The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-11-13

Edward Ingham who was one of the
unsuccessful candidates for the legis-
lature read an original and very clever
poem entitled "The Closing Scenes. -
The poem is as follows:
Amid this morunful throng of hench-
men stout,
The wall of anguish smote\the atmos-
phere
Like some besotted loafer's lusty shout
When lubricous with campaign booze
and beer.
All dives were silent and all games
subdued,
The DRINKS seemed further and the
thugs lay low,
AS with sad eyes the sinking plumber
ers viewed
The passing of the graft-prolific
show.
The inflated cops that earstwhile copied
the gold
Their palms we'll oiled by thugs of
every hue,
Now stood aghast and mutely did be-
hold
Iaukea and his wearers of the blue.
On steam-sped wings the gambler tried
his flight
To ply his trade without the laws
restraint,
And, like the tail of some high-soaring
kite,
The illiterate calf-bleats seemed to
pale and faint
The Democratic rooster loudly crew
Crew long and loud though Davis
fiercely swore-
Swore till the scene assumed a viru-
lent blue,
Relieved anon by streaks of reddest
gore.
Where every bird of nocturnal pursuit
Shook the rich plumber from its
plumes at morn
To animate the lodgings of the roost
All now was thugless, empty and
forlorn.
Amid all this, the center of the scene
The white-haired road-boss, with in
tuitive dread,
| Piled his slick spell, and with his Job
less mien,
Reflected on the Topping of his head
Long, but not loud, the endless chair
had run
! Serenely over wheels with we'll
creased gears;
Long, but not loud the memory of the
gone
Welled from his eyes a flood OF
''phOny" tears.
At last the chain was snapped-his jot
was pau
The new rOad-boss soon had things
on the jump;
The gang got busy and the "has-been'
now
Is slumbering peacefully on the gar.
bage dump.
Charles j. Mccarthy senator-elect
said that he would introduce measure
simplifying the ballot so that Their,
would not be any chance for a cry OF
recount.
r. H. Trent said that the Democrat,
party would not stand for Iaukea
building up police machine but Tau
kea was not going to do such a thing
b. b. McClanahana seconded the idea
advanced by Trent.
Frank Harvey one of the supervisor.
elect, said that he thought the present
Republican supervisors were trying
to clean out the county treasury so a,
to embarrass the new supervisors
! Harvey said that the new board which
was composed practically of Hawaiians
proposed to do well by every body.
! Col. c. p. Iaukea asked the people
to lay aside the prejudices of the cam.
| paign and work together for the good
of the community, drawing no color
line. He had no personal feelings
! against the present Sheriff and he could
! only promise the people that he would
do his full duty when he assumed office
The Sheriff-elect was loudly cheered
as he concluded his modest speech, the
| cheering continuing for some minutes
For the Deputy Sheriff-eect, w p.
Jarrett, who was absent, the chairman
| rendered his thanks to the people fol
| the big majority they had given him.
w. A. Kinney addressed the crowd in
Hawaiian and in English He said
that the rebuke that the Hawaiians
had administered to Brown for his
| Iwilei speech should be a wholesome
lesson to plandering politicians. The
speaker predicted that within ten years
there would be an Hawaiian governor
and a white delegate, because they
would be the best men for the position
and the old race feeling would be OBJ.
! liberated.
A number of other speakers were
| heard.