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 confer
with the supervisors and reach some
Reeision regarding appointments" is
apt 10 be the storm center.
Il leaked out this morning that the
committee has declined to attempt
to coerce or influence the board OF su.
peryisors. regarding appointments,
and that 1t will act in an advisory ca.
pacity only. Ii ~
This Is just what the county conf
niittee does not want II to do, and not
at ali what the parent body meant
when It appointed @. ]. Waller, Link
McCandiess. Writ. Trent and others
to get together and formulate sons
policy whereby the present friction be-
tween the county committee and the
board might be smoothed down. and
the wheels OF the Bourbon machine
made TO reyolve with well oiled ease.
After thoroughly thrashing out the
plans for reaching the supervisors, :"
the special committee last Saturday af.
ternoon adopted q resolution, by an
unanimous vote, which provides thai
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 fcr
the Democratic party"
lust 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 1t was impossible
to catch Link McCandless. The other
members we're equally mute, although
one of them admitted that there is
every prospect Of D glorious old roE
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 reni
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 Ct
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
cu Thurston, for the time at least
Whether he will be allowed to remain
in office permanently, remains to he
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 10
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 committee s
stand may come with the ousting o.
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
be hoisted into control Of the engineer
department.