The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-15
OUR PROTEST
NOT ONLY ONE
SuggestedAppOintments ofNegrO
to Office ArOuses Several
Communities.
BY Ernest G. walker.


WASHINGTON, October 3I.-The
Presidents program for putting several
negroes into more or less important fed
eral offices soon, including Charles A.
Cotterill, of Toledo, Ohio, as collector
of internal revenue at Honolulu, has
set lot of people in a number of com
munities by the ears. Protests are be-
ing voiced from several quarters, in
GLIDING the District of Columbia, where
it seems to be as good as settled that
William II. Lewis, a colored lawyer of
Boston, Massachusetts,, will be one OF
the assistant attorney general in the
department of justice.
As has already been cabled to The
Advertiser it does not seem certain yet
that Cotterill will be made collector at
Honolulu. The only information of a
positive character about cOlored ap-
pointee pertains to Lewis, and at the
White house offices the impression is
encouraged that Cotterill's selection is
in allowance. Ohio is the center just
now of terrific political battle and
the President is very anxious to see
that State go Republican. The Ohio
negroes have been sulking bit prom
Uses of office are always effective In
putting the negro leaders to work
Quick Work.
The protest from Honolulu against
the selection of an outsider for col
lector undoubtedly will have weight
with the President. 1t came in very
promptly, having been received the
day following the announcement that
such an appointment was contemplated
The upshot will probably be, if the
protest is backed up by other evidences
of widespread popular opposition in the
Territory, that the President will find
some other office for Cotterill. 1t seems
unlikely at this writing that the ap
pointment will be made for some weeks
yet.
otherwise there is little of Hawaiian
local interest in town. The winter g
activities here will not begin till well
into November when the President has
returned from Panama. Judge h. M
Hatch, who has been in New England
much of the summer, is now In Boston
washington Waited.
Politics, politics, all is politics in
Washington. The city where the gov
eminent of the United States has its
seat is thinking and sleeping over the
impending battle of ballots. The fierce
fray sounds from afar, but Washington
knows little about it, except that 1t
hears the booming of big guns and sees
its citizens hustling away to get upon
the firing line.
And in many particulars it is a
period of suspense, more so than IN
any campaign at so late a stage for
a long, long time. AS far as the gov
eminent is concerned, Washington is
essentially a city of Republicans, and
in a campaign of such fury from a
united opposition, there has been ear
nest waiting for good tidings from some
quarter. While there is no particular
reason why it should be so, the activi'
ties of the administration have been
materially limited. There is too much
interest in what is going on out IN the
States to allow people here tc coneen'
trate their thoughts and their efforts
upon matters Immediately in hand
Everybody is counting the days till
Tuesday, November 8, comes.
The President is going ahead with
routine work, but none of the compara'
lively important matters, in which the
public has lively concern, is receiving
attention from him for the present
Several members of his cabinet are out
of town, making eleventh-hour stump
speeches to help the party in States
where the leaders are especially hard
pressed. Secretary of State Knox, Sec
rotary of the Treasury MacVeagh, Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson and Score
tary of Commerce and Labor Nagel are
putting in all their available time
Thep are combining their efforts to New
York and Ohio, which are the two great
pivotal States in the political battling
If those two Republican stronghold'
can be kept from swinging into the
Democratic column, the administration
will feel much easier.
And No Hope Game.
With all the anxiety, the discussion
is discussed pro and con in all the big
governmental offices, and the latest
news is sought with exceptional eager
ness. Amy encouraging word, first from
Ohio and secondly from New York, is
seized upon to inspire some hope. II
there should be anything like a Repub-
lican victory, lot of Washington Off
Gals would feel like rushing out and
building bonfres. OF course, the poll.
ticians are not swarming to Washington
such times as these. They are back
home, trying to prevent the eonhagra.
tion from spreading. But vast deal
of information by private letters and
through other means of communication
is being brought here constantly.