The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-19
THE FIGHT
FOR SHERIFF
Continued from Page l.,

NSOAt1HuSO lIOHl age L.
ognition at the hands of the people
He does not think the convention was
| what it should be.
THE Fourth District broke faith
hard to bring our people to feel that
| it is all right for them to be turned
down over and over again. When the
| Fourth by a. preconcerted move, de-
| throned Lane through the defeat of
| his candidate, Fernandez, they did that
| which hurts the Fifth as much as any
thing else that has happened. 1t was an
understood thing with us that we were
| to have a man from our district in
| the Board of Supervisor and Nagaran
Fernandez was our man. We did not
want Dwight and we did want Maya
ran and we do not think it was
straight politics for the Fourth to pull
for a man from our district against
our wishes. We made a certain agree
ment with the Fourth and we kept our
part of it; we blame the Fourth for
disregarding principle by violating
their word to us. Personally do not
believe that Brown can recover from
the Slight he and his men put upon
u.s.
WANT A HOME RULER.
There is a determined effort being
made by the machine to get the Home
Rulers to nominate a candidate for the
shrievalty. It seems that the an
nouncement made by the friends of
Curtis Iaukea that he would be a can
didate for the office, which the
incumbent feels is his by Divine right,
cit no
center to circumference and yesterday
some of the men in the department.
who have Topped from one side of the
political fence to the other, were busy
during the day among the Home Rul-
ers trying to get one of them to run.
1t does not appear to make any diff
ference to them who it is so he is bad
enough to break in and get votes from
Iaukea. They realize that their E~pe
is in a split ticket. 1t is rumored in
connection with this, that the expenses
of any such candidate will be paid and
no questions asked; all that is wanted
is man who is willing to sacrifice
himself on the Brown altar.
LANE EXPRESSES HIMSELF.
John Lane is still sore over the re-
suit of the convention, he feels that he
was purposely thrown down by the
delegates from the Fourth.
Il claim that the Fourth District
leaders, regardless of faction, broke
faith with us. We kept our agreement
and while they may have won in the
convention they may not always be
successful. They ignored principle. We
had our man selected for the Board of
Supervisors and it was agreed between
US that we We're to nominate one man.
1t should not have made any differ
ence to them who we wanted. they
agreed that we should have one man
and we wanted him. You can see what
it looked like in the caucus when
Dwight got only ten while Fernandez
got forty votes. When we met in com
mittee Harry Murray said in contend
ing the point that we were not given
the right to name a man. Now we
left that open but we did not want a
man thrust upon us. We did not want
Dwight and would not have had him
under any circumstances before the
convention, but as party men we will
give him our fullest support at the
polls just the SINE as if he had been
our choice. 1t is going to be a close
fight for the reason that there will
be a split ticket all the way down the
line. The Fourth tried to break US
but we played fair. Fernandez was
our choice and we should have had
him. L cannot express my surprise at
the turn affairs took in the balloting.
1t is possible that this sort of thing
may have the approval of the Fourth
but it is not the plan we would have
carried OUT
The matter of Dillingham's defeat
seems now to be openly laid, by some
of the voters. and delegates from the
Fifth, a the door of the Sheriff. but
there are others who will tell you that
he played for his man at every stage
of the game. And the charge of treach-l
cry that has been placed against the
name of Sam Johnson has been wiped
out if men not particularly friendly to
him are to be believed. One of them
remarked yesterday that Sam, was all
right but that it was Brown who did
the trick He worked personally for
Dillingham; but had his men pretending
for Jim Quinn in the belief that he
would elect Moore by defeating Quinn.
The statement Of Mr.. Quinn was pub
Hshed in this column yesterday and it
does not seem to be denied Col. Jones
is emphatic against any suggestion
that Brown was treacherous to his
friend. He says he is positive that
Brown was supporting Dillingham; up
to the time he withdrew from the
ticket.