The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-20
THE CLUBS To
Do BATTLE
TONIGHT
Fights in Many Precincts
and a Hot Time
Promised.

The Republican precinct clubs of Ca
hu elect officers tonight, and there will
be fight in every single precinct, ex-
cepting perhaps the Eighth of the
Fourth District. And something may
turn up there before the day is ended.
The battle has been growing hotter
ever since the clubs met and made
their nominations last Friday night.
On Saturday. after the nominations
We're made, it was supposed that in
all but few districts the tickets
named would go through without
hitch, and that there would be fighting
in only few of the most holly con-
tested districts. That was a. SUPPOSE
ton that counted without the bitter
ness that has developed, and was even
then developed, in the fight between
Crabbe and Achi on the one side, and
the followers of Brown on the other.
HOLT FOR A COMPROMISE.
Everything has been made to give
way before this fight So patent has
this become, that leading Republicans
have taken the alarm, and both after
noon papers yesterday printed stories
to the effect Harry Won Holt would be
proposed as a dark horse for the
shrievalty with view to lessening the
tension and healing differences in the
party.
Mr.. Won Holt was proposed as cam
didate for Sheriff of Oahu last year
with a similar purpose in view. but at
that time declined to become a can
didate. 1t does not appear, either, that
he has been consulted as to his inclina-
ton this time. At all events, neither
from Mr.. Won Holt himself on the sub
ject. Wherever his name was mention
ed on the street. 1t was conceded that
he would be a strong candidate.
In the meantime. regardless of the
talk of dark horses, the fight IN the
clubs grows in bitterness. and the lines |
between Crabbe and Brown are being
more and more sharply drawn. 1t is |
charged, by the Brown workers. that
Charlie Achf, who has taken up the
Crabbe fight ana made it his own, is
stuffing club rolls with the names of
Democrats, and particularly is this
charge made with relation to Sam
Johnson's Kakaako precinct, the Fifth
of the Fourth. where desperate effort
is being made to beat the Road Super
visor
AGAINST SAM JOHNSON.
This is not so much a fight against
Brown, however, as it is against Sam
johnson himself. and his backer,
Supervisor Jack Lucas. In fact, Sam
Johnson's timekeeper is a Crabbe man.
johnson is the man who is accredited
with bringing out w. W. Harris for
Supervisor-at-Large, which is the job
Achi covets for himself and it is to
avenge himself on Sam that the Sena-
tor is making this fight. Johnson says
that he has the names of the suffers,
some of whom are running for Office
in the Democratic Precinct Club, and
that their votes viii be challenged to-
night So there is warm time ahead
at that club meeting.
Another interesting side fight is that
in the Ninth of the Fourth, also in the
Kakaako region, where Jim Quinn,
regular nominee Tor OF the
club, threw Charlie Coster. head of the
opposition ticket, out of the meeting
last Friday night because he was ex-
PEELED from the party for alleged
in the county election two
years ago.
TO GET QUINN'S SCALP.
Coster has refused to be thrown out,
is still candidate for president of the
club, and swears that he will beat
Quinn. This is partly a Crabbe fight
because Coster is not for Brown, but I
on the other hand it is not an Achi I
fight. Jim Quinn himself wants to go Y
to the Board of Supervisors, and of {
course must make good in the club /
election. J
Up in the Ninth of the Fifth. Deputy
Sheriff Jack Kalakiela is making the {
fight of his life against the Brown C
cohorts led by Bernard, the Orator. al S
though this is not altogether a Brown
fight either because there are lot of
men up there who will not support e
Brown with great enthusiasm. But
they are all against Kalakiela ''in the /
interest OF party discipline they say.
It seems that Jack went into a club g
meeting and agreed to stand by the t
ticket nominated, his own name being i
On it. Later, he was charmed away C
by the fascinating, If wicked Mr.. Achi, I
and withdrew from the ticket, at the y
same time withdrawing his support {
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