The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-11-13
POLITICAL
AFTERMATH

Yesterday Che out of-town men and
some II those within the city limits
continued talking over the election
placing the cause OF their defeat wher,
they though, It belonged.
WHAT DEFEATED LINK.
1.-THE Advertiser printed the ticket
some time ago" said Link McCand-
less. that did the trick to me. Craw-
ford was accused OF floating that tick
ct. and when / went to him ne prom
Used to call It In. Perhaps it was not
all Crawford's work, but he was one
man The vote was not from the Chi
nese that killed me; you may figure 1t
out for yourself Many of the ballots
In the Fifth were for Chillingworth
Mccarthy and Smith. You would hard
ly believe a Democrat would vote like
that so we will p.Sce 1t at the door
OF some Republicans. l fought a good
fight and | am glad It is over. The
Gratis. ! have met a few who are Re-
publicans and l guess there would be
no trouble for me to shake hands with
five hundred of them now. I came in
to Honolulu with go votes to the good
and won out in the Fourth; the other
district did not support me"
Joe Fern is willing to be considered
the savior of the Democratic party, for
he has a pull with the steamer boys.
THE Mauna Loa came into port Tues
day morning" says Joe, ''and the forty
seven votes on that vessel were landed
for the Democratic party. without
them Iaukea would have been left. I
have the pull with those boys and they
are good to me-
AS TO A RECOUNT.
In the matter of recount there seems
to be no one willing to say it would
help the matter. One Federal official
says it would be folly to consider such
a move, as it would help the other side
as well as it would the Republicans.
The interest now is in the changes that
should be made in some of the county
departments and those which will. in
all probability, take place. Johnson
will have the opposition of Harvey, who
practically took an oath at the time OF
his nomination to fire him out; Kealo-
ha. who is friendly to Harvey, and pos
sibly the antagonism of Archer and
Joe Fern. There is more than half of
the board. Hustace will favor john
son, and so will Dwight, in all proba-
bility. Down in the police station there
will ha radical chances
though it is frequently said that Brown
was blamed for more than belonged to
him.
The Bulletin has thrown fit because
the barkeeps, who had the cooperation
of the sheriff haxe expressed favora-
BILE opinion of the Sheriff-elect But If
the reporter who investigated the count
in the different precincts had dropped
into the saloons on his way back to
the office he would undoubtedly have
had every one of the men, who have
said Iaukea would make a good Sher
if crying for a recount. Iaukea is
good to them because they We're of the
opinion that there will be no recount
The Democrats will insist, in the
event of Sheriff Brown demanding a
recount, on a recount of all of the bal
lots cast for Senators and Representa-
tives. This, with the recount of bal
lots for Sheriff. will require a good deal
of time. But it is up to the Supreme
Court TO decide whether there Is evil
dence enough, in any case, to warrant
the time necessary. There is a belief
that the court will turn down both re-
quests. Then, too, there is the matter
Of nctc IL
and the man who files the contest will
have to put up a few dollars. There
is very little doubt that the machine
has the coin, or could get it, so there
would be little there to stop the men
on that side.
LEADER ACHI.
Charlie Achi swells up when he is
pointed out as a leader. Il worked
where l promised ! would and the re-
suit shows it, he said yesterday. IL
threw the labor vote to Iaukea and GER
tain Democrats and they won out |
would not help Waterhouse because he
was too close to Brown l told him so
at the time. l was against the ma
chine before election and l am now. +
saw Iaukea frequently and he knew
WIldl WAS CollllllS. w t tbllSulitu IIt-
quently and | promised him my sup
port But Mr.. Kinney had the oppor-
tunity to do good when he was at the
debate and he took advantage of it,"
HARDLY BELSER.
The mention of the name of Jack
Belser for road supervisor causes a
laugh among the Democratic workers.
One OF these more than smiled yester
day when he read the suggestion in an
afternoon paper.
Jack Belser was counted upon to de-
feat our candidates as much as Sam
Johnson, the only difference in the
work of the two men is in the machine
by Johnson. Belser was a |
large employer of labor and was deeply
interested in the result of the election,
Why he should be landed in the place
is more than l can see and l do not
believe he will"