The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-04
TOLD cARLSMITH
TO GO TO HADES
Silva Tells Campaign Manager
He Does Not Expect Elec-
ton by Bribery.
(Mail Special to The Advcrtiser)

HILO, September 30-Declaring that
he did not want to secure his election
through bribery, Captain of Police
Evangelino da silva, Republican candi-
date for the house of representatives,
last week told Carlsmith, the Republi.
can campaign manager, that he did not
propose to take any orders from him.
Thus the Republican campaign be-
came spicy from the start. The cam
paign manager called two meetings of
the candidates. At both of these Silva
was present, and at both he contributed
to the excitement. lie and Carlsmith
did practically all the talking, the other
candidates being content TO emulate the
gentle clam.
Versions of the affair vary a little,
mainly according to just how peaceful
by nature the narrator is. Some say
that there was no disagreement at all.
Carlsmith says there was no row. as it
takes two to make such, and only Sill
va performed in that respect. Silva
says plainly that there was row.
81 had n row with Carlsmith at the
meeting the other day." said Silva.
81 told him that / did not propose to
buy my election. told him that did
not have to do much campaigning, as
am well known and have friends
throughout this side of the island, who
will vote for me whether l 90 about
stamping or not. am not the weak
man on the ticket that they need pull
along.
| Gas a matter of fact ] did not wish
| to run for the house at all. 1t will
not pay me to go to Honolulu. On the
h,r &c
my friends asked me to take the nomi-
nation for the house, l promised them
that | would do so. l have never gone
back on my word before, and do not in
tend to do so now. So ] am running -
1t seems that the fireworks started
at the first meeting of Carlsmith and
the candidates, when Silva is said to
have claimed that "the haoles' were
knitting him.
Carlsmith wanted to know just what
Silva meant by knitting" and when
Silva did not produce definition, Carl
smith supplied one, to which Silva said
that he was extremely indifferent, re-
iterating his original statement
On being further pressed by Carl
smith as to whom he referred to by
fthe haoles," Silva is reported to
have mentioned the name of Panos
Porphyres, the host at Demosthenes
Hotel, where silva made his famous
raid of some of Hilo's most promising
blooms.
There was some more spirited talk.
Silva and Carlsmith did it all. The
rest preserved clam-like silence.
A few days later the second meeting
was held This was again eulivened
by a duet by Silva and Carlsmith, with
the former in the leading part. This
time the trouble started when the cam
paign manager suggested that it might
be pious thing for the candidates to
take a run of few days into Puma
where there were number of votes
which would look well attached to Re-
publican ballots. He recommended that
the candidates spend couple or three
DAYS in the wilds of that district, get
ting acquainted with the electorate and
at the same time giving the electorate
a chance to observe the many conspic
nous, sterling qualities which make the
Republican candidates so eminently de
sirable.
Silva answered by stating fatty that
he intended to do no such thing. He
might spend a day in Puma, returning
at FIVE O'Clock in the afternoon, but
as for loafing about for several days
there was nothing doing.
Carlsmith asked Silva whether he in
tended to stick to the rest of the Re
publican ticket aggregation in the cam
paign, and Silva suggested that he did
mot intend to secure his election through
bribery and the expanding of large
sums of money. He did not have tC
make any extensive and expensive cam
paign, but would run on his record
which he trusted would carry hin
through. In the end he told Carlsmith
with his followers, to 90 to a place
which sounds much like Hilo.
And the rest of the candidates still
preserved a clam-like silence.
An interesting phase of the hgh'
for which Silva is now getting ready
is based on the attitude of some OF ms
fellows Of Portuguese descent, Some
of these state openly that they vii
oppose Silva's election. Chief among
these is Cabrinha.
az don't like to bolt the Republican
party" said Cabrinha, after the con
vention, in contradiction of the repor
which had it that Cabrinha intended
thus to revenge himself for having beer
turned down in the caucus where h'
sought the nomination for the Hilo sup
ervisorship. 81 will stick to the ticket
with the exception of Silva. ! vii
work against him. He had no business
taking the nomination, after having
been turned down in the caucus. ] don :
want to see him play the second fiddle. :
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