Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 24, 24 September 1936 — PACHECO GAINS STRENGTH FOR MAYOR, ASKS OUTRIGHT ELECTION AS WRIGHT MACHINE SOUANDERS MONEY IN VAIN [ARTICLE]

PACHECO GAINS STRENGTH FOR MAYOR, ASKS OUTRIGHT ELECTION AS WRIGHT MACHINE SOUANDERS MONEY IN VAIN

Wright Whines, "Democrats Are Ridiculing Me" While I§rnoring Democrat Charges That Municipality's Treasury "Broke," and Talking of More Million in Expenditures.

Realizing that the weakest link in the ehain that the Republican party would use to enslave Hawaii is Mayor Fred "Wright, t}he. tottering remnants of the oneepowerful "Wright gang maehine" in the City Hall are concentrating their efforts and money in a last but vain attempt to remain on the munieipal payroll, it haā become apparent.

Meanwhile Supervisor Manuel C. Paeheeo, behind whose candidacy for mayor the entire forces of Demoeracy on Oahu are combined, is playmg true to the form whieh he has displāyed in his more than 20 years in public office. With his usual fearlessness and courage, he is urging the voters to settle. the mayoralty fight in the primary—with of course, a victory for himself. , The weakness oF the "Wriglit campaign is made manifest by the fact that Hi» Honor &lready Kas deserted the rest of the Rapublican ticket-—earlier year than usual-—and is urging the election of "seven sfcrong men—Republican or Democrat" to the faoard of

supervisors. In listing his so-e a 11 e d ~a ccomplishmentsn Wright also is making mueh of the fact that he ha» called a meeting of leading businessmen for some time in the future to discuss the laek of adequate sewer facilities in Honolulu. As the result of thi» masterly move on His Honor's part, the voters are beginning to ask themselves why, if the aewerage faciiities of Honolulu are inadequate, Mayor Wright has not seen fit to "do something" about it som,e time dūring his six y©ars as the head of the city and county government, and why he had to delay raH;n|r this conference |intil the eve of the primary eleelion. Like a 10-year old schoolboy the Mayor also has taken refuge behind the weak and witless defense that the Democratic munieipal candidates are "ridiculing" liim. He has had nothing to say in answer to the charges of inefficiency, waste and extravagance that have been leveled at his administration. Spending Money—More Money Lacking any real campaign issues except t a k in g creclit for public improvements that were paid for out of the miliions of dollars that have eome to the aid of Hawaii in FERA and WPA funds, the "Wright gang māehine" leaders have taken recourse to the only method of winning an election that they know—spending money, more money and stiil more moiiey to secure the election of a man who knowii aiready that he is beateii* To lena color to the worried, nervous, harassed, fumbling, vacillating and faltering man who is their leading 'candidate, the l< Wright gang nlachme' , -has augmented the traveling music tr.oupe wliieh always accompanies J\layor Wright on his campaign tours. Severai new £aces are seen aniong this group, and the girls all have shiniixg new gowns. Many of the persons in the small audiences whieh are turning out for the Republican ralīies are themseh es wh,ettj£f those niee new shining gowns \vere paid for ōut of the, munieipal treasury. Hula Dancer Gets More Appī&use! A beautiful and graceful hula dancer also hus been added to the "Wright gang maehine" show, with the result that the wave)*iiig figure of the ieadiug Republican candidate is maue to appear even more so by contrast. Many among the Republican audiences have considered it significant that the graceful hula daacer receives mftnite!j' mcre applausc than do the ipeeehei of Mayor Wright, despite the frantic e£torts o£ that candidate's group of paid who aeeonipan) him to al! the rallxes. They aUo comment that she would get more votes thaii Wrisht —if ahe wexc & c&ndidate! r All in all, m;iny of the audiences liave commented, the Republican rallies provide excellent entei-U\inment aa a show, bi.it fall flatt.er than the well known paneake when it oomw a presentatk>n of facts aad figares to 3ttstify the to be ro-elected to head Uie munieipal jrvnernment whose treasury they have \\recked. Concede Plei|ty "We eoncede," declar.ed a prominent Bemocratlfi,~ loader, "that llie Kppublicans have more xn.oney to spend than we do, We concede that they are able to buy perhaps more attractive and aocomplislied music girls than we ean. We eonccde that 3iīavor Wright has the best aad moat beautiful hula danoor of any candidate in tlie campaign. "We concede that the Republicans have larget &peaker's stands than we are ablc to buj. We eoowle that they h«ve more Ihan we aie «.hle to buy—particularly of Landon aad We aUo woawhen the Repiuhlvcaiix% aie to Dut tlie L>ictur«

bf Williaam Hearst, the arch->€nemy of Hawaii who gave th{& Territory a hlaek eye from whieh it has never recovered A «bove those of Landon and Knox, because it has heen proven that Hear»t i» the manhiiddfen l>ehind the RepuMican candidate*. But Don't Concede Electlon * "But in spite of all this seeming advantage that ihe Republicans have over us, we most decidedlv do not eoncede anything when it comes to n® and issues-—on those two most important poinU we have it a!l over them!" The weakness of Mayor Wright's campaign for reo!octfon is further attested by the fact that the large advertiscrs among the Republican leaders have demanded that both the Republican-contrplled Star-Bulletin and Advertiser support Wright editorially, despite the fact that hoth have criticized his actions and policies in the past. "Wright for Progress" shouts the Star-Builetin in a vapid e,ditorial wlūeh significantly failed to list why \\ right has a mohopoly on "Progrēss" and toward what pomt he will progres«. * • i But The Advertiser, after having raked over_the toak Wright's prpposal to spend 12.000,000 a year fa*the next five years on puhlie improvements and asking where his money is coming from» proceeds to damn Wright wilh ahout the faintest praise imaginable.

"We have no crUicism to offer against Manuel Paeheeo, Mayor \Vrighl's Democralic opponenl/' admits The Advertiser. "His high standing in the community eannol be gainsaid. He is a veteran of ihe Board of Supervisors, has held the chairmanship of important comm?ttees, has been a sort of watchdōg over the city and county treaasury, and no one knows city and county affairs more thorough!y. But all | things considered > and assuming that a Republican | board will be elected this year f we believe for the i good of all concerned, and for continued adequate | handling of city and county affairs t Mayor Wright j should be returned to ōffice." i Thus, The Advertiser admits, the only reason they Wright's re-election is the assumption "that a Republicaan board will be elected." Who Says "X Republican Board" ? By what right, Dem,ocrats are asking, does The Advertiser take it upon itself to assume that a Republican" board will be elected? Has The Advertiser compared the strong, outstajiding, successful and independent candidates on , the Democratic ticket, such as Senator Lester Petrie, Charles Rosecrans, Attorney Esposito, George Benevedes, Dr. Kuris&ki, Walter J,arrett and the others, with such persoi>s as the six Republicaa supervisors who have the nerve to run for re-election after having wrecked the city's finances, with 4, Cowboy" Moranha and others of that ilk who are the Republicaii candidates for supervisor? Lets Cat Out 0f Bag! The falling apart of thfi. campaign was disclosed wheii Garnett M. Burum, a Republican eandidate for the house, began t?lling his audiences that, if he was going to see that the open and flagrant running of gamb!ing houses in Honolulu was stopped. Burum apparently has not been a Republican candidate long, enough to know that the stopping of sueh illegal practices in Honolulu is the duty of the chief of poliee, who is responsible to the poliee epmmissioners, who are in turn responsible to Mayor Wright. He did not realize that in reality he was putting up an excellent argument for the defeat of the j very man whose re-election the "W rig h t gang maj ehine" leader», with their usual ineptness, are working I tooth and nail—but in a vain ane! futiīe effort. I Burum also does not know, apparently, that for years beyond number the Democratic party in Hawaii has been working for the establishment of a department of labor, as provided, he says, iri the Organic Act—but that these Democratic efforts to bring about a greatly needed reform in Honolulu have always been balked by a reactionary and standpat Rēpublican legisla'ture. Burum has good T)em,pcr.atic ideas—but he is on the wrong ticket. Further evideneo of tho disintegration of the Repuhliean campaign in the face of that barraage of the Democratic c,andidates is found in the fact that every employe of every departm.eijtt in "the city and county gov- ' erizment controlled by the "Wright gang maehine" h.as received direct orders that he must eall on and convince not less than 300 individual yoters to cast their ballots for the re-eleetion 6i Wright. This effort, the last despairing action on the part of the ff Wright gang maehine" will re.sult, as did most of their other carefully thought-out strategy, only m a boomerang and a veritable avalanche of votes fpr Supervisor Paeheeo, the Democrati,c candidate!