Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-13
County Committee
Flouted by Special
Body Appointed
to Secure Patron
age from Board OF
Supervisors AN.
other and Bigger
Row Coming Say
the Political Wise
Ones =.

There is war In the air, and the spe
cial committee appointed by the Demo
cratic county committee to "confe
with the supervisors and reach som
decision regarding appointments" /
apt to be the storm center.
1t leaked out this morning that tn
committee has declined to "attemp
TO eoerce or influence the board OF su
pervisors" regarding appointments,
and that II will act in an advisory cE
pacity only.
This is just what the county con:
mittee does not want it to do, and no
at all what the parent body mean
when 1t appointed G. ]. Waller, Linf
McCandless, Wirtz, Trent and others
to get together and formulate some
policy whereby the present friction be
tween the county committee and tht
board might be- ssmoothed down, ant
the wheels, Of the. Bourbon machin
made TO revolye with well oiled ease
After thoroughly thrashing out tn
plans for reaching the supervisors, =
the special committee last Saturday al
ternoon adopted resolution, by ar
unanimous vote, which provides tina
the committee "will not attempt to
influence the board in the making of
appointments, but will act merely in
an advisory capacity, for the best in
terests of the city and county and for
the Democratic party"
Just what this last phrase Of the
resolution may mean none Of the mem
bers of the committee would say. G
j. Waller positively declined to make
any statement regarding the nature
of the work that has been done by
the committee and it was impossible
TO catch Link McCandless. The other
members were equally mute. although
one of them admitted that there is
every prospect of Q glorious old row
when the report Of the committee Is
filed with the board Of supervisors
and the machine makers of the county
committee learn who the creature they
themselves created has turned to rend
them.
I'VE are good Democrats and would
like to see an effective organization
built up within the party, but none OF
us could see our way clear to con-
structing a machine at the expense Of
the city and county"
One Of the first results Of the action
taken by the special committee will
be. is is said, the dropping of the fight
on Thurston, for the time at least
Whether he will be allowed to remain
in office permanently, remains to be
seen. 1t is certain that Mayor Fern
will get rid of him as soon as possible,
and equally certain that the five in
surrectos in the board. will stick to
their guns to the bitter end. There is
every possibility that the fight which
started over the question Of patronage
IN the board will be carried to the
county committee, still further widen
ing the rift that has appeared in the
Democratic lutte.
Another result of the committees
stand may come with the ousting Of
Whitehouse. 1t is understood that one
of the members of the special body
has been fighting hard to supplant the
present city and county engineer with
another man, Whittemore, OF Hilo Ru
NOR had it that this committeeman
agreed to the resolution only after he
had been assured that his man would
he hoisted into control of the engineer
department.