The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-06
ACHI III INKS
HIMSELF A
VICTIM
GentIemen's Agreement
Cathcart Didn't
Garry Out.

81 am satisfied, - remarked Charley
Achi yesterday in reference to his de-
feat in his fight for the Mayoralty. 81
am satisfied, considering the way the
rest OF the county offices have gone.
With a Democratic Sheriff, Democra-
tic Treasurer and Republicans in con-
troll of the Board of Supervisors, could
not carry any of my points, so what
would it have benefited me or my work
ers if I had been elected7
f'I have good reason to suppose now,
in view of the returns, that the Home
Rulers sold me out to the Democrats
just before election day. I had heard
that this was so, but / did not credit
it before I delivered all the votes 1
had promised to Catheart and Wise, but
got nothing in return. 1 gave Cox the
votes that put him at the head of the
poll, but he gave me nothing in his pre-
cinets. Wise was knitted right through
by the Republicans. All the votes he
got in the Fifth were the ones / gave
him and the few Kamehameha alumni
votes
HTake a look at the returns,' con-
tinued the leader of the Laborites. stIn
my own precinct / got hundred votes;
Wise got 100, my hundred and nine
Kan votes. Lane got 20 votes. With
the Laborites and Republicans, then,
Wise should have had ITO, but he
didn e; he got the knife and Jarrett
got the votes. Take the Fifteenth. l
got 33 and Lane got 81, giving com
bined vote to go to Wise of 81. What
did he get9 The 33 Labor votes and
three more.
''I elected Cathcart. I had promised
him / would throw my strength TO him
and 1 carried out my promise. None
of the Brown strength was thrown to
me, however. It is not true, as the
Advertiser said, that there had been a
hard and fast bargain made between
Cathcart and Brown and me; there was
only gentlemen's agreement. 1 car
ried out my part like a gentleman, but
they failed on their part.
cup until three days before election
I had majority with me, but money
counted and the Home Rulers topped
TO Fern. The Democrats had plenty Of
money and I didn't have any. The
whole campaign expenses of the Labor
party are not more than $500 and over
half of this went to the music boys. |
The rest went for travelling expenses.
We didn It have a runner to pay"
Achi is considering burying the hatch |
eft and getting back into Republican |
traces. eff they will treat my men
right I will be friends, but my men |
have been kicked out of all the jobs |
and I have had to stick up for them.
The Republicans always forget the |
of their party. They did |
that when they knitted Wise because
they did not like him, forgetting the
hundred Republican families that would
be supported through police offices with
Wise in the Sheriff 3 Office -
Willie Crawford Explains Defeat.
Willie Crawford, who with Charley
Clark is credited with plenty of split
ticket advocating through Palama and
other Fifth precincts, explained the de-
feat of Lane yesterday. "'What else
could YOU expeet9'' he inquired. 'sThe
Republican committee hired Home Rule
runners and Democrat runners and let
Them go in and out of the headquarters
picking up tips to carry to their friends,
AXE in false reports for their money
md then announce outside that Lane
lad no show and the voters had better
20 Democratic. "
Bloody Shirt Campaign.
Three ex-candidates condoled with
CContirued on Page Two.)