The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-30
ONLY A FIRST
PLACE FOR
LANE
Wants No Sheriffship---
Will Be Mayor or
Quit.

'sUnder no circumstances would
consider nomination on the ticket for
Sheriff, y stated John Lane most empha-
tically yesterday, when questioned as
to a probable withdrawal of himself
from the three-cornered mayoralty con-
test. 81 have announced to my friends
that I am out for nomination as Mayor,
and I will never prove traitor to my
friends or TO my party by withdrawing.
have some friends left in the party
and I will go before the convention.
If the party wants to recognize my
services to the party and nominate me,
well and good, but if they want to inti-
mate that | have not pleased them, let
them turn me down.
81 have always been a straight party
man. ] have worked hard for the party
and [ am out now for the party nomina-
tion. You must remember that this
year the Republican party is not the
party of two years ago. This time the
ticket is being watched very closely
by the masses and a great deal depends
for the success of the whole ticket
upon the one they nominate to head it.
1 don t say that I am the only man
wh6 could head it properly, but
Lane takes a gloomy view of the sit-s
uafion, although he expects, in spite or
all that has been said, to secure the
coveted nomination. He absolutely re-
fuses to even discuss accepting a noml-
nation lower down on the ticket in the
event of not landing the leading nomi-
nation, If j accepted the nomination
as Sheriff after having announced my
self as out for the Mayoralty, the Ha-
waiians would think that | have sold
out for money and I cannot allow that.
Tt would be digging my own political
grave for me to take such step.
Where are the Republicans.
Just what Lane meant by contrast
ing the party of today with that which
cleared up pretty nearly everything two
years ago. is not certain, but he had
only just heard the results of the party
roll registration in the Twelfth of the
Fifth, his old stamping ground. There,
two years ago. the roll contained the
signatures of as many as could write
of 46G Republicans, staunch and true,
a good many of whom voted the ticket
at the election; this year, after the
secretary of the precinct had gone OUT
after signatures yesterday afternoon,
the total signing the roll was only 124.
Charley Clark kept the last roll and A.
K. Vierra the new one. which may ae-
count to certain extent for the big
difference, but not for all of it.
These one hundred odd are expected
TO be enough to elect the entire Craw-
ford ticket, however, especially in view
of the report that has gone around
the precinct that the Boy Orator s run
ming mates are repudiating their CON
nection with his ticket and the indie
pendents have about as much show as
a country calf has against an automo-
bile.
A Tentative Ticket.
What purported to be tentative
ticket for the Democrats WAS made pub
lie Yesterday. but it is far from what
will be announced after the nomina.
tons The Democrats are not going
to commit harikari by nominating any
such candidate as Henry Vida, for
instance. and the name was given pos
sible to draw the opposition fire from
some other weak portion of the list. |
The ticket the party is supposed to be
considering is given:
Delegate to Congress-L. l.. McCand- i
less.
Senators-G. J. Waller, H. T. Moore,
!. X. Paele
Representatives, Fourth District-Joe !
Kekahi, Jesse Uluihi, w. w. Thayer.
County Sheriff-Wm. p Jarrett.
County Clerk. G.. Anderson.
County Treasurer. H. Trent
County Auditor-Chas. Rose.
County Attorney-E NJ Watson.
Mayor-Ed. Ingham.
Supervisors-E. R. Harvey, NJ E. Sill
va, c. ]. Campbell, Allan Herbert, FL.
c. Vida and w. II. Mcclellan.