The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-24
TOWN TALK
BY THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

l hope the Republican Party will
become active and commence planning
for the next campaign and one of the
first acts should be the selection of
good men to replace most of the pres
ent members of the County Commit
tee. If the Committee, as it now
stands, attempts to run another cleo
ton the bolt of last year will be re-
peated; the amateur politicians at
tempted to run the last campaign with
out the aid of Republican newspapers
and Republican voters. Their favor
lite candidates failed to come through
as any tyro could have pointed out
Force of habit sometimes leads
one into queer mistakes" remarked a
newspaper reporter. For example the
other day l was asked to make an an
nouncement regarding services to be
held in Oahu Jail, and accordingly
wrote it out, telling who would speak,
etc. Then l unconsciously filled the
item out, by adding "all are welcome
and it is hoped that the attendance
will be large"
In knocking Holloway the Adver-
tiser is wasting a lot of space. Hol-
loway will remain at the head of the
Public Works Department in spite Of
the knockers. l do not know Hollo-
way intimately; as a matter of fact,
| have never had chance to know him;
during the past three years, l have
| seen him as many as three times; he
must keep to his Office very closely.
The knockers say that he keeps his
job solely because he is "a good fell
low; but do not believe that. Any
man who can make contractors suueal
must be a good official. When con-
tractors say the Government is rob-
bling them you may be sure that the
department head is guarding the pub
| lie interest.
. . = .
District Attorney Breckons is very
fond of telling a story which runs
somewhat as follows: Four sailors
were playing cards in the rear of a
saloon. One was blind of one eye, and
as the evening progressed he seemed
to have an amazing amount of luck.
Becoming suspicious, one of his mates
watched his one-eyed friend until at
last he caught him in the act of cheat
ing. He at once ordered the game to
stop. Mates" he said, rising from
his seat. There's cheatin' gon' on in
this here game. The fellow that's
cheatin is a good friend of mine and
yours, too, so l amt goin' to tell who
it is, or even throw hint, cause it
would start fight and we don't want
that. But if this cheatin' don't stop,
some son of a guns goin to lose his
other eye"
: :. !: >
Sheriff Iaukea will have an interest
ing time during his next campaign
that is, if he decides to run again. [
can hear some "fishmarket orator."
bowling in this>strain: 81 tell you
Curtis no use; he arrest Hawaiian,
Japanese, Pake; no arrest haole; he
let haole shoot-no arrest; he let haole
run over man-no arrest" and so on
indefinitely. To some extent this har-
angue is correct. Iaukea is sheriff; he
should perform the duties of his office
without the interference of pull" of
any kind. On the other hand, Taukea
in some respects is conducting a clean
and honest administration. When he
retires from Office, l do not believe
he will be able to purchase large hold
ings of land with money saved from
his salary.
The b. q. Mark joke went the rounds
in Honolulu very quickly and now a
man couldn't borrow dime if he real
ly wanted it. The joke was to borrow
ten cents and then hand the victim
card printed as follows:
Thanks For the Dime
Mn. E. u. MARK
You Are Now a Member of
THE LEMON CLUB
Squeeze Brother, Squeeze.
But Don't Get Sour.
Password: Let Me have a Dime"
saw it played on His Excellency
the Chinese Consul the other day. /
don't think he exactly appreciated it,.
You could hardly expect one of his
race to tumble to that peculiar sort OIL
humor. However, the two men who
| got rid of a card at his eXDense seem