The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-03-31
AcH| DEF|Es
ALL PARTIES

Charley Hustace has told me thai
IL 1 will come back with the Repue-
licans they will give me the nominal
ton for County Attorney, but l told
him that | did not want their nomi-
nation" remarked Charley Achi in a
| discussion of the situation politically
II am out TO fight the Republican
party and the Democratic party as
we'll / took no part in the Republican
primaries, although they wanted me
to be a delegate. l have left the rarty
and am having great success In or
| ganizing my new Labor party. am
out to fight the Republicans and am
going to win
What has either OF the parties
done for ME or for my friends?
| Thrown us all down. Two weeks be-
| fore the last election Hustace was a
beaten man. The Hawaiians had
made up their minds to elect Tom
Gandan and leave Hustace at home.
Then / stepped in and saved the day
| for Hustace. And what thanks did l
get? 1 never asked anything for my
self. but for my friends. and they
worked for and elected Iaukea. and
he won't have one of my men on the
police force. To protect my friends I
have had to get out of all parties and
now l am in the field against them
all. And in the field TO win.
IT may head my ticket for Mayor.
or. II the party has a better man I
will not run for anything. l do not
want anything myself. At 1 am go
ing to beat Charley Hustace and Sam
Dwight because they have thrown my
friends down. 1 have told Hustace
this. and he is afraid now that he
could not be elected Mayor even If
he got the nomination"
Achi evidently means what he says,
and, although a great many profess to
regard him as a political back num-
Der. there are some who think the
same as he does. Charley Achi is
going to surprise a whole lot of us
when the time comes" Is John Wise's
size-up of the willy politician, and the
CONSERVATION among the politicians
when Achi came out in opposition to
the present road policy of the Super
turn things topsy-turvy are we'll re-
membered. At any rate, Achi hopes
to have enough votes to his string to
do some profitable trading.
THE PRIMARY RETURNS.
Ever since Saturday night those
members of the Republican party who
are ashamed of the results in some
precincts have been explaining that
the best candidates made no effort to
win, were nominated without their
knowledge, and don't care anyhow, be-
cause the delegates are only to choose
the Hawaiian representatives to at
tend the National Convention. As a
matter of fact, however, the returns
show that in some precincts acknowl-
edged respectable men were defeated
by men of known disrepute. And, in
spite of the avowal of the secretary
of the Civic Federation that that body
was not interested in the primaries,
which nobody claimed every known
Civic Federationist was beaten, rs
well as a number of others generally
supposed to belong to that body. Nat
urally the Civic Federation did not
take part as a body in the Republican
primary, but this was no reason why
the members who happen to be Re-
publicans should not have turned out
TO vote. There was no concerted eff
fort on the part of the machine 10
elect its men, but the number of vot-
ers who turned out to support those
machine candidates, few as they were,
outnumbered the others in some pre-
cincts by ten to one.
Is It of such utter unimportance to
the Territory who represents the Re-
publican party at Chicago? 1t is ru-
mored that among the elected dele
gates to the convention there are
many opposed to sending Governor
Frear. Who else are these opposed to
who might represent the Territory
creditably? Do the citizens of Ha-
wall want to support any William
Cullen Bryants again? Have those
who attend the meetings of the Civic
Federation not heard remarks to the
effect that it is the duty of all good
citizens to attend all precinct meet
ings and appear at all. primaries?
John G. Woolley has urged all good
citizens to vote as they pray; if more
of them had voted as they talk, or
taken the trouble to vote at all, the
results last Saturday in some pre-
cincts would have been different.
The fact that a number of the men
elected last Saturday have been again
given recognition as among the lead
ers and representatives of the voters
of that party is. as Secretary Emme-
luth of the Democrats says, a sign
that the respectable rank and file of
the party have not as yet shaken off
the incubus that lost it several i'm
portant offices in 1906. Misquoting
and distorting the Advertisers report
of the primary election will not alter
this fact. 1t is early in the game,
however, and the party has time to
purge itself before the more import
ant incidents of the campaign are
due.