The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-05-20
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.

Advocacy of Link McCandless for
the delegateship may cost Cannon Ball
Kaniho his political life, according 30
letters received from Kohala this week.
Traitor" is the somewhat signif.
cant word applied to Kaniho g latest
political action by his constituency. for
Kohala is the original bred.in-the- bone
Home Rule community and Link Nc
Candless' democracy sitteth hard upon
their conscience. Kohala wiD stay
Home Rule, but Kaniho is likely to be
read out of the 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 to a more delicate
brown evidently. In the first place the
prohibition question was not supposed
to be touched upon. People who were
depending a great deal on the impress
sion that Kaniho's speech would mako
in order to get the "impetus Of the
early bird" in the coming campaign
were disappointed in this part Of his
address, for It seems that prohibition
was, by an unwritten understanding,
relegated to a closed locker.
However, Kohala, which has sent
Kaniho "up' for every session of the
territorial Legislature, is not bothering
about Kaniho IS ideas on. prohibition,
but is shocked over his Dissertation of
Home Rule altars by a renunciation 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 Kohala.
However, as a willy politician Kaniho
seems to have left loophole through
which he can crawl. 1t is well-known
and admitted by his opponents that he
is one of the last of the cold" 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 weakness in his
new faith not entirely evident on the
face of it. Among other things he is
alleged to have said was that if Nc
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' S 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 delegateship without advocating
KuhiO, MeCandless 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-
niho to make quick return to fight
his own battles.
Charles Motley left for Hawaii ON
the Mauna Kea yesterday. Before leav.
ing he gave an interview confirming
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-
ing 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.