Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-18
HOW S. c. HUBER
HAPPENED; IT'S
INSIDE STUFF
Continued from page onej.

the aid Of the party. for, 10, these many
years. Not particularly in a finan-
ciaI way, for he is a man in moderate
circumstances, but in political way.
He has been a wheefhoTse of Democ-
racy when the roads were long and
dusty, not to say rocky, and he has
helped pull the Bourbon party along
in old Ioway until his political serv-
ices were recognized by Jeffersonian
stalwarts not only in said Ioway but
in Washington. II. ...~..: =.
1t is said that there are only -four
persons in Hawaii who know the lin
side" of Huber's appointment as U. S.
district attorney This comes from
one of the alleged four. The Star
Bulletin-counting the editorial I'VE"
as one-therefore makes five and has
tens to take the Hawaii public into its
confidence. >..@=- -. ...
The Inside" Story. ..-. ....<.-
Here then is the inside" story OF
how Huber happens to find political
haven in Hawaii: .@-.-@. s......
He has in Honolulu a personal
friend, ex-resident of Iowa. This
friend on a visit to the mainland last
summer met Huber and in the course
of the discussion brought up the then
popular subject of Jeff McCarn and
the district attorneyship. The signs
already were pointing to vacancy
so far as McCarn was concerned. 1t
was apparent that if he didn't elimin.
ate himself from the office, somebody
was going to eliminate him.
Huber was interested in the pros
pect of the vacancy, for it appears
that he has long wished to pay Ha,
waii visit and seriously considered
residing here permanently, strange as
that may seem in mainland Demo-
crat. And from that meeting and
chance discussion, Huber became re-.
ceptive candidate for the u. S. attor.
neyship. r.
Iowa Democracy, as aforesaid, owed
him a debt OF gratitude. He had
toiled long and faithfully in the heat
of the day and, when the ice water
and cakes were being passed around,
he was candidate for refreshments.
This political situation was well and
truly known to Thomas ]. Steele of
Sioux City, who is member of the
Iowa delegation in the lower house OF
Congress and is by way of being a
power in Iowa politics. He is a MEM
Der of the committee on agriculture
and appears to have been doing some
intensive cultivation around the de-
partment of justice. At any rate, when
McCarn was eliminated from Hawaii
last December Huber went down to
Washington and there Steele went
strong for him." IL:
A Live Tip.
The Star Bulletins Washington cor
respondent cabled the correct tip here
months ago, but the work for Huber
had been so quietly done that many
of the local politicians didn't believe
It
/ Who's Hubert" they asked, and
getting no answer they passed the tip
up as a dead one.
But it wasn't Huber went back to
his home in Tama on the inside track
for the u. S. attorneyship. He pro.
ceeded to do neat little job of watch
full waiting, while the department of
justice was thrashing out the various
complications over judicial appoint.
ments. Congressman Steele kept Oh
with his cultivation around the roots
of the political plum tree and the
Huber plum ripened under the smil.
ing MONDAY SUM-
And at the right time, down it.
dropped into the receptive lap of the
gentleman from Tama. Iowa.
That's the inside" story. Person
ally, Mr.. Huber is said to be a likeable
man and his friends are confident he
will make good with capital G down
here He is As years of age, said to-
be neither straight-laced nor wobbly
in personal character, and to DE hard.
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