The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12
US OR LINK"
Says SHERIFF
Either "MCCandIesS or We Must
Quit Democratic Party"
Asserts Jarrett.
"Us or Linki"

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Such is the ungrammatical but force
full Democratic war cry. The misstep
Made by link McCandless last week
Which placed the LandloekeJ One hors
de political, combat in one-two-three
time. has turned out in most unex-
pected way for the Democratic party.
The more decent elements in it are
now in a tight little bunch and all
are pulling hard for McCandless. A
few mighty heaves, they believe, and
they will pull him out of the party
altogether most beautifully.
1--WE have got to fight and fight
hard, % said Sheriff Jarrett yesterday.
1--WE have got to put McCandless out
of the Democratic party at the con-
vention. If we, do not do this there
willsno longer be any Democratic par
ty. THE ballot will contain the names
of Republican nominees and the Link
/, McCandless ticket.
''Us or Link"
/ If Link stays in, we go out. That
is about all there is to 1T. have been
advising the local Democrats contin-
ually that there is no use putting up
weak ticket and making it look like
freak. If we can not put up good
men let's not pnt any up at all. L
believe the only thing to do Is to en-
dorse Bickneh for auditor and Kalau-
okalani for clerk and put up the best
ticket that we possibly can for the
other Offices.
"Link was given every opportunity
to get rid of the bunch that he has
been carrying. l don It think we can
stand Soapbox Barron, I. Ryan, Gum
pier, Harry Juen and that crowd any
longer. McCandless promied Mccarthy
the afternoon before that meeting
that he would not INSIST on two con-
ventions in one. After he got back
to the office. however, he called up
Charlie and said that Ryan said there
WAS nothing doing and that he would
have to call it off. Mccarthy asked
if T. Ryan was the Democratic party
and it started right there.
$50 it's US or Link -
f9e Soapbox GrIeved.
Soapbox Barron is grIeyed, sorely
and deeply grieved, at the stand TAX
en- by his former friend and ally in
the cause of Link McCandless, one
Colonel Mccarthy. Time was when
Soapbox thought the world and all Of
the Colonel. He said SO himself last
night. But not now.
One little world uttered, or said to
have been uttered, by the brave Col
onel has burst the bonds of friendship
! to such tiny tatters that it is with
difficulty their former existence can be
remembered. That word is "Bum."
One has to admit it is not a nice word
! and when applied, as Barron declares
the Colonel applied it, one feels more
or less inclined to feel some sympathy
for the enlarger Of pictures at so much
the enlarge.
Colonel Mccarthy is alleged to have
uttered the word in the heat of polit-
zeal argument in describing the friends
of Link McCandless and asserting his
own vast distance from any such ami
malculae. BY inference Mccarthy de-
clares he is not a bum and that Soap
box Barron, Ryan and other of the Nc
Gamblers encourage are. Therefore is
Barron grieved. But he is not dis
pondent Neither is McCandless who
heard of the Colonel's last political
gymnastic feat yesterday through a
reporter of The Advertiser.
/ McCandless Talks.
81 have been out in the country and
have Just returned,'' said the Demo
cratic candidate. "I hear with a good
deal of surprise of Colonel McCarthy's
announcement that he is in the field
as candidate. However, this world
is made up of just such surprises and
we have to be prepared for them.
(Which means, that you are pre-.
pared" ventured the reporter.
"Well, / shall remain candidate
just the same" smiled McCandless.
'No one man or one small set of men
can decide what the Democratic party
shall or shall not do. A few local men
have been trying to do that, they want
I TO run the party. That is all, save
that l am prepared to fight them to a
finish at the convention"
The prediction is freely made by
those who claim to know, that both the
Colonel and Link will be "dumpedn
when it comes to the final show down.
There will be hot fight for delegates,
and grand and exciting contest in
the convention--and a third candidate,
Hawaiian-will emerge as the party
nominee to oppose the much divided