Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-22

was more than little Disappointed
In John Dunmeade.
His health, was not aIwars good.
He had suffered serious illness dur
ing one winter and. between the duties
OF office. the cares of n growing pri.
yate practice and the tlcessant Iaiors
of politics. his body had leep sadly
oyertaxed He was still. district at
torney. last trophy of rila reform wave
that had swept over the shattered
machine. Under The leadership of
Greeilesan ex-gambIer and former lieu-
tenant Of Sheehsn. lesS obviously the
brute and far slirewiier than tho de.
posed boss, the I'Inmvillc organization
had risen from its ashes. He had no
captured all The county Offices. Except
when John. candidate for recollection.
had won through Personal popularity
and by a scant margin.
Politics Ii a hard taskmaster. John
fonnd poor compensation in the fact
that he had become well known
throughout the state. The year after
the Benton county reform he had jnin-
ed himself to the cause OF Judge GRAY.
an honest and capable lawyer who
dared to ask the old party nomina-
ton for governor against the organIza-
lions choice. With the Judge John
made vigorous stumping campaign
in every comfy OF the state. he was
new. he was enthusiastic. be was dar-
Ing. People listened. Parrot was nomi-
mated easily according to the slate"
Judge Dunmeade was not nominated
to the supreme court that year: hence
the breach Of a lifelong friendship, In
creased bitterness against his son and
many I-told-you-sos from Miss Roberts.
But John preached on. He did more
than attnck. He devised and proffered
remedies with a naive disregard Of the
conservative habit Of the American
mind that melted mirth In some. APP
orehension In others ana bewilderment
In still others. II b not necessary here
to enumerate his remedies They have
since become respectable.
he. learned In common with other
young iconoclasts something Of the ex-
istence and character and aims Of the
pcrvonal government which lay behind
the formal and Of the, maryelously
woven system by which the dominant
personalities twisted the form Of gov
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unfitness had been proved 81 bis
breach az contract 10 let sherrod ,.uc-
coed Reck And he the messenger.
WAS clad "a saw. n confldance Tint
those able and dtstinruisbsd patriots
and ,oadars Mnr, sherrod and PHI
lander Parrot. were organizing d re-
volt ana proposed to make the treas
nrershin nomination. 4 rest OF strength.
And they had commissioned bin to
urge that other able. ETC., John Dun.
meade fho man xvho had s.ifckad