The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-04-21
BARRD|l SAYS
] HE'S SURE
TO VIM
''soapbOx'' at National Capital
convinces Washington GORE
spondent That He Has Honoiulu
Postmastership Tied Up and
win Name Those WHO Land
Federal Patronage in This Ter
ritory.
BY Ernort d. walker.
mail Special to Tho Advertiser.)

mail Special to Tho Advertiser.)
. WASHINGTON, April ia. The burn
ing Hawaiian question in Washington
right at this moment seems TO be who
shah be postmaster of Honolulu. Rob
ert shineie is here, with Ave or SIX
public building sites in his inside
pocket and having audience with treas.
Jury officials. Col. Sam Parker has boon
in town briefly, departing for New
York yesterday and so sick hs. had to
be rolled in wheel chair. w. Il. Dill
bingham, tarrying yet on the drydock.
matter, has been before the senate com
mercc committee to urge an approPria-
| ton for Kahuhi harbor, Coerper Is
getting before the senate COMMITTED on.
Pacific islands and Porto Rico, with his
bins for railroad l05 miles long
through the Kona and Kau districts
at a cost Of t3,OO0,000. But what boots
an those Washington STRINGS whom II
i Is remembered that Vice Chairman
Charles Barron, Of the Territorial Com.
j mittce, Is still with us and bearing
down hard upon the Honolulu postmas-
tership.
4 "Soaphox has got 'em all going. 4,
Every day that he visits the Capitol
be comes away with an additional SEN
ator or two in his bag. There are now
so many representatives tied up hard
land fast to his cause 1t would be ted
ious to count them. But he continues
going to the Capitol daily aud continues
gathering them in and his influence Is
expected to become SO overpowcrins
Postmaster General Burleson, SECRETARY
of the Treasury. McAdoo and Attorney
General MeReynolds simply throw
up their hands one Of those April days
and tell Barron to take what he wants
and hasten back home to receive the
plaudits and compliments Of Honolulu
folks. ttt W
Now, as the Honolulu postmastcrship,
the vice chairman has II all for him
self iinless, There Is the ttenble. Some
pesky Texan Is, bein~ groomed by Post
master General Burleson, aided and
allotted therein by First Assistant Post.
master General Roper. Texas, under
the tutelage Of Mr.. Burleson, is grab
bling everything in sight here. But
there arc not Offices enough on the
mainland to satisfy these Democratic
! rangers from the Lone Star State and
Mr., Burleson was cute enough TO think
of that Honolulu postmastership (ai
$4,000 per) as very desirable post fol-
some outsider. Attorney General Ne
Reynolds inflicted Jeff McCarn, of Ten
nessee, and why should not Mr.. BurIe
: SON take care of Texan in the sam,
fashion, What do national platforms
! about local people for Territorial Of
! fees matter anyway g..
Judge Wilder is understood to hav,
conveyed the first suggestion Of q Tex
I, as postmaster for Honolulu to the out
!. Iside world Vice Chairman Barron i
\ convinced that Wilder chad i
. straight for he says Postmaster Gen
7 eral Burleson told him tho same thin
and First Assstant Roper reiterated it
The name Of the Texan Barron doc
. not know, Init he thinks IL is Shaw II,
has been putting in his very best argu
ments at the DEPARTMENTS against sucl
/, a subterfuge for providing a TeEa
! Democrat with Office. What success h,
will have remains to be determined.
4 Hopes for Lanes support.
I The vice chairman went to see Secre
n Itary Of the Interior Lane today an,
/ says Mr., Lane will run right over /,
the p6stofiiee department to sa,
0 dong to Mr.. Bnrleson, as far o
! that Texas postmaster Is concerned, an,
? ask earnestly that in lien of Texal
, Mr. Bnrleson Commission Charles Bar
, IRON Us one in whom the President IRE
lposes special trust and confidence
Y Possibly Mr.. Barron did not undcrstan,
: clearly what Secretary Lane said abou
That, however, for Mr. Lane has beel
] Iqnitc determined hcretof0fe agains
: meddling with his colleagues Of the ca
I binet about the filing Of offices nnde
their Jurisdiction. by
However, according to his lates
}, count, the vice chairman says he ha
I twenty-seven United States senators Of
i his string. There are John Sharp WA
I liams, Of Mississippi, and James X
I yardaman, Of Mississippi, as supporter
b in extraordinary. Mr.. Williams ha
3 promised to step in at Mr.. Burleson
/, Office right away and tell him agail
that Honolulu palpitates for Barron
b and must have him to handle its mai
. and all that. Williams has already beei
u to the department. to suggest such al
j arrangement
, In this connection, Incidentally, Al
: yertiser readers are asked to permit
feorreotion Vice Chairman Barron i
authority for II and, in matters of Ha
4 waiian politics at Washington, who car
} be more eonclusivel
Q There Is an impression in Homo
:. lulu, T" quoth Barron to The Advertise
! correspondent, that Judge Wilder pu
| a n =.
J How could IL bet John Sharp William
killed Pacheco and laid him away. D.
YOU get met But John Sharp William
Z did all that at my suggestion and s.
! you see the credit for taking care o
: Paeheco belongs to me and not t,
! Judge Wilder at all,
!" Here's the proof, The very da,
I they were preparing at the department
I TO send Paeheeo Is name TO the Presi
dent and to nominate him for postmas