The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-16
PIC, WIGGLEs AND
POI At PRINCESS
POLITICAL LUAU
Desha Flees When Hula Starts at
Gathering '-Breckons and
Single Also Turn Tail.
(From Mondays Advertiser.)

Avhi an VI IioNA'J
Pig and poi took the pas over
politics at the luau given yesterday
afternoon by the Princess Kalani-
anaole, to the leaders and pledged dele
gates of the KuhioTaft faction. If
there was any suspicion of dark polit-
zeal motive in the festivity before the
assembling of the guests 1t was quickly
dispelled by the eviden5 desire of ali
parties to forget politics and trrn
their energies to the consumption of the
provender. OF course there were tete-
a-tetes behind bushes and occasional
suspicious conclaves about the lawn,
but these Were rather N spite of the
leaders than with their sanction. The
single innocent purpose of the gather
ing at the Waikiki residence OF the
Delegate seemed to be to keep the
representatives from the far places
from getting into temptation or mis-
chief.
So far as the luau itself was CON
cerned it was huge success. The
guests, who numbered two hundred or
more, We're seated under pavilloa,
hung with flags and bunting. The
haoles, among whom Ex-Governor Carter
stood out prominently, were placed at
table apart where they could throw
poi without molesting the others. AS
it happened most of them were able TO
negotiate a part of their allowance
without getting it down their backs.
Ernest Kaai's troubadours and IN inn
promptu orchestra were stationed at
opposite ends of the pavilion to Furnish
the soothing strains and around the
corner was a booth, where the liquid
inspiration was stored in barrels and
cases, to which the male contingent did
justice later.
An evident effort was made to
eliminate the hula, but luau is lnau
and the dancing finally began, where
upon Stephen Desha remembered his
cloth and fed precipitously. Not so
Captain Bob Parker. Up to the time
of the dancing the captain had been
content to officiate in the little booth
around the corner, but when Mama
Loa wiggled until he lost his hairpins
and few Hawaiian girls yielded to the
spirit of abandon, the captain was
there with Hhemo' and from that
time forth he was the selfappointed
arbiter of the festival, directing the
music, cheering the hula artists and
occasionally giving little squirm to
show that he could do it too.
1t was about this time that Robert
Single, Harry Murray, Charles Achi,
G. R. Carter, United States District
Attorney Breekons and others of the
inner shrine took advantage of the
diversion. climbed surreptitiously into
automobiles, and stole away to the
residence of Colonel Sam Parker, for
the political gossip and conspiracy that
was kapu at. the luau.
Aside from the spontaneous blossom
ing of the hula and the advent of few
unlimited guests, who had partakan
freely elsewhere, the function was as
formal and decorOus as luau can be.
There was no attempt made to
''palaver" the delegates; SO far as the
Princess Kalanianaole and the political
factotums were concerned they were
left to their own devices and only re-
minded from time to time that they
were to appear fit and faithful at the
caucus last night in the Knights of
Pythias Hall.
1t may have been the exhilaration
and high spirits incidental to luan,
but it seemed that the ent.r. company
was confident of triumph and one dele
gate asserted that the political stains
was such that there could be no doubt
of the victory of the Kuhio-Taft fac
tion in the convention, if the contest is
straight and SQUARE /"
William Nnllaen Harno.. fa.