The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-11

With Cummins' Help Hopes to
Land Nomination for
MayOralty-

Those politicians who's have been
doing during the past week or two.
recovering from the little warming up
they took during the choosing of the
Chicago delegates, woke up with
start when it became certain that
Tommy Cummins was to step into
Sam Johnson's shoes in the road de-
partment and had publicly announced
that he intended to get into politics
and fight TO hold the job. The jolt
was not so much that Cummins was
oiling up the machine as it was that
Charley Hustace had put him in
charge and had jumped into the lead
for the nomination for mayor from his
party. 1t had suddenly become APP
parent that the selection of Cummins
for the JOB was the shrewdest trick so
far turned in the present political
game and that it was Charley Hustace
who had turned it.
1t will be remembered that the final
selection of Cummins was made at a
little meeting of Hustace. Dwight and
the appointee, after Cummins had
been made painfully aware of the fact
that it was to Hustace and Dwight
that he must look for the advance
ment and the big jump in his pay
check. For days he had been left
dangling on the painful hook of uncer-
tainty Then he was called into con-
sultation and the position offered him.
Just what promises Cummins made
and just what pledges We're extracted
from him are known only by surmise,
but it was only a few hours after the
meeting that he announced the switch
back into active politics and PARTISAN
ship of the department. 1t is gener-
ally supposed that at the little meeting
there was quite as much talk of tick
cts as there was of roads and as much
emphasis laid upon the making OF
nominations as upon the making Of
garbage rates.
The present Road Supervisor, who
will be officially confirmed in his ap-
pointment at the meeting of the Su-
pervisors on Friday night, is the presi-
dent of the precinct club of the first
of the fourth and he is expected to
control this precinct through his pres
idency and otherwise. His house is
the official meeting place OF the club
and his friends are in full control.
Now, with the resurrected machine
dI HIS uiSpOSdI, ltE - III q E0SAA4OAA W
control the Kakaako precinct, the
sixth of the fourth, which has a big
ger representation in the conventions
than any other in the county. Jim
Quinn is the president of this precinct
club, but in this case the presidency
cuts little ice in comparison to the
road supervisorship, the holder Of
which has the bread and butter of the
With the delegation of the first and
sixth to swing, Cummins can nomi-
nate whom he pleases in the conven-
ton and as he has been hitched on to
the band wagons of Charley Hustace,
the guessing is easy a to who will get
the solid support.
1t is recognized now that Hustace
has gained a lap on Jack Lucas for
the Republican nomination. Lucas is
a strong man among the road workers
and would probably get the majority
of their votes if he landed the nominal
ton. But between him and the pIac-
ing of his name on the ticket now
looms Tommy Cummins. strong
through his new position and holding
the voters in the grip that Sam John
son fastened on them five years ago.
The grip has loosened greatly, but the
voters haven't found that out yet.
They have got out of the habit of
squirming and do not appreciate that
the iron band has been slipped off and
a rubber band substituted. After the
first wriggle there will be scattering,
but it is the hopes of the ones in the
scheme to keep them quiet until after
the primaries at least.