The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-07
Attorney Back From Washing
ton, Says, Whole Country Talks
Of Territory
ISLANDS ARE AT LAST ...
BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Harmony and Long Pull will Get
What We Want Lawyer
Believes ~

Attorney Bottin Andrews, who went
to Washington to argue the case Of
TIapai versus Brown, ct. al, before the
supreme court, has returned to the Is
lands greatly impressed with the po-
sit on which Hawaii has suddenly taken
in the eyes of the public, and officials
of the eastern and middle states, and,
in fact, all over the mainland.
Especially is he impressed with, the
expressed Feelings of the big Repubi.
can politicians with whom he came in
contact in the nation s capital, that
Hawaii has been harder hit by the
tariff than any other POI lion of the
United States. There is manifest a wish
to do all in their power to make amends
both in congress and in giving the is
lands the proper representation in the
coming Republican convention, so that
the territory will have it's share in the
picking of the presidential candidate
who viii represent the Republican
party.
Bourbons Fear Defeat
His impression of the reported popular
ity of President Wilson was not the same
as has been noted by the members of
the opposition party lately returning
from the United States, and he says
that the President is not now riding the
wave of public. esteem on which he
was year ago. 1t is conceded by the
Democrats in Washington that unless
SCmo unforeseen circumstance arises TO
give them grip IN the public in the
near future they will surely lose the
next presidential election.
IL am glad to see that at last Ha
wall is beng taken seriously in the
east and Washington, said Mr.. An
drews yesterday. "The only thing nee
essary is for the folks here to get to
gethel and pull, and they can have
whatever they want The trip of the
congressional party here, and the splen
did promotion work going on, and
which was had at the San Francisco
fair, has done thousands of dollars
worth of good for the territory, which
is known and spoken of now wherever
you go. In a little cabaret in one of
the small cities of the east, where
spent part of the evening, they were
singing a song about an old fellow
named Bill Bailey who played the uku
Icle in Honolulu, and the song went
fine. 1TEw &,
Speaking of the live wires now in
Washington in the interest of the Is
lands, Mr.. Andrews says, Cooke,
Wilder and Forbes are making
splendid impression on all whom they
meet officially, and the former bunch
of politicians .yho heralded themselves
as the real Democrats of Hawaii are
Ia, a.; H,,ht
has been waged hard by Wilder s.ncc
his arrival, and the prospects of Demo
crat ParhecO for the position are gone
as lJng as Wilder stays on the job. y
Appointments Political
The appointments of persons to FL
federal positions in the Islands, accord
ing to Mr.. Andrews, are gong to be
political in every sense hereafter, and
there is little likelihood that any lOca
men will he placed. The Democrat
have many good and true men, whom
they do not need to have recommended
to them, who have not been Erovi'ic'
for, and who will have to be takcr.
care of to mend the fences of the
party for the coming campaign.
8 Coke has almost conceded that h.
has no chance for the position of dis
trict attorney hero, and it has been tolG
to those interested in the reappOintmemt
of Judge Dole, that the administration
has gotten into enough trouble by re
appointing Judges Robertson and Whit
ney, without recommending the appoint
ment of another Republican"
Before Mr.. Andrews left Washington
he and Messrs Coke and Wilder had
been in consultation with the attorney
general, and had been told that there
was no possibility Of a Republican
judge being appointed to fill any va
cancy hereafter while the present adj
min ,stratiOn controls.
Senator Overman, the chairman of the
judiciary committee, has given his word
that the confirmation of Chief Justice
? rh"~t"on and Circuit Judge Whitney
will be carried through.
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