The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-10
POL ITICS At
VERY LONG
RANGE
Lanes GOOD Young Men
Are Driven From
Cover.

I
to lead his good young men under the
| banner of Kuhio. And what will Alex.
| Robertson do then, poor thing?
| Now, as a matter of fact, it will be
well to watch this Lane leadership, be-
cause it really is going to do some pic
turesque things. That prophecy was
made yesterday morning. Tt has al
ready borne fruit Tie Lane ieaaershlp
did a couple of picturesque things yes
terday, on the very first day that the
mask was taken off it. 1t proclaimed
Itself for Kuhio and it got behind the
Sheriff of Oahu and drove him into
the open. There is some reason to
believe. by the way, that the Lane
Sunday school class was not quite
ready TO come out into the open itself
yesterday, the members of the class
being good young men of a timid and
retiring disposition, more accustomed
10 burrow underground and hide their
blushing modesty up dark alleys: out
fate and the trade wind betrayed them
by whispering their secrets into the
ears of some people whose business it is
lot to keep things out of newspapers.
And SO they got blown upon some
what ematurely
Also, there was the wicked Mr.
Achi, who had to be swatted, and the
noise of whose swatting got into
print. So the Lane Leadership nad -
make the announcement that it was
leadership in the direction of Kuhio,
as well as away from Achi.
Now, everybody in town, save the
political writer's for some afternoon
papers, knows that Kuhio is a candi-
date for reelection and has been for
months. Kuhio knows a good thing
when he gets it-and is possessed OF
the perfectly human desire to hold
onto it. And, promise or no promise
Kuhio is going to try to stay. In
passing it may be noted that Kuhio
will be a pretty hard man to beat. You
see, it was most terrible thing for |
Achi to bolt the straight ticket-but |
there can not be the least harm in the |
world to Kuhio making a promise to |
stand aside. and then not standing |
aside. Not in the eyes of Mr.. Lanes |
virtuous Syoung men. Kuhio might |
have forgotten the promise. No doubt |
he has. Senator Lane forgot some |
things himself so Lorrin Andrews |
used to say. He even forgot them af- |
ter he had been reminded of them. |
The quality of political forgetting is |
one of the highest attributes of cul- !
tured statecraft. The fellow who can |
do it the best is the best statesman
but he must see to it that the other |
fellow does not forget. too. That is |
the objectionable sin, in the other fell /
low
All the same if Delegate Kuhio has
any friends in town-any sure enough
will do well to keep an
eye upon Mr.. Lanes good young men.
Because, the Sage of Kaneohe has not |
been heard from officially on this mat
there win be no calculations |
safe on the race for Delegate to Con-
gress that leave McCandless out of |
the reckoning. Not while the sun |
shines and the water runs in Ko-
olauloa and Koolaupoko! If you think
that Charley Clarke and the other lit
tie Lane fellows are going to get away |
with the works without knowing that |
hey have been in fight, ask Jack |
Lucas. He will have something to
say when it comes to the long last
md viii say it with force and effect.
Moreover it is an old game in poll
les to put a man up a long time in |
dvance and kill him the more eff
ectuaily. and while John Lane is not |
ong, as has been said aforetime It
las also been said by political wise
nan that he turns with an easy facil-
ty astonishing in a gentleman of his
earning and dignity. And SO, while 1t
$ entirely possible that the Lane
is in the interest of Kuflio |
cday, Kuhio is a long way off and a
rade wind from Kaneohe may come |
-histling across the Pali tomorrow
nd whisk Lane entirely aground. Be
ause, that McCandless partnership in
he Senate was a very real thing.
Beyond that, there is the possible
" that Alex. Robertson may have a
eep hand in the Lane movement-a1-
nough Alex. is not saying anything.
Ie never does say anything. But he
)oks as wise right now as he ever
as looked-and he may have come to
he conclusion that when the turn |
o-roes it will come his way.
The Sheriff of Oahu is in the turn
lg class. too, it appears. and SO has
ome rising up to the bait thrown him
announce that he is a candidate for
selection. He had previously an
ounced that he would not be, both in | t
rint and to his friends. who would | =
sally like to see him step aside, for
sasons. But the Sheriff is fish that e
ses to the fly very easily Most like | y
he viii say today that he will not
= a candidate, because the Advertiser, | Il
king him at his word, hereby says | -
,at he will be. All of which implies
state of mind that must be uneon-
,rtable to the Sheriff-albeit amusing W
the rest of u.s. p