The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-29
OUR FRISCO LETTER
Continued from page one)

of the fair. Not content with this ne
had also gotten into communication !
with several railroad men and steam.
ship officials, and the good work he
seems to have already started will be
up after his return from San
Diego, for which place he left last
night for a short visit.
The idea of writing about a politi- !
cal situation and prophesying who will
be the winner and having the letter
published after the election is over,
might tend to put one in a foolish po-
sition. The cables will have carried
the news of San Francisco's primary
election to Honolulu before this letter
reaches the Islands, but if the news
doesn't go out of Rolph's victory, I
will be only one of thousands of San
Francisco people who will be sur
prised beyond all expression. Indeed
one could not call it less than a ca
lamity to have Rolph defeated, and
every STRAW" in the political win1
points toward the elimination of P. H.
from the city's politics.
The strange thing is that no one
seems to think for a moment that the
fight will be continued after the pri-
maries. It seems to be generally con-
ceded by both sides that one side is
going to win the mayoralty candidate
at least at the primaries, and there
is only passing interest in the other
candidates, with the general wish,
which is improbable, that all the vot-
ing for candidates could be settled at
the primaries.
At this writing we are within four
days of the election, and all the can
didates are on the home stretch. Rolpn
has been conducting a personal whirl-
wind campaign for weeks, and he
shows no signs of letting up. McCar-
thy has practically deserted his Of
fetal chair, and is hurrying about the
city eXhorting crowds to put him in
office to keep the rich men from grab
bling the reins of government and
making millions by increasing the
hours of work and reducing the pay
of laborers. He has proclaimed him
self as the only man who can insure
industrial peace during the next four
years, and when you stop to think
about it this remark has an ominous
sound Even if p. H. were defeated
for office he will still maintain his
leadership of the Building Trades
Council, and he has it in his power
to make industrial trouble if he SO
chooses when it comes time to build
the fair.
Mccarthy has been conducting q
clever fight, making the most of his
poor opportunities. With all the
newspapers in town against him-ex-
cept one small one; he has started
paper of his own-and also placarded
the billboards of the town with 81 was
elected by the people, not by the news
papers" With most of the manufac-
turers against him he has posted the
town with 81 am pledged to Home In
dustry." With Andrew Furuseth, the
brilliant union labor leader and head
of the great seamen's union against
him he has placarded the town with
San Francisco is the cleanest seaport
town in the world" and given himself
credit for making it so. Charged with
inefficiency, and all that goes with It,
he has spread all over the city other
huge billboards reading my admin
istration has been clean, honest, ag-
.gressive. l challenge human endeav-
or to do more"
He's two-fisted fighting man is Me-
Carthy. And modesty has long since
fled from his presence. Huge McCar-
thy banners have been placed on the
new city hall being built. All the
municipal wagons and equipages,
save the police patrols and fire en-
gines, have huge Mccarthy banners,
and last, but not least, he removed
the corner stone from the city and
county hospital which was started by
Mayor Taylor, during Taylors admin
istration, and substituted another cor
nerstone with his own name and the
names of his own official co-workers.
Where early in the game it was
predicted that Rolph and his support
ers would have to work hard to hold
their own at the primaries, it is now
conceded that Rolph's wonderful cam
paign has put Mccarthy badly in the
hole, and p. HIS most strenuous eff
forts are now being put forth So
fierce is the fight, and so heavy is the
demand for money that the other day
the Building Trades Council executive