The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-17
Senator Coke Goes After District
Attorneyship While Vaughan
Is Being Knocked
GOVERNOR PllIKHAM RAPS
ARTHUR WILDER BY CABLE
Bitter Fight Develops Against y
Confirmation Of Reappoint-
ment OF Chief Justice

The long distance conversation be-
tween Washington and Honolulu, which
rises into general chorus whenever
there are federal vacancies to be filed
has increased from the whisper of a
few weeks ago to a very audible muir
mur. The roar is due to start In about,
Monday, January 3, 1915, when con-,
| gress recOnvenes after the holidays.
In the first place, Senator Jim Coke
| Of Honolulu, and Oakland is now in
Washington, camping on the doorstep
of the department of justice and maxi
ing anxious inquiries, as to when the
| MeCarn resignation is TO be put into
| effect. He IL a candidate once again
for the district attOrneyship. His can
didaey became known when y cables
started TO arrive here, addressed to the
various Bourbon faction leaders, re-
questing endorsement.
Cables BuszIng With Knocks M3.
II Is not known definitely whether
Assistant District Attorney Vaughan Is
an active candidate for MeCarn p shoes
or, not, but if he is he wants to get busy.
The cables to the capital are already
huzzing and Vaughan 3 name leads all
the rest in the knocking line.
These knocks are directed at him In
double-barrelled fashion, to apply to
him as a candidate for the district at
torneyship and to apply likewise IL he
turns out to be candidate for the
first federal judgeship.
Arthur Wilder, who announced in
Washington that Governor Pinkham 3
health was such that it preeluded the
possibility OF his accepting a reappoint.
ment, as published in The Advertiser
yesterday, has drawn the fire Of the
Governor, who yesterday replied to
Wilder by cabling the department of
the interior as follows;
Widers statement relative to
my health and intentions, Is hg-
ment Of HIS imagination and has
n been given publicity for Interior
-: motives.
2 Judge Dole Losing Ground
Judge Wilder is q self.appointed ad,
vocate for the reappOintmsnt of Judge
Dole, but Is said to- be making Httls
+ progress in his campaign, The Adyer
n tiser's correspondent announcing thai
l, the straws are blowing in the direction
> of Horace W. Vaughan. ".
n Henry Holmes arrived in Washing
n ton a week ago today as the officia
n representative, of the bar association
j. to urge the reappointment of Judg,
g. Dole, whose, term expires by Limitation
tomorrow. What success has attende,
the work Of Mr.. Holmes 10 not known
II he has communicated by cable will
the officials of the bar association here
the news therein has not been mad
= public. r.
Strange as it may seem to the major
ity of HOnOlulans, a strong fight |
being made against the eORfTmat ton o
the reaPpOintment of A. q. M. Robert
son as chief justice. Judge Stuart 4
ont in the open in his. warfare agains
the chief justice, while nj least on
other recently appointed Demoerati
1 Judge is deDOuncing the reapPOintmeH
and has offered to resign If the senat
confirms the presidential choice.
Postofioe Plum Ignored
There appears TO be no rush for th
assistant district attorHeyship, whic
the incumb bent is expected to vaeate II
a higher position, while the postofk,
rlum, on the surface at least, is attrac
ing scant attention. The expected Z
appearance of SOapbOx Barron, - SOC
n as news of the proposed resignation 4
"a Postmaster Young went abroad, has n
10 materialized. His silence Is taken
d many as notification of the report
g his death. Nothing else, ii is beii
- said, would keep him from being heai
n ! from for. an loDp