The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-06
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huskies who were lunas in the road
department during the last election,
and has given them jobs as club swing
ers in return for the exercise of that
political skill which they are supposed
to have picked up under the able
leadership of Sam Johnson.
Maybe these ex-lunas are wise-and
then again, maybe they are not 1t is
currently reported that Sam relapses
into Russian in his deepest political
moments-and, if he does, there is not
a luna on these islands this side of
Kappa who can fathom his methods.
Anyway, Sheriff Brown had his
workers at called meeting in Palama
one night this week, and succeeded
in mastering six, so the Fishmarket
gossips say. The next night he had a
mass meeting, and that time he got
out twenty-five, fourteen of them po-
licemen, the six workers aforesaid and
two citizens. 1t is most astonishing
thing, what those Fishnarket gossips
will say between bites of dried squid.
LANES SCHEME.
The Brown men have been holding
mass meetings in Kakaako, too, with
the policemen massed for the most
part, and it is said that Jim Quinn
with his Supervisoral aspirations has
been silent member of these gather
ings. In fact. Brother Jim is not go
ing to play a speaking part in this
coming campaign-althoughh he is going
to play part. It would not be cam
paign, if he didn't.
If precedent goes for anything, it
will be a losing part. The trouble with
Brother Quinn, this time is that he
has got into that little Lane Sunday
school class apparently without a very
clear understanding of what it was all
about. And it is very simple. They
will tell You the whole story at the
Fishmarket any time. Having elected
himself a leader, Mr.. Lane wants to
make his calling and election sure, and
SO while his Sunday school scholars
are pretending to support Ned. Adams
for Supervisor-at-Large and Abraham
Fernandez for Supervisor from the
Fifth District to the loss of Democrat
Moore, as a matter of fact the scheme
is said by the gossips to be to throw
down Adams at the last moment in the
interest of Fernandez. and let Moore
slip back into his present place.
With Fernandez and Moore in the
Board in his interest, Lane would be
a really leader, and might be able to
deliver the goods to his friends, and
get control of the road department and
the bulk of the county patronage. The
Senate would be nothing to this.
RELATIONS LABELED.
1t is even said that Lane made
speech at Moiliili in which he advised
the natives to vote his straight
ticket. regardless of party. which
would seem to be something of a de-
parture for the good little leader of
the Sunday school class. Maybe that
was what Jimmie Boyd and Lane had
their war of words about-and maybe
that war Of words was because Boyd
objected to Lane poaching on his pre-
serves at Moiliili. Anyway, relations
between these two have been some
what strained this past week-which
is calamity because when the prom
Use breakers begin to fall into factions,
men who keep faith are apt to get
what is coming to them.
Incidentally. the little Lane fellows
have been trying to get a road luna
fired from his job for alleged friendli-
ness with the bad Mr. Achi, but the
road committee of the Supervisors has
so far declined to be drawn into the
struggle of factional politics, and so
there has been nothing doing in that
particular case. The bad Mr. Achi,
on his part, is lying low-but has a hat
full of bricks, and a sure aim to Shy
one at any head that is poked up.
The Supervisors, while they are very
quiet, are not altogether idle. 1t is
rumored that both Mr.. Lucas and Mr..
Archer have had labels designed to put
on their nephews, so that those youths
will be safe from insult at the hands
of the ravening Douthitt detective. one
Lake, to wit, whose single apparent
purpose in living is to make life I'M
pleasant for young male relatives of
gentlemen in authority. And that is
kind of lese-majeste that the Super
visors will not stand for. They can
endure Dickon Trent, on pinch. The
people compel it. A has Detective
Lake