The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-09-21
THE FIGHT
FOR SHERIFF
trrom wednesdays Advertiser,

(From Wednesdays Adevertiser)
Opinions seem to be divided on tho
question Of the success OF Sheriff
Brown at the election. The announce
ment BY Mr.. Iaukea that he would be
a candidate was something OF a sur
prise to both sides and disappointing
| to the Brown runners
BROWN is WEAK.
| "The game is lost. In my opinion"
said a prominent Republican from Ha-
wall yesterday. Brown killed himself
in the convention by his open advo-
cacy OF John Cathcart for county at
torney II is probable that he is a bet
ter man than Long for the position but
Brown should not have pledged his
Support to Long before the convention
was called to order and openly worked
against him after roll call. The Prince
noticed Brown interceding with the
delegates for Cathcart and. / believe,
commented upon 1t. / do not think
Brown made any friends by espous-
ing the cause OF Blcknell against Ku-
newa who is a mighty good man. 1t
looks to me as though Brown will have
a hard fight and he will probably be
defeated
| Now that is one side OF the question
| and Ii expresses the views of a Ha-
waiian Republican who has always
thought well OF Brown. The unredeem-
ed pledges of the Sheriff are hurting
him and he is chatting under the mass
of condemnation he Is receiving on ac-
count OF his action. man from the
Fifth District. a Republican with a lot
OF influence at that, said in answer to
a question relative to Iaukea's chances:
| A CLOSE FIGHT.
ut means the closest fight Brown
has ever experienced and have grave
doubts of his election. AS a strict par
ty man 1 suppose I will be expected
to vote for him and use my influence
for him but 1t Is going to be very hard
to do. Brown was instrumental in
throwing down Hawaiian to place a
white man and there is no use talking
the Hawaiians do not enjoy 1t"
This would indicate color line fight
but the gentleman denied any such in
| tention. The voters Of the Fifth, that
Is the Hawaiian voters. ask only rec
ognition at the hands of the people.
ne uOeS nOt lulHh thS CoiNCIItloil WAC
what 1t should be.
1.-THE Fourth District broke faith
with u.s." he continued, land it will be
hard to bring our people to feel that
1t 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
IA ~t.l 4.
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 1t was
straight politics for the Fourth to pull
for a man from our district against
our wishes. We made 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 LIDO not
believe that Brown can recover from
the slight he and his men put upon
u.s."
WANT A HOME RULER
There is determined effort being
made by the machine to get the Home
Rulers to nominate candidate for the
shrievalty. II seems that the an
nouncement made by the friends of
Curtis 1aukea that he would be a can
didate for the office. which the
incumbent feels is his by Divine right,
has stirred the Sheriff's Office from
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 1t is so he Is bad
enough to break in and get votes from
Iaukea. They realize that their hope
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 n 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.
L Cldlm tnul tne fOurtn 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
1t 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 We're not given
the right to name man. Now we
left that open but we did not want n
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 same as II he had been
our choice.> 1t is going to be q close