The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-16


and reach by a count of noses pretty
nearly the right conclusion,-b be-
cause l can't understand some of the
following combinations:
c. p Iaukea who was candidate for
sheriff against Brown last time, APP
proving Browns appointment as to
take charge of police court prosecu-
tions
w. c. Achi, who couldn't even
get into his partys convention as a
mere delegate last time being called
Boss Achi' by the Advertiser and
others.
Boyd, Clark, Olepau ct al, who claim
rewards as Republican workers, en-
joying Democratic support in efforts
to get in on county expenditures as
holders of good jobs.
James H. Boyd, who lost track of
a lot of funds of the public works
department when he was it's head and
was prosecuted, though acquitted, for
embezzlement as a result of the money
being missing proposed for AUDITOR
of the county.
The above are some OF the political
puzzles which many Honolulu citi-
zens are discussing. Certainly not the
least is why did Sheriff Iaukea prac-
tically put A. M. Brown back in the
police station? 1t is conceded that by
a word Iaukea could have prevented
it. He made his last campaign tor
the office he holds on the sole issue
that Brown was unfit for the office of
sheriff and he won out. A year later
he stands for" the appointment OF
Brown giving Brown full authority
over prosecutions in the court where
Iaukea has to present his cases.
One explanation is that there is a
deep scheme to double cross" Brown
Another is that nice political alliance
otherwise dubbed a machine, may grow
out of the strange combine.
The double cross scheme, as / I'M
derstand it, is to let Brown work a
while and then raise a fearful stir over
his work as prosecutor, claiming that
he has failed to present cases pro-
perly,-especially gambling cases. If
this is the plan, he will go ahead for a
while and suddenly there will be a big
rumpus, figures will be adduced to
show that he has nolle pressed a lot
of cases where there was good evil
dence to convict, standing in with the
gamblers will again be charged, with
a nice showing of plausible basis for
the charge, and exit Brown, wearing
prominent black halo.
j will give my little opinion: 1t is
that most of the self-constituted
rulers of the first destinies of
the doubtfully parented municipality
of Honolulu so far named will be swept
off the political board when it comes
to a count OF noses. Achi, whom the
Advertiser commits the unutterable
folly of boosting as a boss" is so far
from being a boss that the last time
he got into a fight with Lane,-himself
no Samson as getter,-Aohi
couldn't get into the convention. Who
ever heard of boss" like that? Achi
is no more a boss than l am. But he
is helped very much by being called
such in nice black letters in a news
paper,-it gives him a sort of creden-
tial
May be it is hard on Sam Johnson,
and perhaps Hustace feels sensitive
about it, but it is really best to let the
gang in at once. There is only year
or so before an election and the gang
may as well be tried now as any other
time. 1t seems that only a peniten-
tiary will curb the ambitions of some
of our grafters. This is not a condi-
ton peculiar to Hawaii,-in other
places men who barely elude the turn
key aspire to Office and often get it.
But should think that in their dreams
some of the local gang between whom
and hard labor in stripes there was at
one time only either some technical
tiles or a prosecutions leniency, would
have dreams in which they would see
red flags waved by Eddie Boyd, b. H,
Wright, Jonah Kumaiae, Enoch John
son, ct al.
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Incidentally | wonder if the Civic
Federation knows that one of its lead
srs, whom it felt much pleasure in Sc
curing, to aid in downing A. M. Brown,
was holding some quiet meetings.
quieter even than Board of Health
meetings in the chambers of l.. e.
Pinkham,- with Iaukea, and getting
promises to be allowed to control GER
tain police appointments? 1t would
have been a sad revelation Of the in
evitable sordidness of job-chasing, TO
some, not all,-of the Civic Feds, If
they could have seen,-Achi, l think
it was,-in whispered consultation
with Iaukea, bargaining for the price
of support of good government. 1
am told that a very prominent local
attorney an admirer of William J..
Bryan, was present at some of these