The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-05

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to the Republican party.
Good Chance TO Win.
There is a splendid chance for Re.
publican success, and the nomination
Of clean, strong ticket by the Repub.
lican party, if the business men will
assist in seeing that representative dele
gates be sent to the convention. and
further If it is possible to weed from
the Republican party a number of polit.
zeal parasites, who are only in the party
for their personal gain, who have never
been loyal to the party, and who are
ready now to sell out if they can get
any one to buy their services.
- 1t Is from this faction that sees
no future for it in the reorganized Re.
publican party that the lies and garbled
statements which have been whispered
around the street for some time, and
which now seem to be coming to a head
have ema1ated, and in their desperation
they can be counted upon to manufac.
ture and invent any falsehood no mat.
ter how despicable to attempt to save
themselves and hurt the Republican
| organization.
Cohen Involved.
Joe Cohen, whom the afternoon gram.
marian has consistently attacked in a
sort of polite blackmail ever since he
Cancelled his advertising contracts a
year ago, is mixed up with Andrews
In the charges made, the charge being,
in short, that he diverted a portion Of
the money received by him as an anti
prohibition campaign fund and paid it
| to Andrews to secure nomination as
senator on the Republican ticket,
Cohen calls the charge lie, just a
simple lie, and let's it 60 at that.
In a statement to The Advertiser yes
terday, Mr.. Cohen says:
eyes, am candidate for the sen.
ate, notwithstanding the fact that Achi
and Wise are opposing me-and in an.
swer to the statements made by these
gentlemen 1 desire to say that it af.
fords me a great deal of pleasure to
hear that The Advertiser and Mr..
Matheson are favorable to my candi.
dacy.
'That Mr.. Andrews and Mr.. Mathe.
son should both go out of their way
to ask support for me is an honor that
L highly appreciate.
81 want the support of every voter
and depend upon my record in the last
legislature to secure my nomination.
1.-The charge made that 1 am sup.
plying Mr.. Andrews with funds for
which he is to deliver to me the nom.
ination, is false, and while Mr.. Wise
states that it is so understood, l want
to say right here that if Wise or any
other man makes this as a direct as.
sertion l herewith brand him as a liar
"The charge that 1 made the asser-
tion that had the Republican party in
my hands and was going to frame the
platform is too ridiculous to answer.
"Wise states that the Hawaiians
consider me nothing but a malihini
and for that reason should combine to
knock me out. If over twelve years
residence here leaves one a malihini
and the fact that worked for the
Hawaiians in the last legislature by my
efforts to defeat the immigration Bill
should cause them to knock me out, it
is up to them to do it, and I will take
my medicine, but L don It think that the
Hawaiians will do so, at least not
through the arguments of such men as
Achi and Wise, whose opinions and
party affiliations are always open to
the highest bidder.
"Referring to the charge of Wise
that 1 offered him $3.50 month,
would ask: For what7 My salary list
now at the Orpheum is more than
can take care of comfortably and
while Mr.. Wise may be a good acrobat
when it comes to making political flip
lops, still don t see where he could
make good for that amount of salary
"The only reason I can account fol-
Achi's opposition to me is that we are
at issue on the immigration question
He knows I oppose immigration in it:
present form, as I consider it big in
/ justice to our Hawaiian labor.
Undoubtedly, owing to pecuniary
reasons not far to seek, he takes tht
other side, yet evidently dares not com,
out in the open and attack me on tina
issue, so he trumps up the old ridicu
lous charge about the band, which tn,
band boys themselves have refuted.
"I want to say further that I an
in hearty accord with the editoria
appearing in Yesterdays Advertiser il
reference to the time being ripe fo
the business community to wake u
and see that the management of part.
affairs is in the hands of those VIII
represent the business interests of tn
community and not controlled by polit
ical renegades. F"