The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-25


a "cliqquey" look, but be that as it
may the Conference has selected a
man bigger than the Conference it.
self. There are those who say it was
mistake not to have some represen-
tative of labor in the conference be-
cause there are many laboring men in
the city who would gladly vote for any
man in preference to Mccarthy. And
it would be a sad blow to political
hopes if men believed that Labor was
Mccarthy, and Mccarthy was labor
Rolph is too clever a man himself to
overlook such a matter, and it can be
safely left to him to rectify any ''po-
litical blunders" which the Confer
ence may have made in their anxiety
to find a good man.
Rolph was born and brought up in
the Mission District of San Francis
CO. He sold papers there as boy and
ran errands, he has lived there ever
since. He was well on the way toward
success when Mccarthy was house
carpenter in the old California Hotel,
and in spite of the fact that Mccarthy
also makes his home in the Mission
and has strong backing in that Sec
ton of town, James Rolph stands head
and shoulders above the present may
or in popularity, in integrity, aud is
certainly his equal in political
strength. He is strong as well among
the business interests, out in the
Western Addition, where wealth and
social station has it's influence, in fact,
there isn't a section of the city where
Jim" Rolph is not already known
and thought well of.
1t is not to be lost sight of that Nc
Carthy is clever, that he can run rings
around Rolph when it comes to doing
politics, that he will bring all pressure
to bear to set some of the influential
newspapers on his side, that the Nc
Carthy "sack''-gathered these many
months from municipal office holders
will be opened wide, that his bench
men will even try to get third candi-
date to divide the anti-labor vote in
the hopes that he will slip in as he
did before-between two good men
who were fighting between them. But
the city has had weary months of lab
or administration, has watched while
bakers, and saloon keepers and butch
ers made laws and ordinances. Citi-
zens have sampel of the paris of
America" and unless the straws have
been violating the laws of nature,
Mccarthy will have a natural feeling
of resentment, and feeling of enough"
on the part of labor men and others
to combat, in addition to having a man
like Rolph to beat. Can he do it?
According to the rules of the pri-
mary, candidates go upon the ticket
without any party designation, and at
the final election the vote will be lin
tied to two candidates-all the others
who received fewer votes at the pri-
mary being debarred from the finals.
For this reason it is more than ever
essential that the man who opposes
Mccarthy shall be personally popular
and we'll known and have a strong or.
ganization behind him. For the fight
will undoubtedly start with rush. Nc.
Carthy's men plan to finish the con
test at the Primary by getting him a
majority vote and thus electing him
on the spot, which is according to the
procedure under the present election
system. Granting, then, that Mccarthy
is strong-and no sane person coulC
say otherwise-it will take a strong
man from the start to lead the voters
one who will secure enough votes a
the Primary to keep Mccarthy from
getting a majority, and then contin
uing the work until the November
elections, when it is hoped a man will
be elected to the mayors chair whC
will administer the affairs of the cit!
in way which will the admiration o
the thousands who will come from al
over the world in 1915 to visit thu
Panama-Paciic Exposition.
And James Rolph, Jr., of all presen
candidates, ought to be that man.
THE SENATOR'S TROUBLES.
Human cargo mutinies on Black
birder" is the way one of the newsp0
pers described the troubles of the s.
Senator with the 145 colored laborer
stolen from Hawaii. The steamer al
rived from Honolulu day before yesteI
day, and profting by the first exper
ence, the contractors did not permi
the vessel to approach a wharf, bu
anchored in the stream in an uppe
part of the bay.
The trouble started almost imm'
diately the Senator dropped ancho
and the laborers aboard learned thu