The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-12
AMONG THE
POLITICIANS

"a remarkable condition Is the posi-
ton which Vida holds with the people
in relation to the campaign up to date"
said a Hawaiian yesterday. Many
voters, haolc and Hawaiian. are more
favorable to him than to Jarrett, on
the ground. perhaps. that II Iaukea is
elected he will see that his deputy
does the right thing. l cannot under
stand this, but / believe it is true and
/ believe the statement, made to me
by the same man, that Brown is not
as strong as Iaukea. / am told that
the police force is wavering, and while
a Democrat, he remains silent on the
question of the ticket for which he
will work. The fact is that John is
dead sore and he will undoubtedly re-
fuse to work in the interest of the
machine that threw him down in the
convention. The police are wavering
and many of them will throw their
votes to Iaukea and they will use
their influence as far as they dare.
Ii looks to me more than ever like
an Iaukea victory, but how much fur
Their on the ticket it will go / cannot
say. I am told that Willie Crawford,
who is in the employ of the machine.
is at work among the Chinese register
ed voters for a rather mixed ticket.
For Senators he is canvassing in the
interest of Charlie Chillingworth, Char
lie Mccarthy and w. o. Smith, and for
Supervisors the choice Of his employers
seems to be Frank Harvey, A. v. Gear,
Tom Gandall and H. T. Moore. He
does not seem to have any particular
favorite for Sheriff, but you can guess
anything you please that he is for
Brown, because there is where he gets
his orders"
There seems to be no doubt Of the
quantity and quality of work that is
being done by paid employees of the
county during this campaign. 1t is to
be expected that they will work in
order to hold their positions, but it is
not considered good form by the tax
payers that they do politics during the
hours for which the county pays them.
This is one of the advantages the ma
chine has over the candidate who has
no pull with the powers or who is not
in good standing with the leaders. 1t
is a fact easily proven that there are
men on the Republican ticket who are
being passed up by the machine as a
high-rolling gambler would pass up a
white chip. These men have not the
,get-up that will crown their efforts to
be elected, and as they have no sup
port from the machine there will be
Democrats elected in their places. A
few of the Republican candidates, not
many, are working for the straight
ticket, and to those men credit is due
for their loyalty, though 1t may be
shown in part. for miserable cause.
1T 1 was Democratic candidate at
this election" said a member of that
clan at the close of the Pauoa meeting
the other night, II would play on the
tariff fiddle for all it Is worth, and I
would promise to have the tariff put
on the Japanese laborers. Just think
of it! There's less than four hundred
white and Hawaiian employees on the
plantations on this island, and Homo
lulu plantation has more than any
other. 1t sounds well to have a man
prattle about the tariff on the sugar
that is imported from Cuba but 1t af-|
fects the working classes but indirect
". We have no manufactures here,
and we import nearly everything we
eat and certainly everything we wear.
Only the other night l was talking to
a young man who had gone into truck
farming and he raised some mighty
good stuff. but he found no market for
his tomatoes, though they weighed a
half pound each. He could do nothing
with his cauliflower because it was so
easy to import them with other goods
from the States. The protection to
sugar is a good thing as far as it
goes, but our crop is not consumed
here, and a good deal of the money
that is made through 1t Isl spent else
where than in Honolulu or the islands.
The election of Democrat to Congress
would not help us an iota, even though
he be white man. am Democrat
and would be glad to see the party
represented in Washington If thought
1t would do us any good, but I believe
Kuhio will do more for us at this
time"
In opposition to the statement that
Vida is stronger than Brown is the one
that he has in process of evolution
a scheme which will land him back as
Browns election. The plan is to have
him announce. when the campaign is
nearing an end. that he realizes that
he is burden to Brown and is injuring
the chances of electing his chief His
aloha for him is so great that he will
withdraw from the race and leave the
way clear for Jarrett, and Jarrett will.
OF course be elected. This is not to
be sprung unless at the close of the
campaign 1t Is apparent to the leaders
OF the Republican party that Brown
cannot win otherwise. 1t Is believed
that the withdrawal of Vida would in
sure change in the status of Brown,
and he might be elected. and then Vida
would be reappointed to the position
he now holds. This is believed by men
who are in a position to know and
they find plenty OF people to agree
with them.