship. In fact, it is understood
that the secret ballot that is to be
| enforced at the convention where the
various delegates can go into their lit
| tie booths, secretly mark their tickets
and commit any political treachery that
they wish, was largely engineered by
the Lane element in favor of Fernan-
DEE. Bat as the supporters of the
secret ballot have put it ''We want no
boss rule in this convention - The
delegates who have supported such a
rule, however, have done so utterly
unmindful and in many notorious in
stances, disregardful of the fact that
the members who elected them dele
gates to the convention are the
bosses and have the right to know
what their representatives have done.
But where politics is profession and
chicanery an art of livelihood, dis
regard of decent American political
methods is the Inevitable consequence.
To W. w. Harris for supervisorat
large there is no opposition. A. An
drew Cox is almost certain to be nom
mated at Waialua while Archer and
the Low forces seem to have about an
even break for Eva. +. T. p. Water
house is understood to be supporting
Archer. The entrance of w. II. Hoogs
into the senatorial fight was too late
to be apt to be productive of more
than ripple on the political surface.
BROWN FOR SHERIFF.
There is no fight on over the NOM
ination of Sheriff. A. NJ. Brown, the
incumbent, will undoubtedly receive
q denomination on the first ballot.
No hint of any dark horse has
as yet been made, although Charles
Achi is said to have something up his
sleeve in this respect. However it will
probably not be more than a wooden
horse candidate for there is no pros
pect of any one being able to run
with any chance of success against
Brown. The latter's attitude in the
supervisoral fight has been as coy as
the solitary waitress in western
mining camp. He has been as slick
as Brer Rabbit in side-stepping prom
Uses of support. The recent efforts to
smoke him out into declaration show
ed that Brown evidently liked the
smell of that kind of smoke However
he is undoubtedly backing Dillingham;
and is now understood to be not UNI
friendly to Gear. That old johnson COM
bination that was effected before Jack
Lucas gave up the political ghost,
might cause Browns support to 90 to
Hustace
James Bicknell the present Auditor
seems likely to be renominated without
much difficulty. H. M. Dow has been
working hard to secure the support of
various delegates but he is not expect
ed to cut very much figure for this
office. Joseph Kunewa of Eva, who
has been connected with the tax office
for some years. is late candidate for
the authorship. He has the support
of the Fifth district 70
There is no opposition to Fred II. p.
Waterhouse for the office of Treasurer,
nor to ID. Kalauokalani Jr. for the
office of County Clerk.
COUNTY ATTORNEY.
The County Attorneyship will bring
out three candidates, ], w. Cathcart,
who has the support of the Brown
element, and the support of L. A.
Douthitt the present County Attorney,
Frank Andrade the special prosecutor
and Carlos A. Long. The indications
are now that Cathcart will be nominat-
ed. Andrade will have a strong fol-
suese contingent. Carlos Long seems
to have forgotten, IT, indeed, he ever
knew. which is highly improbable
that man named Lord Sackvile West
once wrote a letter on the eve of a
political campaign in the United States
IN 1888 and that letter cost Grover
Cleveland reelection and Vests dip
lomatic disgrace. Carlos seems likely
to have relegated himself TO the ranks
of the sere and yellow leafed letter
writer's. That touching appeal TO the
natives to give him another and a bet
ter job than the last one he held, seems
to have. put the quietus on his pros
poets for the attorneyship. In fact
Delegate Kuhio who was credited with
being the sponsor for Long, is under
stood to have metaphorically jumped
all over the political frame of Long,
which by the way, is as attenuated
as his corporeal frame is generous in
LANES ATTITUDE.
1t seems certain that the Lane ele-
ment will make every effort to stand by