The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-18
NOT A WORD OF POLITICS
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alone to fasten his grip upon the
county,
Nothing could be palmer than that.
The alliance would leave nothing to be
desired-excepting possibly by the
people, who will persist in vain aspiring
after honesty of administration.
SIMPLE LITTLE GAME.
Nobody talked politics al that meet
inb-but, in the language of one OF
those who was there, it was an ex-
ceptionally tempting offer that was
made. For if the Sheriff would trade
the support of his machine for the
support of the other machine, there
wouldn't be thing doing for any of
the fellows not in on the play.
And that is one of the things that
has caused discomfort for the little
Lane chaps. They would be the fell
lows not in on the play-in the event
that politics should be talked at some
meeting of this kind in the future.
The Lane game is a simple little
game enough 1t is to get control of
the Board of Supervisors. TO which
end new recruit has been secured in
the person OF Charles Hustace, Jr., it
is said who made his entrance upon
the scene somewhat sensa tionally at
the meeting of the county committee
, last Saturday night. when he produced
the charges which failed, and which
nobody would father, intended to
blast the political hopes of Supervisor
at-Large Adams.
Charlie was to have a Supervisoral
nomination for that it was whispered
Brother Jim Quinn was to have an
! other, and Brains Nagaran Fer
nandez still another. Then Brother
Abraham Fernandez was to be worked
! in on the Home Rule ticket at large,
and he was counted upon as four in
| the Lane interest--a bit prematurely,
but never mind that.
A LONG KNIFE
| If the Sheriff of Oahu and his ma
chine would have stood, for this game,
as it was confidently hoped that they
| would, that would have wound up the
| Administrators combination. and the lit
| tie Lane class would have had the
whole plum of county patronage to
| themselves and not a voter who was
| not in their line could get job if he
! never had a scoop at the poi calabash
! in his life.
| Indeed. it had all been nicely ar
| ranged-when along came this meeting
| in the office of the Sheriff. where no.
| body talked politics at all. And what
| is a poor man to do against a cir
/ cumstance Of that provoking kind?
For, if nobody talked politics. there is
not a thing in the world for politi-
clan to, say, although he may be per-
| fectly sure that knife is being sharp
| ened for him in the hands of the very
men he had counted upon at all times
/ as his friends.
Speaking of the Sheriff's machine.
which is being strengthened every day
and in every possible way, it is said
THAT one play will be to make Police
Clerk Harry Murray, chairman -of the
new County Committee, to the end
that the new Board of Supervisors
shall be held in hand. no matter what
has happened to the present one. How
ever there are few other people who
may have word to say to that, when
| the time comes.
Murray is another young man who
entered politics under the guidance OF
| Lorrin Andrews. and who got beyond
| steering very early in his career. Lor-
| rim was a good politician, the best Ha-
wall has ever seen in some respects,
but he certainly had wonderful facul-
ty for finding men who later got away
| from him.
SEVERE ON KUHIO.
/ Something of cold, dead pail has
fallen upon the Kuhio boomers with
the announcement from Judge Kepol-
| kai that not only is the judge not the
leader in a Kuhio movement on the
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ing was held in the office of the judge.
and that the judge himself did not
sign that celebrated call alleged TO
have been issued to the delegate to
stand again for election, promises or
promises The question is, if Judge
| Kepoikai did not sign that call and
| if no meeting was held in the ofhce
of the judge, as was stated in pub
lished letter from Maui. where was the
| meeting held, and who signed the name
of the judge to the call?
There would seem to be a demand