The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-04
COKE GETS TIGHTER
GRIP ON OFFICE Of
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
But Postmaster General Is Said
To Be Against Pacheco
'.n For Postmaster
DEMOCRATS OF HAWAII
THROW TOO MUCH MUD
Judge Wilder Gives Dinner To
NotabIes, At Which Islands
Are Boosted
By ERNEST q. WALKER
lMaiI speeiaI 70 The Advertiser

Nhni oPecla TO Inc AuNertlser.)
. WASHINGTON, December 90
cooke is getting stronger as a camdi-
date for district attorney" said Super.
intendent Charles r. Forbes today.
Mr.. Forbes, like practically all the
other men here from the Islands, has
been doing what he could to have Mr..
Coke recommended by the department
of Justice. ..:.
II hear nothing new about the post
mastership," Mr.. Forbes continued in
answer to & question.
He was just returning from tho ca1i-
tol, where he had corrected his testi-
mony before the rivers and harbors
committee with reference to an appro-
priatio9 of $4,000 for Improvement
of the harbor at Rahului and an ap.
preparation of 100000 for improving
the harbor at Nawiliwili.
81 was given very attentive hear
ing by the committee, " said Mr..
Forbes. "The members there seemed
kindly disposed toward those projects. "
Delegate Kuhio was at the capitol
this morning and said that Hawaiian
matters here were very quiet as far
as he is concerned. He plans to re-
main in Washington during most of the
holiday recess.
"Do you hear anything about the
postmastershir. !" the Delegate was
asked.
81 don't know anything about what
the Democrats plan to do with that
office, but / wonder If PachecO will get
it,"
Pacheco's Chances Deminish
The opinion here in Hawaiian circles
is that Pacheco will not be nominated
The gossip about him has been stimu.
lated in Washington by the fact that
Senator Salisbury Of Delaware, who is
a Democrat of some influence with the
administration, has endorsed him. Mr..
salisbury has been told that Post
master General Buriesun refused ubso.
lutely to nominate Pacheeo to succeed
Joseph Pratt and that he (SauIsbury)
ought to get behind somebody who has
a chance to win. The understanding
here is that the department will not
hurry about making a recommendation,
as Postmaster Young can, and presum-
ably will, serve a couple of months yet
1t is quite certain the nomination will
not be made for two or three weeks,
or till after President Wilson has re-
turned from his wedding journey.
There is much complaint here from
many quarters because the Democrats
of Hawaii do not unite at all upon
candidates. Senator Salisbury, for OK,
ample, recently asked one of the gentle
men here from Honolulu why they did
not concentrate more in their ter
ritoriaI politics. Attorney General Gre,
gOfy, within the present week, com
mentcd in the same vein
81 never know what to do, ~ he said
in substance, "when it comes to max |
ing recommendations for offices in Ha- |
wall. No sooner does man become |
a candidate and files his papers than
along comes a letter from some one in
the Islands calling him a horsethief. |
nuke an examination into all the
charges"
The Hawaiian who was talking with
the attorney general suggested that |
his recommendations for judges in Ha- |
waii had all been excellent with one
exception. He named the exception |
and the attorney general laughed.
"Well,' said he, 81 have Just re |
eeived a letter from Hawaii declaring
that all our nominations for judicial |
exception of this one man."
The case of Judge Dole is in abey-
anco for the time being. Those who
are urging Legislation at the capitol
that would result in his retirement on
pay have had some hope. of getting
the bill through. But this prospect, it |
is said, has been complicated by a
cablegram that Judge Dole recently
sent TO the department of justice hold.
ing in effect that as his term has ex.
I'ired he is no longer a federal judge.
If that is true, of course, there can be
no use in getting the bill enacted into
law.
However, there is room for different
views about the expiration of a judge s
authority in the Territory after his
term has expired. The court of claims
hold in one instance that a territorial
judge held on till his successor quail.
fed, Some of the Hawaiian lawyers
now in town hold different views on
the subject. Former Judges Ballou and
Wilder, II Is understood, have been con
suited about the matter.
Rumors OF Convention Purse
rLorrin Andrews, who came to Wash,
ington to argue case before the su
preme court, and also to help in the
campaign to get the national conven.
tion to Honolulu, tarried here but
briefly.
"Wo did what we could for Homo.
lulu, y said he. "The folk back home
'hOnld not think that we did not do
everything we could. Word was cir
culated that we had come bringing
pnrse TO hang up for the convention
and this agitated the San Francisco
boomers, who were trying to get the
CONVENTION for their city. National
Committeeman Rice finally voted for
San Francisco.
Judge Wilder's dinner here Thurs.