The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-31
OUR FRISCO LETTER
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dyed politician Of the Mccarthy
Tveitmoe stamp, but young attorney
with no great amount of brains who
simply got INFO bad company and now
hopes he will be given an opportunity
to get out. Hathorn, the Rolph man,
for a young man practically unknown
until this political season, and it is
an even bet that he will in the end
defeat the more experienced FiCkert.
There is a merry race on for the
office of supervisor, though one does
not hear much about politics as no
mass meetings of any importance are
being held Those candidates who re-
ceived a good vote and rank near the
top of the list are practically assured
of election at the November voting.
and it is only the few men who rank
near the foot of the list who are sour
rying around trying to get enough
votes lined up to promise them
place further up the line. Undoubted-
ly there will be some labor super
visors elected, which is perhaps
good thing, because the winners will
probably be the broadest-minded of
| the labor delegates, men who are good
! fighters, and they will add seasoning
| to supervisorial discussions and be
ready to raise a hue and Cry if the
other men elected, politically born
with considerable power vested in
them become top-heavy and try to run
things with a high hand. Just so
! long as Mccarthy and his immediate
following are booted out of the city
offices bag and baggage, the town
could stand almost everything else.
The Exposition.
The climax to months of work on
the Panama-Paciftc Exposition was
reached when President Taft turned
the sod, and just now there is the
quiet aftermath which precedes the
actual beginning of the long months
of hard work which will see dreams
developed into realities. The eXposi-
ton committee has taken an entire
building to house it's activities, and
the various branches are rapidly being
organized under the various viCe-presi-
dents of the exposition to do the most
effective work.
In connection with Taft's visit there
have been some rather interesting re-
marks about how he was gobbled up
by the fair committee and not allow
ed to meet the common people" The
point was made that he was taken in
charge by the exposition officials i'm.
mediately on his arrival, and kept
more or less secluded from the aver
age run of humanity during his en-
tire visit. True he dug up the sod
in public, but it was really before a
selected group of citizens, chosen and
invited by the fair directors. He at
tended an afternoon reception, but il
was merely for the -four hundred OF
the city. At no time it seems did
he come into intimate touch with the
thousands of people who would liked
to have seen him closer. Perhaps
Taft with his patrician tastes could
not have desired better than he got
but on several occasions | heard il
mentioned that Taft fell far short o
Roosevelt in his capacity to get the
crowd with him. Maybe Roosevelt
didn't actually get any closer to the
| people than Taft did but he had thu
happy faculty of making the people
think he did anyway, which after al
is just as good
The thousands that lined the street
+ when Taft was scheduled to appear
' cheered Justify when he went alonl
surrounded on all sides by the sill
hated and frock coated directors
voiced their enthusiasm for the he'll
r Taft had given the fair-but with al
that things didn't set just right il
every quarter. They didn't even hay
parade down town for Taft, bu
started him in a parade way out o
Van Ness avenue and rushed hin