The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-18
MUCH TROUBLE
FOR HON. kAN|H0
Support of McCandless May Cost
the Lone Home Ruler His
House Seat.
CONSTITUENTS ARE HUHU
Motley Confirms Report That He
Is Urged to Run for the
Senatorship.
CONSTITUENTS ARE HUHU

Advocacy of Link McCandiess Tor
the dciegateship may cost Cannon Bali
Kaniho his political life, according 20
letters received from Kohala this week
''T1aitor'' is the somewhat slgnlfi-
cant word applied to kanIho 5 latest
rolitical action by his constituency, for
Kohala is the original bred-ln-the- bone
Home Rule community and Link Nc
Candies democracy stitch hard upon
their rnscience. Kohala will stay
Home Rule. but Kaniho~is likely to be
read out of tue party. This extremely
definite opinion reached Honolulu IN
personal letters between the kohala
powers behind the throne and politicians
Who haunt the capital
Kaniho's ''defense' of his actions
in his first speech of the campaign has
cooked his goose 10 more deHcate
brown evidently. In the first place tue
prohibition question was nct supposed
to be touched upon. People who were
depending great deal on the impress
sion that KanIho : speech would make
in order to get the impetus OF the
early bird in the coming campaign
were disappointed in this part OF his
address. for t seems that prohibition
was. by an unwritten understanding,
relocated to a closed locker.
However. Kohala, which has sent
| Kaniho cup for every session of the
territorial legislature, is not botherlng
about Kaniho's ideas on prohibition,
| but is shocked over HIS desecratlon of
/ Home Rule affairs by remuneration OF
Charles Motley.
| Kohala Hawaiians own their own
| land (and lease it to Japanese, own
| their canoes by which and almost IN
which they live and believe IN Home
Rule earnestly and devoutly. That ka-
niho should applaud the Democratic
contestant for congressional honOrs IS
considered real sorrow IN K"haia.
However. as a willy politician Kaniho
seems to have left Ioophole through
which he can crawl. 1t is well-known
ana admitted by his opponents that h.
| is one of the last of the odd style
/ and that there is not another Hawaiian
who can talk in the native tongue as he
| can.
| Saturdays speech at Aala Park, was,
of course, in the parallels for which the
/ old Hawaiian language Is wonderfully
suited, and Kauiho S parallels on this
| occasion limited at a weakness IN his
new faith not entirelv evident on the
| face of it. Among other things he Is
alleged to have said was that if Me
! Candless did not win in front. he would
| in back This loses in translation the
meaning that the Hawaiians saw in the
| original Those who were careful to
note kaniho 5 speech now come forth
| with assurances that he intimated no
very strong desire to see McCandless
win but rather kept his hands clean of
THE deIegateship without advocating
Kuhio. McCandless or Motley. Maybe
this assurance is only to make Kaniho
come out and sign his political check
for McCandless to further sever him
from the affections of Kohala How
ever Kohala seems to be dissatisfied
already, which will probably cause Ka-
his own battles
Charles Motley left for Hawaii on
the Mauna kea yesterday. Before leav-
my ne gave an lHleGN lt" cOHnGDllHg
the report published in The Advertiser
yesterday, to the effect that he was be
ing urged to get out of the delegateship
fight and run for the senate. He denied
that it was Home Rulers VINO were urg-
ling this. and said it was Democrats .
However. the best known man who Is
urging is Representative Kaniho, the
only Home Ruler to be elected to the
last legislature.