The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-19
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who have knowledge of his doings dis
gusted at the prospects of having him
for another two years in Office. If it
were not for the fact that behind Cath
cart there are some delegates of a Ger.
tain stripe, such as Willie Crawford,
Charley Clark, Ballot Switcher Buffan-
deau and the other remnants of the
candidates want even if they cannot
stomach the men themselves, has pre-
vented the opposition to Cathcart com
ing out openly. After the mayoralty
nomination is made, however, it will
probably be found that Cathcart is not
unopposed.
Even at this late hour it would be
possible for a decent candidate to sup
plant Cathcart on the party ticket and
allow that ticket to command the I'M
divided support of the party, a support
which it needs at this election much
more than it has ever needed it be-
fore. A man of the stamp of A. d.
Larnaeh, while it is conceded that he
has not the legal experience of Cath
cart, would be strength to the ticket
in this campaign, while Cathcart will
| be one brittle spot upon which the
| Democratic attack can be made with a
prospect of splitting the whole ticket
and defeating some good men as well
as the Objectionable one. Larnach IS
young, ambitious and clean, and the
substitution of his name or that of
someone else of which the same can
be said for that of lCathcart would
solidify the ticket immensely. By
eliminating Cathcart, who has certainly
done nothing for the party that calls
for the sacrifice it would have to make
to carry him again to the polls, the
delegates will be doug politics of the
right kind and accomplishing something
that viii assist in the election of ev-
cry other one of their candidates.
Eligibility of Wise.
Yesterday the question of the eligi-
bility of John Wise to accept the nomi-
nation for Sheriff or for any other of
fee in the county was discussed, the
eligibility clause of the new municipal
law having been brought to the at
tentiOn of the party leaders with a
question as to its meaning. The clause
in question states that a man to be
| eligible for office must be citizen who
has been a resident of the city and
county for the past vwo years. Now
| Wise voted last election in Kohala and
on the face of things has not been a
resident of this county for the past
two years. This appeared to make his
nomination mistake and there was a
hasty consultation of legal lights to
have the matter decided
At first, it was thought that the in
clusion of the word Getty" in the
clause made everyone ineligible for of
fee, because from the fact that there
has not been a Getty and county, in
the legal sense of the. word, for the
past two years for anyone to have been
a resident of. This is the very thing
that saved Wise. If this election was
any other than the first election under
the new law Wise would be happily
out of it, but as to put him out now
would put everyone else out, the opin
ion of the lawyers is that he can run
This is the opinion, at any rate, of the
Attorney General, of a. G. NJ Robert
! son and some others, but it is under
stood that some of the judges of the
Circuit Court, in studying the law, have
given an opinion to the contrary, stat
ing that Wise at least is not in a
position to accept an elective office.
Taylor, who is the only announced
candidate in the field for the nomina
! ton against Wise, received many prom
ises of support yesterday from the dele
gates, unsolicited promises. 1t is quite
possible that the showing he will make
in the convention today viii be a sur.