Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume X, Number 7, 18 February 1937 — "RUBBER-STAMP REVOLT" OF SUPERVISORS CASTS GLOOM ON WRIGHT RULE [ARTICLE]

"RUBBER-STAMP REVOLT" OF SUPERVISORS CASTS GLOOM ON WRIGHT RULE

.. . _ we!far*e und civic £uturo oi Uie ewtirt2 eomuuuiy oI were uot iuvolved iaexu*icabiy, there would be terribly eomie about the "Kevolt oi the whieh sounds awfully like the l harge of thē Ught Brigade" or the -Mareh of the Wooden So!diers. Ihat MayOr \\rijjht, in ihe ereation of the notorious aiwi noxious "city hal! maehine" whieh virtually blackjack«d him into another term a.v the murāeipaiit,vs chief executive by questiqnabUs me ft ns, has aUo created a FrA»kcnstem wiuai wiU soo» styangle lum and hk Hitler-Mus-ioam iunbiuons # is. evidenceu m the latest newa fi\un the iiouoiuiu iiaie, It appears that the Republk aj* 4 rubber-sfcunp MU«.r for whom the Mayor *> v%orousiy cauipai* a «d~1 h » om negleeted to ca4t his owu \oU—ha\ e

suddenly discovered that thev are Amenean ejtizens i*n their own right, that they do not have to lean upon the Mavor's support in the slightest, and have eonsequently d«cided to have a voice theraselves in the conduct of the affairs of the people of the city and county whieh elected them to otfice. Five of ,the Republican supervisors—Akana, Asing, Crane, Sing and Gilliland—have told the Mayor pointblank and without equivocation that they believe that they were elected to carry out the desires of their constituents 3 —r,ot the desires of His Imperial Majesty George Fred, ... Only one of the Republican members remains true to the "rubber-stamp" desigrLation. And that one, sirangely is Supervisor Maltbie Holt, whose physical embroglio with His Honor (?) at a Wai&lae Golf Club party —paid for by the taxpayers of Honolulu, of course—-is of very recent memory! Weird indeed is his clinging alone to Mother Wright's apron-strings! No one knows where Supervisor Lester Petrie, the lonely Democrat on the board, stands in this mternecine warfare among the Republican supervisors and the Mayor, but it is presumed that he will stand with the majority of the Republican board because—Heaven knows—Supervisor Petrie has no debt of honor or otherwdse owing to Ma--1 yor Wright. "Harmony-Harmony-All Is Harmony" All of whieh only emphasizes what The Hawaii Democrat has been contending from the first day of the eampaign just ended—that-there was nothing but disharmony in the ranks of the Republican party in Hawaii, despite the reitei*ation by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, paid propagaaidist of that party, that "Harmony-Harmony-naugh't but harmony—ruled those ranks." And where, now, in the face of this open break between His Honor (?) and the majority of what onee were his "rubber-stamp" Republican supervisors, does that newspaper stand, with its GOP battle-cry of "One for all «nd all for one?" And what about those beautiful pietures we used to see in that newspaper of persons who had been rumored to have been on the outs, standmg se!f-con-sciou»ly in front of conveniently placed cameras and going through the motions of shaking hands? And have the knives, poised for plunging into somebo<Jy's back but carefully omittedi in those beautiful pictures, finally eome out in the open? īt wouid appear so. And it would appear also that that this rupture between His Honor (?) and his former "rubber-stamps" would assure the city and county a far better adminLstration of its affairs than has been the case in the past six years. , Hi» Honor (?) And Patronage Wh«n- the ineoming Wright administration took office two years ago with gix Republican supervisors it was assumed that His Honor (?) would open up the munieipal purse-strmgs of patronage just a little bit to hel'p out his supporters on the board. But did he do it? No! The man had visions of grandeur. He carefully pick<?d himself every jobholder on the county payroll. He picked them — not on thē basis of loyalty to the Republican party or their worth to that party. He picked them on the basis of what he, himse!f f could get from them in the 1936 elections just past. AB*the result, of course, he packed this year*s Republiean territorial convention with his own cohorts and swiped the control of that convention and the Republican party from the hands of the men who had previous!y controTted that party—and they, although bad enough, Heaven knows, had been angels iif comparison with what His Honor (?) turned outto be! As the other result—whieh the citizens and taxpayers of Honolulu will soon le-irn to tlieir regret—Mayor Wright was re-elected at the punun by a very slight majority over Manuel C. Paeheeo. the Demoeratic candidate. But it appears that m buikling his "Wright party" to replace what onee \vas known in Hawaii as the Republiean party, His Honor (?) overstoppod himself by three or four large paces. The persons upon whose toes he trod at the territorial convention—being real Republicans and believing in tiie fundamentals of that party—have not taken their licking lving down. lt appears that some of them, considerablv angered—now that the elections are over and they ean show their true colors—are out to "get" Mayor Wright"s scalp! And, kiiowing those individuals, their power and their wiliness, it would appear as though they w j ere well on the way toward achievmg that end. The revolt of the "rubber-stamps"—again it $ound» like the "Charge of the Light Brigade n or the **Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, M doesn*t it?—-is only the first of the moves to b!a»t out of Mayor Wright*s elephantine head the idea that he u the greatest man that Hawaii has ever seen* As a passing thought, did not President Franklin P. Roosevelt onee honoi* this Territory witJh a visit? Hi*tory To Repeat ltse!f History tells of anothor individual who oneo entertained visions of grandeur His name \yas Napoleon Bonapaiie. He linuied the capture of the Rus?ians. That is brought do\m vividly to us in this a?e in that horrvble, gruesome, truthful picture— 4t The Jletreat From Moseow," And then Bonaparte had some more visions- They ended at a plaee cal)ed Waterloo. From present indications it appears that 4 as Napoleon met hls fate at Waterloo, Hitler-Mussolini Wright is about to meet his in the board of supervisors assembly room at Honolulu Hale' Artd if he does, the c?ty and county of Honolnlu wHI have great reason to congvatulate itself! ■ rn« , „„mm -,■ 000 --- • - —f:.. to Tho \morican