The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-15
IMMIGRATION.
LAND OR
LIQUOR?
Politicians Are Worrying About
the Issue of the Next
Campaign.
OFFICESEEKERS IN TROUBLE
Liquor Issue May Disrupt Both
Parties and Jobchasers Want
1t Quickly Solved.
OFFlcEsEEKERs IN TROUBLE

The news from Washington indicat-
ang that the special election in July
on the Prohibition question was not
likely to take place, has put the politi-
clans of Honolulu at skies and sevens.
The party leaders on both sides are in
a tangle. All are waiting to see
whether the plebiscite proposition
passes, but there is an impression that
1T will not, in view of the compiled
tions with which it has become involv-
ed, and this prospect of turning the
liquor proposition over to the regular
November election is what is disturb
ing those who are really Gin" politics.
They do not know what side to take.
This is one reason why there is
very strenuous effort being made to
get the liquor matter disposed of, by
compromise in which all parties shall
unite, before the regular campaign be-
gins. If the question can be put out
of the way, there will be a clear field
for other issues,-such as Link Nc
Candies land question. If it remains,
it may overshadow all others.
If, as the best posted observers think,
the plebiscite proposition is to be kill
ed, the liquor question will probably be
the main issue of the next campaign.
AT least determined effort to make
1T such will be made. The Republican
organization can probably be carried
for prohibition, or practically the same
thing, while the Democratic organiza-
ton shows strong tendencies in the
other direction.
This is where the politicians, and
especially the politicians who are Office
seekers, see their pilikia. There are
some very strong and influential Re-
publicans who are not disposed to
z'stand for" the prohibition program,
and there are some powerful leaders
of the Unterrifed who will not play in
the Democratic yard if the Democrats
align themselves with the liquor in
terests. Where shall the eager can
,didate place himselfi
1t is these facts. threatening q
partial disorganization of both parties,
which worry the politicians. If IT
comes to show down, it IS prac-
tically certain that the Republican par
ty will be found on the prohibition side,
But how much strength will change
sides in the new lining up, is the wor-
risome question:
The Democrats are planning to make
the immigration question new issue.
Their land issue, presented last time
by Link McCandless, and which he is
ready to present again, is not regard
ed as good thing any more. In the
first place the Democrats are "queered'
by the fact that all their members of
the legislature voted for the Frear-
Kuhio land bill which is now pending
an Washington. They can hardly cam
paign against a plan which all their
legislative representatives formally
helped to carry into effect. Link g
land issue is on the way to the polit-
zeal junk pile.
Immigration is being turned to as
an issue. Just as in national politics
Bryan is on a long-lasting hunt for an
issue with which to oppose the party
in power, the Democrats here are cast
ing about for war-cry in local affairs
and the immigration proposition is be-
lieved by some of them to furnish it
According to reports worthy of con-
sderation, it is the plan now to make
an issue of the immigration matter. The
Democrats will attack the special I'M
migration tax, and the action taken
under the immigration law, in bringing
Filipinos and Russians here.
Delegate Kuhio, it is said, will be
found in the ranks of the prohibitions
ists,--if federal prohibition is aban
doned. In letter to the Antisaloon
League, and in other letters received
here, he stated his refusal to support a
federal prohibition law even on the
plebiscte basis, declaring that the leg
islature of Hawaii should handle the
matter.