The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-15
Town TALK
By The Man About Town,

with only six bona fide members of
the party, ! am at a loss to understand
where the Democrats expect to secure
enough candidates to nominate COM
plete tickets this fall Some cruel ies-
ter has accused the Republicans of vot
ing the grave stones What is to hind
err the Democrats from enrolling the
palm tEees as members of their party?
If they would make it Palm tree gin
there would be such wild scramble on
the part of the natives to sign the rolls
that Republican jobs would go beg
.ging
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r. Beverly Kidd, who is recognized
by many as Mr.. tHearst's personal
political representative in this Terri
tory, had an attack of the prevalent
sickness which is caused by bacteria
in the milk, the other day. He laid
aside politics and other duties and
went to bed. Someone, whom I shrewd-
ly suspect is Chester Doyle, though l
have no evidence of this, whatever eX-
cept the Honolulu Sherlock Holmes
own processes of deductions from the
way it was done-someone say-called
up A. r. Rowatt, the veterinary sur
geOn and told him that Mr.. Kidd want
ed him and that it was a very urgent
case. Kidds dog Robbie, had been
a patient of the doctors which would
have allayed any suspicious that the
call was not made in good faith, if he
had had any, and so off he started post
haste. He woke Kidd out of a rest
full sleep to learn where the supposed
animal patient was, and found out
that it was all practical joke. From
what l hear the doctor took it in very
good part indeed, considering that he
was called away from real case
that he was attending, and of course
Kidd would have demonstrated that
he came within the veterinary class, if
he hadn't taken it as a joke.
But 1 fear it may prove a very Sc
rious matter for DIR. Rowat One of
the papers had a paragraph to the eff
feet that Kidd was i'll and that he was
being attended by Dr. Rowatt, and
now 1 hear that the Medical Society is
thinking of having DR.. Rowatt pro-
secuted for practicing medicine with
out a license. At any rate the society
has called a meeting for this very even
ing, at which the matter may come
up.
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Where is the Dickens who will tell
the world of our wondrous politics?
When did the immortal Pickwick club
do anything really funnier than to in
dulge in a hot caucus fight for two
hours and then discover that the eau
Gus didn't bind anybody present any
how? Who but some of the fantastic
characters of the great novelist could
earnestly make, during one debate,
three speeches saying in essence no
more than that the matter under dis
cussion was an important one?
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These questions are suggested by the
Fourth district caucus of last Monday
night, in which it was discovered after
two hours of discussion that a decision
didn't mean anything. The real heart
of the discussion in question was a pro-
position full of significance as an in
dication of the kind of politics we have
always with us. The whole contro-
versy, if it might be dignified by that
name, was a result of an effort to pre-
serve for the delegates to the Repub-
lican convention, the utmost secresy as
to how they vote. That such a pro-
position could ever engage the atten-
ton of an entire district and break up
its caucus in disorder, is a disgrace to
our politics. Why should the vote of
a convention delegate be secret at all?
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