The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-16
AMONG THE
POLITICIANS
Gossip of the Street
About Passing
Campaign.

"An Iaukea needs said an ex-ma-
chinist the other day, "is a fair count
something fairer than he had wher
he was a candidate for Delegate. Il
he gets that I believe you will see the
end of the machine in Honolulu"
! This remark brought out a question
as to the reason for it: WAS it pos
sible that the claim of Iaukea, on which
he took his case to Washington, was
based on any act of the opposition?"
sTo the extent that the ballots We're
juggled." replied the man. Il know
positively that it was the intention of
the Republican machine to throw out
the votes if the Democratic candidate
was found to be in the lead. l know
positively that four men, leaders in the
Republican machine, left the Republi-
can headquarters on election night for
the Seventh Precinct polling place, in
the Fifth District, with orders to rough
house the place if the count showed
Iaukea ahead. Each man had his duty
cut out for him from the turning over
of the table to smashing the light
globes and carrying out the ballot box.
That is not pipe-dream, but an hon
est fact and the men who took part
in that mission are pretty active in the
control of the police machine today.
personally have nothing against Brown,
but l do object to keeping him in Of
flee to run the department of graft on
machine principles. l do not believe
the public has any particular grievance
against the Sheriff aside from his de-
termination to keep in the employ OF
the government men who are known
to be grafters and dishonest men. 1t
is all rot to say he must keep those
men in the employ of the department;
1 know he can do without them if he
wants to. I heard Willie Harris say
the other day that the only way to
defeat the Sheriff in his attempt to run
the department on such extravagant
lines was to put in the Board of Super
visors men who will cut down the ap-
propria ton to half the amount he gets
now. 1 am anxious to see how much
Harris will vote for if he is elected.
He knows Brown and the necessities of
the men who run the machine and
want to see what he will do to keep
them up or down."
And what that man says seems to be
a not uncommon opinion. They do not
object to Brown, but to the friends he
supports They do not like the idea
of having a convicted larcenist placed
on the government payroll directly he
is released from the Jail, nor can they
reconcile the fact that there is a
large force of paid spies, presumably
unknown to evildoers, with the fire.
quent robberies and the continuous
crap games on the public streets. What
do the spies do for their pay?
To continually print sayings of indi-
viduals without giving their names
suggests made-in-the-sanctu stories,
but the fact is, the persons who give
out information are in most instances
men closely connected with the Repub-
lican party in Honolulu and they dare
not talk for publication. One of them
said to a reporter for the Advertiser
the other day that it would be better
if his name was not at any time men
toned in the Advertiser because, as the
reporter was occasionally seen in the
gentleman's office it might be suspect
ed that he was one who was giving in
formation and the fact might hurt him.