The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-02-16
.oURT employees
. TREMBLE FOR JOBS

The Damoclean sword is hanging by
the merest thread over the devoted
necks of the Republican employees of
the Judiciary building-the sword in
this instance being that dread utensil
of practical politics commonly
known as the "ax.D "' ... a. 49,
Chester Doyle, japanese interpreter
of the circuit court, is already feeling
ly rubbing that part Of his anatomy
TO which the ak may be most readily
applied. Henry Smith, big kahuna Of
the courts, who has been chief clerk
for so many years that many people
think he owns the building, is totting
up his bank account to see il he has
saved enough to live without a job the
rest of his days. Colonel Charles
L. Hopkins, who looks like Mark Twain
and acts like Lord Chesterfield, is be-
ginning to wish he had seen the error
of his way in time and joined a De.
mocratic precinct club. -.
And Pauahi Street is standing on its
hind legs and paving the air. The cru
dite Bourbons of that select district are
beginning to feel their oats. q ~
When the news came from Washing.
ton yesterday that William H. Heen
and Samuel B. Kemp had been nominal
ed by President Wilson for the vacant
circuit judgeships, local Democracy
with capital c. immediately got
busy. gilt frame was ordered Ito be
paid for by Link McCandless) for the
resolutions adopted this week by the
Democratic territorial committee de-
manding that Republican iob.holders
in territorial and judiciary departments
presided over by Democrats be fred
and their jobs given to the hungry
faithful, These appropriately framed
resolutions were hung on the walls of
the territorial committee 3 headauar.
tiers and all the hungry Bourbons from
Pauahi Street gathered in front of the
beautiful work of art and gave three
rousing cheers.
In the appointment of the two De.
mocrats to the Judiciary offices the local
Bourbons could see the pot of gold
that lies at the foot of the elusive
political rainbow. Here was their
chance to make good on those patriotic
resolutions. U.s.
Just who is in line for the positions
which the Democrats hope and believe
are shortly to be made vacant is an.
other story. There will be no lack of
applicants. In the words of Bill
shakespeare, an eminent Democrat Of
thing" 49, ''D > '1'
The main point Just at present il that
there are several Republicans in the
Judiciary building who are drawinp
salaries that might just as well 90 to
- deserving Democrats" AS above
mentioned, there's Henry smith. A
n. Aona saw the storm coming and
crawied into storm cellar. His resip.
nation was announced a few DAYS AGO.
together with the statement that he was
going with Judge Whitney as clerk of
the law firm which the judge is TO ioin
when he leaves the bench. -,
There are any number Of Pauabi
street Democrats who think thew are
entitled to the job of Hawaiian inter.
prefer, held with so much dignity now
by q. l.. Hopkins, Some of them can
talk Hawaiian, and some of them talk
what purports to be English. Per.
haps they can fill the bill. If Hopkins
&'oes out, the promotion committee
mlghtlwell employ him in its Offices as
a fac smile Of the late Mark Twin.
Hopkins could quote Twain 3 weIl.w
lines about ono alien land" and "the
feet of islands, -
There are several other Republicans
around the courts who NAV well feel
nervous, for, all Righteousness aside. the
democrats are out in earnest for their
scalps, and mean to get them.