The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-29
Report Says W. A. Kinney, Who
win Not say "No"--DeClInes
10 Discuss II.
GOVERNOR is IN THE DARK
Republican Committee Said to
Have Been Ignored and Demo-
Gratis Gone TO for Advice.


way by the Delegate against Governor
Frear, the written existence of which
has been common knowledge for some
time, reached Washington some two
weeks ago and are now in the posses
sion Of the assistant secretary of the
interior, being held until the return
from the West of Secretary Fisher,
through whose hands they will pass to
the President, sometime in November.
In the meanwhile, it is supposed,
copies of these charges will be for
warded TO Governor Frear, in order
that he may find out what his political
enemies have against him that they
are wiling to commit to writing and
in order that he may reply to them,
if it is thought that reply be neces-
sary. AS yet, according to statement
by him last night, the Governor has no
knowledge as to what the charges may
be
Gan that I know of them is what
have read in the papers, says the
Governor. 81 suppose that will re-
ceive a copy of them before long"
Who Prepared the Charges.
The real interest awakened by the
announcement that the formal charges,
of which so much has been said, have
at last reached Washington is not in
what the charges say but in who pre-
pared them. 1T is Known positively
that it was not Kuhio, whose share
in the document consisted of affixing
his signature to the bottom.
Kinney Does Not Deny.
For the past several days it has been
whispered around chat the Delegate
totally ignored the members of the
Republican executive committee in
this matter of formulating formal
charges and left the matter in che
hands of some of the prominent Demo-
Gratis The name of w. A. Kinney, the
leading Democrat of the Territory, has
been freely mentioned as the real au-
thor of the charges.
Yesterday representative OF inc
Advertiser called upon Mr.. Kinney and
submitted a list of questions, the hrst
one of which was:
Ibid you draw up the formal
charges?''
A simple ''No' on the part of Mr..
Kinney would have settled the matter
and made unnecessary any further ques-
tioning Unfortunately MIR. Kinney de-
clined to say either yes or "No.'
ssI am not in politics, he said, when
the tenor of the questions to be sub
mitted had been made plain to him. 81
do not want to be drawn into this mat
ter at all. do not care to answer any
questions on the subject
In view of the fact that positively
no affirmation or denial of the report
that Mr.. Kinney, Democratic leader,
had prepared the charges to be made
by a Republican Delegate against the
Republican Governor, nothing remains
but to draw whatever differences the
public of Hawaii sees fit.
at Will say" said Mr.. Kinney, when
the unsatisfactory interview closed,
s'that I am very sorry these two gem
tlemen 1.-THE Governor and Kuhiol have
quarreled.''
Probably Sorry Now.
In view of the developments of the
past two or three weeks, during which
time the wrath of the Delegate has been
evaporating, when the friends of the
Delegate were persuading him to "for-
get it, and when it had commenced to
look as though the breach in the party
was in q fair way to being healed, it is
probable that if it were within his
power the Delegate would withdraw
those Charges and tear them up.
It is not improbable that the terrific
rial executive committee of the party
will resent very much the slight the
Delegate has put upon 1t If it can be
shown that he consulted Democratic
leaders in his fight while overlooking
the regularly elected Republican com
mitteemen.
At any rate, the fat is In the fire and
either Kuhio or the Governor is to be
discredited before the row can be ended
now. 1t was one thing for the Delegate
to make charges from the stump in
Kau or across the festive board at Wal
kild and quite another to file formal
allegations against the executive with
the powers that be at Washington.