The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-07
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for any of the county Offices have nd.
vanecd any reason why the voters
should prefer them TO anyone else.
Friends OF Jarrett boost him because
he has street.corncr following;
friends Of Wise say that he needs the
Job; Billy Aylctt has been playing In
the county band and wants a change,
and Willie Crawford thinks II will be
castor to lobby from the inside than
the outside There is not business
man in the city who would give Char.
ley Clark. Nahora Hipa and some of
the Others in the waiting line charge
of any business transaction that
amounted 10 more than twenty-five dol
las, yet these are the ones who expect
to be elected to pass appropriations for
running the Territory and tho county.
And the appearances are, at present,
that the ones who pay the great bulk
of the taxes are too Indifferent to the
welfare of thu county to either accept
office or attend the precinct primaries
tc see that resrtrsible men are nomi-
mated for the nf,ites.
JUST ECR INSTANCE.
The Portuguese vote is being re.
garded among the active ones as n
valuable ballot box asset, and to the
end that it is worth while coddling
along scheme is in play to corral the
voters early, rope them and sink the
branding iron in deep, so that there
will be no installing the ranch they
belong to. The drive will not be well
on until after the primaries, but just
the same the political cowboys are al
ready rounding up the strays from the
valleys and byways and gradually the
entire drive will be under way. At the
head of the string of political cowboy
frustlers, directing movements and
preventing a stampede, are at least
three prominent men, but the dust of
the preliminary drive has so far rather
obscured their identity. But occasion.
ally n rift in the dust clouds rev calls
the old'time countenances of A. M.
Brown and John Cathcart, who have
participated in former drives. John it
appears, likes the saddle he is now rid.
ing in, saddle belonging to the office
of County Attorney, and Brown has
got out his old, time-worn Shrievalty
saddle for the roundup.
With these leaders is Enos Vincent,
a Portuguese lawyer, who, it is said
has been added to their ranks with
the idea of using him to swing the
Portuguese vote for Cathcart and
Brown, he in turn to be rewarded with
the gift of the job Brown now holds,
that of police court prosecuting attor,
ney.
While Brown has said he is not a
candidate for Office, and particularly
disclaims any designs on the Office of
sheriff, yet the clans are gathering and
the deal to place Vincent in Brown Is
present Office is regarded as direct
trade to get votes for Brown.
And here is where the niger shoves
his head up from the woodple. The
primary nominations will be turned in
August % and the vote on the candi-
dates so presented will take place Sep
TENDER 5. Those elected go to the
Territorial convention and the County
convention, the elections coming in al
the same time. If the Cathcart Brown
forces can work quietly along until the
nomination day and gloss over their in
tentions until September 5, the pre-
sumption is that they can swing the
| convention for Brown for Sheriff and
Cathcart for County Attorney. L. il
a sort Of eleventh hour coup, and would
possibly work but for the fact that toe
many are being let in on the secret
The newest phase, that of giving Vim
cent hope for a job in the police court
in return for the delivery of Portu
guese votes, to strengthen the host
promised by yierra of Aala park base
ball fame, serves to indicate the secre
cy with which the work is being car
ried on. In despite Of repeated deniali
by both Brown and his closest friends
that he will not run for Office again
the politicians with their ears to thu
ground state positively that they ear
hear Browns footsteps padding it il
the direction of the convention hall
With Brown as Sheriff and Cathcar
as prosecuting officer, good times woult
come. back with rush, even if they
did smell little of punk
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