The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-05-25
TEACHERS
WANT PAY

teachers in the public schools. The
teachers are pretty powerful body
and not the less powerful because a
lot of them are women. There is all
kinds of talk about organization among
them in their own interest this time,
and 1t is more than likely that some
thing of this kind will crystalline be-
fore the time for the primaries. And,
If there is q concerted movement, that
will be a new complication for the
pollies to figure out.
And. the Lord knows, they have COM
plications enough. Here is Colonel Iau-
kea coming home from Hawaii with
the aunouncement that the big island
is solid for fusion, and that he has not
said a word about fusion for Kuhio.
and is not himself a candidate for
Delegate Which most unusual coy
ness on the part OF the Colonel must
haYe it's inspiration somewhere. May
be 1t is fact. after all, that he pre-.
fers not to stand for Delegate in an
off year, thinking his chance will be
better in Presidential times, and that
he will make a virtue of his preference
and step aside for his friend Kuhio.
And maybe it is likewise fact that
he thinks that the Democratic nomi-
nation for Supervisor -at-Large of the
Island of Oahu will be about his gait
this trip. He could certainly build up
a powerful machine to help him on to
Congress in the coming time. If he were
to be Supervisor Large in Demo-
cratic Board.
Very possibly that Is what he is aim
ing at. Very possibly that is what
m ore than the Colonel are aiming at.
1t will be remembered that Leader
John Lane made a somewhat remark
able speech at a Sunday school class
meeting in Moiliili several Sabbaths
ago, in which he advocated the cause
of Kuhio but above all urged his hear
ers to stand by their own race and
their own color. That is the kind of
party man Leader Lane is.
All the same. he has troubles of his
own at this present writing; for that
Brown Wolf of the Lantana. the
wicked Mr. Achi, has sworn that he is
not going to do a thing to John in
Johns own precinct. The worst fea-
ture of this is that Achi can beat Lane
in that precinct. He has done il, times
out Of number.
Indeed. the only time he did not do
it, when the two We're fighting, was
upon celebrated occasion when Gov
ernor Carter and Lorrin Andrews lined
up behind Lane. one result of that
lining up was that Lane became a
Senator.
ACHI CAN BEAT LANE.
Those forces would not line up that
way again. In fact, the only thing that
can save Lane from a beating at the
hands of Achi this time is the power of
the police of Oahu. And, unless Lane
makes a satisfactory showing, the po-
lice are not at all sure TO help him.
Indeed, there have been stranger
things than the police turning him
down Certainly they will not go out
of their way to make his fight, unless,
of course, he can deliver something on
his end of it. And he really has not
much. The Sunday school class it not
made up of the very strongest ele-
ments in a political sense.
Another boom has been started at
Moilili, namely that of Jimmie Boyd
for auditor in the room of Mr. Bick-
nell. Jimmie has been shaken loose
from the public teat for a long time
now. for a man of his name. and be-
gins to think that he can hear the
voice OF the future by putting his ear
down pretty close to the ground. May
be he can-but there is some reason to
think that about all he hears is the
echo of his own announcement of his
candidacy returning to him. Echoes
play strange freaks up there where the
Manoa and Palolo valleys strike the
plain of Kaimuki in line with each
other
FISH IN PLENTY-AND HUSTACE.
They are having pretty good times
down at the Fishmarket now, what
with something doing in the way of
politics every minute, and what with
the Japs bringing in tons of big fish
from the outer banks at five cents a
pound for all comers The voters be-
gin to see endless luaus in prospect, and
consequently are all on the alert
for the coming of candidates. And
they don't care a rap what they say
when a politician comes along, those
Fishmarket gossips.
For instance. they We're telling n
story the other day about the way
Charley Hustace supported Cecil
Brown for the Senate a couple of years
ago, when everybody knows that there
* not straighter party man in oahu
today than Charles H1stace, Jr., chair
man OF the Republican county COM
mittee
What though he did feel obligated
to support Brown two years ago, is
Republican the less Republican for a
little peccadnlo? Is a man never TO be
allowed TO come back to the party, II
he has once gone astray? Can he not
20 with John Lane and Jim Quinn To
Jack Lucas TO ask for the dismissal OF
the Road Supervisor Of Koolauloa, for
ELL that
Jim quinn himself has been all there
is In politics In these islands ana that
In record breaking time. but nobody
disputes his good Ropublioanism lie
does not even dispute II himself Ana
if Is the smallest kind ~ scandal 20
say that BE II now seeking a civic
Federation Enforcement
do tol Charley Hnstaas II as good u