The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-06
Mr., KINNEY FOR
MAYOR FERN
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membered that although majority of
the old Board of Supervisors were
nominated by Democrats, Mr.. Archer
and Kealoha were pursuaded to aban
don Democratic affiliations after cleo
tion through Republican influence, and
Fern and Harvey, the two straight
Democrats, were neither of them given
a Craftsmanship of any committee, but
have served their entire term in sub
ordinate positions.
1t should be remembered also that
when Fern continued in Office the head
of the Fire Department, Electric Works.
etc, it was considered beyond uues-
ton that those offices at least were
within the appointing power of the
Mayor, and his action in the premises
was direct application of business
principles in the running of his office,
although he had received little or no
support in his candidacy from the busi-
ness interests, who are so vitality inter
ested in eliminating politics as far as
possible from the business departments
of the County government He went
on to name many subordinates, but it
was well understood by him and all
concerned that it was toss-up whether
many of these appointments came with
IN his duties or not. If not, no harm
was done and if they were held to be
his appointees, then he had discharged
his duty under the law, requiring him
to make all his first appointments dur
| ing the month of December last
If he had put Democrats and his own
! following in all the important offices,
he would be doing little more than the
| Republican administration had been do
/ ing right along of which policy he, him
! self, had been the victim in the late
| Board of Supervisors. In the face of
such conservative and fair action in
vital matters, it seems hardly the thing
to raise cry of incompetence and stu
/ pidity at once against the Mayor, be.
cause he held back and was non-com-
initial, confronted suddenly. as he was,
! by radical attempt to deprive him
of the appointing and executive power
that all understood was the vital fea-
ture of this municipal act
me. is your contention from the events
of yesterday that the native electorate
is unfit for local government. The
native vote has its good and its bad
points. It is after all a very conserva-
tive vote-one that has no wish or
desire to declare war upon vested in
| terests or property rights. It is a vote
that has little sympathy with feder-
p+o LII.
a vote. after all, whose shortcomings
are as child's play compared with the
vote of classes holding the same rela-
tive position in other countries or on
the mainland of the United States It's
chief fault lies in the fact that it is
| a controlling race vote a dangerous
! thing for the natives as well as for
others 1t has used that race vote with
very little detriment to the body pol
lite - probably more conservativelv
than the white race would have used
that same power if in it's hands. The
controlling feature of the native vote
will not however last very much longer.
Put 5000 American voters into Hawaii
representing the ideas of organized la
Dor and 10000 to $4,000 European fam
lilies here and this same native vote
will become a perfect Godsend to those
who too readily carp at it and criticize
it now.
| Between municipal government under
the leadership and. coutrol of Mr. Quinn
and municipal government under the
leadership and control of Mr.. Fern.
thore may well be very considerable
support drawn to Mayor Fern and to
the maintenance of his executive and
appointing powers and this I say with
ont personal disnaragement of Mr..
Quinn. Yours truly.
W. A. KINNEY.
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